Stephanie Morgenstern

This feature documentary delves into the rich history of Canadian queer women’s experiences in the mid-20th century. Contemporary interviews, archival footage, and a stylized fictional narrative based on the pulp novels of the 1950s are woven throughout this simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and empowering film. Forbidden Love brings an important and empowering history of lesbian sexuality in Canada out of the closet.

A young woman thinks she may have killed her lover's father while driving drunk and tries to hide her terrible secret.