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I Like Girls (2016)

I Like Girls poster
Original title
J'aime les filles
Directed by
Diane Obomsawin
Genre
LGBTQ-related film
Country
Canada
Runtime
8 min
Rated
14A
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Animated animal characters share stories about their experiences of same-sex attraction. The film is based on a graphic novel and uses rotoscoping.

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What happens

I Like Girls (French: J'aime les filles) is a Canadian short animated film, directed by Diane Obomsawin and released in 2016. Based on Obomsawin's 2014 graphic novel On Loving Women, the film features anthropomorphic animal characters acting out stories of lesbian same-sex attraction. The animation technique was Rotoscoping. The film won the prize for Best Short Film at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2016. It was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards, and a nominee for Best Animated Short film at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards. It was submitted to the 2018 Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, but was not selected as a finalist. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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