OUT OF CHECKLIST, 26min., Czechia
Directed by Roman Němec
Twelve-year-old, hyper-rational David pays an unannounced visit to his father's Prague apartment. Following a coming out and a subsequent divorce, his father lives alone and already has weekend plans. In a pinch, he convinces the only pers...

RADICAL HARMONIES (a LEGACY film), 88min., USA
Directed by Dee Mosbaher
RADICAL HARMONIES (2002) is an 88-minute documentary produced and directed by Academy AwardTM nominee Dee Mosbacher that chronicles the history of queer music by women (mostly lesbian). Through festival and performance footag...

MARIE / TOWNHALL OF CARDS, 11min., France
Directed by Hamon Keven, Cathelineau Renaud
Marie is a transgender woman. After a late transition, committed to fighting discrimination, through encounters and struggles, she decides to run for municipal elections and wins over 63% of the votes...

Entrelacés en Bleu, 18min., Canada
Directed by Tayler Gladue
3 strangers struggle to find where they fit in a world that demands too much from them. Little do they realize how impactful and connected their lives actually are.

XENA: No Apologies, 94min., USA
Directed by Judy A. Kim
'Xena: Warrior Princess' wasn't just a TV show - it spawned a cultural revolution that changed lives. This documentary explores the show’s cultural, feminist and LGBTQ impact through interviews with fans, cast members, and cultural commenta...

GOSSAMER, 21min., UK
Directed by Hamish Sturgeon
Set between glamour and decay, Gossamer explores identity, memory, and transformation through a character caught between survival and self-expression. As past and present blur, a fragile alter ego emerges, revealing the delicate threads that hold a...

LUIS AT HOME, 11min., Canada/Mexico
Directed by Francisco Passuelo
Luis, a Mexican immigrant in Canada reflects on the aftermath of leaving his homeland and coming out as a gay man. Since arriving in Vancouver in 2007, Luis has established himself as a Canadian citizen, yet his experience reveals...

Matthew Toffolo interviewed Dylan Delaney, the filmmaker of the short experimental film "Death by Passive-Aggressive Interpretive Dance." Dylan discussed the creative process behind his unique film, which was shot in County Wicklow, Ireland, and features religious and spiritual themes presented t...

Matthew Toffolo interviews Sarah Van Sant, director of the short film "Best Kept Secret." Sarah discusses her first foray into directing after a career in acting, modeling, and stunt work. Sarah explained how she and her husband developed the concept during COVID, collaborating with writer James...

Performed by Val Cole

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POEM:

TO WARREN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

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Oh Warren at the bottom of the sea,
You never return to me.
Every day your distance grows
As you’re carried out by the tide’s flows
Farther and farther, o deep-sea floater.

Oh Warren at the bottom of the sea,
Won’t you com...

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

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POEM:

Brother, while you were sleeping,
hands crossed over your hot-wired heart,
your friends, Smitty the gambler, and
folk singer Rick, stood at your bedside, then
slipped away. Now it’s just the two of us,
and the urgent beeping in this dim room.

When you awaken, w...

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

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POEM:

We lived two hundred yards from the Chesapeake Bay,
close enough to hear it breathing in the dark,
close enough that salt was in our blood
before we ever knew the word for it.
Spring came and we ran barefoot over cold sand.
Summer turned the bay to hammered go...

TITLE OF STORY: What I Know Now

TYPE OF STORY: Memoir short story, 2,909 words

SYNOPSIS: Written eight days after the final time she left, a woman traces the four times she tried to leave the same relationship and the four times something pulled her back, and what finally made the last time stick.

Performed by Val Cole

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POEM:

I hear the flatline
Sounds of machine chirping between my ears
Pounding again and again
Like nails scratching a blackboard
Taking over my brain
Bee... beep...beep
Interrupting my thoughts getting louder
Wishing it was her heart moving in rhythm
An imperfected ...

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

Restlessness
A bed frame with a missing leg propped up with old, unwanted books,
Kitschy pop theology books, free paperbacks from a religious childhood,
All Jesus and blood and contemporary exclusivism,
All stacked below a short metal rod, slowly carving its way thr...

Story Title: The Edge

Genre: Psychological/ Gothic Horror

Synopsis: Plagued by insomnia and caught between dream and waking, a woman ascends to the century-old attic of her home after hearing a familiar knock. What she finds has been hidden away for generations.

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

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POEM:

CHRISTMAS DAY IN MINNESOTA

The road hits the hilltop.
Shingled boxes people ought to occupy
Pepper the lower plains.

Snow blankets distinctions.
The cold is such
That skin freezes to metal it’s touched.

The field lies hard beside the lost lane,
Old Chevy an...

Une Vie après, 27min., France
Directed by Catherine Séru
Mira, a curious and impish six-year-old girl, has a fundamental need in order to explore and understand the world: to feel loved by her mother.