Festival Schedule 2 Venues, Accessibility and Tickets 6 Staff and Board Listing 8 About Inside Out 9 Welcome Letters 14 Funders and Sponsors 20 Members and Donors 24 Galas and Special Presentations 30 Premieres 38 Episodic 52 Icons 62 Spotlight on Canada 74 International Showcase 84 Shorts 104 Industry and Special Events 122 Awards and Jury 124 Festival Lounge 126 Parties 130 Thank You 139 Film Index 140 Festival Schedule Festival Schedule

11:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm 3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm Opening Night Film: Rocketman Thurs. 7:30pm | TBLB 1 | p 30 May 23 Opening Night Film: Rocketman 7:45pm | TBLB 2 | p 30

Fri. Shorts: Top of the Billie and Emma Bit Special Presentation: Sell By May World 4:45pm | TBLB 7:00pm | TBLB 1 | p 41 9:30pm | TBLB 1 | p 34 24 1:00pm | TBLB 1 | 1 | p 85 p 114

Drag Kids Circus of Books Before You Know It 5:00pm | TBLB 2 | 6:45pm | TBLB 2 | p 63 9:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 40 p 74

Tues. Jack & Yaya José Tales of the City May 4:30pm | TBLB 1 | 6:45pm | TBLB 1 | p 92 9:00pm | TBLB 1 | 28 p 91 p 32

Galas / Special Presentations / Industry / Special Events Premieres Icons Spotlight on Canada International Showcase Shorts Episodic

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Fri. Shorts: BOLD Catamaran You Don’t Nomi May 5:00pm | TBLB 1 | p 104 7:15pm | TBLB 1 | p 87 9:15pm | TBLB 1 | p 35 31

Being Impossible Shorts: Thrive Camp Chaos 5:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 84 7:30pm | TBLB 2 | p 113 9:45pm | TBLB 2 | p 53

Shorts: You Can’t A Night at Switch n’ Transfinite Hurry Love Play 4:30pm | 12:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 116 2:30pm | TBLB 2 | p 62 TBLB 2 | p 96

Silence = Death Coming Out 12:30pm | TBLB 3 | 2:15pm | TBLB 3 | p 132 p 132

Ticket of No Return 2:30pm | TBLB 3 | p 132

Galas / Special Presentations / Industry / Special Events Premieres Icons Spotlight on Canada International Showcase Shorts Episodic

4 5 Venues, Accessibility and Tickets Venues, Accessibility and Tickets

SIMCOE ST Regular Screenings Box Office Info QUEEN ST W JOHN ST Purchase your ticket WIDMER ST MEMBERS PUBLIC RICHMOND ST W packages, tickets and GENERAL STUDENT/ GENERAL STUDENT/ memberships through 2 SENIOR SENIOR our virtual box office at ADELAIDE ST W 1 Single $11 $9 $14 $10 insideout.ca! Tickets During the festival, visit the KING ST W BAY ST 4-Pack $38 $48 Inside Out Festival Box Office in the TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 UNIVERSITY AVE 6-Pack $54 $74 King Street West. The box LOWER SIMCOE ST WELLINGTON ST W office opens each day of the 10-Pack $90 $126 festival, two hours before 20-Pack $180 $252 the first screening of the day. FRONT ST

SPADINA AVE You can also visit our satellite Gala Screenings and box office at the STARZ Festival Lounge, located at BATHURST ST 3 Special Presentations the Artscape Sandbox BREMNER BLVD at 301 Adelaide Street West, MEMBERS PUBLIC each day of the festival ALL GALAS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS from 10:00am - 7:00pm. Contact GARDINER EXPWY Film & Party $25 $32 [email protected] for

QUEENS QUAY W Film Only $20 $25 ticketing assistance. Gala 4-Pack* $75 $96

OPENING NIGHT GALA Rush and Latecomers Policy Party Only $15 $15 All Inside Out screenings are subject to our Rush Policy. Festival Venues This Land Accessibility WOMEN’S GALA If a screening is sold out, we will release any unoccupied seats to 1 All of our venues are TIFF Bell Lightbox We wish to acknowledge this Party Only $12 $15 the Rush Line 15 minutes before 350 King Street West land on which the Inside Out wheelchair accessible. CLOSING NIGHT GALA the screening begins. As (at John Street) Toronto LGBT Film Festival such, we request that all advance • Cinemas – 2nd Floor is held. For thousands of years All of our venues welcome Party Only $8 $10 ticket holders arrive a • Malaparte – 6th Floor it has been the traditional land service animals and minimum of 15 minutes before of the Huron-Wendat, the CENTREPIECE GALA & SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS guide dogs. the scheduled start time of Seneca, and most recently, the Party Only Included with film ticket their screening. Seating cannot 2 Starz Festival Lounge Mississaugas of the Credit River. Artscape Sandbox All foreign-language films be guaranteed for latecomers Today, this meeting place is still *Film and Party Tickets to Gala Screenings and Special Presentations who arrive after the scheduled 31 Widmer Street are screened in their the home to many Indigenous start time. All Inside Out single people from across Turtle Island original language with Adelaide Street West Special Events tickets sold are general admis- and we are grateful to have the English subtitles. sion and seating is first come, 3 The Rec Room opportunity to work on this land. first served. MEMBERS PUBLIC 255 Bremner Blvd. For youth (24 and under) and Warehouse Door seniors (65+), we offer free Awards Brunch $25 $30 All films are rated R unless Content tickets for weekday screenings otherwise stated. For more Subway stop that begin before 6pm. Local Heroes $8 $10 Advisories After Party information on ratings and Tickets cannot be reserved content warnings, visit For content advisories, visit our in advance and must be Red Carpet Included with film ticket insideout.ca website at insideout.ca picked up in person at TIFF Receptions Service charges are applied to Bell Lightbox on the day of all points of purchase: online, the screening, limit 1 ticket Official Ticketing Provider over the phone, and in person. per person, limited quanti- Fees are added to both Member ties available. and non-Member prices. Visit our website for a detailed For more information on breakdown of service fees. accessibility, visit insideout.ca 6 7 About Inside Out About Inside Out Inside Out 2019 Board, Committees & Staff

Scott Ferguson Incoming Reps: Paula Forst, Tim Board Claire Jarvis Higgs, Sandra Hodnett, Michele Allia McLeod Jelley Chair: Jason Wagar Andrew Murphy (staff) Treasurer: Thomas Park Outgoing Reps: Eric Benson, Linda Nik Redman Secretary: Jo-Ann Chiam Lum Perry Voulgaris (VR) Sujata Berry Front of House Assistants: Lee Linda Chen Pre-Screener Committee Clapp, Natalia Lopez-Woodside Tania Cheng Rasheed Bailey Tech Rep: Paul Williams Harry Cherniak Syriah Bailey-Harding Ruby Bantock Finance Forum Producer Ashley Cooper Jan Nathanson Dave Singh Jacob Crepeault Adam Stewart Kristin Rankin Grant Writer and Reel Access Amy Talbert Celine Roustan Coordinator Scott Smart Steen Starr Erika Thoen Reel Access Working Group Committees Eloise Veber Steen Starr, Co-Project Manager Program Note Writers Michael McNeely, Co-Project About Inside Out Finance Committee Rachel Beattie Manager Chair: Thomas Park Allen Braude Kelsey Butt Inside Out is a not-for-profit registered charity that exists to challenge attitudes Nathan Heinrichs Jacob Crepeault Alicks Girowski Japneet Kaur Jenna Dufton Andrew Gurza and change lives through the promotion, production and exhibition of film by and Zak Miljanic Scott Ferguson Ken Harrower about LGBTQ persons of all sexual and gender identities, ages, races and abilities. Dave Singh Paul Gallant Liviya Mendelsohn David Vella Beau Gomez Graphic Design and Festival Jason Wagar Sarah Melton Identity Andria Wilson (staff) Andrew Murphy Monnet Design Vision Values Ingrid Randoja Fundraising Committee Publicist Jess Russell • Chair: Adam Stewart K2 Publicity Founded in 1991 as an LGBTQ Inside Out strives to reflect Inclusion: Inside Out is Deanna Bickford (staff) Website Design and Development film festival in Toronto, the following values in our accessible and inclusive: Ashley Cooper Co-Effect Inside Out is now the largest operations and programming: a safe and welcoming John Duwyn Staff Jason Novelli Official Ticketing Provider event of its kind in Canada, space for filmmakers and Executive Director • Innovation: We give our Mitzi Reinsilber Elevent spanning multiple cities with film fans from around Andria Wilson audience new opportunities Governance and Program Guide Copy Editor year-round programming. the world. We at Inside Director of Programming to engage with LGBTQ Nominating Committee Jennifer Coffey Out respect, reflect and Andrew Murphy Inside Out seeks to be stories through the medium Chair: Linda Chen Festival Trailer celebrate our communities’ Harry Cherniak Director of Development of film. We are constantly Production: Merik Williams • an innovative leader in the diversity and strive for Jason Wagar Deanna Bickford Music: T. Thomason improving our program- production, exhibition and inclusion of all persons. Human Resources Programming Manager Festival Photographers ming and efficiency of Jenna Dufton promotion of LGBTQ film Chair: Joel Rodrigues Dahlia Katz operations by adopting Each year, Inside Out is Mona Bali Marketing and Outreach Manager Moe Laverty • an incubator and support Deborah Berwick Beau Gomez Samson Learn new technologies and proud to present the Karen Kelly for LGBTQ filmmakers both Events and Engagement Lucy Lu systems. Toronto LGBT Film Festival, Alexander Khrapov Coordinator Festival Videographers emerging and established the Ottawa LGBT Film Mike Rudolph • Excellence: We are Kelsey Butt Hour Media Amy Talbert • Festival, the More Play Cecilio Escobar a leading advocate for committed to seeking out Ashind Thukral Office Manager Year-Round Screening Lulu Wei LGBTQ issues using the the best LGBTQ stories Vicky Tran Jayne Schneider Merik Williams Series and the LGBTQ Andria Wilson (staff) Guest Relations Manager medium of film from around the world and Bookkeeper Feature Film Financing Marketing Committee Gina Rim • providing audiences Marie May an inclusive cultural Forum. Chair: Tania Cheng Volunteer Coordinator gathering place with unique film-based Melissa Benner Hardeep Bubbra Financial Clerk experiences. To learn more about Inside Sunny Kim for Canadian LGBTQ Daniel Burns Sponsorship Fulfillment Out and to view our Beau Gomez (staff) Interns communities • Community: We play a Coordinator 2018 - 2020 Strategic Plan, Rina Kazavchinski Scott Smart Jillian Campbell, Fundraising vital role in the social, Johnny Liu Jacob Crepeault, Programming please visit please visit Social Media Coordinator educational and cultural Vivian Or Karolina Drozd, Community insideout.ca Omid Razavi Sean Chooti Engagement health of our communities Marcelino Rodriguez Events and Engagement Assistant Somya Gaur, Marketing by connecting them Tom Threndyle Fred Daou Wing Lam Leung, Events with their stories. We are Jimmy Weaver Box Office Manager Rainee Nelson, Outreach dedicated to reflecting Programming Committee Bran Ramsey Jae Ng, Industry Programming Lisa Ziegler, Industry Sponsorship and expanding the dialogue Ferdosa Abdi Venue Operations Manager Jenna Dufton (staff) Debbie Read within the LGBTQ com- Cecilio Escobar munities in collaboration with other organizations. 8 9 We are filled with gratitude for all of our volunteers who help us to challenge attitudes and change lives by donating valuable time and amazing skills to help make our festival a success! THANK YOU! Proud design partner and Gold Sponsor of Inside Out. from urban chic to lakeside retreat

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Stories. We share them. We are entertained by them. This year, Inside Out will showcase more than 175 films from They reflect who we are and who we aspire to be. across Canada and around the world, with the goal of challenging attitudes and changing lives. For decades, Inside The LGBT community are telling unique, provocative and Out has been a highlight of Toronto’s arts calendar, drawing passionate stories every day. The storytellers presenting tens of thousands of cinema fans to its groundbreaking and their works during the festival – the artists in front of and thought-provoking films. behind the cameras – dare to reach for their dreams. Their determination and passion are enriching Canadian culture. Our government knows how important festivals like this are in encouraging diversity and inclusion as well as celebrating For more than 20 years, Inside Out has created a safe space the rich tapestry of the Canadian experience. That is why we where filmmakers can work together to challenge attitudes are proud to support this celebration. about the LGBT community and to change lives. As well, the festival gives filmmakers a platform for showcasing their As Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism, films to engaged audiences. I’d like to thank the organizers, artists and volunteers for their efforts in making Inside Out such an enduring Best wishes to all the participants, filmmakers and artists who success since 1991. are taking part in the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival.

I wish you a most memorable event!

Pablo Rodriguez Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism

Julie Payette Governor General

It gives me great pleasure to extend greetings and a warm welcome to everyone attending the 2019 Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival. I am pleased to extend my warmest greetings to everyone attending the 2019 Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival. Welcome to all attendees as you take part in Canada’s largest LGBT Film Festival that will screen 175 films from This festival offers a wonderful opportunity for participants over 30 countries during this 11-day film festival. to enjoy over 175 films by talented artists from Canada and around the world. I am sure that everyone in attendance will As an international centre for film production, Toronto appreciate this artistic showcase, and I would like to promotes the development of quality cinema by the commend all of the filmmakers for their commitment to creative and innovative works of filmmakers whose talent fostering unity and inclusion in the industry. and creativity have enhanced and enriched our entertainment industry. I would also like to thank the organizers for their hard work and dedication in planning this festival. Events such as this Arts and culture can be incredible forces for the development one remind us that our country is made great not in spite of of an individual, group or community, for the promotion of its diversity, but because of it. intercultural connections that include tolerance, understanding, friendship and social cohesion. Please accept my best wishes for a memorable and enjoyable festival. On behalf of Toronto City Council, I wish everyone an enjoyable and memorable event. Please accept my best Sincerely, wishes for continued success.

The Rt. Hon. Justin P.J. Trudeau, P.C., M.P. John Tory Prime Minister of Canada Mayor of Toronto

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It is my pleasure to extend my heartfelt congratulations to On behalf of RBC, welcome to the 2019 Inside Out Toronto organizers and supporters of the Inside Out Toronto LGBT LGBT Film Festival. This festival brings together an Film Festival for the tremendous achievement of 29 years of international array of the best and brightest filmmakers to artistic endeavor and social change in the city of Toronto. showcase their talents and tell stories that matter to us all.

By showcasing the best and most diverse queer cinema from Over the course of the coming week, you’ll have the Canada and around the world, this festival acts to inspire opportunity to experience some of the most compelling and unite Toronto’s LGBTQ community. On top of their annual LGBT+ cinema the world has to offer. Each film has been festival, Inside Out produces an exciting array of ongoing carefully selected by the programmers who traveled the projects, including filmmaker initiatives, youth engagement, globe to curate this thought-provoking and inspiring lineup. mentorship programs, volunteerism and year-round screenings. Everyone at Inside Out has helped create a Inside Out remains one of the largest and most important film critical space of open dialogue and celebration for festivals of its kind, and it’s something Toronto can be proud LGBTQ communities. of. The festival offers a voice to those who for too long had been voiceless, providing a large platform to showcase their This year, the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival returns incredible work. to the TIFF Bell Lightbox from May 23 to June 2, 2019, showcasing over 175 films from thirty countries. For eleven We’re proud to continue our partnership with Inside Out in our exciting days, Toronto will be in the international spotlight 11th year as presenting sponsor. RBC has made support with an opportunity to show the world the incredible diversity of the arts a longstanding priority as we recognize the role and creativity of our City’s LGBTQ communities and the arts play in building vibrant, diverse and strong the strength of Toronto’s rich cultural and social fabric. communities. Film in particular is a genre that connects so many people and has the power to engage, inform and unite. Once again, congratulations on 29 years of success! I look forward to many more years of the Inside Out Festival So congratulations to all the filmmakers with submissions in Toronto, which I know will continue to grow and make being shown this year. And congratulations to the Inside significant impacts on building a healthy, vibrant and Out Toronto team for putting together an outstanding event dynamic city. once again this year.

Happy film-festing, Happy Festival!

Kristyn Wong-Tam Councillor, Ward 27 Kris Depencier Toronto Centre-Rosedale Regional President Greater Toronto

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In the Inside Out Collective’s first festival program guide in 1991, So many conversations today revolve around what new series we stated that the purpose of the festival was to redress the we’ve just watched, what film we’ve just seen at the cinema, historically inadequate distribution and exhibition opportunities or the movie we’ve viewed at home or on our phones. It feels for these works which best reflect our community. In 2019, as like a race against time to keep up, given the exponentially distribution opportunities now include more platforms than our increasing content. What often gets lost in our media race collective predecessors could likely have imagined, we are from day to day are the meaningful conversations about shifting our focus to the second part of that sentence, and content that occur when we allow ourselves time to dissect a asking – how do we best reflect our community, today? film or a show; discuss characters, settings, representation, and just who is creating this content that may or may not be We are often asked how we, as presenters of LGBTQ film, properly representing the communities they claim to are currently drawing lines around the definition of queer represent. But these are the conversations we’re having at cinema. How do we classify what defines a queer film, and Inside Out, and the conversations we are proud to provide what qualifies it as queer enough for us to show? Is it a space for and access to, year after year, before and after our queer film if it’s made by a queer filmmaker, but centres screenings. Come join the discussion at our STARZ Festival on a heterosexual narrative? What if it’s about queer Lounge, the Finance Forum, other industry events and, yes, characters, but is made by a cis heterosexual filmmaker? at brunch. How do we present a film if the narrative, casting or characterization ultimately harms or misrepresents LGBTQ In the constantly evolving festival landscape, with queer people? Do queer audiences want to watch a ‘lesson,’ content popping up on all platforms, the lines between intended to educate or inform straight cis audiences? And is film and television are blurring, and what is considered the best reflection of our community also the most authentic cinematic is no longer confined merely to cinema. The one? Fundamentally – who decides and what defines? beauty of Inside Out is that we can curate it all for you in one place over eleven content-packed days. To ensure the Defining queer cinema in 2019 is as complex, nuanced and best cross section for festivalgoers, we’ve created an episodic beautiful as defining queer identity in 2019. And ultimately, strand in our program to showcase the quality of work on in both cases, it’s your call. Our programming team is tasked television, streaming services and online. Our stories are also with bringing you work that celebrates you, that challenges being told in virtual reality, and this year we highlight three you, that excites and entertains you. They scour the globe for important pieces in our Queering VR series, free of charge. exceptional queer content as defined by all potential categorizations, and bring it to you for eleven days each spring. As our 30th anniversary approaches next year, hindsight is Because at the end of the festival, and at the end of the literally 2020. We forge ahead, thoughtful of our journey day, we don’t want to draw lines around your identity, your and acknowledging the privilege we have of standing onstage experience, or your place on the LGBTQ2S spectrum – every night and talking freely and passionately about queer that’s for you to do, if and when you choose. We want to cinema with queer artists and allies, year after year. We must present you with a world of possibilities – and this year continue to do our part in supporting queer cinema and we’re giving you more than 150 unique stories to inspire you. queer artists with initiatives such as our Finance Forum and Pitch Please! programs, that continue to put money from We are living in a golden age of content. After years of tireless awards directly into the hands of our filmmakers and under- work from LGBTQ people across the industry, we are finally served communities, giving them the tools and screens to beginning to see meaningful inclusion of our most historically control their own narratives. underrepresented identities onscreen. And Inside Out, as the hosts of the world’s only LGBTQ feature film financing event, I encourage all of you who come out to Inside Out this year to and as the only LGBTQ film festival with a designated be present; to listen and not only be part of the action, but support fund for queer woman and non-binary filmmakers, to take action. Support queer films. Support queer filmmakers. is committed to shifting that representation even further. Support queer film festivals. If there is a story that you’re not seeing onscreen, help us make it happen. We are here to Over these next eleven days, I look forward to sharing a serve you. And we’re extremely proud to do so. Happy space with you where the possibilities are endless. Welcome Festival everyone, and see you soon. to Inside Out.

Andrew Murphy Andria Wilson Director of Programming Executive Director Inside Out Inside Out

18 19 Funders and Sponsors Funders and Sponsors

Lead Sponsor Presenting Partner Gold Sponsors

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20 21 Membership Membership Enjoy the best LGBTQ cinema with your community. Your Inside Out Membership will give you perks tailored to the experience you want. There’s a membership level to fit everyone’s needs. Support queer stories and storytellers. Sign up at insideout.ca or visit Inside Out’s box office at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Receive great benefits.

YOUTH/ SUPPORTER SENIOR* FRIEND ONE: $180 ASSOCIATE BENEFACTOR PATRON VISIONARY DELUXE $20 $50 TWO: $200 $300 $540 $810 $1200 $2760

MONTHLY PAYMENT OPTION $15 | $16.67 $25 $45 $67.50 $100 $230

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Invitation to Festival Opening VIP Reception 2 2 2 4

Festival T-shirt (up to 2) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Invitation to Annual Member Recognition Event 2 2 2

VIP Experience at Festival Launch Event ✓ ✓ ✓ Reserved seating for Festival and More Play Series Reserved Reserved Seating Seating with Section*** Name Option****

Invitation for 2 to Filmmakers’ Brunch ✓ ✓ Dedicated Festival concierge service ✓

Access to VIP Lounge at TIFF Bell Lightbox (during Festival) ✓

OPTION A: TICKET PACKAGES WITH PARTIAL TAX RECEIPT Free tickets to regular Festival screenings 4 seats at all advance 6 8 16 20 24 selected regular screenings

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*Youth/Senior membership is open to youth 24 and under, seniors 65+, people who identify as underemployed or who are on fixed ** FREE access to the following parties: Opening Night, Women’s Gala and Closing Night Party. Access to other events with associated income. Please be advised that most films are restricted to 18 years of age and older. film/party ticket. All events subject to capacity. *** 15 minutes release time **** 10 minutes release time

22 23 Members and Donors Members and Donors

Nathan Heinrichs Jersey Anderson Leah Jaunzems and David Snoddy* We Love Our Members and Donors! Paul Higgs D. Arcand and Claire Harvey Adam Stewart* Bradley Hilderley A. Karmali Karie Diane Johnston Tom Tan Inside Out exists only with the support of our Inside Out Members and Donors. Marc Hill Amir Azadeh Beth Jordan André Thomas Donna Inch and Janine and Christine Patrick Keleher Ralph Topp Baillie-Roos Inside Out is grateful for your generosity and for your shared belief in the Audrey Lobo Steven Kim Stephen Traynor Rachel E. Beattie* transformative power of LGBTQ film and its ability to bring people of diverse Greg W. Johns Chantal S. Lackan* Pat Vandesompele and backgrounds together to engage, empower, educate and entertain our audiences. Miriam Kaufman and Michel Beauvais Samuel Laredo Steve McKeown Roberta Benson Lucas Beaver Derek Leebosh Paul Warder* It is with tremendous gratitude that we thank all of our Members and Donors Harvey Kaye Sujata Berry* Jordan Levitin and Peter Wren including our 2019 Associate to Deluxe Members listed below. Jordan Kemp and David Brennan and Fransisco Jaurez Leonardo Zuniga Zaheed Alli Michael Woodford Jennifer Lord and Doug Kerr and Jason Brown Becca Lucas Lord Michael Went We appreciate the support Robert Buckingham* Chris Matthews of all our members and Davinder Singh and Andrew Mainprize Adrian Mitchell $5,000+ B. Kitchell Daniel Burns Gary McLachlan donors. We apologize for Pablo Ruisanchez and Philip Kocev* Michelle Robertson any omissions. Inside David Carter* Paul Lalonde* Michael Bushara James Meeks* Ortega Keith Medley and Naomi Brooks Out’s Charitable Karim Ladak* Samuel Lapidus Ross Slater and Blair Caines and Alan Moon Registration Number is Steve Nardi and Michelle and 871515995RR0001. Jim Lawrence and Wayne Smith Bruce Lawson Brad Candy Kevin Meloche Amy Talbert* Michael Moores David Salak* Ron Leach Joe E. Teves and Barry Waite* Jim Carleton* Derek Peter Morris *Notes non-membership Martha LA McCain* Thomas Park* charitable contributions. David Rankin* Michael Legouffe Dora Catalarranas Pearse Murray Bernardine Perreira Kevin Robbins Dr. Ben Louie Andrew Chang* Arif Noorani and Joe Pharaon $400 to $599 $2,000 to $4,999 Anne-Marie Vanier* Gilles Marchildon and Mara Chaplin Wesley Seto Amaze Film + Neville Austin* David Vella* Nik Redman Gord Klassen Television Harry Cherniak Jason Novelli Michael Bellefontaine* Scott Windsor* John Stanley and Jeanette and Harold Chmara and Jessica Park and Michael Agnew Brian Markle Lawrence Bennett* Joseph Woodworth* Helmut Reichenbächer Danny Hoy Kris Klement* SC Aubé The Rev. Dr. John Chris Black and Suzy Zucker* Trevor Stevenson and Paolo Cini and Evalyn Parry Michelle Ball Joseph Mastandrea* Paul Butler* Justin Schurman* William Leffler Adam Peer and Ruby Bantock Christopher McKenzie Carl Bremner and Jason Wagar* Gordon Davies Andres Laxamana* $1,000 to $1,999 and Grant Murphy Kenneth Holt Adam Benn Sam Davin* Pauline Pelletier Jill Andrew and Peter McNaughton Nelson Carvalho and $600 to $999 Sujata Berry* Tony De Franco and Davey Perry Aisha Fairclough* Lucas Medina and Zak Miljanic* Richard Berthelsen and Stephen McGregor April Poppe Deborah Barr Roberto Bozac and Jean-Marc Hachey Alexander Darnell Sarah Hunter* Steve Clelland Michelle Doyle Hilary Prue Alexander and James Fabio Mello and Dr. Richard Isaac and Allen Braude Alison Duke and Boecker-Fitzgerald Daniel Brown and Brandon Brophy Janis Purdy Brian Sambourne* Maurice Fournier* Christopher Brohman Notisha Massaquoi Lambert Boenders and and David Beckner* Rodney Osinga Ingrid Randoja and Steve Khan and Bradley J. Campbell John Duwyn Emma Lewzey Barry Trentham Andrew Pruss and Frédéric Prigot* and Obed Urquilla JC Cadieux and Kamila Edwards* Jack Candido and Natasha Tavares Tony Ivanoff Marcel Erick Rangel Willliam and Flores Adam Ferraro Gary Klein* Howard Craven Louis Charpentier and Trevor Scanlan and Mitzi Reinsilber and Marc Charrier Sam Festino Melissa Fishman* Linda Chen Robert Wakefield John Farrell Jim Knoop and Chris Chin Ed Piotrowski Tania Cheng and Denis Schryburt* Richard Fung* Grant H. Reynolds Jo-Ann Chiam and Patrick David and Dana Decent* Geoffrey Skelding Bob Gallagher Jeff Richstone* Peter Kuplowsky* Janet Koecher* Michael Smith Sam D'Alfonso Lee Sneddon and Rudy Giacchetti Douglas Rienzo Marcus Law* Andy Chong* Christopher Field and Kris Fortomaris Gordon Gingras Joel Rodrigues* Michael Leshner and John Clifford Changming Guo Charlie David Mark Stringer Rebecca Gold Gary Rogers Mike Stark* Henry D’Auchapt and Dennis Findlay* Karen Davis and Susan Ewing Ayse Turak Russell Mathew and Peter Harding* Anne Gallagher* Cathy Gulkin Mike Rudolph Scott Ferguson* Jenarra de Souza and Daniel DaCosta and Jason Van Tassel Mac Gunter and Jax Ruggiero and David Hazzan and Zinzi de Silva Donald McKay and Wade Rowley Mason Schleuter Lulu Wei Serdar Atav Weronika Rogula Jim Laughlin* Carol A. Deacon and Murray Gaudreau Wayne Horchover Andrew Wilson* David G. Hallman Eric Ruppert and Heather Huber Manuel Medina Adam Morrison and Philip Wong Kathleen M. Harquail James Owen* Heather Gibson* Mark Kizhnerman and Cecilio Escobar Shawn Castonguay* Michel Helie* Eric Schlosser Ralph Pascht and Larry Hughsam* Bruce Ferreira-Wells Geoff Lawrence and Vincent Ho Jayne Schneider Mark Le Messurier* Claire Lavoie and $250 to $399 Neil Calhoun Stephen L. Gillis Rupen Seoni and Lisa Landrey Alan Abuchaibe and Stephen Hobson Kimahli Powell* Tomislav Harmic Gerry Dimnik Mike Loader Drew Hemler Adonica Huggins Philip Rouse* Greg Lichti and Rosalind Harvey and Raymond Seton Garth Norbraten* Robert Martel* Barry Adam Adam Hyatt Rhonda Fromstein Shane Smith*

24 25 Major Giving and Legacy Society Leadership Circle The Lawrence Family Inside Out for All The Leadership Circle brings together a special group of supporters who wish to champion Inside Foundation Out’s goal of challenging attitudes and changing We gratefully acknowledge Inside Out believes in the transformative power of lives through supporting our LGBTQ stories and the generous support from LGBTQ film. storytellers. The philanthropic support of our longtime members Jim Leadership Circle shows an investment in the future Lawrence and David Salak and the Lawrence Family of Inside Out and the LGBTQ communities As our primary charitable initiative, Inside Out for All Foundation. Their generosity funding supports our efforts to engage and involve LGBTQ we serve. has enabled Inside Out to increase its support of people in our programming across all our communities. Jill Andrew and Aisha Fairclough LGBTQ film and filmmakers Neville Austin and launch the world’s first Our commitment to this initiative includes: Michael Bellefontaine LGBTQ Film Financing Forum. We are thankful for Lawrence Bennett the Foundation’s continued Tickets Free Youth and Supports for Deaf Paul Butler and Chris Black commitment to create a David Carter* more inclusive festival for At our Toronto Festival, Senior Matinees and Hard of everyone in our communities. we give away up to 2,000 Nelson Carvalho and Zak Miljanic tickets free of charge to For Youth (24 and under) and Hearing Audiences community partners and Seniors (65+) we offer Jo-Ann Chiam and Janet Koecher free tickets for weekday These include captioning of organizations. films, ASL interpretation at Andy Chong RE:Focus Fund screenings that begin before 6 pm. screenings and events and Heather Gibson* This Fund is aimed at communications around supporting career develop- Larry Hughsam Community VIP these supports. ment for female and Dr. Richard Isaac and Brian Sambourne* At our Toronto Festival, we Physical non-binary filmmakers. With will reserve day passes and Steve Khan and Frédéric Prigot the generous support of seats in our VIP section for Accessibility Community William and Gary Klein Martha McCain, the newcomers to Canada and of Spaces Screenings RE:Focus Fund provides others in our communities Karim Ladak filmmakers an opportunity who may experience barriers We aim to ensure that our Inside Out’s community Marcus Law to attend the Festival to to access. screening and event venues catalogue of LGBTQ films is are physically accessible available to educators and present their work and Jim Lawrence and David Salak and that all staff and community organizers who access microgrants and other Greg Lichti and Garth Norbraten* volunteers are trained on wish to host their own development opportunities. accessibility best practice. screenings free of charge. Russell Mathew and Scott Ferguson Martha LA McCain Legacy Society Donald McKay and Jim Laughlin* Inside Out's Legacy Society Adam Morrison and James Owen donors have made a lasting Inside Out for All Community Champions Ralph Pascht and Mark Le Messurier commitment to our future Community Champions For more information If you have an inquiry about Kimahli Powell by including Inside Out in their wills and estate plans. directly contribute funds to about IOFA or becoming how your group can be Philip Rouse Inside Out for All (IOFA). a Community Champion, involved with Inside Out Neville Austin please contact Deanna programming as a Anne-Marie Vanier We are proud to recognize Bickford, Director Community Partner, please Lambert Boenders and support for this work from David Vella of Development, at contact Beau Gomez, Barry Trentham the following organizations: [email protected] Marketing and Outreach Jason Wagar Dennis Findlay ASAAP Manager, at Scott Windsor* Larry Hughsam [email protected] OPS Pride Network Karim Ladak Russell Mathew and Pride and Remembrance Scott Ferguson Association Philip Rouse Rainbow Railroad Dr. James Stewart Youthline

*Indicates new Leadership Circle Members

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Rocketman Good Kisser

Rocketman is an epic musical fantasy about the Director: Dexter Fletcher What’s a girl to do when her girlfriend suggests a date Director: Wendy Jo Carlton incredible human story of Elton John’s breakthrough Screenplay: Lee Hall with a very alluring stranger? This three-way fling Screenplay: Wendy Jo Carlton Distributor: Paramount Pictures USA | 2019 | 74:00 years. UK/USA | 2019 | 120:00 is deliciously unveiled in Good Kisser, a new film by Wendy Jo Carlton (whose Jamie and Jessie are WOMEN’S GALA The film follows the fantastical journey of transformation OPENING GALA Not Together played at the Festival in 2012). Saturday, May 25, 7:15pm Thursday, May 23, 7:30pm Venue: TBLB 1 from shy piano prodigy Reginald Dwight into Venue: TBLB 1 international superstar Elton John. This inspirational Awkward Jenna reluctantly agrees to a threesome International Premiere story – set to Elton John’s most beloved songs and Thursday, May 23, 7:45pm with her girlfriend Kate and a mysterious, sophisticated Guests in attendance Venue: TBLB 2 performed by star Taron Egerton – tells the universally woman named Mia. Over the course of a sultry Followed by the Women’s Gala relatable story of how a small-town boy became one Followed by the Opening Gala summer evening, sparks fly, games are played, promises Party. See p 131 for details. of the most iconic figures in pop culture. Party. See p 131 for details. are broken, and secrets are revealed. Is Jenna in Official Selection, 2019 over her head? Will Jenna and Kate’s relationship Rocketman also stars Jamie Bell as Elton’s longtime Cannes Film Festival survive the night? All bets are off when it comes Screening Sponsors lyricist and writing partner Bernie Taupin, Richard to good kissers. Madden as Elton’s first manager, John Reid, and Bryce Dallas Howard as Elton’s mother Sheila Farebrother. Screening Sponsor Good Kisser lays bare a hot relationship in transition Martha LA McCain – and you will never look at a Popsicle the same Rocketman opens in select theatres May 31. way again.

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Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City Late Night

Inspired by the books of Armistead Maupin, Netflix’s Director: Alan Poul Written by Mindy Kaling, directed by Nisha Ganatra Director: Nisha Ganatra Original Series, Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, Screenplay: Lauren Morelli (whose film Chutney Popcorn capped off Inside Screenplay: Mindy Kaling USA | 2019 | 60:00 USA | 2019 | 102:00 begins a new chapter of this beloved story. Out in 2000), and starring Emma Thompson, Late CENTREPIECE GALA Night might seem too good to be true. CLOSING GALA Mary Ann (Laura Linney) returns to present-day San Tuesday, May 28, 9:00pm Saturday, June 1, 7:00pm Venue: TBLB 1 Venue: TBLB 1 Francisco to celebrate Anna’s 90th birthday, and is When late-night talk show host, Katherine Newbury reunited with her daughter Shawna (Ellen Page) and Special guests in attendance: (Emma Thompson), is accused of being “a woman Guests in attendance ex-husband Brian (Paul Gross), twenty years after Lauren Morelli, Murray Bartlett, who hates women,” she hires her first and only female Paul Gross Preceded by Closing Gala Party. leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the staff writer, Molly (Mindy Kaling). This lack of inclusion See p 131 for details. midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life Preceded by Centrepiece Gala is only the tip of the iceberg for the show, which is also Reception. See p 130 for details. Official Selection, 2019 created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit suffering from low ratings and an unsupportive Sundance Film Festival of Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis) and the residents network. Wanting to prove that she is more than just of 28 Barbary Lane. Spanning nine novels and multiple Screening Sponsor a diversity hire, Molly sets out to help Katherine and television series, Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City to save her show, one punchline at a time. Screening Sponsor for Netflix brings us back into the queer world of San Francisco where so much has changed. What has Late Night tackles misogyny and white privilege, while remained constant are Anna and her chosen family. taking a closer look at the complicated working life of women with and without power. The Centrepiece Gala will screen the first episode, followed by an onstage conversation with showrunner Lauren Morelli (Orange is the New Black), Murray Bartlett (Looking), and Paul Gross (Due South).

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Sell By You Don’t Nomi

Sell By proves that love is a dangerous game for a group Director: Mike Doyle You Don’t Nomi traces the redemption of director Director: Jeffrey McHale of self-absorbed friends who are trying to navigate their Screenplay: Mike Doyle Paul Verhoeven’s filmShowgirls , from notorious flop USA | 2019 | 90:00 USA | 2019 | 90:00 own romances. Nobody said love was easy. to cult classic. Friday, May 31, 9:15pm Friday, May 24, 9:30pm Venue: TBLB 1 Venue: TBLB 1 Adam (Scott Evans) and Marklin (Augustus Prew) seem When it was first released in 1995, Showgirls was met Special Presentation to have the world in the palm of their hands, but Special Presentation by critics and audiences with near universal derision, International Premiere their love life could use improvement. Marklin’s rise as World Premiere which included thirteen record-breaking Razzie Awards Guests in attendance Guests in attendance a social media influencer, and Adam’s struggle to nominations. You Don’t Nomi brilliantly draws on Preceded by Red Carpet switch from ghost painting to creating his own work, Preceded by archival footage and thoughtful commentary to chart Reception. See p 130 for details. has caused a rift between them. As their five-year Next Level Shit (11:00) the film’s eventual rise to a more favourable notoriety. relationship grows colder, they must decide whether to Preceded by Red Carpet Leaving no stone unturned, we relive many memorable go all in or explore other options. Meanwhile, Cammy Reception. See p 130 for details. scenes from Showgirls, while digging deeper into the (Michelle Buteau) is failing to find her way in the world film’s darker side. It will not surprise anyone that many of online dating, and Haley (Zoe Chao) has to fend off of the people interviewed onscreen are gay, including an almost-legal student who’s hot for teacher. Screening Sponsors well-known super fan, Peaches Christ.

In this hilarious, heartfelt film,Sell By emphasizes Is it a masterpiece or pure garbage? McHale’s that vanity, with all its problems, can also get in the William and Gary Klein documentary answers the very important question: way of love. can’t it be both?

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A Dog Barking at the Moon Adam

Unhappiness can become such a habit that we forget Director: Xiang Zi Adam, the much awaited first feature from director Director: Rhys Ernst about its root cause. In her assured and lyrical Screenplay: Xiang Zi Rhys Ernst (Transparent), brings Ariel Schrag’s uncon- Screenplay: Ariel Schrag China/Spain | 2019 | 107:00 USA | 2019 | 95:00 debut feature, writer-director Xiang Zi introduces us Mandarin with English subtitles ventional boy-meets-girl novel to life. to a family living with sorrow at its core, although Thursday, May 30, 9:00pm the source of that sorrow may not be all that it seems. Monday, May 27, 9:30pm Awkward high schooler Adam (Nicholas Alexander) Venue: TBLB 1 Venue: TBLB 2 does not have a way with women. When an opportuni- International Premiere Ever since she was young, Huang Xiaoyu (Gaowa Siqin) Canadian Premiere ty arises to spend the summer in New York with his Guests in attendance has been cheering for her parents’ divorce, particularly Teddy Jury Award, 2019 Berlin older sister Casey (Margaret Qualley), he seizes the Official Selection, 2019 in light of evidence that her father might be gay. International Film Festival chance to spread his wings. His plan is thwarted by the Sundance Film Festival Arriving home from the United States to have her first fact that Casey mostly attends L Word parties and Rating: 14A child, Western husband at her side, Xiaoyu already marriage equality marches. When he tags along to a seems demoralized. Her father is cheerful but absent, Screening Sponsors party with his sister’s queer friends, he meets Gillian

and her mother, played by veteran actress Renhua and, hoping she likes men, strikes up a conversation. Screening Sponsor Na, is a bundle of nerves and disgruntlement. As the When Gillian mistakes Adam’s gender identity, he can’t curtain pulls back, we can see that secrets (although quite bring himself to correct her error and the two her father’s were less well kept) run in the family. grow closer. Before long, what began as a simple

Andy Chong misunderstanding evolves into a complicated mix-up, Revealing the story over various time periods, Xiang proving how out of his depth Adam truly is. invites the viewer to act as a fly on the wall, enticing them to watch as astutely observed moments unfold in Ernst and Alexander carefully break down a complicat- the history of a family who have barely been able to ed character and create an honest, engaging and raw keep up appearances. coming-of-age story.

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Before You Know It Bit

When Rachel Gurner’s charming date walks her to her Director: Hannah Pearl Utt Desperate to get away from her small-town roots and Director: Brad Michael Elmore front door and asks if she has roommates, she quietly Screenplay: Jen Tullock, find a like-minded community, Laurel hits the road Screenplay: Brad Michael Hannah Pearl Utt Elmore admits that she does. What she doesn’t admit to is that USA | 2019 | 98:00 for Los Angeles as soon as she graduates from high USA | 2019 | 90:00 she lives above a small theatre with her father Mel, school. Sure, people in L.A. are different, but her sister Jackie (played by hilarious co-writer Jen Friday, May 24, 9:15pm do these people seem extra different? Yes, they do, Friday, May 24, 7:00pm Venue: TBLB 1 Tullock), and her preteen niece, Dodge. It’s a real Venue: TBLB 2 because they are vampires. romance killer. International Premiere World Premiere Guests in attendance Official Selection, 2019 On her first night out in the city, Laurel attends a The truth is Rachel has no time for relationships. She Sundance Film Festival warehouse party and befriends a mysterious group of Rating: 14A takes responsibility for almost every aspect of her punk feminist women, led by the intimidating Duke. Rating: 14A family’s lives, from housekeeping to managing their Laurel is surprised to have met her people so quickly, upcoming theatre show. When Mel suddenly passes but her luck turns when one of them feeds on her Screening Sponsor

away, everything they know is put in jeopardy. If this Screening Sponsors blood and leaves her for dead. Waking up and realizing isn’t enough, their father’s outdated will reveals that she might have become a vampire, Laurel confronts the mother they believed to be dead is, in fact, alive the women who converted her and is given a choice: go back to a boring life or join an ultra-cool vampire and is playing a lead role in a popular soap opera. Steve Khan and Frédéric Prigot squad. Could it possibly be that simple? Of course not. Hannah Pearl Utt writes, directs, and stars in this family drama that gives us licence to poke a little fun Starring trans actress Nicole Maines as Laurel, Bit is at life’s misfortunes. supernatural, super feminist, and super queer. Not to mention the most fun you’ll have at the movies this year.

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The Blonde One (Un rubio) From Zero to I Love You

Things grow hot and heavy between roommates Director: Marco Berger In this entertaining romantic dramedy, commitment- Director: Doug Spearman Gabriel and Juan in this steamy, heartfelt film Screenplay: Marco Berger phobic Pete (Darryl Stephens, Noah’s Arc) and Screenplay: Doug Spearman Argentina | 2019 | 108:00 USA | 2019 | 106:00 from acclaimed Argentine director, Marco Berger Spanish with English subtitles married-with-children Jack unexpectedly fall for each (Plan B; Absent; Taekwondo). other, and life becomes suddenly complicated. Sunday, May 26, 9:15pm Saturday, May 25, 9:30pm Venue: TBLB 1 Gabriel is attracted to his roommate and co-worker, Venue: TBLB 1 Pete, a gay man living in Philadelphia, has a history of Canadian Premiere Juan. But what chance does Gabriel have, given involvement with married men. Enter Jack, with a Screening Sponsors the number of women streaming in and out of Juan’s wife and kids in the suburbs. When sparks fly, Pete must bedroom? Overcoming his shyness, Gabriel takes a ask himself if he can handle yet another relationship Screening Sponsors risk and makes the first move. To his surprise, he finds with a married man, while Jack will have to decide if he’s Juan eagerly responsive. But as their relationship ready to leave his wife. As Pete nears his decision, an Marcus Law intensifies, Juan wonders if he can give Gabriel what opportunity arises that causes him to question whether he wants – to bring their relationship out into the open. Russell Mathew and he is better off with, or without, Jack. Scott Ferguson Marco Berger sets the story in the characters’ everyday Featuring strong chemistry between the leads, director lives, and shows subtle signals of attraction as well as Doug Spearman (Hot Guys with Guns) creates the pervasive homophobia and machismo that impacts authentic characters in this highly engaging, obstacle- Gabriel and Juan’s deepening love. filled romance.

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The Ground Beneath My Feet Knives and Skin (Der Boden unter den Füßen) In Knives and Skin, Jennifer Reeder takes the classic Director: Jennifer Reeder American high school movie and turns it completely Screenplay: Jennifer Reeder USA | 2019 | 111:00 The Ground Beneath My Feet is a masterful thriller that Director: Marie Kreutzer on its head, adding magical realism, pop-song choirs, looks at the intersection of mental health and Screenplay: Marie Kreutzer and a feminist twist. Wednesday, May 29, 9:30pm Austria | 2019 | 108:00 Venue: TBLB 2 womanhood through the experiences of Lola (Valerie German with English subtitles Pachner), an ambitious workaholic on the verge of At first glance, this rural Illinois high school seems Canadian Premiere a nervous breakdown. Sunday, May 26, 7:00pm like any other: popular football players and their Venue: TBLB 1 Official Selection, 2019 Berlin cheerleader girlfriends, marching band nerds, the International Film Festival A ruthless and skilled consultant, Lola is on the brink Canadian Premiere feminist loner, and the unassuming kid in the mascot costume. But when their peer Carolyn Harper Rating: 14A of her dream promotion. Everything is put in jeopardy, Official Selection, 2019 Berlin however, when her sister, who lives with paranoid International Film Festival goes missing, the students are forced to confront the schizophrenia, attempts suicide. Forced to balance cracks in the façade, along the way revealing their true Screening Sponsors work and her sister’s care while trying to hide family Best Performance (Valerie selves and new, unexpected connections. The Pachner), 2019 Guadalajara disappearance also exposes parents’ secrets and matters from co-workers, Lola is stretched beyond International Film Festival her limits. Exhausted and suspicious of everyone highlights the town’s overriding dysfunction. around her, including her boss and secret lover, Elise, Lola begins to lose her grip on reality. Screening Sponsors Part teen comedy, part musical and part thriller, Knives and Skin is the badass feminist high school Marie Kreutzer’s nuanced portrait of Lola explores the movie we have all been waiting for.

very fine line between order and chaos, balance and instability.

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Saint Frances Second Star on the Right

Occasionally things happen in life that make us feel as Director: Alex Thompson Young at heart and lost in life, Emilia is far from having Director: Ruth Caudeli if the universe is enjoying a cruel joke at our expense. Screenplay: Kelly O’Sullivan it all figured out. She’s unemployed, in a relationship Screenplay: Ruth Caudeli, Silvia USA | 2019 | 106:00 Varón she won’t commit to, and the odd one out in her friend Colombia | 2019 | 82:00 At the onset of a hot summer in Chicago, and having Monday, May 27, 9:15pm group in almost every way possible. Spanish and German with had no time to recover from or process a recent Venue: TBLB 1 English subtitles abortion, Bridget begins a job as nanny to stubborn Audience Award, 2019 SXSW As an actor whose theatre work is high in concept but Monday, May 27, 7:15pm six-year-old Frances. With Bridget’s life in disarray Film Festival low in attendance, Emilia teaches acting classes while Venue: TBLB 2 and Frances struggling to adjust to the birth of a baby she awaits her big break. When she is unexpectedly Guests in attendance brother, the two begin to form a bond. But as Bridget fired, she is forced to take a job working for her moves more deeply into the world of Frances and her Screening Sponsors best friend Angelica. As Emilia sinks more deeply into moms, her personal relationships suffer and she loses Adam Morrison and a comfortable life, she grows further away from Screening Sponsor sight of life outside of her job. James Owen herself. If this isn’t enough to manage, she is also trying to figure out exactly what her relationship with Featuring standout performances across the board – Mariana is. Everything comes to a head at Angelica’s most notably from six-year-old Ramona Edith-Williams bachelorette party, where a few too many drunken – Saint Frances is a film about family in all of its forms. truths are revealed.

With clear vision, director Ruth Caudeli spotlights the highs and lows of female friendship, and masterfully answers the question: does growing up have to mean giving up?

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ANNE+ Camp Chaos – Hell’s Kitchen

When it comes to queer women and dating, we often Director: Valerie Bisscheroux A series that opens with a sex act while a voiceover Director: Cory Krueckeberg recognize universal rites of passage: first love, Screenplay: Maud Wiemeijer provides an erotic monologue can lead to assumptions, USA | 2019 | 60:00 Netherlands | 2018 | 68:00 the older woman, the closeted – or the wild – one. Dutch with English subtitles but Camp Chaos is just as much a self-empowering Friday, May 31, 9:45pm makeover show as it is a raunchy fantasy. Venue: TBLB 2 In this smart, sexy new web series from the Netherlands, Sunday, May 26, 2:30pm Venue: TBLB 1 World Premiere Anne is looking back on her liaisons with various As the first episode unfolds, we learn that real-life social girlfriends, as she moves into a new apartment. Each Rating: 14A media hottie Matthew Camp is setting out to recreate Preceded by Rubber Dolphin (29:00) episode features one of Anne’s past relationships, some of his sultriest sexual memories. We watch him from its swoony beginnings to the depressing, frustrat- video chat with a series of guys about their sexual ing, or inevitable end. Along the way, Anne learns desires until one shows up in real life to help Camp a great deal about herself and what she wants. with his project. And then there’s the reveal: a hardcore staging of the memory we’ve been hearing This series takes an honest, funny look at what it about throughout the episode. Sizzling stuff that treats means to be young and in love. And as Anne sexuality both seriously and playfully. works her way through her past romances, you just might recognize some of your own ex-girlfriends. Matthew Camp and show creator Cory Krueckeberg are returning to Inside Out with a vengeance, having All six episodes of ANNE+ will be screened in previously screened Getting Go, the Go Doc Project, this program. which won the Special Jury Award in 2013.

The first episode of Camp Chaos will screen in this program.

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EastSiders: Season 4 The Filth

With the interconnecting plots of a soap opera, but Director: Kit Williamson Things are messy and mettlesome for two muddle- Director: Jamie Holt ripe with dark, queer humour and just the right Screenplay: Kit Williamson headed best friends who are trying to make a go of life Screenplay: Jake Delaney, USA | 2019 | 90:00 Paige Hoffman Nielson, amount of gratuitous sex, the web turned Neflix series and love in L.A. Cara Fano EastSiders is back for a fourth and final season. Saturday, May 25, 7:00pm USA | 2019 | 129:00 Venue: TBLB 2 Stella, a bisexual plumber who moonlights as a go-go Sunday, May 26, 2:15pm Created, written, directed by and starring Kit Williamson, World Premiere dancer, is perpetually anxious and commitment-phobic. Venue: TBLB 2 who has appeared on Mad Men and The Good Wife, Guests in attendance Max, an aspiring actor whose career has stalled, EastSiders also features Williamson’s real-life partner, needs constant affirmation and is crazy in love with his World Premiere John Halbach, as part of a strong ensemble cast. In its allegedly straight roommate, Danny. Stella and Max final season, Williamson’s character Cal and boyfriend Screening Sponsors bond when they realize how much of their lives seem Thom (played by As the World Turns’s adorable Van to be mired in filth. But things begin to look up when Hansis) have journeyed far beyond the anxieties about Stella meets super cute fellow go-go dancer, Jocelyn. monogamy that launched the series. David Carter And Danny seems to be getting ready to finally leave the closet behind. Are things about to change for Max EastSiders delivers not only laughs and intrigue, but and Stella, or will they both find ways to sabotage their also offers wry observations on modern queer life, own happiness? particularly among the denizens of Los Angeles’ trendy Silver Lake neighbourhood. Recalling tragicomic series such as Please Like Me, The Filth is a wickedly funny tribute to the chaos of The first two episodes of Season Four will screen in modern life. this program, followed by a panel discussion. All five episodes of Season One will screen in this program.

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Razor Tongue Vida: Season Two Preview & Conversation

A razor-sharp tongue is a great asset, but what happens Director: Rain Valdez Winner of the 2019 GLAAD Media Award for Best Director: Catalina Aguilar when the people you cut are those closest to you? Screenplay: Rain Valdez Comedy Series, the groundbreaking Vida is returning Mastretta USA | 2019 | 60:00 Creator: Tanya Saracho Razor Tongue deftly navigates the calling out – and the for an action-packed second season. USA | 2018 | 70:00 being called out. Sunday, June 2, 4:30pm Venue: TBLB 1 Developed by showrunner Tanya Saracho and an Wednesday, May 29, 7:15pm Venue: TBLB 2 Whether sitting through a floundering Tinder date or a World Premiere all-Latinx writers’ room, Vida burst onto the terrible job interview, Belle calls out microaggressions Guests in attendance digital small screen in 2018 to critical acclaim and Guests in Attendance and bad behaviour from men whenever she sees it. But Rating: 14A introduced us to a diverse, captivating and super when someone turns the tables on her in public, she queer cast of characters living and loving in the rapidly begins to wonder about how effective public shaming gentrifying world of East Los Angeles. Vida centres Screening Sponsor actually is. Screening Sponsor on sisters Emma and Lyn (Mishel Prada and Melissa Barrera), who return to their Eastside neighbourhood There has been ample talk recently about the call-out following their mother’s death, only to learn that their culture, especially in LGBTQ2S+ communities, and mother kept many secrets – including the fact that Razor Tongue – a new web series from Rain Valdez of she had a live-in partner, Eddy (rising non-binary star, Transparent – cuts to the heart of the issue. Ser Anzoatugui).

All seven episodes of Razor Tongue will screen in this In partnership with STARZ, Inside Out is proud to program, followed by a discussion. present the first two episodes of Season 2, followed by an onstage conversation with guests Mishel Prada and Ser Anzoatugui. Word to the wise: Binge on Season 1 now on Crave with the STARZ add-on!

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We are living in the Golden Age of television and Sunday, June 2, 2:30pm digital series, and this program brings a selection of Venue: TBLB 1 queer and trans episodes to the cinema screen. Total program runtime: 83:00

Femme Queen Chronicles Director: Ahya Simone Taylor USA | 2018 | 11:00 Chanel and her friends Eryka, Amirah, and Shevon all are just trying to make it

These Thems through the day without getting clocked as trans PREMIUM GIN. women – or clocking someone else over the head. MADE IN TORONTO. I’m Fine Director: Andrew Ceperley Canada | 2019 | 22:00 Jeff brings Zachary to meet his mom who is recovering

Femme Queen Chronicles after a health scare. While there, Zachary unearths some hidden insecurities that even Jeff isn’t ready to face.

I’m Fine Miguel These Thems Directors: Daphna Levin, Director: Jett Garrison Tom Salama USA | 2019 | 8:00 At we only make premium spirits using high-quality local ingredients. Israel | 2018 | 42:00 Our innovative recipes result in truly unique products designed to meet the English, Hebrew, and Spanish These Thems, a comedic demands of craft cocktail lovers and craft distillation enthusiasts. with English subtitles digital series, follows four queer characters: a newly Miguel is a heart-wrenching out lesbian and her gay best true story of a gay man’s friend, a trans man who’s determination to fulfill his still in the closet at work, dream of adopting a child. and a nonbinary educator.

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A Night at Switch n’ Play Circus of Books

There’s something very queer happening at a bar in Director: Cody Stickels In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason fell on hard times Director: Rachel Mason Brooklyn, and in the new film A Night at Switch n’ Play USA | 2019 | 90:00 and were looking for a way to support their three USA | 2019 | 91:00 you are invited to come and watch. Saturday, June 1, 2:30pm young children. An ad by Larry Flynt, who was seeking Friday, May 24, 6:45pm Venue: TBLB 2 distributors for Hustler Magazine, became their Venue: TBLB 2 Switch n’ Play is a queer performance collective that World Premiere unexpected saviour. Canadian Premiere stages fabulous subversive drag and burlesque Guests in attendance Guests in attendance shows. The ensemble explodes traditional gender roles, The Masons soon found themselves owners of Circus Preceded by pushing the limits of what drag and burlesque can Reach the Sky (6:00) of Books, a popular Los Angeles queer bookstore. be. But more than that, they are a tight-knit family of Their establishment eventually became the biggest Screening Sponsors outsiders who welcome queer audiences into Rating: 14A distributor of gay porn in the United States, which led their world and create a safe, tantalizing space where to federal obscenity charges during the Reagan era. everyone can be themselves. The film introduces This fascinating documentary, directed by their Screening Sponsor Paul Butler and Chris Black diverse members of the collective and sprinkles in a daughter Rebecca Mason, looks at her parents’ generous helping of delicious live performances. unlikely story: how they kept the details of their work from their children, the impact of the AIDS crisis, and If you spend just one night with Switch n’ Play, you’ll how their involvement with the LGBT community didn’t never want to leave. fully prepare them for having a gay son.

Featured interviews include LGBT activist Alexei Romanoff, drag superstar Alaska (Justin Honard, a former employee), and porn legend Jeff Stryker.

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Gay Chorus Deep South Halston

The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus plan a tour of Director: David Charles Before Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford and Calvin Klein, there Director: Frédéric Tcheng the Deep South in order to bring acceptance and USA | 2019 | 98:00 was Halston, a suave young man from Des Moines, USA | 2019 | 120:00 love to many of those who live with discriminatory Saturday, May 25, 2:15pm Iowa, who took Manhattan by storm and defined 1970s Wednesday, May 29, 9:15pm anti-LGBTQ+ laws. Venue: TBLB 1 style. He designed everything from Jackie Kennedy’s Venue: TBLB 1 Canadian Premiere pillbox hat to Girl Scout and NYPD uniforms to a JC Canadian Premiere Led by conductor Tim Seely and joined by the Oakland Penney clothing line. Interfaith Gospel Choir, the Chorus begin their journey, Rating: 14A Official Selection, 2019 Sundance Film Festival skeptical of potential audience reaction. They learn, At the height of his career, when he wasn’t throwing however, that their performances are bringing people tantrums over imperfect seams and wrangling his Rating: 14A Screening Sponsors together. The Chorus use the universal language of out-of-control lover, Halston was travelling with a pack music to give queer communities in the Deep South a of models known as the Halstonettes, and spending safe and welcoming environment in which to celebrate drug-fuelled nights at Studio 54 with Bianca Jagger, Screening Sponsor their identities and orientations. Liza Minnelli and Andy Warhol. In this comprehensive look at the designer’s meteoric rise and humiliating Gay Chorus Deep South shows us that it is not as fall, French-born director Frédéric Tcheng, who has important who you love, but that you are capable of made documentaries about Dior, Vreeland and love, aiming to go beyond mere tolerance to a place Valentino, proves he knows his Ultrasuede from his where everyone can feel accepted and celebrated for hot pants. who they are. Donald McKay and Mixing candid interviews with archival footage that Jim Laughlin evoke the man and his era, Halston captures the spirit of a genius. Also, a warning: don’t believe your own hype.

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Special Sneak Preview: Scream, Queen! We Are the Radical Monarchs My Nightmare on Elm Street A group of girls chant, holding clenched fists high and Director: Linda Goldstein showcasing colourful badges sporting the words, “Black Knowlton USA | 2019 | 95:00 Actor Mark Patton is ready to scream. Thirty-four years Directors: Roman Chimienti, Lives Matter” and “Radical Beauty.” Meet the first troop after his first lead role inNightmare on Elm Street Tyler Jensen of Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of colour Thursday, May 30, 7:00pm USA | 2019 | 100:00 2: Freddy’s Revenge, the rising star experienced what who are standing at the front lines of social justice. Venue: TBLB 2 became a real-life nightmare when the movie Saturday, May 25, 5:00pm Canadian Premiere was dubbed, “The gayest horror film ever made.” Venue: TBLB 1 Set in Oakland, We Are the Radical Monarchs documents, Official Selection, 2019 SXSW over a three-year period, an alternative movement to Film Festival Unbeknownst to the closeted actor, whose budding the Girl Scouts. Its members earn badges for completing career was smack-dab in the middle of Hollywood’s Screening Sponsor social justice units that incorporate being an LGBTQ+ Rating: PG AIDS-phobic ‘80s, his first big break turned out to be a ally, environmental activism, and disability justice. The gay panic film that earned him the title of first male group, started by two queer women of colour, is Screening Sponsors scream queen. His career in ruins, Patton vanished from anchored in the belief that girls of colour need dedicated the spotlight. As it turned out, the true villain wasn’t spaces and a foundation that is rooted in fierce, Freddy Krueger at all, but screenwriter David Chaskin, interdependent sisterhood, self-love and hope. who denied that he wrote any gay subtext and who instead blamed the young actor. This dynamic film follows the first troop of Radical Monarchs and chronicles the co-founders’ struggle to Documentary filmmakers Roman Chimienti and Tyler develop, expand and advance the organization and Jill Andrew and Jensen document Patton’s pilgrimage as he attempts their mission to create and inspire a new generation of Aisha Fairclough to make peace with this dark past, and confronts the social justice activists. entire film cast and Chaskin himself.

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Drag Kids Dykes in the Streets

Drag origin stories are overflowing with misfit kids Director: Megan Wennberg Picture it – 1981, a summer day in Toronto, 300 lesbians Director: Almerinda Travassos who were bullied at school and at home because Canada | 2019 | 77:00 carrying signs and balloons, marching down Yonge Canada | 2019 | 37:00 of their love of feminine clothes and cosmetics. But Friday, May 24, 5:00pm Street and loudly chanting, “We are the D. Y. K. E. S!” Saturday, May 25, 12:15pm what if those kids were free to be themselves from Venue: TBLB 2 Venue: TBLB 2 an early age? Drag Kids introduces us to four fabulous Rating: PG The march that day was a triumph for pride and visibility. World Premiere youngsters who have been given that very opportunity. But how have things changed for queer women in Guests in attendance Toronto since that protest? How has the movement

Stephen, Jason, Bracken, and Nemis, age nine to eleven, Screening Sponsors changed? Who does it represent? And where is it are already fierce drag queens. They come from going now? Almerinda Travassos’s new documentary, Screening Sponsors different backgrounds but all share a love of fabulous Dykes in the Streets, poses those questions to a frocks and glittery makeup. When the kids are variety of queer women in Toronto. Against a backdrop brought together by their deeply loving, supportive of remarkable archival footage of Pride from 1981, Heather Gibson parents, they bond over costumes, makeup and a 1991, 1996 and 2016, the women talk about their expe- love of drag. But do they have what it takes to perform riences with queer activism in Toronto. and compete with adult queens? As our LGBTQ2S+ communities grow and change, Drag Kids takes a joyous look at what can happen when Dykes in the Streets raises many timely questions parents support their children’s dreams of fabulousness. about what has been achieved and what still needs to be done.

The screening will be followed by an extended Q&A.

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Queer Coolie-tudes Queering the Script

In a reclaiming of the slur coolie, filmmaker Michelle Director: Michelle Mohabeer “I learned about myself through this show. I saw myself Director: Gabrielle Zilkha Mohabeer’s creative essay documentary explores Canada | 2018 | 87:00 in this character,” explains an enthusiastic fan in Queering Canada | 2019 | 90:00 the experiences of queer Canadians from the Indo- Thursday, May 30, 4:45pm the Script, a sparkling celebration of queer fangirls and Sunday, May 26, 12:15pm Caribbean diaspora. Venue: TBLB 2 the shows they love. Venue: TBLB 1 Toronto Premiere World Premiere Beginning with Mohabeer’s personal experience, Guests in attendance Queerness on television has moved from subtext, in Guests in attendance the documentary moves through a series of interviews series such as Xena: Warrior Princess, to all-out Rating: PG Rating: PG with people from a wide variety of backgrounds. multi-season relationships between women, as seen Instead of succumbing to pressure to find a shared on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost Girl, and Carmilla. narrative or common ground, the documentary But things still aren’t perfect. In 2016, a record number Screening Sponsors embraces the complexities of how factors such as of queer women died on fictional shows, which gender, age and mobility inform identity in nuanced broke the hearts of queer fans and launched a successful ways. A powerful collection of testimonies, the film fight for better, more diverse LGBTQ+ representation. traces the intergenerational lives, histories, familial Stars such as Ilene Chaiken, Stephanie Beatriz, Lucy relations and sexualities of its interview subjects. Kimahli Powell Lawless and Angelica Ross join with the voices of numerous kickass fangirls in this fast-paced history of Speaking to the limits of identity and the violence of queer women’s representation in contemporary television. mainstream categorizations, Queer Coolie-tudes is a documentary that illustrates the importance of not Queering the Script not only charts the evolution of accepting erasure. queerness, but also demonstrates the extraordinary impact of activism on its many diverse fans, ensuring that they see themselves accurately portrayed onscreen.

76 77 Spotlight on Canada Spotlight on Canada Local Heroes Stories We Tell

Our annual collection of what this great city has to Thursday, May 30, 6:45pm #Canqueer excellence from coast to coast, this Tuesday, May 28, 4:45pm offer, this year’sLocal Heroes brings us a wide assort- Venue: TBLB 1 program puts our homegrown talent in the spotlight. Venue: TBLB 2 ment of queer treats that include ballroom, bicycling, Total program runtime: 86:00 Total program runtime: 90:00 textile vaginas, and a carrot.

Soft Spot The Tragic Fall Director: Justine Stevens of Valerie Mallory Canada | 2018 | 12:00 Finkerstein Kris, struggling with the surprise death of an ex-lover, Director: Martina Monro sidesteps her girlfriend’s Canada | 2018 | 13:00 post-gin and tonic advances. On the day of her best friend’s surprise birthday War Movie party, Valerie must Do You Even Carrot All? Skies Are Not Just Blue publicly confess her love Director: Matt Landry or lose her love forever. Canada | 2018 | 12:00 An argument over a film they Stage Name: just watched spirals into real life drama between two Victoria best friends. Director: Taran Morriseau Canada | 2018 | 4:00 Terminally in Love Stage Name: Victoria takes Director: Emily Jenkins an intimate look at a drag Canada | 2018 | 17:00 queen who is starting his Haus Docking career in the community of Terminally in Love takes a Fort William First Nation. first-person journey into the Haus Queen mind of a neurotic stoner. Docking Skies Are Not Director: Joseph Amenta Director: Sabina Lambert Director: Trevor Anderson Just Blue Lost Cat | | | | Canada 2018 15:00 Canada 2018 7:00 Canada | 2019 | 4:00 Director: Laura Bergeron Do You Even Director: Lysandre Canada | 2018 | 15:00 A displaced black queer Working at a drag bar, Alex Cosse-Tremblay Carrot All? Trevor reflects on his fear French with English subtitles boy finds refuge in his is immersed and inspired by of dating. Canada | 2018 | 25:00 city’s underground Kiki the wondrous self-expression Director: Daniel Sterlin-Altman At a turning point in her life, Canada | 2018 | 3:00 Identifying as queer and Ballroom scene. of the drag queens as they Nathalie tries to overcome Muslim is a reality for Yara, A. perform on the neon-lit stage. Biidaaban (The her failure and come to peace Everybody wants to reach and brothers Monib and Tariq. Loretta’s Flowers Carrot, but he doesn't seem Dawn Comes) with her inability to connect My Fuzzy to carrot all. with herself and others. Director: Brendan Prost Director: Amanda Strong Iftiin Canada | 2018 | 15:00 Valentine Canada | 2019 | 19:00 Local Heroes Screening Sponsors Director: Ladan Mohamed Siad Stories We Tell Screening Sponsors On a long summer’s day in Director: Ben Edelberg Accompanied by a 10,000- Canada | 2018 | 10:00 Toronto, a young woman Canada | 2018 | 5:00 year-old shapeshifter cycles between increasingly and friend known as Sabe, A genderqueer Somali- intimate encounters but A pulsating world of bug- Biidaaban sets out on Canadian teenager spends remains trapped in a pattern eyed lesbian sasquatches a mission to reclaim the the day taking their of insatiable longing. and vaginal caves is created ceremonial harvesting grandmother to her from reclaimed textiles appointments, forcing the Philip Rouse Followed by Local Heroes of sap from maple trees. courtesy of legendary two to confront their party. See page 129 for details. Allyson Mitchell. assumptions of one another.

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MOUTHPIECE Opens June 7

Anthony Oliveira on The Blue Angel June 8, 5:45pm

Queer Romance in Bollywood: Conversations About Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Tok Aisa Laga June 12, 7pm

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Being Impossible (Yo Impossible) Billie and Emma

Finding your identity is difficult at the best of times, Director: Patricia Ortega Set in the ‘90s, Billie and Emma explores the turbulent Director: Samantha Lee but what if a critical piece of your history has been Screenplay: Enmanuel Chávez, nature of young love and the importance of having Screenplay: Samantha Lee Patricia Ortega Philippines | 2018 | 100:00 kept from you? Venezuela/Colombia | 2018 | someone to laugh with through it all. Filipino with English subtitles 97:00 When Ariel has sex with her boyfriend for the first time Spanish with English subtitles After getting into trouble, Billie finds herself exiled to Friday, May 24, 4:45pm Venue: TBLB 1 she experiences intense pain. Her mother gives her Friday, May 31, 5:15pm the rural plains to live with her aunt. She decides strict instructions to visit a very specific doctor but will Venue: TBLB 2 to keep a low profile, determined to make it through North American Premiere tell her nothing else. To make matters more confusing, the last year of high school incident free and return International Premiere Rating: 14A Ariel has developed a strong attraction to her new co- to the city. And her plan almost works, until she meets worker, Ana. Everything comes to a head when Ariel Official Selection, 2019 SXSW star student Emma. Emma coaxes Billie out of her discovers that she was born intersex, which affords a Film Festival shell and their relationship soon becomes more than new understanding of who she really is and the friendly, which throws a wrench into Billie’s plan to opportunity to explore what she really wants. leave, and threatens to tarnish Emma's star reputation. Things become even more complicated when Emma Being Impossible provides a sensitive, non-sensational finds out that she’s pregnant. way of looking at the complexities of gender and sex. Samantha Lee, a fierce advocate for greater representation of women and LGBTQ+ communities in cinema, delivers a heartwarming high school romance that is steeped in charm and expansive expression.

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Brief Story from the Green Planet Catamaran (Kattumaram)

Winner of the Teddy Award at this year’s Berlinale, A Director: Santiago Loza Catamaran is a gripping drama told from the point of Director: Swarnavel Eswaran Brief Story from the Green Planet follows trans woman Screenplay: Santiago Loza view of a stoic but loving fisherman who finds out his Screenplay: Swarnavel Eswaran Argentina/Germany/Brazil/ India | 2019 | 72:00 Tania on a strange and surprising odyssey. Spain | 2019 | 90:00 niece’s true desires are not what he imagined. Tamil with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles When Tania receives the news that her grandmother After a devastating tsunami shakes up Singaram’s family, Friday, May 31, 7:15pm Tuesday, May 28, 9:30pm Venue: TBLB 1 has passed away, she returns to her hometown with Venue: TBLB 2 he adopts his orphaned niece Anandhi and nephew two friends to take care of her grandmother’s estate. Mani. Singaram’s simple plan is complicated by his Tania realizes she has inherited more than she Canadian Premiere niece’s refusal to marry. His traditional perspective Screening Sponsor bargained for when she discovers a peculiar creature Official Selection, 2019 Berlin causes a rift in the family, forcing Anandhi to tell her in the house. Her grandmother’s dying request is Film Festival uncle about her love for Kavita, a woman who teaches Karim Ladak that Tania return this friendly companion to the place at a nearby school. Singaram works to come to terms where it first appeared, led only by the help of with her confession while the rest of the village insists a mysterious map. When the road gets rough, the Screening Sponsor that he find her a proper suitor. travellers must overcome their fears and work Jason Wagar together to complete their mission. Complemented by beautiful scenery, the budding lesbian romance is set as the backdrop for a film An odd premise breaks open to reveal a heartwarming about a society that is constantly breaking its own tale about chosen family and the power that outsiders rules despite its firm footing in heteronormativity. wield when they stick together.

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Cubby Fabiana

Creator Mark Blane has a knack for sensitively handling Director: Mark Blane, Ben The life of a long-distance trucker isn’t easy, and Director: Brunna Laboissière material that others might avoid. His 2012 book Mankoff proves especially challenging for Fabiana, a 56-year- Brazil | 2018 | 89:00 Screenplay: Mark Blane Portuguese with English and play, The Rock & The Ripe, attracted controversy USA | 2019 | 83:00 old trans woman who spends her life crisscrossing subtitles because of its theme of queer teen suicide, and his the highways of Brazil. feature film debut, Cubby, also refuses to look away Sunday, May 26, 4:30pm Monday, May 27, 5:00pm from uncomfortable moments. Venue: TBLB 1 In director Brunna Laboissière’s meditative documentary, Venue: TBLB 2 International Premiere we follow Fabiana during her final days on the job Canadian Premiere When scruffy man-child artist Mark Nabel (played by Preceded by as she prepares to retire from the road. Perched behind Blane) arrives in Brooklyn to begin an art gallery Repugnant (12:00) the wheel, cigarette in hand, Fabiana is both job that he’s invented to fool his mother, he’s forced to engaging and mysterious, speaking openly about her Screening Sponsors take a job babysitting a six-year-old in order to pay various sexual conquests and relationships. But Jo-Ann Chiam and the rent. As Mark develops his nurturing side, doing his she is also emotionally wary, afraid to show her deep Janet Koecher best to protect his charge from bullies, he comes to feelings and fears. We watch as Fabiana struggles terms with his sexual and romantic interests, particularly to reveal her lesbian identity to a female friend, hiding his encounters with Leather-Man (Christian Patrick the truth from her, and later we witness Fabiana’s of Interior. Leather Bar. and Kink.com fame), a fantasy tense relationship with her girlfriend, Priscilla. figure he meets in a neighbourhood park. Laboissière is a compassionate filmmaker who is not With humour that’s both gentle and acerbic, Cubby afraid to ask the tough questions. In the end, we are captures the difficulties, and the opportunities, left with a poignantly tender portrait of a woman who that come from being a complicated person in a embraces life and lives by her own rules. complicated world.

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The Garden Left Behind Jack & Yaya

The Garden Left Behind traces the relationship between Director: Flavio Alves Growing up trans in a rural community can feel Directors: Jennifer Bagley, Tina, a young Mexican trans woman, and Eliana, her Screenplay: Flavio Alves, isolating and lonely. But Jack and Yaya, who Mary Hewey John Rotondo USA | 2019 | 84:00 grandmother, as they navigate Tina’s transition, and USA | 2019 | 90:00 grew up with neighbouring backyards, had each strive to build a life for themselves as undocumented other every step of the way. Tuesday, May 28, 4:30pm immigrants in New York City. Sunday, May 26, 7:15pm Venue: TBLB 1 Venue: TBLB 2 Years later, despite living in separate States, they Rating: 14A As Tina begins the process of transitioning, Eliana Rating: 14A remain best friends. Jack, only a few years into struggles to understand Tina and fears that their his transition, struggles to decide whether to move life together in America is no longer what they bargained forward with gender-affirming surgery, while for. Tina finds camaraderie in a small but mighty Yaya tackles the bureaucratic nightmare of legally transgender advocate group but, soon, also finds herself changing her name in New Jersey, an eighteen- having to fight for the life that she’s meant to live – step ordeal. Through Skype calls and visits, Jack and facing violent threats, insurmountable medical costs, Yaya are behind each other for every setback questions about her legal immigration status, and every milestone. and increasing skepticism from the man she loves. Drawing on home videos and conversations with their This film touches on the very real threat of violence eclectic cast of friends and family, Jack & Yaya against trans women of colour in America and proves that hardships and distance are no match for does include a scene with graphic violence. For a friendship that seemed destined from the start. more information, please visit our website at insideout.ca.

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José Memories of My Body Chinese-American director Li Cheng lived in Central Director: Li Cheng (Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku) America for two years interviewing gay and marginal Guatemala/USA | 2018 | 85:00 Spanish with English subtitles youth, and learning about Guatemalan culture and Political and social upheaval in Central Java forces a Director: Garin Nugroho history, in preparation for his second feature film, José. Tuesday, May 28, 6:45pm closeted young dancer out into the world. There, he Screenplay: Garin Nugroho Venue: TBLB 1 Indonesia | 2018 | 105:00 meets remarkable people while coming to terms with Indonesian with English subtitles The film follows 19-year-old José, who lives at home Canadian Premiere his sexual identity. with his religious mother in hardscrabble Guatemala Guest in attendance Saturday, June 1, 2:15pm Venue: TBLB 2 City. He manages to sneak off for the occasional motel Official Selection, 2018 Venice Orphaned at a young age, Juno is drawn to dancing hookup, but when he meets Luis, a construction Film Festival and joins a Lengger dance group. Lengger is a Special Mention, 2018 worker from the Caribbean coast, José is forced to traditional dance form from the island of Java, where Venice Film Festival make choices he would rather avoid making. dancers play with fluid gender identity. In four 2019 Primeo Maguey Award, Working in a gritty, realist style with an impressive cast Screening Sponsors chapters we follow Juno into adulthood, witnessing Guadalajara International Film of nonprofessional actors, José captures the thrill of his blossoming talent while exploring the more Festival love and sex in an environment that’s not conducive to graphic nature of the dance’s origins as well as the men either of them. Nelson Carvalho and that surround him. Part political commentary, part Screening Sponsors Zak Miljanic dance film, part coming-of-age story, everyone that The tender, loving care Cheng applied to the subject crosses Juno’s path steps into his narrative. matter certainly paid off in this sweet and moving drama, which won the Queer Lion at last year’s Venice Inspired by the life of famed dancer and choreographer International Film Festival. Rianto – who also narrates the film –Memories of My David Vella Body sheds light on the buried trauma and complex life of an oppressed gay man.

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Papi Chulo Solace

In the midst of a California drought and his own personal Director: John Butler Finding your own path when everyone around you Director: Tchaiko Omawale heartache, weatherman Sean (Matt Bomer) takes a Screenplay: John Butler wants you to be someone different can feel Screenplay: Tchaiko Omawale Ireland | 2018 | 98:00 USA | 2018 | 87:00 leave of absence following an extremely embarrassing English and Spanish with English insurmountable. Solace examines these conflicting televised breakdown. What is a workaholic to do with subtitles pressures and the toll they invariably take. Sunday, May 26, 5:15pm so much unexpected free time? Venue: TBLB 2 Wednesday, May 29, 7:00pm Venue: TBLB 1 When her father dies, Sole, a bright, politically engaged Rating: 14A Deciding to focus his energy on home improvement seventeen-year-old, is sent across the country to instead of self-care, Sean gets to work but soon Official Selection, 2018 Toronto L.A. to live with her intensely religious and controlling International Film Festival realizes just how handy he isn’t. On a whim he decides grandmother (performed stunningly by Lynn Whitfield). Screening Sponsor to enlist migrant worker Ernesto (Alejandro Patiño) Preceded by Desperate to return to New York, Sole convinces her to lend a helping hand and some vital expertise. When Sweater (5:00) erratic neighbour and new friend, Jasmine, to join an Sean realizes that Ernesto is also a great listener, Rating: 14A art/activist group with the aim of winning a grant that Sean sees their time together as an opportunity to vent will help Sole return home. But with Sole acutely his problems, and the two become unlikely friends. drawn to Jasmine’s freedom and disorder, will all that Threatening their relationship is Sean’s unwillingness Screening Sponsors chaos distract her from her endeavour? to deal with his life and, before he knows it, he has no choice but to face the truth. Sean, meet rock bottom. Solace is alive with heart-wrenching performances – most notably by lead, Hope Olaide Wilson – in Papi Chulo blends comedy with social commentary this authentic and complicated coming-of-age story. and, in tender moments, shows how meaningful life can be when we take time to listen to others. Jim Lawrence and David Salak

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Transfinite Vision Portraits

Tranfinite is a multicultural, queer, genre-busting, Director: Neelu Bhuman What happens when visually impaired artists work in Director: Rodney Evans sci-fi, omnibus film showcasing trans people as they Screenplay: Ryka Aoki, Neelu visual media? Vision Portraits introduces us to several USA | 2019 | 78:00 Bhuman, D’Lo, Stefano come into their power. Gonzalez, Cody L. Makil, Davia artists who navigate this formidable challenge. Monday, May 27, 7:00pm Spain, Lida N. Vala Venue: TBLB 1 Nine different shorts from a multicultural collective USA | 2019 | 70:00 Rodney Evans, director of queer classic, Brother to English, Spanish, Swahili, and Canadian Premiere of writers from across the gender and sexuality Navajo with English subtitles Brother, is slowly losing his vision and questioning Guests in attendance spectrum open up an empowering space for trans what this will mean for his creative output. His soul- Official Selection, 2019 SXSW Saturday, June 1, 4:30pm people to dream. Their dreams are of love and searching leads him to other artists (a photographer, Film Festival loss, revenge for childhood bullies, the wonder of Venue: TBLB 2 a dancer and a writer) who are legally blind or visually one’s own language, a magical garden, earth Guests in attendance impaired. Evans is eager to understand how they and water protectors, important lessons from a trans handle the constraints of creating work in traditionally Rating: 14A Screening Sponsors elder, and of a trans woman who possesses the power visual media. What results is a quiet yet powerfully to change the world for the greater good. The shorts personal film where all four artists work through show trans people working together to create Screening Sponsor questions and answers about their identity, art, and nurturing community spaces for working, loving, vision. teaching and, most important, for thriving. Vision Portraits introduces us to fascinating artists Dr. Richard Isaac and With outstanding performances and a lush score, who confront their disability and create art imbued Brian Sambourne Transfinite imagines a poetic space of infinite with a unique perspective on the world. possibilities and tells unique stories about trans people by trans people themselves.

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Vita & Virginia Zen in the Ice Rift

Before film featured queer women’s lives, we read love Director: Chanya Button Zen is a rowdy 16-year-old living in a small village on Director: Margherita Ferri letters written by notable heroines such as Vita Screenplay: Eileen Atkins, top of the Italian Apennines. Despite being a rising star Screenplay: Margherita Ferri Chanya Button Italy | 2018 | 90:00 Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. In Vita & Virginia, UK/Ireland | 2018 | 110:00 on the local hockey team, they can’t seem to connect Italian with English subtitles filmmaker Chanya Button (2015 Inside Out’sBurn with anyone. Burn Burn) brings writing to life, demonstrating how a Tuesday, May 28, 7:00pm Saturday, May 25, 9:15pm Venue: TBLB 2 Venue: TBLB 2 relationship shaped two authors’ paths and inspired The only time Zen isn’t alone is when being bullied one of Woolf’s most famous works. Official Selection, 2018 Toronto at school or during hockey practice. In fact, they Canadian Premiere International Film Festival seem destined to make a high school career out of Official Selection, 2018 Venice Before they met, charismatic socialite Vita (Gemma their loneliness, until Vanessa comes along. As Film Festival Arterton) decided that the famously elusive Virginia the hockey team captain’s beautiful girlfriend, Vanessa Screening Sponsor Rating: 14A (Elizabeth Debicki) would be her next conquest. When seems to have it all, yet she shares Zen’s feelings Vita’s plan comes to fruition, the two forge an Anne-Marie Vanier of being misunderstood. But there just might be hope

unconventional love affair. Virginia’s emotional struggles for them as they embark on what becomes an Screening Sponsors and Vita’s impulsiveness combine for a chaotic unexpected friendship. romance, which ultimately fuels Virginia’s creativity and empowers her to channel Vita’s persona into a Ferri’s stylish and assured first feature follows two novel, Orlando. teenagers who are seeking the courage to explore their true selves. Greg Lichti and Button’s modern take on this iconic relationship will Garth Norbraten satisfy longtime fans of Woolf and Sackville-West, while serving as a beautiful introduction to those who have yet to discover them.

98 99 Join us at the 20th Annual Festival October 22-27, 2019 #iN20 @imagineNATIVE Shorts Shorts Shorts BOLD Cowboy Take Me Away

BOLD celebrates voices outside the mainstream. Friday, May 31, 5:00pm This program features everything from a man who Thursday, May 30, 9:15pm This program explores the complexities of the Venue: TBLB 1 finds himself attached to an older married couple, an Venue: TBLB 2 black experience in all its diversity, humour, pain Total program runtime: 95:00 intergenerational infatuation, and an intersex sex Total program runtime: 85:00 and triumph. worker navigating the city.

Marielle and Zero One Monica Director: Nick Neon USA | 2018 | 24:00 Director: Fabio Erdos Brazil | 2018 | 25:00 When Jimmy Park visits Portuguese with English home for the first time subtitles in years, he’s forced to make Marielle Franco, a Brazilian peace with the ghost of LGBT and human rights who he could have been. Fabulous activist, was killed in March Zero One 2018. Her widow, Monica Ponyboi Benicio, continues her fight for better treatment of the Director: River Gallo, poor, the LGBT community Sadé Clacken Joseph | | and black Brazilians. Canada 2018 19:00 On Valentine’s Day, Ponyboi, Batty Boy an intersex sex worker, looks for love and a way out of his Director: Blain Ho-shing, Dior seedy life in New Jersey. Clarke UK | 2018 | 9:00 Other Black Boys Ponyboi Lavender Dolcie Woods, a young black boy raised in a deprived Director: Matthew Puccini area of North London, faces USA | 2018 | 10:00 the struggles of fitting into a A young gay man grows community ingrained increasingly entangled in an with strong cultural and older couple’s marriage. homophobic beliefs.

Travel bursary generously Screening Sponsor provided by Neville’s Nudge Marielle and Monica Lavender (Neville Austin) Fabulous Other Black How I Got to the Land’s End Director: Audrey Jean-Baptiste Boys Moon by Subway Director: Ben Strebel France | 2018 | 48:00 UK | 2018 | 19:00 French with English subtitles Director: Nyles Washington Director: Tyler Rabinowitz USA | 2018 | 16:00 USA | 2018 | 13:00 Road trip and love story Ninja is famous around the combine as Adam’s world for her fierce ballroom A queer black college After being diagnosed with addiction to an older man performances, but she is not student is forced to confront ALS, a curmudgeonly older leads him down a path that as well-known in her native the masks he wears when an man goes to the hospital he might not be ready for. country of French Guyana. old friend comes to visit. with his partner to record his But a trip home to teach a voice bank before he loses workshop might change that. the ability to speak.

104 105 Shorts Shorts Daddy Lessons Give It Up Or Let Me Go

Hookups never go as expected, especially when Sunday, May 26, 12:00pm Secrets, playful lies, and deception are the glue that Saturday, May 25, 12:00pm expectations run high. Venue: TBLB 2 holds this program together. Venue: TBLB 1 Total program runtime: 81:00 Total program runtime: 87:00

Infinite While It Parking Lasts (Infinito Director: Ahmad Seyfipour Iran | 2018 | 9:00 Enquanto Dure) Persian with English subtitles Director: Akira Kamiki A thief encounters two men Brazil | 2019 | 19:00 having sex in the back seat Portuguese with English of a car in a parking garage, subtitles and a tense standoff ensues. Daddy An asexual man and a Parking gay man fall in love but must overcome their Three Months differences to make (Trois Mois) their relationship work. Director: Sasha Alcoloumbre Canada | 2019 | 17:00 My Loneliness French with English subtitles Is Killing Me A romance is shaken when a young man belatedly reveals Director: Tim Courtney his HIV status to his lover. UK | 2018 | 15:00 Thrive Baby When Elliott lures the animalistic Jack to Batty Boy his apartment for a late- Baby Break Me Director: Blain Ho-shing, night hookup, they Dior Clarke unexpectedly unearth a dark Director: Jessie Levandov (Knus meg) UK | 2018 | 9:00 USA | 2019 | 8:00 emotional connection. Director: Irasj Asanti Dolcie Woods, a young black Norway | 2018 | 15:00 Baby is a coming-of-age boy raised in a deprived Norwegian with English subtitles queer love story of a area of North London, faces Thrive young man roving the Bronx Mansour’s love for his best the struggles of fitting into Director: Jamie Dispirito on a Saturday afternoon. a community ingrained with UK | 2019 | 17:00 friend Andreas is put to strong cultural and My Loneliness Is Killing Me the test when Mansour’s A hookup between two religious father decides homophobic beliefs. Together (Spolu) young men turns into to take him to their home an essential heart-to-heart. Director: David Benedek country to get married. Daddy Positions Slovakia | 2018 | 20:00 Director: Christian Coppola Director: Justin Ducharme Slovak with English subtitles USA | 2018 | 18:00 Canada | 2018 | 12:00 Roommates Micah, Simon Boundaries Screening Sponsor After the death of his wife, A day in the life of a and Robo are following Director: Rhys Jones an 80-year-old man two-spirit male sex worker their personal pathways, but USA | 2018 | 9:00 checks into the Plaza Hotel as he visits his clients, when the road becomes to celebrate their first Positions is an exploration of rocky their bond proves to Jared takes extreme anniversary apart, hiring sexual desire, the quest for be more than just simple measures in order to a male escort to take financial stability, and the friendship. get attention from his her place. pursuit of agency over one’s ex-boyfriend. own body.

106 107 Shorts Shorts I Can Love You Better Not Ready To Make Nice

Love can be a real if we don’t laugh, we’ll cry Saturday, June 1, 4:45pm No two families are the same, and if anything can Saturday, May 25, 2:00pm situation. Through unrequited crushes, home Venue: TBLB 1 prove this it would be this collection of shorts. Venue: TBLB 2 renovations, and the wobbly first steps of queer Total program runtime: 83:00 Join us for the drama, laughter and embarrassment – Total program runtime: 90:00 love, these shorts allow us to lean into laughter. again and again.

Everything’s Miller & Son Great! Director: Asher Jelinsky USA | 2018 | 21:00 Director: Linnea Ritland Canada | 2018 | 15:00 A mechanic spends her days running her family’s auto Everything’s Great! follows shop and her nights being an awkward, hapless true to herself, until an lesbian as she bounces unforeseen event threatens between a messy non- The Gaybysitters Club Bubble the balance of her relationship relationship and compartmentalized life. her alcoholic-dad-soaked home life. Outdooring The Half Wall Director: Maxwell Addae (Veggen) USA | 2019 | 15:00 A young man arrives at his Director: Ida Eldøen sister’s baby-naming Norway | 2018 | 6:00 ceremony with a plan to Norwegian with English subtitles steal the proceeds so he can Misdirection When the topic of home The Confirmation (Konfirmationen) run away and keep a renovation comes up, a personal secret hidden. gay couple find themselves The Gaybysitters Lady Liberty in a heated and deeply 99 The Confirmation Club Director: Taylor Nagel serious discussion over a Director: Nick Borenstein (Konfirmationen) A Family Affair USA | 2018 | 26:00 bathroom wall. USA | 2019 | 5:00 Director: Florence Keith-Roach Director: Savannah Dooley Director: Marie Louise UK | 2019 | 13:00 USA | 2019 | 8:00 After aspiring comic Shea A mother and son shop Damgaard is dumped by her first for a Bar Mitzvah gift at a Denmark | 2019 | 19:00 When Annabelle wakes up When Kristy finds out her Screening Sponsor Danish with English subtitles love, she begins to explore 99 Cent store. in a stranger's bedroom on best friend Mary Anne her queer identity and her 30th birthday, she thinks might be dating a BOY, she Mathias just wants to be a confides in a stranger, the day cannot get any calls a Babysitters Bubble normal teenager, but on Quinn, a very cool worse. But then Bernard Club emergency meeting. the day of his confirmation and confident gay woman. Director: Alyssa Lerner his overprotective mother walks in. USA | 2019 | 17:00 threatens his plan to fly If This Is Wrong Misdirection During the 2008 financial under the radar. Screening Sponsor Director: Chelsea Woods crisis Filipina teenager, Director: Carly Usdin USA | 2018 | 14:00 Frances, is determined to USA | 2018 | 14:00 avoid two unstoppable When Maria is forced Camila is your average forces: her family’s home outside her digital college freshman with a big, foreclosure and a creeping comfort zone, she finds gay crush on her roommate. realization that she’s gay. real-world connection A chance encounter with Winner of 2018 Inside Out’s in an unexpected place. a street magician teaches Pitch Please competition. Camila to channel her energy into a new hobby.

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The right choice isn’t always the best choice. Saturday, June 1, 12:00pm From trans trailblazers to intersex activists to gay porn Wednesday, May 29, 5:00pm This program showcases split-second decisions and Venue: TBLB 1 stars to a pair of elderly lesbian entertainers, this Venue: TBLB 2 messy meetings. Total program runtime: 91:00 program highlights a few of the very real and very Total Program Runtime: 95:00 spectacular members of our communities.

Dante vs. A Normal Girl Mohammed Ali Director: Aubree Bernier-Clarke USA | 2018 | 13:00 Director: Marc Wagenaar Netherlands | 2018 | 28:00 A Normal Girl brings to light Dutch with English subtitles the widely unknown struggles of intersex people, When Wolf is forced to fight through the story of intersex against his best friend activist Pidgeon Pagonis. Alexander during a weekly Dante vs. Mohammed Ali Lee & Wanda boxing match, Wolf refuses and tries to convince his Rick friend to run away together. Director: Jan-Peter Horstmann Germany | 2018 | 16:00 Involuntary English and German with English Activist subtitles Rick is gay and deaf and a Director: Mikael Bundsen porn star. UK/Sweden | 2019 | 20:00 A teacher is forced to choose How to Make a Broken Sunflower Hearts between betraying his How to Make a Rainbow family or his values when his Rainbow older sister asks him to Director: Ryan Maxey step back into the closet for USA | 2019 | 16:00 a single night. This is the 10th short film produced by How to Make a Rainbow a winner of the Iris Prize. observes a young girl and her mother over two years as they journey Dario through the realities of a Directors: Jorge A. Trujillo Gil, parent in transition. Manuel Kinzer Dario Rick Germany | 2018 | 15:00 Spanish with English subtitles Lee & Wanda Framing Agnes Battle Cry Director: Rob Eagle Lisboa-Santarém Broken Darío loves to dance but his | | Director: Frederico Nobre de Sunflower disapproving mother makes Director: Chase Joynt Director: Kyle Reaume UK 2019 16:00 Carvalho it hard for him to be himself. USA | 2018 | 19:00 Canada | 2018 | 15:00 This touching portrait of two Portugal/UK | 2018 | 14:00 Hearts Portuguese with English In the late 1950s, a woman At the longest-running queer lesbian entertainers, Director: Miguel Angel Caballero subtitles named Agnes approached theatre in the world, together for almost 60 USA | 2018 | 14:00 Screening Sponsors the UCLA Medical Center Toronto’s most cerebral drag years, looks back at a Lisboa-Santarém tells the lifetime of performing. When his ex-boyfriend Sam seeking sex reassignment queen, Pearle Harbour, story of two young men Ralph Pascht and shows up on his doorstep, surgery. Her story was long prepares to take the stage whose journey across the Mark Le Messurier Anthony weighs the impact considered to be singular for her new show, Battle Cry. south of Portugal will this will have on his life until never-before-seen case Screening Sponsor forever shape the way they and on young daughter Luna. files were found in 2017. approach new encounters. Scott Windsor

110 111 Shorts Shorts There’s Your Trouble Thrive

Not for the faint of heart, this collection of shorts Sunday, May 26, 9:30pm Dating, parenting and spirituality. This year, Thrive Friday, May 31, 7:30pm is queer – as in weird – and showcases the very Venue: TBLB 2 takes a closer look at these topics, featuring trans Venue: TBLB 2 best in LGBTQ horror, sci-fi, and things that are just Total program runtime: 95:00 stories that go beyond our gender markers, and asking Total program runtime: 89:00 plain strange. bigger questions about the human condition.

Stigma (Estigma) Will I Say So Director: David Velduque Director: Jamie DiNicola Spain | 2018 | 15:00 USA | 2019 | 7:00 Spanish with English subtitles Two men are on a first date It’s Friday night, the doorbell and each has a secret. rings, and Alex welcomes in Can they find the courage to his worst nightmare. speak the truth and accept one another? Bathroom Troll I Wait for the The Bony Lady (La Flaca) Night The Bony Lady Director: Arthur Chaumay (La Flaca) France | 2018 | 7:00 Director: Thiago Zanato French with English subtitles Brazil/Mexico/USA | 2018 | A discussion between two 20:00 boys on the shores of an Spanish with English subtitles abandoned lake will force A Mexican transgender one of them to face his woman and leader of inner demons. the Santa Muerte Cult in Flotando Tell By Date Queens prepares for Conversion her yearly celebration of Bathroom Troll Jeremiah Rani Waking Hour the Bony Lady. Director: Aaron Immediato Director: Kenya Gillespie Therapist Director: Hammad Rizvi Director: Nava Mau USA | 2018 | 17:00 USA | 2018 | 10:00 Director: Bears Rebecca Fonte Pakistan/USA | 2018 | 14:00 USA | 2019 | 13:00 Tell By Date USA | 2019 | 20:00 Urdu with English subtitles After Cassie is tormented A high school football A trans woman is pursued Director: Sarah Ball in the women’s washroom player is forced to confront A pansexual, polyamorous A poor, socially outcast by a potential lover at a USA/UK | 2019 | 14:00 at school, a demonic his deepest fears after a trio kidnaps a ‘pray-the- Pakistani transgender party and must balance vengeance troll awakens strange encounter with a gay-away’ evangelical woman sets out to take care concerns about her safety Ryan has something to avenge her. mysterious figure. conversion therapist, hoping of an abandoned baby. and her desire for intimacy. important to tell his to help him see the light. seven-year-old son but comes up with every Flotando SWITCH Autumn I (Ég) excuse to avoid it. He needs a Director: Frankie De Leonardis Director: Marion Renard Director: Rollyn Stafford Director: Halla Tryggvadottir “tell-by date.” Spain | 2018 | 8:00 Belgium | 2018 | 18:00 USA | 2018 | 6:00 Iceland/Lithuania | 2018 | Spanish with English subtitles French with English subtitles 15:00 A transgender woman tries Icelandic with English subtitles Screening Sponsor A Russian astronaut comes During her first sexual to make it to the Miss to on an ISS space module experience, a teenage girl Oregon audition but first A young trans person living after an accident and… wait discovers she possesses a has one quick stop to in a small town travels to the a minute… is that someone disturbing skill. beat up some thugs. city searching for freedom. knocking on the door? Followed by Thrive After Party. See p. 129 for details.

112 113 Shorts Shorts Top of the World Wide Open Spaces

Young in age but beyond their years, the subjects of Friday, May 24, 1:00pm Wide open spaces make room for some big mistakes. Saturday, May 25, 4:45pm these films are taking on everything from first Venue: TBLB 1 Who doesn’t know what I’m talking about? Venue: TBLB 2 crushes to state legislation. Total program runtime: 94:00 Total program runtime: 85:00 Rating: PG

Mack Wrestles The Conrads Director: Erin Sanger Director: Teryl Brouillette USA | 2018 | 26:00 UK | 2018 | 14:00 Mack Beggs broke records Joss Conrad learns that her and changed history when IVF treatments were he won the Texas State title successful when her wife is as a transgender wrestler. out of town. The only problem is, Joss is not sure Ladies Day Ladies Day There You Are this is what she really wants. Director: Abena Taylor-Smith UK | 2018 | 9:00 Tonight (Halayla) Director: Emily Shir Segal Amma spends the day in an Israel | 2018 | 14:00 Afro-Caribbean salon having Hebrew with English subtitles her hair braided. The shop is full of fun, gossip and laughter, Tonight, Tom will meet her but how will she deal with younger girlfriend’s group the casual homophobia? of friends for the first time. At the end of the night, she’ll The One You Never Forget Sequins Mudpots have to make a choice. Director: Michael Beddoes Other Loving The One You Anemone UK | 2019 | 18:00 Ladies Day There You Are Never Forget Director: Amrou Al-Kadhi Director: Abena Taylor-Smith Director: Lisa Donato Director: Lise Angelica Johnson Paul Bigsby’s life is turned | | UK | 2018 | 18:00 UK | 2018 | 9:00 USA | 2018 | 15:00 USA 2018 7:00 Director: Morgan Fox upside down when he enlists USA | 2018 | 8:00 A second-generation teen the help of a jaded Blackpool Amma spends the day in an A trans woman must dress A woman experiencing searches for a way to express drag queen in order to realize heartbreak rediscovers love A 14-year-old boy excitedly Afro-Caribbean salon having like a man to say goodbye to their non-binary identity. his dream. her hair braided. The shop is her dying grandmother. in an unconventional way. prepares for his first dance, but when his date full of fun, gossip and laughter, arrives he's faced with Maybe but how will she deal with Long Distance Mudpots Screening Sponsors the casual homophobia? a split-second decision. Director: Cate Smierciak Director: Kathryn Cole Director: Anoop Lokkur | | | | | | USA 2018 12:00 USA 2018 10:00 Australia 2019 7:00 This Perfect Day Hindi with English subtitles Listen After an unexpected In a stolen moment at Director: Lydia Rui Director: Jake Graf encounter in Waikiki, a A young Indian woman living Shelby’s surprise going away Australia | 2019 | 7:00 UK | 2018 | 5:00 young girl explores her in Australia gets a call from party, she and her best friend, Jess, will finally sexuality in secret, causing Julia, a wayward youth, her mum back home. Featuring young trans actors acknowledge something new rifts between her and walks into a music store. in trans roles, Listen frankly more between them. her religious Filipino family. This could be the day depicts some of the myriad that changes their life. struggles experienced daily by trans children and teenagers.

114 115 Shorts You Can’t Hurry Love This collection of shorts is all about looking for love Saturday, June 1, 12:15pm Navigating Your wherever you can find it… at your kid’s school, in Venue: TBLB 2 your school, online, during a tarot card reading, or at Total program runtime: 86:00 Real Estate Journey your ex’s house.

Love on the Cards Director: Nathan Hannawin UK | 2018 | 9:00 Philip Kocev Nancy Grenier Lorand Sebestyen Dany Waldman Catherine Walker Frustrated by her failing love Broker Sales Representative Sales Representative Sales Representative Sales Representative life, Tess turns to a tarot card reading for clarity. Proudly supporting the Inside Out U for Usha (U Ushacha) Toronto LGBT Film Festival since 2011 The Night Before 416.990.1886 | BeaconTeam.ca Director: Mragendra Singh USA | 2018 | 10:00 [email protected] American Sign Language with English subtitles On the night before her wedding, Shae pays a visit to her ex, Nikki, a woman Xiao Xian she ghosted years ago. DON’T LET THE The Date Breastfriends CREDITS ROLL BY Screening Sponsors Director: Emmalie El Fadli Director: Eleanor Rogers WITHOUT YOU UK | 2018 | 10:00 Ireland | 2018 | 18:00 Lizzy and Olivia might be A driven young female relay total opposites but they runner begins to question do have one thing in common: her sexuality when a new they both swiped ‘right’ member joins the team. on each other. Xiao Xian U for Usha Director: Jiajie Yu Yan (U Ushacha) Spain | 2018 | 17:00 Spanish with English subtitles At the Story Arts Centre, we can help you make your mark in the ﬁlm Director: Rohan Kanawade and television business. Our programs include: India | 2019 | 22:00 Xiao Xian’s mother has put Marathi with English subtitles her in charge of finishing Advanced Television and Film – Script to Screen Interactive Media Management a dress and her daughter Television and Film – Business Children’s Media Usha, a single mother and obeys, as usual. But Broadcasting – Radio, Television, Film Lifestyle Media farm labourer in rural India, when the girl’s best friend finds herself drawn to a shows up looking to party, and Digital Media female teacher who works Xiao Xian can’t say no. at a local primary school. centennialcollege.ca/story-arts-centre

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122 123 Awards and Jury Awards and Jury Canadian International Awards to be presented at the Brunch: Canadian Juried Awards Luis De Filippis is a Canadian- Tricia Hagoriles is a Toronto- Best Canadian Feature (Narrative or Documentary) Italian trans femme filmmaker based filmmaker. In 2015, Sponsored by Entertainment Partners Canada whose work celebrates Tricia received the RBC Emerging otherness and employs a fierce Canadian Artist Award at female gaze. Their work has the Inside Out Toronto LGBTQ played internationally at festivals Film Festival for her first Emerging Canadian Artist such as TIFF, Rotterdam, and short film,Beat . She is an alumna BFI. Their most recent work, For of Reel World Film Festival’s Sponsored by RBC Royal Bank Nonna Anna, won the Best 2017 Emerging 20 Mentorship Sponsored by William F. White International Short Narrative Award at the Program, and her most Atlanta International Film recent short, The Morning After, Festival, and the Special Jury has screened in festivals Prize at Sundance. With around the world. She is currently Best Canadian Short generous assistance provided developing a web series Sponsored by Accenture by the TIFF Canadian Women based on a play she co-created, in Film Fellowship they attended Boiband the Boyband. the Tiff Filmmaker Lab in September 2018. International Juried Awards Inside Out Innovation Award Inside Out Awards New in 2018, this $10,000 cash award is presented Lisa Donato is an award-winning Curtis M. Wong is a senior to a filmmaker who, in their feature film, demon- writer, director, producer and reporter at HuffPost, where Brunch presented strates innovation and a commitment to authentic activist from Billings, Montana. he covers breaking news, and positive representation of LGBTQ2S people. She recently directed the politics and entertainment that feature film, Gossamer Folds, impact LGBTQ communities. by UrbanSource This award was established through Inside Out’s a story about a precocious He is HuffPost’s resident pop Strategic Innovation Fund, from a generous 10-year-old boy who strikes up diva savant and Broadway theater Catering bequest made by the late James Stewart. a friendship with his new enthusiast, and is passionate Best First Feature next-door neighbour, a 25-year- about the outdoors, international Sunday, June 2, noon-3:00pm This $2,500 cash award is presented to the old transgender woman affairs and Instagram. Prior Venue: Artscape Sandbox (STARZ Festival Lounge) played by Transparent’s Alexandra to his stint at HuffPost, he was a International Jury’s selection for best film by a Grey. Donato cowrote the staff writer atThe Prague Post Tickets: $30 General Public/$25 Members first-time feature director. feature film, Signature Move, in the Czech Republic, and has which premiered at SXSW also written for Billboard and At this year’s Awards Brunch, we are (2017), screened at over 150 Hartford Courant, among other serving end-of-festival realness and, Audience Awards festivals worldwide, and publications. Curtis is based Best Narrative Feature can be found on Amazon Prime. in New York City, but can often for the first time ever, the presentation Sponsored by Suzy Zucker She has directed six award- be found California dreaming, of our Audience Awards will be on the winning short films since 2014, given his fondness for fish tacos menu! Join us for coffee, mimosas and Best Documentary Film and her work is dedicated to and desert sunsets. He is a delicious eats from our friends at Sponsored by Jo-Ann Chiam people and communities that member of the Gay and Lesbian Best Short Film are relegated to the margins. Entertainment Critics UrbanSource as we celebrate the work Sponsored by Michael Leshner and Michael Stark Association, and attended of our exceptional 2019 filmmakers. Columbia University. (in honour of Mikey/Schmikey) Presented by Pitch, Please! Winner $5000 production grant sponsored by Netflix $10,000 in-kind package sponsored by: Sim International, EP Canada, Bedtracks, Final Draft, Lewis Brinberg Hanet, and Behind the Scenes Services.

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Queer stories come in all shapes, sizes, and formats. Be sure to pop into the Inside Out STARZ Lounge to take in these fantastic virtual reality Reel Access: experiences. Check the STARZ Lounge schedule online for details. Free admission. Discovery Forum

Another Dream Another Dream Reel Access is a year- Monday, May 27, 8:30am-4:30pm Director: Tamara Shogaolu Venue: Artscape Sandbox, 31 Widmer Street USA | 2019 | 20:00 long initiative by a working Access with Forum Registration Members and Industry Passholders can Another Dream brings to life the gripping, true life group of festival access afternoon panels with their pass story of an Egyptian lesbian couple. Faced with post-revolution backlash against their community, representatives and (limited capacity) the women must choose between love and home. disability consultants, Discovery Forum is a one-day Authentically US artists and activists, meeting that addresses whose aim is to bring Director: Jesse Ayala accessibility at film festivals USA | 2018 | 20:00 film festivals together in areas that include: Step into the lives of three transgender people in the to find solutions for Technology American Northwest who are living authentically Programming and taking action to make communities safer. improving accessibility Customer Service at festival events. Event Production Made This Way: Marketing Authentically US Redefining Masculinity & Promotion Directors: Irem Harnak, Elli Raynai Volunteers Canada | 2018 | 18:00 Film Talent

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The Lounge will also host a number of Festival special events, including: Lounge Get Bent: Drag Party May 24 – June 2 Venue: Artscape Sandbox Friday, May 24, 9:30pm 31 Widmer Street Cover: PWYC Please note that some Lounge events require a ticket or badge for access. Calling all freaks! Get Bent is a QTPOC The STARZ Festival Lounge will serve drag collective that likes to get weird, as the official home of our Industry political, and most of all, messy. Programs, our Guest and Industry Reg- istration, our Community Partners Hub, a pop-up Delta Airlines Sky Club Local Heroes Party Lounge, a daily Inside Out Happy Thursday, May 30, 9:30pm Hour – and a space for us all to call our own. Join us Monday through Friday Cover: $10 General Public/$8 Members from 12:00pm to 10:00pm, and Saturday Free with your Local Heroes screening ticket stub and Sunday from 12:00pm to 9:00pm. Come celebrate our hometown heroes and pack the dance floor like the You’ll find us at the Artscape Sandbox, Gardiner at rush hour. directly behind the TIFF Bell Lightbox at the corner of Adelaide and Widmer Presented by Streets (entrance on Widmer, north of the parking garage). Presented by Thrive After Party

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128 129 Parties Parties Festival Parties at a Glance Opening Gala Party

Thursday, 9:30pm – Opening Gala Party TIFF Bell Lightbox – Malaparte Thursday, May 23, 9:30pm May 23 1:00am Venue: Malaparte – TIFF Bell Lightbox, 6th floor Friday, 6:30pm – Special Presentation Reception STARZ Festival Lounge Cover: $15 for General Public and Members May 24 8:30pm Free with Rocketman film and party ticket Friday, 9:30pm – Get Bent: Drag Night STARZ Festival Lounge Join us to kick off this year’s festival and May 24 12:00am take in the view from the rooftop at Saturday, 9:30pm – Women’s Gala After Party The Rec Room TIFF Bell Lightbox. Dance your heart out May 25 2:00am with DJs Sikh Knowledge and and LL Cool Wei. Need a dance break? Be Tuesday, 6:30pm – Centrepiece Gala Reception STARZ Festival Lounge May 28 8:30pm dazzled by local Queens Manghoe Lassi and Tifa Wine, while mingling with Thursday, 5:00pm – Industry Mixer STARZ Festival Lounge filmmakers and guests. May 30 7:00pm with Actra and EP Canada Manghoe Lassi Thursday, 9:30pm – Yohomo Presents: STARZ Festival Lounge May 30 late Local Heroes Party Women’s Gala Party

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130 131 Goethe Partnership Queer as German Folk: LGBTIQ* Queer Cinema

Early gay activist and filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim Curated by Wieland Speck put it in a nutshell: It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is (Berlinale) for the Goethe-Institut project, Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives. This was Queer as German Folk. the title of his work that, in 1971, helped initiate Presented by the the emancipation of West Germany, easing it out from Goethe-Institut at the Inside under Paragraph 175* to its current status and to a Out LGBT Film Festival place where queer and queer-friendly audiences want to go. This film series reflects the motivating path to success as well as outstanding queer German cinema that has arisen over the past five decades.

Westler Director: Wieland Speck West Germany | 1985 | 94:00

Sunday, June 2, 12:30pm Venue: TIFF Bell Lightbox C3 Ticket of No Return Director: Ulrike Ottinger West Germany | 1979 | 108:00 German with English subtitles

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Wayne Abell Andrei Gravelle James Nadeau Anastasia Akulinina Terry Greene Jan Nathanson Tarek Al-azbat Calvin Hambrook Rainee Nelson Tom Alexander Mark Haslam Matthew Palmer Tracy Alves Barb Hefler John Pisano-Thomsen Fazleena Ansar Scott Henderson Christopher Racster Neville Austin Brett Hendrie Kyle Reaume Alan Bacchus Scott Hosmer Mark Rodenhizer Megan Bacci Sarah Hunter Vicki Rodgers Meagan Barnes Jakub Jasinski Berwyn Rowlands Meredith Best Gosia Kamela John Ruddell Sarah-Tai Black James King Julla Sanghavi Bradley Blaylock Peter Kingstone Luisa Scofano Pierre Bois Adam Kirkham Olivia Seally Kelly Bokowski Philip Kocev and Andrew Mainprize Katharine Setzer Mark S. Bonham Peter Kuplowsky Luka Sidaravicius Charlie Boudreau Karim Ladak Guillermo Silva-Marin Karen Bruce Peggy Lainis Shane Smith Lora Campbell Steven Larkin Steven Snyder Diane Cappelletto Maura Lawless Jim Stephens Stephane Cardin Jim Lawrence and David Salak Erin Stitt Juan-Carlos Jeffrey and Neal Lilliott Clayton Lee Paul Struthers David Carter Alyssa Lerner Karen Thorne-Stone Lindsey Cassel Mike Lesage Mariangel Urdaneta Chris Chin Michael Leshner and Mike Stark Taylor Vanderwey Lee Clapp Rachel Lewenberg Wanda vanderStoop Frankie Clarkson Emma Lewzey Joanne Vannicola Christian Cole Roman Lifshitz Jason Van Tassel Joe Cressy Betty Little Risa Veffer Bruce Dale Deirdre Logue Barry Waite Candace Darbyshire Rebecca Louzado Alan Walker Felipe Diaz Winnie Luk Cierra Walker Lindsey Dickie Crystal MacDonell Andy Wang Ciaran Dickson Kara MacLean Lulu Wei Sarafina DiFelice Kevin McLean Adrien Whan John Dippong April Mainprize Merik Williams Laura Di Tomaso Russell Mathew Jeremy Wine Han Dong Martha McCain Jeffrey Winter Robin Duffield Chris McDonald Sara McLaren Wiseman Jose Durdos Julie McLean Veronique Wolff Cecilio Escobar Liviya Mendelsohn Philip Wong Scott Ferguson Fawzia Mirza Eric Wright Alecsandra Fishman Stéphane Monnet Derek Wuenschirs Jean-Marc Fontaine Peter Morra Margie Zeidler Christopher Fowler Daniel Moretti Suzy Zucker Joanna Fung Adam Morrison John Galway Álvaro Muñoz Rachel Giese Kristine Murphy

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99 109 Gaybysitters Club, The 108 Positions 106 A Dog Barking at the Moon 38 Good Kisser 31 Queen 78 A Family Affair 109 Ground Beneath Queer Coolie-tudes 76 A Night at Switch n’ Play 62 My Feet, The 44 Queering the Script 77 A Normal Girl 111 Half Wall, The 108 Rani 113 Adam 39 Halston 65 Razor Tongue 56 Anemone 114 Haus 78 Reach the Sky 62 ANNE+ 52 How I Got to the Repugnant 88 Autumn 113 Moon by Subway 105 Rick 111 Baby 107 How to Make a Rainbow 111 Rocketman 30 Bathroom Troll 112 I 113 Rubber Dolphin 53 Battle Cry 111 I Wait for the Night 112 Saint Frances 46 Batty Boy 104, 107 I’m Fine 58 Scream, Queen! 66 Before You Know It 40 If This Is Wrong 108 Second Star on the Right 47 Being Impossible 84 Iftiin 79 Sell By 34 Biidaaban Infinite While It Lasts 106 Sequins 114 (The Dawn Comes) 79 Involuntary Activist 110 Skies Are Not Just Blue 79 Billie and Emma 85 Jack & Yaya 91 Soft Spot 78 Bit 41 Jeremiah 112 Solace 95 Blonde One, The 42 José 92 Stage Name: Victoria 79 Bony Lady, The 113 Knives and Skin 45 Stigma 112 Boundaries 107 Ladies Day 114, 115 Sweater 94 Break Me 107 Lady Liberty 108 SWITCH 112 Breastfriends 116 Land’s End 105 Tales of the City 32 Brief Story from the Late Night 33 Tell By Date 113 Green Planet 86 Lavender 105 Terminally in Love 78 Broken Sunflower Hearts 110 Lee & Wanda 111 There You Are 115 Bubble 109 Lisboa-Santarem 110 These Thems 58 Camp Chaos 53 Listen 114 This Perfect Day 115 Catamaran 87 Long Distance 115 Three Months 107 Circus of Books 63 Loretta’s Flowers 78 Thrive 106 Confirmation, The 109 Lost Cat 79 Together 107 Conrads, The 115 Love on the Cards 116 Tonight 115 Conversion Therapist 112 Mack Wrestles 114 Tragic Fall of Valerie Mallory Cubby 88 Marielle and Monica 104 Finkerstein, The 79 Daddy 106 Maybe 114 Transfinite 96 Dante vs. Mohammed Ali 110 Memories of My Body 93 U for Usha 116 Dario 110 Miguel 58 Vida 57 Date, The 116 Miller & Son 109 Vision Portraits 97 Do You Even Carrot All? 78 Misdirection 108 Vita & Virginia 98 Docking 79 Mixed Episodic 58 Waking Hour 113 Drag Kids 74 Mudpots 115 War Movie 78 Dykes in the Streets 75 My Fuzzy Valentine 78 We Are the Radical EastSiders 54 My Loneliness Is Monarchs 67 Everything’s Great 108 Killing Me 106 Will I Say So 113 Fabiana 89 Next Level Shit 34 Xiao Xian 116 Fabulous 104 Night Before, The 116 You Don’t Nomi 35 Femme Queen Chronicles 58 One You Never Forget, The 114 Zen in the Ice Rift 99 Filth, The 55 Other Black Boys 104 Zero One 105 Flotando 112 Other Loving 115 Framing Agnes 111 Outdooring 109 From Zero to I Love You 43 Papi Chulo 94 Garden Left Behind, The 90 Parking 107 Gay Chorus Deep South 64 Ponyboi 105

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