Preconceived
Preconceived explores the pervasive presence of crisis pregnancy centers throughout the US, and their role in furthering the anti-abortion movement.
The Click Trap
The Click Trap exposes the dark side of online advertising: a lucrative
business with a human cost.
No Other Land
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.
Silent Trees
After her mom’s tragic death on the Polish-Belarusian border, 16-year-old Kurdish girl Runa has to become a mother for her 4 younger brothers. A partially animated coming-of-age story in the times of a global refugee crisis.
The Canadian Dream
The Canadian Dream: A poignant glimpse into the harsh realities of migrant farm workers in Canada through one worker’s journey and his daughter’s perspective
Red Fever (Opening Night Film)
Red Fever follows Cree co-director Neil Diamond on his journey to find out why the world is so fascinated with the stereotypical imagery of Native people that is all over pop culture.
Opening Night festivities begin at 6PM with a catered pre-show reception downstairs in Showplace’s Cogeco Studio. At 7PM on the main stage ReFrame and celebrated artist Alice Olsen Williams will officially open the 2025 festival. Following the screening of Red Fever, director Catherine Bainbridge and producer Ernest Webb, co-founders of Rezolution Pictures, will join audiences for a livestreamed Q&A. The evening will end with live musical performances by Missy Knott (Singing Wild Rice Girl) and James Mixemong.
My Dad’s Tapes
A trove of home video tapes spurs a filmmaker to investigate repressed parts of his past and come to terms with his own identity. A search for the cause of his father’s sudden suicide turns into a cathartic journey of reconnection and healing.
All Quiet on the Westlake
The film conveys the theme of “love” through the life story of a blind-deaf couple. Facing all kinds of dilemmas, the couple maintain each other between light and darkness.
Toy Hospital
In Edinburgh’s Toy Hospital, a “toy doctor” brings childhood memories back to life, restoring beloved, worn-out toys with care and dedication.
The Night Visitors
In large and small fragments, through a critical lens that is by turns social and personal, The Night Visitors closely examines moths as aesthetic beings and as carriers of meaning.