1999
This ambitious season featured a record 15 shorts in assorted genres, plus two documentaries.
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- After the Second Date
(Kathryn Beranich, 1996, USA, video, 25min)
Fourteen NYC lesbians take a candid look at love, sex and dating in the 90's. - Treyf
(Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky, 1998, USA, 16mm, 55min)
An unorthodox documentary about two Jewish lesbians who meet and fall in love at a Passover seder. - Bloody Well Done
(Nathalie Percillier, 1994, Germany, video, 5min)
A young woman suddenly finds herself inside a video game. - Static
(Nikki Forrest, 1995, Canada, video, 7min)
Homophobic rhetoric litters the airwaves, as lesbian life quietly goes on. - Her Sweetness Lingers
(Shani Mootoo, 1994, Canada, video, 12min)
Poetry and lyrical imagery combine to explore the fatal possibilities that begin with a caress. - Untouchable
(Thirza Cuthand, 1998, Canada, video, 4min)
Reflections of a lesbian teenager, decrying the powerlessness of youth. - It Happened in the Stacks
(Hope Thompson, 1997, Canada, 16mm, 9min)
A librarian tangles with a femme fatale in this wry, noir melodrama. - Bayou
(Dina Ciraulo, 1997, USA, 16mm, 7min)
This haunting experimental diary accompanies a woman on a journey to visit her girlfriend's parents. - Tomboy
(Donna Carter, 1997, USA, 16mm, 5min)
An African American tomboy follows her own "hoop dreams." - Gifts from My Father
(Kim McNabb, 1997, USA, 16mm, 18min)
A father-daughter relationship interweaves themes of basketball, alcoholism and sexuality. - Dance with Me
(Cassandra Nicolaou, 1997, Canada, 16mm, 9min)
A young woman struggles to make sense of her complicated relationship with her mother. - Good Citizen, Betty Baker
(Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, 1995, Canada, 16mm, 27min)
A civic-minded, busybody housewife is swept into a gender-bending intrigue in this pop art satire of a cliffhanger serial. - Twisted Sheets
(Chris Deacon, 1996, Canada, 16mm, 14min)
When Sue dashes to the store in her nightgown, she doesn't count on running into her ex-boyfriend and his hot new girlfriend. Retribution is sweet in this twist on the classic love triangle. - The Tragedy of Samantha Biggle and the Twins
(Lauren Himmel, 1998, USA, 16mm, 32min)
Sam's boarding school romance is complicated by a crush on her roommate's seductive sister. - Why I'll Never Trust You
(Cassandra Nicolaou, 1995, Canada, 16mm, 11min)
One phone call changes everything. - Chance to Seal Our Love
(Beate Kunath, 1997, Germany, 16mm/video, 35min)
A love story from the Chemnitzer Film Collective, in the former East Germany. Will our heroines tie the knot? - Sleep, Come Free Me
(Laurie Schmidt, 1998, USA, 16mm, 18min)
A woman's sexual dreams and fantasies impinge on her boring job. -