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Director: Langlois, Michel
Year: 1993
Synopsis: Intensely luscious Roy Dupois (the hustler in Being at Home with Claude) stars as a hunky ne'er-do-well who returns home to his claustrophobic family after a long absence. Turns out that both his mother (Andree Lachapelle) and Sister (Elise Guilbault) both seem to want to sleep with him; things aren't helped when an old friend (Gilbert Sciotte) arrives, causing chaos for the polymorphously perverse clan. The first of two ripe family dramas in this year's festival (the other is Under Heat), Cap Tourmente is a striking and award-winning first feature from Montreal screenwriter Michel Langlois, who has previously collaborated with Lea Pool. For a gay audience, the main appeal may be Dupois's on-screen charisma (or "jeans ad posturing" as Variety cattily described it), but Cap Tourmente is also interesting for its seamless incorporation of homosexuality as one of many options for this seductive house of horrors. The plot of Cap Tourmente is not really the point; it’s about confrontations with the sexual undertow of family life. The performers bring the film to life. Besides Dupois's convincing irritating infantilism, Lachapelle is thrilling—in a Jeanne Moreauish way—as the world-weary mother. Moody and austere, maddening and moving, Cap Tourmente is a film which positively spins between the sententious and the subversive.

Director: Phenix, Massie
Year: 1993
Synopsis: Acclaimed at the 1994 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, Lucy Massie Phenix's Cancer in Two Voices addresses one of the most urgent and underrepresented health care issues facing women today. This deeply moving film documents the struggle and courage of a lesbian couple dealing with one partner's breast cancer. As an intimate home-movie journal, Cancer in Two Voices deals with their anger and grief, sexuality and friendship, and the painful process of confronting death.

Director: Gordon, Caz
Year: 1993
Synopsis: How queer can TV be? Look no further than Camp Christmas, a holiday special broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 TV. "What rhymes with Como but is never seen on TV at Christmas?" asks the press notes. Aiming to be a genuinely sincere gather-round-the-fireplace sort of thing, Camp Christmas actually ends up being a unique summit of queer talent. Melissa Etheridge and Andy Bell are hosts to a lineup that includes Armistead Maupin, Quentin Crisp, Pierrre et Gilles, Col. Margrethe Cammermeyer, Sir Ian McKellen, and Lea DeLaria (who gets to say the word "pussy" on primetime TV). One interesting footnote: The British press were so upset by the idea of Camp Christmas that they called upon church leaders to organize an advertiser boycott!

Directors: Rogacki, Sarah
Levine, Jessica
Year: 1993
Synopsis: Silver Sadie, DJ Superhero, fights bio-electric badguys in post-apocalyptic Brooklyn.

Director: Vesterskov, Knud
Year: 1993
Synopsis: A road movie with David Wojnarowicz guiding the viewer through the images of a rough and disturbed America. “David Wojnarowicz has caught the age-old voice of the road, the voice of the traveler, the outcast, the theif, the whore, the same voice that was heard in Villon’s Paris and the Rome of Petronius.” --William S. Burroughs

Director: Davidson, Paul
Year: 1993
Synopsis: Boys from Brazil is an amazing, moving, and in-depth diary of a small group of Rio drag queens and "travesties."

Director: Kidel, Mark
Year: 1993
Synopsis: Mark Kidel's portrait of Boy George is a hypnotic story of narcissism and neediness, drugs and drag. Boy Next Door covers nine years, from Culture Club's sudden success through George's rebirth as a solo celeb. Along the way, there's tons of amazing archive footage, some very queer fashions, a gripping interview with B.G.'s ex, Jon Moss, and a sign of salvation. Looking back on it all, a candid George concludes, "Being gay is my only saving grace."

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