NFB’s Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

One of the most acclaimed productions from the National Film Board of Canada’s legendary women’s studio and a landmark work of lesbian cinema, Aerlyn Weissman and Lynne Fernie’s Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives is being re-released in a new, remastered HD version.

Compelling, often hilarious and always rebellious, the women interviewed in Forbidden Love recount stories about their first loves and their search for the places where openly gay women gathered in the mid-20th century. Produced in 1992 by Studio D, the women’s studio of the NFB, Forbidden Love won the Genie Award for best feature documentary, the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film (Documentary) as well as the Public Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the Festival international de films de Femmes in Créteil, France.

Starting May 20, this award-winning feature documentary can be digitally purchased or rented,or ordered on DVD, at NFB.ca. The remastered version will also feature a new French subtitles option.

Following its online launch, the remastered Forbidden Love will debut on the big screen on May 25 at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, as part of the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival.

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