Isabella Miller - 21, Emu Haynes - 23, Gabe Braden - 23

An activist drag queen in rural Alabama is forced to keep her identity secret as she fights for human rights in a race against the systematic erasure of her own history.

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Rafaël Beauchamp - 24

November 2001: Charles follows his Martin, another victim from the AIDS epidemic of the 90’s, to the end. Twenty years later, we dive back in.

Coping for the Best

Elle Rinaldi - 22, Daviana Angelo - 22, Kyra Isabella Chen - 22, Payton McCarty-Simas - 22

Three generations of women and girls prepare to perform at the Cuban circus in Havana, Cuba, each for different acts, on different occasions, but all under the same enchanting red and white striped tent, an otherworldly space which pulses with reflections on age, femininity, and dreams.

Express Yourself

Ophelia Spinosa - 23

Interplaying the metaphor of grapes, this father-daughter documentary is characterized by the labour of love it is to make wine, but also the labour of love that is love itself.

Centerpiece

Audrey Shuppert - 19, Katharine Johnson - 21, Daniel McGreevy - 20

The story ​of Vanessa Niko, an indigenous ​woman murdered by her partner, told ​by the family members who picked up ​the pieces of a broken community and ​sought justice for her untimely death.

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Manon Testud - 23

They meet in the dark of the night. Women, sisters, friends: a feminist group gathering to leave writings on the walls of Montreal. Their challenge: raise awareness to end systemic violences endured by women and minorities.

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