A father sounds off about his love for fishing, fatherhood and his gay daughter on a weekend fishing trip together.
Filter Films
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An old pop song. A public declaration. The glimpse of someone caught for a moment in the sunlight. The risking of everything in an unavoidable adventure. How do we know the meaning of love? “Manifesto for Love” is an experiment in shape, music, vision and words to try to find a new expression of love.
Manifesto for Love
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A daughter’s “coming out” to her mother falls on deaf ears. Sometimes people just don’t want to listen. Awards: Best Canadian Female Short Award & Audience Choice Award for Best Short, Inside Out Festival, Toronto, 2004; Best Short Film for the 2005 Brussels Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; First Prize Animation, Planet Out Short Movie Awards 2005 Also available on QUEERS ON THE VERGE.
Listen
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The delicate world of an upper-middle-class woman is suddenly turned upside down when her husband recounts a nightmare in which he brutally murders her.
Perfect
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Travelling home by train, Petra reflects on a long-distance relationship with a woman she loves. Through the text of her lover’s email messages, the entire course of a relationship is revealed. Italian, French and Spanish sub-titled versions available.
original message
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“The Children’s Voice” is 30-minute documentary about an innovative children’s theatre that celebrates the heroic efforts of abused children and child witnesses of wife assault, to break the cycle of violence in their young lives. The courageous troupe of children, aged 9-12, banded together to collectively write and perform a play “TELL IT-Speak Your Peace on Violence,” based on their life stories and concerns. The film captures the children’s process of growth and empowerment that culminates with excerpts from their triumphant live performance for school groups and the general public. A 60-minute version also available.
Children’s Voice, The (short version)
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In this coming-out story, an honest and sincere letter is read from a daughter to her parents. A familial montage is incorporated with a heartfelt narrative filled with the expectations and anxieties of a young woman.
Coolie Gyal
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Mark works on a ferryboat. One night his boyfriend Adrien drives aboard, only to tell him that he is leaving the lake forever. The trip across the dark lake turns into a desperate fight for their love and their incompatible dreams. German with English sub-titles.
Styx
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Do you ever feel stressed visiting a foreign country? Do language barriers and culture shock make you want to stay home? Do you fear not being understood? Then relax, and let a philosophical Tape Recorder guide you around his favourite city. Along the way you’ll meet some nice people, gaze at beautiful art, and discover the mystery of life. Filmed in Vienna, Austria; Budapest, Hungary; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
I Cannot Understand You (Ich Kann Sie Nicht Verstehen)
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Perhaps we have become… unsure. Life’s riot of sights and sounds are jumbled together like a film projected in one frame, an album played in one note. Shot over six years, “No Day No Night” is a collage that strikes at the foundation of reality, identity and perception.
No Day No Night
