Joseph’s 2064 Screens At Vancouver Queer Film Festival

'The 33rd annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), taking place virtually this summer, presented online in a video-on-demand (VOD) format, with a few small in-person events. Most films will be available throughout the 11-day celebration, with all content available to stream across British Columbia.

VQFF 2021, with the support of presenting sponsor RBC, features six Spotlight Programs, eight Special Presentations, sixteen Feature Films, seven Short Film Programs, and several Workshops and Industry Panels – including a Queer Film 101 primer, a presentation from VQFF’s sibling program Out In Schools, and panels addressing a range of topics from representation to food to politics.

Curated by Artistic Director Anoushka Ratnarajah and Festival Programmer Nya Lewis, the theme of this year’s Festival is ‘Longing’, and many films touch upon the most urgent social and political issues affecting queer, trans and Two-Spirit people around the world, as well as universal themes of love, loss, and legacy.

“One of the greatest challenges facing the work of VQFF and the filmmakers we love is the rise of discriminatory ideologies and policies wielded against our communities around the world, and the toll that violence takes on our spirits,” says Ratnarajah. “Artists are responding to crisis in the best ways they know how: by sharing our stories, and speaking their truths.”'