llff2012

Director: Paula Durette

A short, humorous animation that unveils the mysteries of lesbians through the occult arts.

USA 2009

3-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Director: Allegra Hirschman & April Hirschman

When femme lesbian Lindsay finds that her ex has taken all of her sex toys after their break-up, she is outraged.

USA 2009

10-minutes

Director: Loretta Hintz

A story of love, a story of erotic imagination, and a story of the power of dreams to change our life. Best of all, it has a happy ending… in more ways than one.

USA 2009

12-minutes

Director: Tori Foster & Alexis Mitchell

Queeropolis charts the queer urban fabric of Toronto from 1972 to 2008. A formative period of claiming public space for the queer community.

CAN 2008

5-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Director: Debra Chasnoff

This film unearths the manner in which popular pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens.

USA 2009

66-minutes

Director: Chantal Langley

A lesbian who is about to get married has second thoughts about the marriage. Her two sides come out to talk about it.

CAN 2009

2-minutes
World Premiere

Directors: Kate Brandt & Leslie Lange

Who can afford dildos in today’s economy?

USA 2009

8-minutes

Director: Heather de Michele

Private investigator Sondra Stingray always gets her woman, but has she met her match in Lucky Lucy?.

USA 2008

9-minutes

Director: Dayna McCleod

Maria Von Trapp vs. Mary Poppins. You guess who’s what?

CAN 2009

3-minutes

Director: Chris J. Russo

A comedic look at one lesbian’s journey of recovery from an unreal break up.

USA 2009

11-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director:B.K. Williams

Abbey, a take charge woman, chooses to stage a dinner party to introduce a perfect stranger to her unsuspecting circle of friends rather than confront her hear that her partner might be losing interest in their relationship.

USA 2009

24-minutes

Director: Bob Koherr

Get movin’ and groovin’ with this hilarious video that asks: how much emotional baggage can you fit into a cardboard box?

USA 2008

6-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Director: Jennifer Hatton

The percussive palms of butch and femme hands are a Calling Card for desire.

USA 2010

4-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Lauren Palmigiano

Heartbroken over an ex, Jay is desperate for attention and fakes a suicide attempt. When she returns home with her best friend Jen, they are visited by their well-meaning friends.

USA 2010

14-minutes

Director: Christina Zeidler & Gillian Frise

Xtreme sports pushed to the limit in the “4 dog/2 person” luge competition.

CAN 1998

5-minutes

… a blast from the past

Director: Pierre Portelli & Darren Bonhomme

Sometimes even a monster home in the suburbs isn’t big enough to contain the baggage of one complicated couple.

CAN 2007

7-minutes

Director: Zsa Zsa Gershick

The story of a trans, two-spirit, butch-boi lesbian for whom public restrooms are an adventure. A restaurant. A necktie. A line at the Ladies Room. Peeing should never be so problematic.

USA 2009

7-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Director: Jen Crothers

Butch women discuss the sometimes-complicated relationship they have with their breasts.

CAN 2010

4-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Director: Greta Olafsdottir & Susan Muska

Edie & Thea reminisce, painting a kaleidoscopic picture of pre-Stonewall gay life: the bars and the parties, as well as estranged families and the constant fear of exposure.

USA 2009

67-minutes

Director: Christoph Scheermann

Petra and Kerstin are sitting with their therapist – the lights go off. The therapist leaves. The ladies stay. They came to let off some steam. So they do. Alone in the dark and in a quite untherapeutic way.

GER 2010

6-minutes

Director: Nancy Nicol

When a Russian court threw out their request to marry in Russia, Irina Shipitko and Irina Fedotova-Fet traveled to Toronto, Canada.

CAN 2009

10-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Becky Lane

Hanna, raised by two moms, never thought about the logistics of it. Her friend Marco explains the process of chicks and eggs, which has Hanna asking, “Who’s my rooster?”

USA 2010

15-minutes

Director: Dawn Suggs

What makaes black lesbians so special? Suggs takes a fresh and funny approach to explore this and other questions.

USA 1992

8-minutes

… a blast from the past

Director: Szu Burgess

Explorations of what women are up to when their husbands are out.

USA 2002

9-minutes

… a blast from the past

Director: Betsy Kalin

A look at the history of the pocket chain and the trend’s perpetual popularity amongst the lesbian community.

USA 2010

14-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Director: Toby Sax

After two men are attacked for being ‘faggots’, a rally is held to confront hate; while addressing the underreporting of gay-bi-trans phobic hate crimes in the city of London Ontario.

CAN 2010

9-minutes

Director: Matthew Hill

The real dirt on Ann Lister. Meet the biographer who spent decades cracking the code of Lister’s journals, which reveal her sexual conquests and the struggles she faced as a randy woman of the early 1800s.

UK 2010

60-minutes

Director: Tucker C. Doherty

After a sudden break-up, Laura hires Repodyke, the lesbian repossession experts, to retrieve her vacuum cleaner.

CAN 2003

3.5-minutes

… a blast from the past

Director: James Kent

Anne Lister recognizes that her sexual exploits are the subject of gossip. The true life and loves of an incredible 19th century woman, as recorded in her coded diaries.

UK 2009

90-minutes

Director: Erik Gernand

A sexy comedic short about a young woman dumped by her girlfriend who gets extra special attention when a lonely romantic answers her tech support call.

USA 2010

9-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Director: Ruth Villasenor

This short documentary exposes the contemporary outcomes of homophobia imposed on native communities through colonization.

USA 2009

8-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Leanne Pooley

The film offers a look into the lives of the world’s only comedic, country singing, dancing, and yodeling, lesbian twin sisters – Jools and Lynda Topp.

NZ 2009

84-minutes

Director: Shawna Dempsey

At long last, everything you’ve always wanted to know about ‘down there’ but were afraid to ask.

CAN 1990

5-minutes

… a blast from the past

Director: Mary Guzman

A butch mechanic meets her match and dreams about the ones that got away in this hommage to perfection: high femmes, aerialists and vintage motorcycles… and more.

USA 2007

10-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Directors: Gabrielle Micallef & Debbie Douglas

CAN 1990

30-minutes

Director: Lizzie Borden

USA 1983

80-minutes

Directors: Carol Ashley & Kathy Clark

Set to smooth, jazzy, smoky bar-room music, two women safely lock themselves in a make-believe bathroom.

USA 1990

10-minutes

Director: Barbara Hammer

Dyketactics (1974) is a celebration of lesbian sensuality & sexuality. Sync Touch (1981) juxtaposes lesbian images with common cliches.

USA 1974 & 1981

14-minutes

Director: Julie Butler

USA 1990

8-minutes

Director: Karen Sloe

USA 1983

23-minutes

Director: Jean Carlomusto

USA 1991

25-minutes

Director: Heramedia Collective

USA 1986

28-minutes