Toronto Queer Film Festival 2024

Toronto Queer Film Festival will feature several AIDS-related programs. All of the events below can be viewed online from March 14–April 14, 2024.

Tending and Tenderness: Care and Communion Between Pandemics

Thursday, March 14 | 5pm EST | 90 min. | ASL available.

In this roundtable, creatives and community workers share gestures and practices of personal and communal care in the face of multiple pandemics. With Beau Gomez, Lírio Nascimento, Beto Pérez, and Jorge Bordello.

Freedom From Everything

Thursday, March 14 | 9pm EST | 120 min.

Dir. Mike Hoolboom, Canada, 2022, 87 min.

Mike Hoolboom’s latest lyrical essay film links together the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics, exposing the violence of neoliberalism’s deification of individualism, entrepreneurial freedom, and personal responsibility.

Toronto Living With AIDS: Finding a Future in the Past

Saturday, March 16 | 2pm EST | 90 min.

Toronto Living With AIDS: Finding a Future in the Past is a roundtable/book launch for an edited volume on the community cable television series Toronto Living With AIDS (TLWA). With Ryan Conrad, Kaspar Jivan Saxena, Darien Taylor, and Ian Iqbal Rashid.

Fight AIDS, Not Arabs: Visions of Care and Collaboration from ACT UP New York to Gaza

Sunday, March 17 | 1pm EST | 120 min.

Over the last 30 years, LGBTQ+ activists have argued the United States should be spending its resources to “Fight AIDS, Not Arabs.” Speaking from lessons learned writing his book The Viral Underclass, Steven W. Thrasher will discuss how AIDS activism has taught him that a world without HIV, COVID, or m-pox is only possible in a world without war and policing.