Canada’s first queer short film festival returns with a 5th season and captivating programming to celebrate Pride Month
Broadcast across Canada from June 13 to 16, 2024
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IMAGE+NATION. QUEER SHORT FILM FEST (I+N FCQSFF), Canada’s first queer short film festival, celebrates queer filmmakers from here and around the world. Accessible across Canada during Pride Month, I+N FCQSFF is back from June 13 to 16 for a fabulous fifth season with question-and-answer sessions, meetings with filmmakers, discussions, and a selection of powerful, provocative and highly entertaining short films from the four corners of the globe – without forgetting local and national creations. I+N FCQSFF offers a platform for emerging and established filmmakers, with a focus on stories that explore the full richness and complexity of queer experiences. From poignant dramas to hilarious comedies, the festival promises a dynamic and heterogeneous program that reflects the breadth and depth of LGBT2SQ+ storytelling.
I+N FCQSFF celebrates Pride Month:
Films have the power to educate, inspire and unite people. Taking place in the middle of Pride Month, I+N FCQSFF aims to highlight and celebrate the diversity of voices, experiences and stories of the LGBT2SQ+ community through the powerful medium of film – providing queer filmmakers with a platform that allows them to share their voices and stories with a pan-Canadian audience. The aim is to amplify LGBT2SQ+ voices and raise awareness among the general public.
Trailer I+N FCQSFF 05
“Our goal with I+N FCQSFF is to foster a nurturing and inclusive community in which diverse voices can emerge, and through which audiences can see their own experiences resonate with the stories featured there. » –Kat Setzer and Charlie Boudreau, image+nation queer culture
I+N FCQSFF presents captivating stories and creative visions
With exceptional thematic programming that notably features local, Indigenous and Canadian filmmakers, I+N FCQSFF includes six programs: INDIGENOUS VOICES / INDIGIQUEER, two-spirit perspectives and experiences and Indigiqueer; DOCUMENTS, short documentary films focusing on queer lives and experiences; UNE QUESTION DE GENRE / A QUESTION OF GENDER, dramas, comedies and documentaries exploring trans and non-binary realities; LOVE / ENCOUNTERS, tales of love, desire and romance; MADE IN CANADA, queer stories from the four corners of Canada; and last but not least, a virtual version of QUEERMENT QUÉBEC, the local selection of I+N.
A focus on growth and accessibility
I+N FCQSFF aims to elevate and promote the talents of the community of queer filmmakers making short films. This is reflected in the diversity of its programming and production. Multiple networking activities provide emerging professionals with the opportunity to connect with a wider audience, driving the growth of local and global film industries. Through its pay-what-you-can policy, the festival reimagines the traditional film festival experience by creating an affordable and accessible environment where short film directors and their works can be supported and celebrated by all. I+N FCQSFF 05 also offers a virtual space that encourages collaboration, connection and exchange between emerging and established filmmakers.
Join I+N FCQSFF to celebrate LGBT2SQ+ cinema and support stories that challenge norms, defy expectations and illuminate the human experience.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TICKETS, PROGRAM, ETC. WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON ON:
www.fcqsff.image-nation.org
ABOUT IMAGE+NATION QUEER CULTURE
A pioneer of LGBT2SQ+ cinema and culture for 37 years, image+nation queer culture is dedicated to sharing LGBT2SQ+ stories. Its main production, image+nation. LGBTQueer Montreal Film Festival, is an inclusive 11-day annual festival, the longest running of its kind in Canada, that showcases groundbreaking locally and internationally produced films and strives to preserve the authenticity and diversity of LGBT2SQ+ voices. Our most recent initiative, I+N festival courts queer short film fest, once again pays homage to short films with its fifth season which will take place in June 2024.
The mission of image+nation is to represent and prepare current and future generations of filmmakers, while generating empathy from audiences in Canada. I+N FCQSFF stands out through cultural events and new online initiatives.
Currently, image+nation is developing a series of incubation and mentorship programs aimed at supporting emerging queer content, such as I+N Explore (launched in 2016) and I+N StoryLab (launched in 2021).
The festival advances into its fourth decade and is anchored in being a vector of LGBT2SQ+ culture, image+nation explores New Queer Storytelling as well as the unique and universal nature of these stories, striving to promote diversity and inclusion of queer voices, queer lives and queer communities.
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