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Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival in Kingston
Thursday, 30 January 2025 until Sunday, 09 February 2025
The Reelout Queer Film Festival is an annual 10-day event held in Kingston, ON Canada. We are one of the first queer film festivals in the calendar year and our festival exhibits independent, international films by and/or about LGBTQ+ lives with a strong focus on the intersections within our communities. Films focusing on race, health, ability, class, and age are equally as important as films about sexual orientation and gender. Our festival usually runs from late January to early February. There are no travel funds for guests outside the U.S but we have been able to provide accommodations for international guests if they can afford their own airfare. International and Canadian feature-length films will receive artist/screening fees as well as Canadian short films.
There are Audience Awards (title awards nothing monetary awarded) as well as the Betty Berghout award for BEST LOVE STORY and the Kim Renders BEST PERFORMANCES awards.
2025 films...
To The Moon:
ReelOut/Three Things Consulting Opening Selection:
w short films On and On and On + Daniel le Tisserand
Under the Influencer
Circo
Seraphim: The Motion Picture
We Forgot to Break Up
HOMe – dir. Kevin Lee Burton/2:54/Canada/God’s Lake Narrows HOMe is a four minute experimental video connecting the homoerotic with the land. Burton explores gay identity, Indigeneity, and rural living through images taken on his ancestral territory of God’s Lake Narrows, Manitoba.
Larry (They/Them)
Winter Kept Us Warm
Retrospective
Spotlight on Greece: Avant-Drag
w short film
Pigeons are Dying, When the City is on Fire
Monday, Feb 3rd 2025
6pm
Cherchez La Femme
French-Language Women’s Shorts
The Wind Will Carry Her -dir.Renaud Gélinas/ 25:46/Canada/2024 When her car breaks in a small seaside town, Camille meets Léa, a young musician who sings at a restaurant at night. They develop a particular relationship after talking about their families and their respective escapes.
Hyenas (Hyenes)- dir. François Nolla/20:00/France/2022 On her release from prison, Lashka sets off to find Léna, the love of her life. Together, they wanted to overthrow the system. They were known as "The Hyenas"...
Girlfriends –dir. Claire Bonnefoy/22:51/France/2024– France Hélène and Samia are very close friends. So close, in fact, that Samia used to tell her all the details of her relationship with her ex Gaby, including the most shocking ones. But now that Hélène is the one dating Gaby, she can't stop thinking about it. To escape jealousy, she decides to erase this information from her memory with the help of a magic potion advertised by a love-influencer.
Breaking Through (L'Échappée)– dir. Siham Bel/28:32/France/2023 -Every summer, Safia returns to Corsica to visit her dad. Ever since she left the island years before, she has kept her distance. On the surface, she seems close to her family, but a secret is stopping them from connecting. This summer, an announcement is going to shake up the family and take Safia on an unexpected journey of self-discovery on the winding and rocky roads of the Mediterranean island.
Queen Size- dir. Avril Besson/19:52/France/2023 This morning, Marina has an appointment with Charlie to sell her a mattress. This evening, she will cancel her plane for Reunion. But they don't know that yet.
Tuesday, Feb 4th 2025
6pm
In Her Gaze
International Women’s Shorts
The Last Film – dir. Sunita Singh/15:48/India/2024 From the intimate corners of her home to the vibrant chaos of Old Delhi, Ila, a 68-year old woman, navigates the delicate dance between memory and reality, seeking solace in the remnants of a life once lived.
Seeking-Me (Busco-Me)- dir. Maria Camila Ortiz, Suelen Rodrigues, Felipe Chiaretti, Santiago Mendez/18:55/Brazil/2023/Spanish with English subtitles Luisa Boaventura is a woman starting to forget, wandering off into the maze of her memory at times. At the bus station, she writes in an attempt to safeguard her memories, especially those related to the great love of her youth.
Black Pendulums (Les Pendules Noires) -dir. Mathilde Algans, Théo Michel / 15:00/ France/ French with English subtitles Shortly after a tragic accident that took the life of her girlfriend, Ambre, a young writer, has a coffee with Jade, her editor and childhood friend. All their lives, the two women were inseparable and full of ambition, but their friendship is now overwhelmed by resentment and guilt. To overcome their grief, they must give up what was once their greatest strength.
Anything with a Switch – dir. Charli Brissey/4:34/USA/2024 A short movement study on sapphic longing and obsession.
REAL- dir. Maria Forsythe/5:00/USA/2020/ASL & English with English subtitles Exploring Deafness, love, and the lengths we go to find it. Lauren navigates relationships and connections in a world of complex communication.
Hi Mrs. Friedman!- dir. Rachel Epstein/7:48/Canada/2018 Awkward hijinks ensue when a mother and daughter show up at a queer sex club on the same night.
Bindweed – dir. Juliette Leach/12:58/Canada/2024 Rae has a deep connection to their garden of puppets, so much so that when Rae flourishes, so do their flowers. When Rae becomes overwhelmed by the demands of adult life - working, cleaning, keeping up with their loved ones - a neglected sprout of bindweed overwhelms their flowers too.
The Tree – dir.Ida Hansen Eldøen/14:00/Norway/2023/Norwegian with English subtitles Low and hungover, Rebecca finds herself fighting off her ex-girlfriend Vivian, who has turned up to claim the apple tree they had planted in Rebecca’s backyard.
Wednesday, Feb 5th 2025
6pm
The Splendour of Gender
Gender Diversity Shorts Program
I’ve Heard a Siren Calling – dir. Dylan Mitro/12:00/Canada/2024 A Great Lake Surfer has recently begun her transition as a Trans Woman. She now is having hesitations with putting her wetsuit back on, but something is calling her back. In the isolation of her cabin in a small fishing town, she seeks to find the courage to face her fears.
CeCe/Shades: Amplify Her Voice – dir. Salima Stanley-Bhanji/3:30/Canada/2024 Filmmaker, model and advocate Cece Chow talks about coming out at age 42 as a trans woman, her Asian heritage, Japanese kokedama plant art, and parenting her two children.
Body Varial – dir. Audrey Kerridge/15:01/Canada/2023 After recently undergoing top surgery, a transmasculine skateboarder attempts to reintegrate themselves back into their daily life. Throughout their recovery, they discover newfound struggles both physically and mentally in life post-operation.
Estetica Unisex- dir. Alvaro Acosta Gutierrezr/8:00/Peru/2022 The life of three trans women come together through Mishell´s memories. From Huancayo City to Atta Alley in Puno, Peru, the memories come with music, dance and also death.
Snakeskin – dir. Emily Bendeck Garay/12:00/Canada/2024 A trans girl misses her train stop one night and embarks on a surreal journey back home as her dreams start leaking into her reality.
Clementine – dir. Sally Tran/14:30/USA/2024 A late-blooming Trans woman reluctantly confronts an assigned-male-at-birth Trans specific life-altering dilemma. With the help of her besties, she attempts to process this debacle in order to determine which path to take on her journey of decolonizing her womanhood.
Bull, Trans- dir. Rivanildo Feitosa/14:50/Brazil/2024 “Bull, Trans” tells the history of Mahhy Silva, a singer who shines as the chanting voice leading the performance of the traditional Buma-meu-boi Mimo São Jorge in the inlands of the northeast of Brazil. The doc talks about the relationship between Mahhy's family conflicts and nature's waters.
Pietra – dir. Cynthia Levitan/13:00/Portugal/2024/Portuguese with English subtitles In daydreaming about unlikely relationships, the flower - as delicate as it is revolutionary - represents an act of love amidst the suffocation and embrace of a classic Portuguese neighborhood.
Thursday, Feb 6th 2025
Snips, Snails & Puppy Love Tales:
An international collection of shorts that reveal what gay boys are made of.
Neuromance – dir. Brodie Pyke/13:24/Australia/2024 Nate is twenty-three years old, living with autism and discovering the horrors of the gay dating scene in Sydney. After his well meaning best friends sign him up to Grindr, can Nate overcome his fear of pretty much everything to find the man of his dreams?
Bubbling –dir. Che-ming Chang/ 23:30/Taiwan/2023/Chinese with English subtitles Guang has difficulty focusing during school choir. He's distracted by something more enticing than singing. When a charismatic new student arrives, Guang's curiosity and sexual desire is taken to a new level.
Les garçons dans l'eau - dir. Pawel Thomas Larue/39.32/France/2023/French with English subtitles End of summer on the Breton coast. Oscar invites his group of friends to spend a week's vacation at his grandparents' house. He hasn't been back to his childhood home for years - not since he came out as a trans boy. On the beach, the gang meets Malo, a handsome local guy, also trans. The story is about their meeting, which will turn everything upside down.
Capitanes- dir. Kevin Castellano, Edu Hirschfeld/15:00/Spain/2024/Spanish with English subtitles During a hard-fought, tense cup semi-final, the two captains of a football team have an argument that ends up revealing a secret buried in the dressing rooms of the first division: the silence of homosexual footballers.
The Passion According to Karim –dir. Axel Würsten/24.10/France/2024/French with English subtitles A Scout patrol stays in a remote village in the Drôme region to perform the Crucifixion of Jesus. Nothing can divert 17-year-old KARIM, the Scout who plays the lead role of Christ, from his obsessive goal: to channel the emotion of ecstasy in order to interpret the martyrdom on the cross.
Friday, Feb 7th 2025
Spotlight on Atlantic Canada:
Lakeview
w short film
The Lesbian Lobster Song
The Rebrand
w short film Fureality
Saturday, Feb 8th 2025
The Screening Room (120 Princess St)
Dracula est Amoureux (Love Bites) – dir. Lameo Flores/84min/France/2024
Just out of their teens, young men Liam and Anatole were in the throes of an exciting new relationship- until they had a small fight, and Anatole ended all contact and disappeared. Liam is heartbroken and can’t accept the breakup. And, since his boyfriend doesn’t reply to his calls and text messages, Liam decides to sneak into a Halloween party organized by one of Anatole’s friends to try and patch things up. The wild night that ensues will test both boys’ true feelings for each other, as well as force them to confront some hard inner truths once and for all.
w short film A-Ok
Bulletproof: A Lesbians Guide to Surviving the Plot
The Muleteer (La Arriera)