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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.

Here and There

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.

A Home on Every Floor

A poet uses her voice to excavate the lost home of her childhood.

Grandpa Rolf

What would my dead nazi grandpa say about Gaza today?

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.

Agent of Happiness

Amber, a happiness agent, travels the Bhutanese Himalayas surveying people’s happiness. On his remote mountain journey, he searches for fulfillment.

Home is 1117 km away

It’s Maria from Kyiv. Seeking a female roommate in downtown Budapest! Cozy apartment, shared bathroom, close to amenities. Rent: 400€ + bills. Drop by to check out:)

Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr

Dis-Ease

An archival documentary about the real consequences of how we imagine disease.

Razing Liberty Square

Miami is ground-zero for sea-level-rise. When residents of the historic Liberty Square public housing project learn about a $300 million revitalization plan for their neighborhood, which has long suffered from disinvestment, they know that this sudden interest comes from the fact that their neighborhood is located on the highest-and-driest ground in the city. Now they must prepare to fight a new form of racial injustice – Climate Gentrification.