Imaginative and intelligent, this programme of shorts represents the voice of a new generation of Québecois LGBT directors. Growing up in an isolated cultural environment - both within Canada and the francophone world at large – experiences of living as Québecois and queer are unique and ripe for remarkable imagemaking. With signature styles that reflect a myriad of unique perspectives and positions, these are some of the directors that have marked the last decade.
Curated by Katharine Setzer and Charlie Boudreau, image+nation, Montréal International LGBT Film Festival.
Sunday, January 29th
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2 PM
Vaguement Romantique
D. Sébastien Gauthier
Canada / 2005 / 20min
French with English subtitles
Best friends and roommates, Agathe and Alexandre share everything. After a birthday party fueled by drugs and alcohol, they might end up sharing too much. Sweet and seductive, this ménage of adventure, sex and love tests the boundaries of friendship.
Lucy and Those Eyes
D. Marijo St-Amour
Canada / 2006 / 12min
French and English
A story about love and a circus. Photo-in-motion, shot over a fast-paced, sad Montréal winter.
Une Robe Blanche
D. Dominic Goyer
2006 / Canada / 12min
French with English subtitles
Within the troubled world that is the family, are we always the people we appear to be?
La Sortie (Turning Point)
D. Vincent Champagne
2007 / Canada / 8min
French with English subtitles
A traffic jam serves as the backdrop for a different kind of father-son talk.
Son of the Preacher
D. Jasmine Gervais
2008 / Canada / 6min
English
Billy, the son of the town’s preacher, secretly falls for a mysterious and pretty new parishioner. Unfortunately, she’s thinking about someone else.
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D. Karina Mariano
2009 / Canada / 5min
French and English
“New York, New Year’s day 2005. Super 8 images rediscovered about a broken heart long forgotten. Madrid 2009, my best friend cries in public because of a guy. No matter where or when, we are always there for each other. Friends forever through thick and thin.” K. Mariano
Je Les Aime Encore
D. Marie-Pierre
2010 / Canada / 13min
French with English subtitles
Michel’s entire life has been focused on one thing: love. After seventy-nine years of conquests, he’s having a hard time getting over his last break-up. Brief vignettes in the company of this transgendered person whose confidences evoke such universal themes as identity, love and growing old.
