Alternatif – Showcasing Montréal’s Alt Queer Cinema Scene
Sunday, February 4 7pm
The Artel, 205 Sydenham Street
Dogme 41: Lonely Child
William has a small digital camera and is constantly shooting video journals of his life to have as souvenirs for himself. Feeling the end of his relationship with Médéric, his young lover, William spends two days with him, taking advantage of the situation …
Saturday, February 3 9:30pm
Etherington Auditorium
Inspired by a true story. A man wakes up naked in a vacant Montreal parking lot. He doesn’t remember his name, where he’s from, or how he got there. The only thing he’s sure of is that he’s gay. A local queer service organization launches a media campaign to help him recover his forgotten past. Eventually …
Saturday, February 3 7pm
Etherington Auditorium
Charting the relationship between a British working class family with a Romany-Czech refugee girl, this film explores the worlds of Helen, a house-wife in a monotonous and depleted marriage looking after her teenage daughter’s baby, Peter, the bigot of a husband who bitterly despises his poverty, and Tasha, who escaped with her mother from an abusive …
Friday, February 2 9:30pm
Etherington Auditorium
Take a walk on the wild side with Filthy Gorgeous, The Trannyshack Story. If you have ever entered The Stud in San Francisco on a Tuesday night, you have walked into a bizarre universe of outrageous performances, elaborate costumes, and extreme artistry that is unlike any other drag show on earth.
The bastard brainchild of drag superstar …
Friday, February 2 7pm
Etherington Auditorium
Nikhil Kapoor is at the top of his game. He’s popular with his friends, the pride of his family, and has just won the state all round swimming championship in Goa. Yet he struggles to live up to his family’s expectations and to hide his relationship with boyfriend Nigel. When Nikhil unsuspectingly learns he is HIV …
Thursday, February 1 7pm
Dunning Auditorium
What happens when a trans woman transgresses the law? This shocking and emotional documentary traces the experiences of five American women serving time in all-male prisons. Their identities ignored by a judicial system focused solely on physical “evidence” of gender, these women recount their experiences of rape, violence, solitary confinement and denial of medical care in …
Sunday, January 28 7:30pm
Etherington Auditorium
Betrayed by a smuggler who promises freedom from Nazi-occupied Paris, a family is slaughtered by the SS. Sara, a young Jewish girl, is the only surviving member, who finds herself hiding in the home of her childhood friend, Jean. However, there is something that Jean is hiding as well, his lover Philippe.
This …
Sunday, January 28 3pm
Sydenham Street United Church
This is reelout’s annual youth-oriented program and admission is by donation.
Like all teenagers, the kids in this documentary are navigating the space between being a child and being an adult. But for these Christian teenagers from the American Mid-West, it is a struggle reconciling their devout Christianity with the fact that they are gay. …
Saturday, January 27 9:30pm
Biosciences Complex Room 1101, Queen’s University
Dark Room
Two young men fall in love in the dark room, but face a harsh reality when their passion is exposed. Hebrew with English subtitles.
Taco Chick and Salsa Girl
A comedy about two Latin American superhero queens who save the world from Neo-Nazi Barbie and White Supremacist Ken.
Black and White
A short film …
Saturday, January 27 8:30 to 9:30pm
Biosciences Atrium, Queen’s University
Back by popular demand! After building up your appetite watching “Rug Burn” join us at our second annual cheesecake reception and indulge in a selection of delectable treats. Chat about your favourite films, connect with other festival goers and meet visiting filmmakers. Come out and celebrate the world of queer film as …
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