A Toronto Queer Film Festival Feature Presentation: Labor

A #TQFF2024 Feature Presentation:⁠
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Dir. Tove Pils, USA, 2023, 95 min.⁠
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Sunday, March 17 | 7 PM⁠
In person screening at Tranzac Club⁠
😷MASKS ARE REQUIRED😷⁠
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Labor is a love letter from the current moment to a future that embraces queerness, community, and sex work. The film follows Hanna, who leaves her family behind to go to San Francisco, where she hopes to explore her sexuality. At a party, she meets Chloe, a professional dominatrix, and Cyd, a trans masculine escort, and they begin a decades long relationship that prioritizes working through conflict, connection, and desire against the backdrop of doing sex work. Through a mix of interviews, captured conversations, voice over narration, and abstract shots of the city, we see Hanna, Chloe, and Cyd and their relationships evolve over time and across international borders. ⁠
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Tove Pils is a student in the Masters program of film at Academy Valand. Tove has been working on a documentary about queer sex workers in San Francisco for many years and before they graduate they want to take the opportunity to show work from artists, sex workers, and filmmakers that have inspired or taught them things about sex work, as well as fragments from their own work. Tove has previously directed the short film PUSH ME.⁠
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This program is co- presented with Maggie's Toronto (@MaggiesToronto), SWAP (Sex Workers' Action Program) Hamilton (@SWAPHamilton), Exposures Montréal (@exposures.mtl), Workman Arts (@workmanartsto)⁠

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