MELISSA ETHERIDGE: I’M NOT BROKEN tells an inspiring story of healing and transcendence through the power of music. Director Amy Scott will be in attendance.

Like the perfect ending of a great film – that is the way filmmaker João describes the end of his 10-year relationship with Hugo. However, reentering the dating scene brought a whirlwind of emotions, revealing that reality can’t be controlled like a movie script. Director Daniel Ribiero will be in attendance.

Helen, in her late 30s, spends her nights packing chickens and her days caring for her dying mother-figure Gwen. Helen’s mundane world takes a surprising turn with Joanne’s unexpected return; they were the objects of the other’s secret teenage passions.

The popular Drag Me to the Movies series continues during the Twisted Arts Film Festival, featuring this classic film with a pre-show parody performance by local queens.

Since Thom and Henri met 35 years ago, their love has never faltered. But after Henri retired from the police force, his days became endlessly dull, and his feelings for Thom began to fade. As they confront the fractures in their relationship, both men must face the fear of losing each other or rediscover the deep bond that first brought them together.

Meet the Houston Herricanes, one of the pioneering teams in the first women’s full-tackle football league in the U.S. during the 1970s. Olivia Kuan tells the untold story of these trailblazing athletes, a story close to her heart as her mother was a Herricane.

Through never-before-heard phone conversations, beautiful rotoscope animated reenactments, the film is a portrait of Jackie Shane, the pioneering transgender singer who was a prominent figure in the Toronto music scene in the 1960s before virtually disappearing from public life after 1971.