Hot Docs opening film: Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance
Throughout its 96-minute running time, Noam Gonick’s feature doc touches on everything from the persecution and marginalisation of gays and lesbians in the Canada of the 1950s and 1960s to Black Lives Matter and the emergence of the “two spirit” movement among gay Indigenous communities. Featuring a treasure trove of archival material, the film also “takes advantage in a gracious way” of Canada’s rich history of activist filmmaking, the director tells BDE. “We wanted to get their material back out there on screen.”
