posted Thursday, October 29, 2020
Belle returns to her rural Nova Scotia home for her father’s funeral. Having caused her mother Nancy considerable consternation when she came out as a lesbian teen, Belle is now desperate to keep secret from her mother that she’s been in a relationship with a man for the last two years. Sofia Banzhaf (Closet Monster) […]
posted Monday, October 26, 2020
DEDALUS is a fiction triptych portraying community, love, and loss. 1) In rural Iowa, a grocery cashier watches helplessly as classmates conceal their act of sexual violence against his teenaged step-sister. Will she keep the child? 2) A hustler tricks for food, shelter, and intimacy during a winter in New York City. A young woman […]
posted Monday, October 26, 2020
Rialto is a complex story about a man who’s life is in free-fall. A man who is making all the wrong decisions after the loss of his father. The film is about men and their inability to express emotions due to societal pressures. Colm (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) finds a safe space to talk about his emotions, […]
posted Thursday, October 22, 2020
Okay, it’s called WEED & WINE, but really… it’s about parenting in times of uncertainty, and about the preciousness and precariousness of family. It is, of course, also about weed and wine if you happen to enjoy those. Continents apart from one another, two farming families aim to reinvent themselves on their land. One family—a strong-willed […]
posted Wednesday, October 21, 2020
The Rendezvous with Madness Festival is the first and largest arts and mental health festival in the world. Using art as the entry point to illuminate and investigate the realities and mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction, programming spotlights the human capacity for endurance in the face of great challenges. As community members are feeling […]
posted Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The 28th annual Toronto Jewish Film Festival begins October 22, 2020, and like most other festivals, it’s going virtual this year. The Festival will stream a curated program of 50+ films showcasing the best in Jewish-content film from Canada and around the world. theBUZZ recommends the following three films, each depicting LGBT representation. Sublet, […]
posted Friday, October 16, 2020
Hot Docs has added the new monthly film series For Viola to its VOD platform Hot Docs at Home. Named in honour of Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond, the important documentary series will centre around Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC)-led stories and filmmakers. This fall, the series will feature Charles Officer’s 2017 Festival doc Unarmed […]
posted Saturday, October 3, 2020
Nothing could stop Inside Out from celebrating their 30th anniversary, not even a pandemic! To kick off this special commemorative year, the festival presented Stardust, a film that chronicles the escapades of David Bowie‘s first visit to the United States in 1971, a trip that would go on to inspired the invention of his iconic […]
posted Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Spinster takes a comical look at the old-school terminology that referred to unmarried women. After her partner breaks up with her on her 39th birthday, Gaby (Chelsea Peretti) tackles her fears of loneliness as well as preconceptions of what it means for a woman to be single. Gaby is a caterer who lives in Halifax, […]
posted Tuesday, September 29, 2020
The first queer global streaming TV network, Revry, honors National LGBT History Month in October with the premiere of the 5th annual QueerX festival, taking place Oct. 1–31. Celebrating LGBTQ+ music, film, politics, and culture, the festival–which has been touted as the queer SXSW (Billboard, Flaunt Magazine)–will take a unique approach to its screening and panel […]
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