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Toronto's 2SLGBTQ+ film festival took place online this year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Still aiming to be an international home and incubator for 2SLGBTQ+ emerging and established filmmakers, the festival included themed programming spotlights alongside its film line-up. It opened with Natalie Morales’ Language Lessons and closed with Bradley Bell's Alone Together.
The festival ran from 27 May to 6 June.
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A brief encounter in a Berlin nightclub changes the course of two lives.
![Knocking](/images/stills/k/knocking_2021.jpg)
When Molly moves into her new apartment after a tragic accident, a strange noise from upstairs begins to unnerve her. As its intensity grows, she confronts her neighbours – but no one seems to hear what she is hearing.
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A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the Nineties.
![Being Thunder](/images/stills/b/being_thunder_2021.jpg)
A a two-spirit genderqueer teenager from the Narragansett tribe in Rhode Island, explores what it means to be a queer Indigenous person in a world bound by binary gender roles.
![Leading Ladies](/images/stills/l/leading_ladies_2021.jpg)
A reflection on how different perspectives and memories affect one group of queer women.
![A Distant Place](/images/stills/d/distant_place_2020.jpg)
A man who has retreated to the countryside find his delicate balance upset by the visit of an old friend.
![Instructions For Survival](/images/stills/i/instructions_for_survival_2021.jpg)
Alexander's transgender identity means he is obliged to lead a life of secrecy in his home country.
![Ma Belle, My Beauty](/images/stills/m/ma_belle_my_beauty_2021.jpg)
A surprise reunion in southern France reignites passions and jealousies between two women who were formerly polyamorous lovers.
![Kapana](/images/stills/k/kapana_2020.jpg)
In Namibia, a country where sodomy is still a crime and gay relationships are stigmatized against, two lives intersect: George and Simeon. Two secrets. One unlikely meeting in a bar.
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When a narrow-minded teenager in a rural Ontario community starts a new job, he meets somebody who changes his outlook on life.
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