A DATE FOR MAD MARY tells the story of ‘Mad’ Mary McArdle returning to Drogheda after a short spell in prison – for something she’d rather forget. Back home, everything and everyone has changed. Her best friend, Charlene, is about to get married.
Contains violence
China, 1997. An unhappy marriage, a love affair and a child who holds all the secrets.
Contains violence
Growing up in 1950s England in an intolerant and uninformed world, young Chris Winters struggles to fit into the gender roles dictated by wider society.
Claudia’s night out with friends is disrupted by an encounter with the captivating foreigner Isabel.
An accidental meeting in an elevator at a department store leads two older women to their limits and forces them to improvise by the time the elevator gets stuck.
Ontario Premiere
Based on a true story from South Korea, First Love depicts two young girls who fall in love, and even though they’re not out to the world, their relationship endures for forty years. They live a harmonious life until, one day, something happens that challenges their long-term bond.
Canadian Premiere
Don’t smother the truth: a Polish immigrant returns to visit home, after leaving for Scotland in search of a better life.
Faced with the pressure of her girlfriends, a teenager a little awkward finally decides to declare her love to the one she believes is the love of her life.
“Our history was disappearing as quickly as we were making it.” With that realization, Deborah Edel and Joan Nestle co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians.
Canadian Premiere
Carmeta, Mari and Pilar are three old ladies who spend every afternoon sitting on a bench, next to the main street of their village. The arrival of a mysterious pair of girls turns into the main topic of discussion among the women.
A pious Doctor is forced to deal with a family matter whilst hiding under the bed of a stranger.
A woman is magically forced to repeat the same date over and over again until she can make it go perfectly.
Cat visits her parents for the weekend and is confronted with her mother’s inability to remember one key detail.
On a quest to understand her grandmother’s past, Claudia meets Marlene, an old woman who’s created an homage to her memories inside an empty pool.
Ontario Premiere
Contains violence
Jack is an androgynous queer Jew, and she invites Sara, a Muslim woman who is watering the dry lands of America, nurturing the soil, to join her on her motorcycle and ride into the future of America.
When Fawzia Mirza, an American actress meets Sabeen Mahmud, a worldrenowned Pakistani activist and founder of a progressive cafe (T2F) in Karachi, Mirza’s life changes forever.
Parents are at odds with what to do when their 6-year-old son is sent home from school for wearing a dress.
International Premiere
A conservative lesbian lawyer faces a relationship crisis after her daughter is discriminated in a school, and she has opposing views with her wife.