7:30 pm - Closing Night Film

Explicit content, recommended for mature audiences only.

Jonathan Agassi is one of the world's most successful gay porn stars. This is a rare and intimate look at the world of porn and escorting, and a fascinating look at the unique relationship between a mother and son.

5:00 pm

In 1990, Franco Stevens created a safe place for lesbians with Curve magazine. Decades later she reassesses her life after a disabling injury and sets out to understand visibility work being led by an intersection of queer women today.

2:45 pm

Meet the key players, allies, and opponents behind the David-versus-Goliath struggle that led the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from its manual of mental illnesses in 1973.

12:00 pm

In the 1980's, a group calling itself First Friday sprung from the imaginations of a group of lesbians living in the small city of Roanoke, Virginia, all in the shadow of the Moral Majority.

Sean Strub’s political ambitions took a backseat to his struggle to survive AIDS in the 80’s. Now 60, he is running for mayor in a community that voted for Donald Trump.

9:45 pm

Explicit content, recommended for mature audiences only.

This irreverent and sexually explicit documentary invites you to embrace your deepest and darkest desires as five individual contestants vie to be crowned the first official Mr. Leather of Brazil.

7:00 pm

This film is a powerful reminder that true equality will come only when we all understand and acknowledge that women are sexual beings, entitled to live their lives fully within the expression of their desire.

5:00 pm

Director Sarah Fodey previously wowed Rainbow Visions audiences with 2018's The Fruit Machine, and now turns the spotlight on Canada's landmark 1969 legislation to decriminalize homosexuality.

12:00 pm

OL: Follow the first season of the historic Trans Chorus of Los Angeles, the largest choral group of transgender and gender nonconforming people anywhere in the world.

OV:Produced right here in Edmonton by Victoria School of the Arts, “One Voice” is a timely original musical drama about the struggles of LGBTQ+ students to start a GSA in their school.

9: 30 PM

After a string of unsuccessful and awkward encounters with women, Ben, a young bisexual man, develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own.

7:00 pm

Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who offers to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.

9:30 pm

A traditional shepherd is forced to innovate in a neoliberal world that conflicts with his idealistic views. Will his struggle pay off, or is he forced to go with the flock?

6:45 pm

For 35 years, Akio Sakurai recreated vintage Led Zeppelin concerts note-for-note in small Tokyo clubs, until the “real” Jimmy Page stopped by one night, and Akio’s life changed forever.

9:15 pm

With live music events grounded for much of this year, rejoice at this enthralling, 2019 concert that paired New Orleans artists on a Spotify playlist with the fans who were listening to it, live at the Preservation Hall.

4:30 pm

In 2019, a dance workshop for children with cerebral palsy takes place for the first time, at the Staatsballett Berlin in Germany.

2:15 pm

A rare spine disease nearly derailed the budding career of musician and dancer Grace Fisher, until she triumphantly transformed her grief into a sublime harmonic beauty.

12:00 pm

• This Ink Runs Deep | 16

• Haven | 18

• What Are You? | 20

• Invasion | 18

• Ballet After Dark | 19
  

9: 15 pm

When an elderly Beijing couple receives notice that their only son has committed suicide and been buried on Canadian soil, they travel to Vancouver to investigate the mysterious circumstances of his death.

6:45 pm

This film is the story of Canada's first terrorist, Eddy Haymour, whose search for justice led him to take hostages, threaten letter bombs, and plan attacks on the government!

9:15 pm

• The Pride of Katanga | 14

• The Winding Farmland | 25

• Oh, Rats | 14

• Iikaakiimaat | 9

• Adele | 35

6:45 pm

Award-winning filmmaker Suzanne Crocker sets out to feed her family 100% local to her community of Dawson City, Yukon, for one full year.

9:15 pm

• North Country | 20

  The Undocumented Lawyer | 19

  A Fresh Perspective | 12

  Miyamoto & the Machine | 40

6: 45 pm

Four Indigenous environmental leaders embark on a trans-continental adventure to unite the peoples of North and South America and deepen the meaning of “Climate Justice”.

4:30 pm

in 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of subway graffiti. Decades later, she’s become an unexpected icon of the street art world.

2:15 pm

Motherload is a crowdsourced documentary in which the cargo bicycle becomes a vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change.

12:00 pm

The rise, fall, and rise again of a Cambodian refugee who escaped genocide and overcame poverty to build a life for himself and hundreds of other immigrant families by building an unlikely empire of donut shops.

9:30 pm

The oral history of a team of geeks and misfits in the back of a Chicago factory creating the biggest video games (Mortal Kombat, NBA JAM, and others) of all time.

6:45 pm

Recent years have seen the Calgary Police Service shoot and kill more people than officers in any other Canadian city. This film reveals the consequences of unchecked police brutality.

4:30 pm

For generations, women have been shamed, ostracized, and silenced, merely because they menstruate. This age-old discrimination is a central issue in the struggle for gender equality.