Belonging to Each Other
Films
Samuel and Samantha
This humourous and lovingly crafted video features Samuel, a Salvadoran university student and political refugee, and his alter ego Samantha, a drag queen and performer. Through their eyes, we discover a segment of the Latin American community in Toronto.
Frutas
Frutas explores the relationship between identity, culture, and food, locating fruit from Venezuela as a grounding point for memory and connection.
Formless
A blob of flesh is formed into a body, and from that body a mind emerges and begins to explore a world with walls closing in. “Formless” explores the perspectives of trans bodies going about discovering their dysphoria and finally finding the path to gender euphoria.
Cesspit of Freedom
The consistent police harassment of a popular gay bar heralds the UK’s first national Gay Pride March, taking place in the textiles town of Huddersfield in 1981. “Cesspit of Freedom” sees this event acknowledged in the present via the power of animation and screen printing.
El Angel
Beau Gomez’s “El Angel” unveils the nuances of Asian queerness at a crossroads with upbringing, kinship, desire, and disclosure, juxtaposing the complexities in which identity and community are kept private, shared, experienced and misunderstood.
The Ceremony
150 years from now, two warrior siblings document their community who survived climate change and become the focus of an event that will change them forever.
Watch online at TQFF.ca
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.