Singapore, USA20238 minNo dialogue2slgbtq+, Animation, Available Online, Experimental

One night, a person brushes a dog's teeth and turns into a bus.

 IN PERSON & ONLINE: This film has no dialogue (no audio + visual descriptions).

Directors Bio

Exyl

Exyl is a filmmaker working under the umbrella of experimental animation. They love work that is cheap. They care about being honest. They hate thinking about being marketable.

Taiwan, UK2018 6:00No dialogue2slgbtq+, Animation, Available Online, Experimental

Comprising over 2,000 hand-painted frames, Adorable presents a journey of a queer person, illustrating modern queer society, where discrimination, freedom, and love coexist.

IN PERSON: This film is scheduled to be presented fully captioned (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated).

ONLINE: This film is fully captioned in closed captions (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated).

Directors Bio

Cheng-Hsu Chung

Cheng-Hsu Chung is a Taiwanese animation artist and director based in Berlin. Chung’s artistic practice focuses on surreal images and character performances in animation to articulate the changing nature of emotion, modern love, and the experiences queer bodies encounter.

Canada20196 minEnglishAvailable Online

With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is about community complexity and longing — an elegy to a lost space as much as it is director Vivek Shraya’s ode to a now-closed iconic Edmonton gay bar.

IN PERSON: This film is scheduled to be presented fully captioned (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated).

ONLINE: This film is fully captioned in closed captions (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated).

Directors Bio

Vivek Shraya

A three-time Canadian Screen Award winner, Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, TV, film, and fashion.

Malaysia, Sweden20229 minNo dialogue2slgbtq+, Animation, Available Online, Family-friendly, Romance

Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from a loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day. This is a slow and meditative film about everyday gestures of love, communicated through our universal understanding of body language.

IN PERSON & ONLINE: This film has no dialogue (no audio + visual descriptions).

Directors Bio

Gabriel Gabriel Garble

Gabriel Gabriel Garble works across animation, film, and geology, exploring how imagery and material ecologies intertwine.

South Korea20259 minKorean with English subtitlesAnimation, Available Online, Drama

A girl unexpectedly bumps into her childhood best friend and finds herself torn between rekindling their lost connection or letting the moment slip away forever.

IN PERSON: This film is scheduled to be presented fully captioned (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated).

ONLINE: This film is fully captioned in closed captions (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated).

Directors Bio

Hanna Kang

Hanna Kang is a graduate of the Korea National University of Arts.

Philippines2024 20:00English, Tagalog and Hiligaynon with English subtitles2slgbtq+, Available Online, Comedy

Jelson and Ipe, two students deep in love, undergo trials of mind and body as they prepare to survive a world devastated by climate change.

IN PERSON & ONLINE: This film is being presented with English subtitles for all spoken dialogue (no sound cues indicated).

Directors Bio

Whammy Alcazaren

Whammy Alcazaren is a multi-awarded director and production designer. He is a University of the Philippines Film Institute graduate. He is currently in development with his feature film, Noodles, Our Love was Instant and Forever.

Canada20205 minNo Dialogue2slgbtq+, Aboriginal + Indigenous, Available Online, Experimental, Romance

This experimental examination of threshold states moves through deep space time in underwater realms. Mirrored bodies spiral, suspend, and dance through Te Reo Māori and nêhiyawêwin lamentations.

IN PERSON & ONLINE: No dialogue (no audio + visual descriptions)

Directors Bio

Moe Clark, Victoria Hunt, James Brown

Weather Beings is a Two-Spirit/takatâpui collaborative performance between Victoria Hunt (Maori dancer, choreographer) and Moe Clark (Métis sound designer, vocalist) that explores the connections between Mâori whakapapa and Métis wâhkôhtowin (the kinship system).

Canada20248 minEnglish, Farsi, DariWorld PremiereAvailable Online, Drama

When his health starts to decline, a young man spirals into paranoia, and he blames a growing mould problem for his issues.

IN PERSON: This film is scheduled to be presented with subtitles for all spoken dialogue (no sound cues indicated)

ONLINE : This film is scheduled to be presented with subtitles for all spoken dialogue (no sound cues indicated)

Directors Bio

*Sofia Habib

Sofia Habib is an Afghan actor, writer, and arts worker based in Ontario. She performs both on stage and screen and has played the lead role in two films that premiered at Reel Asian Film Festival.

Canada20247 minEnglishWorld PremiereAvailable Online, Drama, Experimental

A burgeoning artist reckons with the struggle to find an audience for his art and his desire to reconnect with his mother in the afterlife.

IN PERSON: This film is scheduled to be presented fully captioned (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated)

ONLINE: This film is scheduled to be presented fully captioned (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated)

Directors Bio

*Liam Ma

Liam Ma (he/him) is an award-winning actor and filmmaker currently based on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tseil-Waututh) peoples, known as Vancouver.

Canada, Germany, Sweden20246 minEnglishAboriginal + Indigenous, Animation, Available Online, Documentary, Experimental

Take a deep breath. As you exhale, imagine that in about three years, anywhere you went on the planet, you found the molecules that are inside of you in this moment.

IN PERSON: This film is scheduled to be presented fully captioned (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated)

This title is available digitally only in Ontario.

Directors Bio

Alisi Telengut, Diego Galafassi

Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian origin, living between Berlin and Tiohti:áke/Montréal. Her work has received multiple awards and has been screened and exhibited internationally.

Diego Galafassi is a director, writer, and producer of documentaries, experimental film, new media, and participatory performance.