This program compiles all LGBTQ+ short films from this year’s festival! These films spotlight the Vancouver queer community with love, and include intimate biographical documentaries, experimental films and coming-of-age narratives.
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After her transition, a trans woman from Cairo rebuilds her life in Berlin while navigating family rejection, profound loss, and the psychological turbulence of becoming herself.
For over 30 years, Burcu’s Angels was more than a store, it was a radical space of care. This film honours a Turkish queer elder and the vanishing spaces that held queer lives.
In 19th-century Levant, Salma’s simple act of revealing herself during a family photoshoot sparks a scandal, exposing how ‘shame’ polices bodies, gender, and identity across time and culture.
Touchscape is an experimental short exploring the layered memories, fluid identities, and intimate gestures of Iranian diasporic life through Super 8 and digital imagery.
