Feature

Closet Monster
Director Stephen Dunn | 2015 | Canada | 90 min

Teenage lust, woozy visions, and a talking hamster voiced by Isabella Rossellini shape this queer coming-of-age tale that’s as strange, scary, and sublime as the real experience. Winner of multiple awards on the festival circuit and directed by Stephen Dunn, whose sexually irreverent short Pop-Up Porno was a favorite among SIGLFF audiences last year, Closet Monster is an impressive first feature that verifies Dunn’s reputation as a risk-taking visionary. Closet Monster is deliriously dark, but with a cheeky comic wit that emerges via Oscar’s closest confidant: “Buffy,” the wryly observant rodent.

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Shorts

Legends of Courage Project – Laurie McBride on AIDS
Director Dawn Deason | 2016 | USA | 4 min

Laurie McBride discusses how the AIDS crisis was instrumental in the LGBT struggle for civil rights. She is an important advocate for LGBT civil rights and has been for most of her life. She served as the Assistant Secretary of State for California and Chief of Staff for the Majority Leader in the California Assembly. Laurie was at ground zero in San Francisco during the most frightening days of the AIDS crisis.

The Weigh In
Directors The Perez Bros. | 2014 | USA | 2 min

Two beefy boxers prepare for their big bout in a queer send-up of hyperventilating boxing promos.

Folsom Street
Director Aron Kantor | 2015 | USA | 5 min

Leathermen collide with Bob Fosse choreography in this kinky, sexy dance masterpiece.