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Toronto's internationally celebrated LGBTQIA2S film festival is back this year with a great line-up. it opens with the Canadian première of acclaimed filmmaker Ira Sachs’ French romantic drama Passages, and closes with the world première of Tom Gustafson's Glitter & Doom, a musical summer romance.
The festival runs from 25 May to 4 June.
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In this wild reinterpretation of the “Sisi” myth, the focus is on Austrian Empress Elisabeth’s close friendship with her last lady-in-waiting, Irma Countess von Sztáray, who falls in love with the charismatic Sisi and is captivated by her modern ideas.
Iman, an Iranian, lives with his family in Sweden in an ever-changing succession of refugee hostels. To increase his chances of obtaining residence permits for them all, he resumes his career as a wrestler – and is confronted with the reason he had to flee.
A married man cheats on his husband with a woman... then tells him about it.
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.
Four Black transgender sex workers explore the dichotomy between the Black community and themselves, while confronting issues long avoided.
1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly dangerous choices to fit in.
An eight-year-old explores her identity over a summer in the Basque country.
12-year-old Nino is assaulted for being homosexual. In an effort to protect the boy, his parents move the family to a small rural village.
A girl begins to question the world around her through her friendship with her gay best friend.
An Asian Canadian teenager grapples with his identity when he falls for the boy next door. What will his family think? And how will he tell his girlfriend?
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