Queer Cinema Club
Queer Cinema Club is more than a film series: it’s a mission to bring Toronto’s LGBTQ folks together in celebration of some of the best queer cinema ever made. Every month at Paradise, curator and host Peter Knegt offers queers (and anyone who loves them) a queer film classic (or future classic), special guests and performers, and some good old fashioned drinks and conversation in the Paradise’s lobby bar. Each film is paired with a different local queer artist, who designs an original poster for the screening.
In addition to running Queer Cinema Club, Peter Knegt makes (mostly queer) content for the CBC, including hosting the Canadian Screen Award-winning talk series Here & Queer. He got his start as a writer and editor for the film magazine Indiewire, and has also made half a dozen short films and written the book About Canada: Queer Rights.
I Wish You All the Best: Toronto Theatrical Premiere
- Mon, Nov 3
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Tommy Dorfman Run Time: 92 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Corey Fogelmanis, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Alexandra Daddario, Cole Sprouse, Amy Landecker
All you have to do is be.
Desert Hearts: 40th Anniversary!
- Mon, Nov 10
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Donna Deitch Run Time: 91 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1985
Starring: Audra Lindley, Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Andra Akers, Gwen Welles
In 1959, Vivian Bell came to Reno, Nevada for a quick divorce. Of all the people she met there, the one who surprised her the most was herself.
Safe: 30th Anniversary!
- Wed, Nov 19
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Todd Haynes Run Time: 119 min. Release Year: 1995
Starring: Ronnie Farer, Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris, Julie Burgess
In the 21st century nobody will be… Safe.
Billy Elliot
- Wed, Dec 10
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Stephen Daldry Run Time: 110 min. Release Year: 2000
Starring: Gary Lewis, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven
Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it.