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AWARDS 2008
Diversity Award	Best Feature Film
	BREAKFAST WITH SCOT
	Eric lives for all things hockey. Now in his thirties, he’s managed to turn his stint as an ex-Toronto Maple Leaf into a full-time gig as a sports TV commentator. He’s living the dream ! But when Eric’s boyfriend Sam announces that they are to become temporary guardians of a young boy, Scot, Eric’s comfortable world shatters.
Doc-LGTIB Award	Best Documentary
	FAIRYTALE OF KATHMANDU
	Neasa follows her idol, a celebrated gay Irish poet, on one of his annual trips to Nepal; a country the poet calls his spiritual home. In Kathmandu he is awaited by his adopted spiritual son. The poet, it turns out, has many young male friends in Kathmandu, where he is well known as a benefactor : he pays for schoolbooks, bicycles and even houses. Unable to believe the allegations about the poet she idolized, the filmmaker is forced to enter the action and confront him.
Curt-LGTIB Award	Best Short Film
	BRAEDRABYLTA
	Denni is a tunnel-maker and Einar is a farmer in rural Iceland. They both practise Icelandic wrestling, which allows them to escape their daily routine and to express their true selves.
Audience Award	Best Feature Film
	MÁS QUE UN HOMBRE
	Argentina, 1977. During the military dictatorship, Telmo, a homosexual dressmaker that lives with his mother, shelters a young guerrilla member being chased by the military. The neighbourhood will be besieged by a brigade that refuses to go anywhere unless they find the deserter. In order to evade the military, Telmo and the young guerrilla are forced to pretend they are a couple.
Audience Award	Best Documentary
	DAS ANDERE ISTANBUL
	This documentary offers never-before-seen insight into he diversity of the gay experience in Turkey and the difficulties of homosexual self-discovery in a predominately homophobic society where other sexual orientations are hidden, repressed, or met with hostility. Mehmet was arrested and imprisoned for eleven months because he refused to become an agent of the military machine that is running Turkey today.
Audience Award	Best Short Film
	BROTHERLY
	Paul is being asked by an interviewer to tell a story he’s never been able to tell before: when he was ten years old, he and his brother began having sex. And how it continued for two years until his brother went away to college. Paul, now a gay man in his 40’s, is finally ready to talk about his brother and his experience. This film is based on the true story of two brothers in the 1970’s who grew up in an incestuous relationship.
SPECIAL MENTIONS
Diversity Award Jury	BUTCH JAMIE
	Butch Jamie is a quirky comedy about an out-of-work butch lesbian actress willing to try almost anything for a role. Dressing up femme for auditions, struggling actress Jamie Klein continually faces rejection as she fails to be a typical leading lady.
Diversity Award Jury	DEVOTEE
	Devotee is the story of Hervé, an assertive 43-year-old man who was born without arms and legs. He meets a gorgeous young man online, a devotee (devoteeism -or acrotomophilia- is the sexual attraction to people with amputations) who seems like he might be different. Their encounters prove Hervé’s difficulty in finding a true connection with someone who is interested in treating him like a person rather than a mere fetish.
Doc-LGTIB Award Jury	SILHOUETTE
	“My film is about transsexual desires. In this case men change to women and women to men and it is in the word. This case is not acceptable in Iran, and is something strange because of this, they often are criminals, some times they are misused.” Shahriar Pourseyedian
Curt-LGTIB Award Jury	BROTHERLY
	Paul is being asked by an interviewer to tell a story he’s never been able to tell before: when he was ten years old, he and his brother began having sex. And how it continued for two years until his brother went away to college. Paul, now a gay man in his 40’s, is finally ready to talk about his brother and his experience. This film is based on the true story of two brothers in the 1970’s who grew up in an incestuous relationship.
SPOT 2008