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Inside Out

27 May – 6 June 2021

Disintegration Loops
Disintegration Loops

Toronto's 2SLGBTQ+ film festival took place online this year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Still aiming to be an international home and incubator for 2SLGBTQ+ emerging and established filmmakers, the festival included themed programming spotlights alongside its film line-up. It opened with Natalie Morales’ Language Lessons and closed with Bradley Bell's Alone Together.

The festival ran from 27 May to 6 June.

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  • Boy Meets Boy
    Review preview for Boy Meets Boy

    Frequent close-ups build on the chemistry between the actors to capture that feeling when one individual suddenly seems bigger and brighter and louder than everything else in the world.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A brief encounter in a Berlin nightclub changes the course of two lives.
  • Knocking
    Review preview for Knocking

    Molocco’s performance is excellent and will make viewers feel for Molly even if they have no experience with this type of situation.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    When Molly moves into her new apartment after a tragic accident, a strange noise from upstairs begins to unnerve her. As its intensity grows, she confronts her neighbours – but no one seems to hear what she is hearing.
  • Potato Dreams Of America
    Review preview for Potato Dreams Of America

    Quirky and a little uneven but appealingly sweet.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the Nineties.
  • Being Thunder
    Review preview for Being Thunder

    Through her focus on what might seem like a narrow issue, Lamorre mines a rich vein of history.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A a two-spirit genderqueer teenager from the Narragansett tribe in Rhode Island, explores what it means to be a queer Indigenous person in a world bound by binary gender roles.
  • Leading Ladies
    Review preview for Leading Ladies

    Caudeli has a talent that goes beyond the mere provision of puzzles.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A reflection on how different perspectives and memories affect one group of queer women.
  • A Distant Place
    Review preview for A Distant Place

    A remarkably accomplished piece of storytelling.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A man who has retreated to the countryside find his delicate balance upset by the visit of an old friend.
  • Instructions For Survival
    Review preview for Instructions For Survival

    The rather conventional structure of Yana Ugrekhelidze's film, which follows the couple over several years, serves to highlight the ordinariness of its subjects and the Kafkaesque nature of the invisible prison woven around them.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Alexander's transgender identity means he is obliged to lead a life of secrecy in his home country.
  • Ma Belle, My Beauty
    Review preview for Ma Belle, My Beauty

    This complex story is driven by its characters and blessed with a trio of impressive but unshowy performances.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A surprise reunion in southern France reignites passions and jealousies between two women who were formerly polyamorous lovers.
  • Kapana
    Review preview for Kapana

    Made on a very low budget, the film looks rough, but the performances are solid enough and the leads have real chemistry.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    In Namibia, a country where sodomy is still a crime and gay relationships are stigmatized against, two lives intersect: George and Simeon. Two secrets. One unlikely meeting in a bar.
  • How To Fix Radios
    Review preview for How To Fix Radios

    Although it's shot on a low budget and lacks the polish of most of today's successful queer films, How To Fix Radios has an important contribution to make.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    When a narrow-minded teenager in a rural Ontario community starts a new job, he meets somebody who changes his outlook on life.

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