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.

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