Dir. Tove Pils, USA, 2023, 95 min.

Screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

In person at Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, and online at TQFF.ca

Michael Rice, USA, 2023, 87 min.

Screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

Watch online at TQFF.ca.

In person at Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, and online at TQFF.ca

The crack of a whip. Hot breath. Echoing moans. Pressure building inside.  Release. Feel yourself immersed in pleasure and exploring the body. Witness the pain, laughter, and delight of beings coming together in intimate connection and communication.

In person at Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, and online at TQFF.ca

We are entangled in complex relations with the world around us. How can film explore this more than human entanglement, and the complexity of queer lives, especially given the limits of representation? How can our bodies and identities be reconstituted outside histories narrated by power? How can we be present when things slide out of place? These experimental films consider the entanglement of place, bodies, identities, and consciousness as a confrontation with the compulsory linearity of history.

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Queer and trans people often face shame and rejection from families, friends, and communities. Simultaneously, queerness often means rejecting the hetero-patriarchal cis-gendered structure of family and relationships for a more expansive view of desire, sex, and politics. “Belonging to Each Other” considers how we connect with our friends, lovers, chosen family, and in relationships that carry no label.

In person at Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, and online at TQFF.ca

Every day we shapeshift and transform in concert with the lands and communities that compost us. As we grow back into the knowledge and relations that colonialism and heteropatriarchy have obscured, we begin to unravel the difference between who we might be, and who we are always seen to be under colonization. Follow these storytellers as they share their worlds, who they are becoming, and how they bloom in the wake of the ravages of settler colonialism.

In person at Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, and online at TQFF.ca

“Stills in Motion” showcases the fruits of multiple animation styles as these artists take us into surreal worlds animated by real experiences. Through conversations on selfhood, the importance of land, the experience of the body, and the challenges and joys of building relationships outside of colonial capitalism, these filmmakers push the limits of reality in order to take us into new realms of existence.

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Warning: Suicide, Transphobia

Whether by offering us queer healing spirits, or by documenting political organization, these films consider resistance from various parts of the world. Their protagonists live with and push back against the histories of gender conformity and the suppression of queerness in their psyches, bodies, or communities. “Let it Bring Hope” curates a group of films juxtaposing the frictions of queerness with the present and its tender possibilities.

Harjot Bal, Canada, 2022, 90 min.

Screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

In person at Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, and online at TQFF.ca.

Dir. Mike Hoolboom, Canada, 2022, 87 min.

Feature Film followed by Q & A with the director.

Watch online at TQFF.ca.