2012 Vancouver International Film Festival

Filmmaker Adam Garnet Jones explores bullying and violence in his short Liar which plays as part the Vancouver International Film Festival’s Break Even, a collection of Canadian shorts.

Parts of the Heart is heartfelt and dedicated to a deceased man named Peter. Clearly loved by the filmmaker, Peter is remembered or re-imagined in eight episodes that chronicle his life. It is a touching tribute that gets boring quickly.

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Director Ira Sachs admits his latest film Keep The Lights On is very personal, but says that enough time has passed to allow him to tell the story well and with perspective.

What makes the documentary The Invisible Ones compelling is not it’s content, but in its ability to hook its viewer into thinking that there is something more interesting about to happen.

It is evident early into Ira Sachs’ film Keep The Lights On that we’re watching something very personal, but the overall effect is one of fragments of that personal story, as if clouded by the very drugs used by one of his film’s central characters.

Call Me Kuchu helps put our own part of the world into perspective.  While the LGBTQ community has seen gains in the West in recent years, new and potentially deadlier battlegrounds are growing in places like Uganda.

For those that didn't get enough of queer cinema last month, the Vancouver International Film Festival keeps local movie screens a muted shade of pink this September.