Directed by Julie Cohen, Every Body is a film that wants to explore and disseminate the assumptions that we make about intersex people and gender identity. Focusing her camera on actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they) and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him), Cohen shares the stories of shame and secrecy…
Sometimes, the strength we so badly need is not only for ourselves. Set in England in 1988, Blue Jean tells the story of Jean (Rosy McEwan), a high school gym teacher who is attempting to keep her personal life and sexuality out of the public eye. At a time when the Conservative government was working hard to…
You can live forever… if you make the cut. Set in the early 1990s, You Can Live Forever tells the story of Jaime (Anwen O’Driscoll), a teenager who grew up in Thunder Bay with a love for sci-fi and smoking weed. After her father’s passing, her mother’s struggles with mental health become more severe and she sends…
Directed by Mark Kozakiewicz, the new documentary Silent Love begins in a small Polish village after the mother of Aga and Milosz passes away. Alone and hurting, Aga seeks to become legal guardian for her younger brother to help keep the family together. However, in the midst of their legal battle, an unknown piece of Aga?s life…
The Whale has shown us a whole new side of Brendan Fraser. Best known for films like The Mummy or Encino Man early in his career, Fraser acknowledges that his decision to take on the role of Charlie may be unexpected to his fans. But when he was offered the character, he not only enthusiastically accepted but he was humbled…
In a space that values power above all else, The Inspection shows that the strongest are the meek. The Inspection?tells the story of Ellis French (Jeremy Pope), a young gay Black man who has been rejected by his mother (Gabrielle Union) due to his sexuality. With few options, French joins the Marine Corp in an…
?Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.? (Prov. 16:18 [NRSV]) In T?r, written and directed by Todd Field, we meet a woman at the very pinnacle of professional life. Her accomplishments may astound us. Her world seems to be as full as it can be, but we slowly get clues that…
?Remember when we talked about being alone in the world?? Aly Muritiba?s Private Desert is a story of a man?s search for a way out of his loneliness and isolation. Much of that solitude is self-imposed and the result of being in a very conservative masculine world. His journey will push his understandings about love…
Does passion provide an adequate foundation for how to live a life? In Ana?s in Love, from director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, we watch a young woman who focuses her life around shifting passions that blow through her life. Does it lead to happiness? Will it ever last? Ana?s (Ana?s Demoustier) is a thirty something student who…
?Forgiveness doesn?t heal the wounds of the past; it transforms them.? Lisa Azuelos?s I Love America is structured as a rom-com, but that is really just the pretty clothing put on to attract us to a story of grief and healing. In a sense it is a story of being lost and not knowing it….
