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Lilies, an extravagantly mannered revenge fantasy, opens in a men's prison in Northern Quebec in 1952. A certain Bishop Bilodeau (Marcel Sabourin) is lured into hearing the confession of a dying prisoner, Simon Doucet (Aubert Pallascio), only to be held captive by the gay contingent of the prison and forced to watch their re-enactment of a play. This play, however, soon turns into the story of a lethal gay triangle set in a Catholic boy's school 40 years earlier, involving an 18-year-old Bilodeau (Matthew Ferguson), Simon (Jason Cadieux) and doomed third party Vallier (Danny Gilmore). As the prison walls melt away, the richly imagined land of Roberval reveals a shimmering tale of lost love between two young men.

Canadian film-maker John Greyson (Zero Patience, Uncut) returns to the New Queer Cinema with a piece full of romantic aspirations. It won him four Genie Awards (Canadian Oscar) in 1996, as well as the top prizes at the San Francisco and LA gay film festivals. Lilies, adapted from the play Les Feluettes by Michael Marc Bouchard, is both a rich, exotic visual journey and a tense drama of tangled emotions and savage repercussions.

"A gorgeous historical fantasia" - San Francisco Bay Guardian