LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival

A showcase of the best LGBTQ+ films from around the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS (from Feedback Film Festival): Best Short Film: Topless Best Micro-Short Film: Swoletarian Best Direction: boysick Best Story: Bleach Burns Best Performances: Death By Chocolate Best Visual Design: The Kiss of Judas Best Music Video: Good Stuff boysick, 26min., France

A showcase of the best LGBTQ+ films from around the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS (from Feedback Film Festival): Best Film: GETTING OFF THE WHEEL Best Direction: DIFFERENT WORLDS SUMMER HEAT Getting Off The Wheel, 49min., Singapore Directed by Ming Kwang Hun, Jeremy Ho, Gary Thong Ten Days.

The LGBTQ+ Festival had a surplus of submissions fo the first half of the season. Enclosed is the list of WINNERS, who had a best scene of their screenplay performed by professional actors and made into a video.

In a devout Kentucky town where masculinity and reputation define belonging, high school basketball star Brady Miller has his future mapped out—until his growing feelings for his best friend and teammate, Josh, begin to surface. When a private moment crosses an unspoken line, the fallout is immediate and brutal, fracturing their relationship and ex

Eighteen-year-old Zach Gamble is the star of a hit teen sitcom, known to millions as the charming, effortless “Cameron Love.” Off-camera, however, Zach feels increasingly disconnected from both his public image and himself. When a fan’s letter about struggling with identity unsettles him, Zach begins to question the version of himself he’s been per

The Gay Messiah is a mythic Caribbean love story about the Antichrist and the Son of God discovering that love, not prophecy, may determine the fate of the universe. CAST LIST: Narrator: Geoff Mays Cassandra: Hannah Ehman

In the aftermath of a brutal attack in a bar parking lot, Danielle “Dani” Scott refuses to see herself as broken, despite a world determined to convince her she needs fixing. As her girlfriend Celeste lies unconscious in a hospital bed, Dani begins to spiral.

A showcase of the best LGBTQ+ films from around the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS (from Feedback Film Festival): Best Feature Film: XENA: No Apologies Best Short Film: GOSSAMER Best Direction: RADICAL HARMONIES (a LEGACY film) Best Social Awareness Film: MARIE / TOWNHALL OF CARDS Best Documentary Film: LUIS AT HOME Best Story: OUT OF CHECKLIST… Cont

A happily married father of four sons confronts his attraction to another man and must navigate between his devotion to family and his recognition that his life imitates art. CAST LIST: Narrator: Julie Sheppard Michelangelo: Sean Ballantyne Homer: Shawn Devlin Lu-Lu: Hannah Ehman

Interview with Filmmaker Lamont Nathaniel Gibson (SILENT PULL)https://festivalreviews.org/2025/10/14/interview-with-filmmaker-lamont-nathaniel-gibson-silent-pull/ SILENT PULL, 11min., USADirected by Lamont Nathaniel GibsonA Black queer man navigates unreciprocated intimacy and the emotional cost of longing, as systemic pressures push his vulnerabil