John Greyson

An exquisite, romantic period piece that skillfully explores the intersections of sex, race and politics. Set in South Africa in the eighteenth century and based on real events, the story concerns young livestock herder, Claas Blank, who is unjustly arrested and sentenced to hard labor, where he crosses paths with a Dutch sailor. Despite their vast cultural differences, Claas begins a tentative love affair with the sailor, setting in motion a course of events that brings tragic consequences for all. (Strand Releasing)

Believing he's been called to hear a dying prisoner's final confession, bishop Bilodeau (Marcel Sabourin) walks into a dangerous trap and is forced to confront the truth about his dark past. At the jail, Bilodeau learns that the convict is his childhood friend and one-time crush, Simon. Inmates kidnap the bishop and force him to watch a reenactment of the long-ago love triangle and youthful betrayal that led to Simon's imprisonment. (Netflix)

An avant-garde musical short, concerning the 1985 murder of Kenneth Zeller. Framed as a making-of-documentary of 'Monsters', a film co-directed by George Lukacs and Bertolt Brecht (played here by a talking catfish), the film opens up a dialectic between the opposing philosophies of these two theorists and the issues that their film attempts to address.

Fig Trees is a combined documentary and opera about South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat and Canadian AIDS activist Tim McCaskell. The film draws on the Gertrude Stein/Virgil Thomson opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" and is narrated by an albino squirrel.

The story of three gay men whose lives are intertwined. One is writing a book about circumcision, another is transcribing the book for publication, and a third seduces them both.

The ghost of Zero - "patient zero", who allegedly first brought aids to Canada - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who drank from the Fountain of Youth and now works as Chief Taxidermist at the Toronto Natural history Museum, is trying to organise an Aids Exhibition. (imdb)

Story of the same couple, first in their teenage years and then in their twilight years, paradoxically set in the same time during the backdrop of the Gulf War in the Middle East. (imdb)

A mystery man brings together a group of dead, gay artists to investigate a police response to the dilema of wash-room sex in Toronto. The artists have seven days in which to report on the ethics of police tactics. The artists infiltrate the police only to discover that they themselves are under surveillance as a political subversive group. The artists explore and report on the evolution of toilets and wash-room behavior. (imdb)