'Girls Lost' and 'Closet Monster' Are The Queer Coming-of-Age Films You Need To See at TIFF

Coming of age is always fraught with anxiety, but two queer films about teenagers, “Closet Monster” and “Girls Lost,” that had their World Premieres at the Toronto Film Festival, use fantasy elements to illuminate the uneasy transformation from innocence to adulthood. Both films grapple with sexual identity issues with surprising grace. "Closet Monster," the first feature written and directed by Stephen Dunn, opens with the birth of Oscar (Connor Jessup plays him as a teen) and the birth of a hamster, Buffy (Isabella Rossellini provides the voice). Oscar receives Buffy as a young boy at the exact moment his parents Peter (Aaron Abrams) and Brin (Joanne Kelly) announce that they...

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