VIRTUAL FILM & EVENT GUIDE
These selected films are now available to watch on demand in our Virtual Theatre until February 2.
- Mette Carla Albrechtsen
- Denmark
- 2024
- 80 mins
- Sun Jan 26
- 10:00 AM
- Market Hall
- Pre-recorded interview with Mette Carla Albrechtsen
In colorful, sunkissed postcards, A Place in The Sun invites you to join the wonderful and melancholic backstage world of a classic Charter holiday.
- Presenting Partner(s): La Mesita Restaurante
- Arabic, Danish, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
- Quirky
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Wei Zishuo
- China
- 2024
- 15 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 10:00 AM
- Market Hall
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.
- Presenting Partner(s): Council for Persons with Disabilities
- Janet Harbord
- United Kingdom
- 2023
- 18 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 10:00 AM
- Market Hall
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.
- Presenting Partner(s): Trent Valley Archives
- English
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Alisi Telengut
- Canada
- 2023
- 9 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 2:15 PM
- Market Hall
The formation of Lake Baikal is reimagined with the voice of the Indigenous Buryat language.
- Presenting Partner(s): Kawartha Land Trust (KLT), Camp Kawartha
- Mongolian
- Visually Striking
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Sarah Grant
- United Kingdom
- 2023
- 14 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 7:30 PM
- Market Hall
- Performance by Dreda Blow
Exploring the joy of dance in pop culture, reimagined through fatness.
- Presenting Partner(s): Public Energy Performing Arts
- English
- Inspiring
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Marta Smerechynska
- Hungary
- 2024
- 14 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 12:00 PM
- Market Hall
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:)
- Presenting Partner(s): Amnesty International Peterborough
- English, Ukrainian
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Kristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin
- Germany
- 2024
- 87 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 2:15 PM
- Market Hall
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.
- Presenting Partner(s): Trent Centre for Aging and Society
- Albanian, English
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Conor DeVries
- Canada
- 2023
- 29 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 5:00 PM
- Market Hall
- Panel with Conor DeVries and Mike Henry
- Presenting Partner(s): Peterborough Bicycle Advisory Committee (P-BAC), B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop
- English
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Robyn Adams
- Canada
- 2024
- 3 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 2:15 PM
- Market Hall
A short film highlighting Indigenous beadwork, prairie landscapes and relationship to the land.
- Presenting Partner(s): Kawartha Land Trust (KLT), OPIRG Peterborough
- English
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Kurtis Watson
- Canada
- 2024
- 82 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 12:00 PM
- Market Hall
- Q&A with Kurtis Watson, Rob Viscardis and Janet Watson
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.
- Presenting Partner(s): CCRC, B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop
- English
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Patricia Franquesa
- Spain
- 2024
- 64 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 10:00 AM
- Showplace
Trapped in a digital blackmail labyrinth after her computer is stolen, director Pati documents the real-time persecution as a way of survival.
- Presenting Partner(s): foxpress.design
- Spanish
- Visually Striking
- Virtual / Hybrid (Ontario only)
- Katja Esson
- United States
- 2023
- 86 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 7:30 PM
- Showplace
- Livestreamed Q&A with Katja Esson and Valencia Gunder
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.
- Presenting Partner(s): The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Community Race Relations Committee of Peterborough
- English
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Panu Suuronen
- Finland
- 2024
- 83 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 5:00 PM
- Market Hall
- Presenting Partner(s): 4th Line Theatre
- English, Finnish
- Quirky
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Agnieszka Zwiefka
- Poland
- 2024
- 84 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 12:00 PM
- Market Hall
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.
- Presenting Partner(s): Amnesty International Peterborough
- Polish
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Tasha Hubbard
- Canada
- 2024
- 98 mins
- Sun Jan 26
- 12:00 PM
- Showplace
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.
- Presenting Partner(s): TRACKS Youth Program, Unitarian Fellowship of Peterborough
- English
- Uplifting
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Hanna Hovitie
- Finland
- 2023
- 17 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 12:00 PM
- Showplace
A little round film about how to be a circle in a world of squares.
- Presenting Partner(s): Camp Kawartha, Artspace
- Finnish
- Visually Striking
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Jalena Keane-Lee
- United States
- 2023
- 82 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 2:15 PM
- Market Hall
- Pre-recorded interview with Jalena Keane-Lee and Pua Case
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.
- Presenting Partner(s): KWIC, Kawartha Land Trust (KLT)
- English, Hawaiian
- Inspiring
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Nick van der Graaf
- Canada
- 2024
- 15 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 5:00 PM
- Market Hall
- Panel with Nick van der Graaf
The tale of an Ontario folk song, and the truth it still tells.
- Presenting Partner(s): Trent Valley Archives
- English
- Quirky
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Ilse Moreno
- Canada
- 2024
- 9 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 10:00 AM
- Market Hall
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
- Presenting Partner(s): Peterborough Federal NDP, La Mesita Restaurante
- Spanish
- Inspiring
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Peter Porta
- Spain
- 2024
- 90 mins
- Sun Jan 26
- 3:00 PM
- Market Hall
The Click Trap exposes the dark side of online advertising: a lucrative
business with a human cost.
- Presenting Partner(s): We Vote CBC - Peterborough, foxpress.design
- English, French
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Pamela Hogan
- United States
- 2024
- 71 mins
- Sun Jan 26
- 3:00 PM
- Showplace
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.”
- Presenting Partner(s): OPSEU Local 352 - Fleming Faculty Union
- Uplifting
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Dan Habib, Samuel Habib
- United States
- 2023
- 96 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 7:30 PM
- Market Hall
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?
- Presenting Partner(s): Council for Persons with Disabilities
- English
- Uplifting
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Anne-Marie Jackson
- Canada
- 2023
- 35 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 5:00 PM
- Market Hall
- Panel with Anne-Marie Jackson, Cathy Dueck, Jacob Rodenburg, Nancy Thomson
The Wild Path Home is a Nogojiwanong / Peterborough-based initiative to raise caring, connected kids through outdoor learning and community.
- Presenting Partner(s): Camp Kawartha, Peterborough Bicycle Advisory Committee (P-BAC), Compass Early Learning and Care, Youth Leadership in Sustainability
- English
- Uplifting
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Diego Rotmistrovsky
- Argentina
- 2024
- 4 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 5:00 PM
- Showplace
In Edinburgh’s Toy Hospital, a "toy doctor" brings childhood memories back to life, restoring beloved, worn-out toys with care and dedication.
- Presenting Partner(s): Watson & Lou
- English
- Quirky
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Josiane Blanc
- Canada
- 2024
- 52 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 10:00 AM
- Showplace
- Q&A with Josiane Blanc and Joze Piranian
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.
- Presenting Partner(s): Council for Persons with Disabilities
- Inspiring
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
- Jasmine Liaw
- Canada
- 2023
- 8 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 10:00 AM
- Market Hall
- Presenting Partner(s): New Canadians Centre
- English
- Visually Striking
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
Virtual Events & Workshops
- Fri Jan 24
- 5:00 PM
- ReFrame Virtual Theatre
- Sat Jan 25
- 4:45 PM
- ReFrame Virtual Theatre
- Wed Jan 29
- 7:00 PM
- ReFrame Virtual Theatre
- Thu Jan 30
- 1:00 PM
- Artspace / ReFrame Virtual Theatre