Introduced via video by formerly local queer cinema scholar and AFS programmer Elizabeth Purchell, AFS’s Queer Cinema: Lost and Found series offers Winter Kept Us Warm, a 1965 Canadian queer romance set in the University of Toronto and based on filmmaker David Secter’s own experience of falling in love with a fellow student there. It’s widely considered the first queer film out of Canada, the first English-language Canadian film to play at Cannes, and has been cited as inspiration by the likes of David Cronenberg, Michael Ondaatje, and Philip Glass in a 2005 documentary about Secter’s work. As what’s left of Austin winter sputters on, let this sweet proof that queer love has always been around keep you warm. – Lina Fisher
