VIRTUAL FILM & EVENT GUIDE

These selected films will be available to watch on demand in our Virtual Theatre from January 27 to February 2

A Place in The Sun

Mette Carla Albrechtsen 
Denmark
2024
80 mins

Sun Jan 26
10:00 AM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

In colorful, sunkissed postcards, A Place in The Sun invites you to join the wonderful and melancholic backstage world of a classic Charter holiday.

Arabic, Danish, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
Virtual / Hybrid Available

All Quiet on the Westlake

Wei Zishuo
China
2024
15 mins

Sat Jan 25
10:00 AM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

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.

Virtual / Hybrid Available

Autism Plays Itself

Janet Harbord
United Kingdom
2023
18 mins

Sat Jan 25
10:00 AM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

A film shot in 1957 in at the Maudsley Hospital, London, captures the movements and behaviour of children under observation for atypical behaviour. In the present day, three autistic respondents watch the footage, bringing new and insightful interpretations of the children’s behaviour as they explore the sparse environment of the clinic. Through speculation and identification, with wit and audacity, the responses forge a new soundtrack from an autistic point of view. As the film evolves, it takes on the rhythms and repetitions of the children’s activities, becoming a playful homage to the body language of autism.

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal

Alisi Telengut
Canada
2023
9 mins

Fri Jan 24
2:15 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

The formation of Lake Baikal is reimagined with the voice of the Indigenous Buryat language.

Mongolian
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Big Moves

Sarah Grant
United Kingdom
2023
14 mins

Sat Jan 25
7:30 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

Exploring the joy of dance in pop culture, reimagined through fatness.

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Home is 1117 km away

Marta Smerechynska
Hungary
2024
14 mins

Fri Jan 24
12:00 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

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:)

English, Ukrainian
Virtual / Hybrid Available

House with a Voice

Kristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin
Germany
2024
87 mins

Sat Jan 25
2:15 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

House with a Voice is about six women in a patriarchal society, about six different life stories and one mutual decision: giving up femininity and living as men to gain a voice, to experience personal freedom and to fight for equality. To be a real Burrnesha.

Albanian, English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Logging Algonquin

Conor DeVries
Canada
2023
29 mins

Fri Jan 24
5:00 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Michif Land-Based Knowledge

Robyn Adams
Canada
2024
3 mins

Fri Jan 24
2:15 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

A short film highlighting Indigenous beadwork, prairie landscapes and relationship to the land.

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

My Dad’s Tapes

Kurtis Watson
Canada
2024
82 mins

Sat Jan 25
12:00 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

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.

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

My Sextortion Diary

Patricia Franquesa
Spain
2024
64 mins

Sat Jan 25
10:00 AM
Showplace

Virtual / Hybrid (Ontario only)

Trapped in a digital blackmail labyrinth after her computer is
stolen, director Pati documents the real-time persecution as a
way of survival.

Spanish
Virtual / Hybrid (Ontario only)

Razing Liberty Square

Katja Esson
United States
2023
86 mins

Sat Jan 25
7:30 PM
Showplace

Virtual / Hybrid Available

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.

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Regina – Queen of the Ring

Panu Suuronen
Finland
2024
83 mins

Sat Jan 25
5:00 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

English, Finnish
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Silent Trees

Agnieszka Zwiefka
Poland
2024
84 mins

Fri Jan 24
12:00 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

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.

Polish
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Singing Back the Buffalo

Tasha Hubbard
Canada
2024
98 mins

Sun Jan 26
12:00 PM
Showplace

Virtual / Hybrid Available

Richly visualised and deeply uplifting, Singing Back the Buffalo is an epic reimagining of North America through the lens of buffalo consciousness and a potent dream of what is within our grasp.

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Square the Circle

Hanna Hovitie
Finland
2023
17 mins

Sat Jan 25
12:00 PM
Showplace

Virtual / Hybrid Available

A little round film about how to be a circle in a world of squares.

Finnish
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Standing Above the Clouds

Jalena Keane-Lee
United States
2023
82 mins

Fri Jan 24
2:15 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

When the massive Thirty Meter Telescope is proposed to be built on Mauna Kea, an uprising of kiaʻi (protectors) in Hawaiʻi and around the world dedicate their lives to protecting the sacred mountain from destruction. Through the lens of mothers and daughters in three Native Hawaiian families, Standing Above the Clouds explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of safeguarding cultural traditions.

English, Hawaiian
Virtual / Hybrid Available

The Backwoodsman

Nick van der Graaf
Canada
2024
15 mins

Fri Jan 24
5:00 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

The tale of an Ontario folk song, and the truth it still tells.

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

The Canadian Dream

Ilse Moreno
Canada
2024
9 mins

Sat Jan 25
10:00 AM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

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

Spanish
Virtual / Hybrid Available

The Click Trap

Peter Porta
Spain
2024
90 mins

Sun Jan 26
3:00 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

The Click Trap exposes the dark side of online advertising: a lucrative
business with a human cost.

English, French
Virtual / Hybrid Available

The Day Iceland Stood Still

Pamela Hogan
United States
2024
71 mins

Sun Jan 26
3:00 PM
Showplace

Virtual / Hybrid Available

When 90% of the women of Iceland walked off the job and out of their homes one fall morning in 1975 refusing to work, cook, or take care of the children, they brought their country to a standstill and catapulted Iceland to the “best place in the world to be a woman.”

Virtual / Hybrid Available

The Ride Ahead

Dan Habib, Samuel Habib
United States
2023
96 mins

Fri Jan 24
7:30 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

Samuel Habib is a typical 21-year-old, itching to move out, start a career, and find love. But no one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability. Can a community of disability activists help him follow his dreams?

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

The Wild Path Home

Anne-Marie Jackson
Canada
2023
35 mins

Fri Jan 24
5:00 PM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

The Wild Path Home is a Nogojiwanong / Peterborough-based initiative to raise caring, connected kids through outdoor learning and community.

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Toy Hospital

Diego Rotmistrovsky
Argentina
2024
4 mins

Fri Jan 24
5:00 PM
Showplace

Virtual / Hybrid Available

In Edinburgh’s Toy Hospital, a "toy doctor" brings childhood memories back to life, restoring beloved, worn-out toys with care and dedication.

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Words Left Unspoken

Josiane Blanc
Canada
2024
52 mins

Fri Jan 24
10:00 AM
Showplace

Virtual / Hybrid Available

After avoiding speaking at all costs for over two decades, Joze Piranian, who has a severe stutter, decides to confront his fears, by travelling back to his home country, Lebanon, and holding the conversations he never dared to have before with his family. He hopes to finally make peace with his stutter and become the man he’s always wanted himself to be.

Virtual / Hybrid Available

xīn nī 廖芯妮

Jasmine Liaw
Canada
2023
8 mins

Sat Jan 25
10:00 AM
Market Hall

Virtual / Hybrid Available

English
Virtual / Hybrid Available

Virtual Events & Workshops

INSTALLATION: Imagine: The City We Want

Downtown Peterborough

In connection with Nogojiwanong/Peterborough’s current Climate Action Plan update, Kawartha Pine Ridge’s Youth Leadership in Sustainability (YLS) class has created a series of 2 minute video vignettes describing the fabulous city they live in, in 2044. These videos are available via QR code in several downtown locations leading up to and during the festival: Art Gallery of Peterborough, Artspace, GreenUP, Market Hall, Peterborough Public Library and Showplace. Encounter these acts of civic imagination and see how 20 years of ambitious and creative action by the city, initiated by the progressive Plan update work of 2024, have created an attractive and livable city that has embraced climate justice.

These films will also be available online from Jan 29th-February 4th

WORKSHOP: Period Poverty & Advocacy

Tue Jan 30
7:00 PM
Virtual Theatre

Periods are political! Learn how you can be an advocate for menstrual equity.

At The Period Purse, we believe in educating all ages and all genders in order to reduce the stigma around periods. Join this inclusive, period-positive presentations delivered virtually by trained facilitators for adults, Grade 12 and above.

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