Film Festivals & External Screenings
Closet Monster
- Mon, Oct 13
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Stephen Dunn Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 2016
Starring: Aaron Abrams, Aliocha Schneider, Connor Jessup, Joanne Kelly, Sofia Banzhaf
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent...
Reelworld: Shorts Program- Grief
- Fri, Oct 17
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Run Time: 71 min.
Grief. The word carries weight. It feels all-encompassing and scary, forcing us to consider what kind of past...
Reelworld: Shorts Program- Entanglements
- Fri, Oct 17
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Run Time: 79 min.
These films examine the moments when boundaries blur, when personal choices ripple through larger systems, and when intimacy...
Reelworld: Shorts Program- Genre Fever
- Fri, Oct 17
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Run Time: 72 min.
Brace yourself for a cinematic rollercoaster so goddamn dangerous, it’ll blow your socks clean off—only for you to...
Reelworld: Shorts Program- Retrospective
- Fri, Oct 17
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Run Time: 95 min.
Reelworld has shaped the Canadian media landscape for a quarter century. As a pioneering screening platform dedicated to...
Reelworld: Rising Through the Fray
- Sat, Oct 18
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Courtney Montour Run Time: 88 min. Format: DCP
Set against the hard-hitting, fast-paced world of roller derby, Rising Through the Fray goes on an intimate and...
Reelworld: Circo
- Sat, Oct 18
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Lamia Chraibi Run Time: 88 min. Format: DCP
In Rio de Janeiro, Richard dreams of dazzling audiences in the world’s biggest circus tents. But when the...
Reelworld: Foreigner
- Sat, Oct 18
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Ava Maria Safai Run Time: 83 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Cassie Collis, Chloe Macleod, Rose Dehgan, Talisa Mae Stewart, Victoria Wardell
Set in 2004, Iranian immigrant Yasamin aka Yasi is the new girl at a Canadian school. Her high...
Reelworld: Have You Heard Judi Singh?
- Sat, Oct 18
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Baljit Sangra Run Time: 79 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Gifted jazz singer Judi Singh defied expectations as a Punjabi-Black artist stepping onto the stage in the late...
Reelworld: A Tribe Called Love
- Sat, Oct 18
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Mohamed Ahmed Run Time: 89 min. Format: DCP
A Tribe Called Love is a Romeo and Juliet story set in the Somali community of Toronto, in...
Reelworld: Treasure of the Rice Terraces
- Sun, Oct 19
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Kent Donguines Run Time: 75 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Apo Whang-od, Grace Palicas, Kent Donguines, Kim Atienza, Lars Krutak
Filipino Canadian filmmaker Kent Donguines travels back to the Philippines to reconnect with his roots. In a nation...
Reelworld: In the Room
- Sun, Oct 19
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Brishkay Ahmed Run Time: 76 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Mozhdah Jamalzadah, Nelofer Pazira, Sahar Parniyan, Shogofa Sediqi, Vida Samadzai
Their voice. Our fight.
Reelworld: Montreal, My Beautiful
- Sun, Oct 19
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Xiaodan He Run Time: 117 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: Charlotte Aubin, Isabelle Miquelon, Jean-Guy Bouchard, Joan Chen, Pei Yao Xu
Feng Xia (52), a Chinese immigrant, lives in Montreal with her husband and their children. The couple is...
Reelworld: Designed by Preeti
- Sun, Oct 19
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Gayatri Bajpai Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP
Starring: Anna Khaja, Frank Lawson, Jay Charan, Rashmi Rustagi, Shavya Samala
When the old life no longer fits
Planet in Focus: Nechako: It Will Be A Big River Again
- Tue, Oct 21
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Director: Lyana Patrick Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
A documentary that tells the story of the Nechako River in British Columbia and the evolution of its...
Planet in Focus: Climate in Therapy
- Wed, Oct 22
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Nathan Grossman Run Time: 64 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Seven climate scientists meet in a godforsaken meeting room to engage in circle therapy about their shared climate...
Planet in Focus: The End of the Internet
- Wed, Oct 22
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Dylan Reibling Run Time: 87 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Disrupt. Dismantle. Decentralize.
Planet in Focus: Ways to Traverse a Territory
- Thu, Oct 23
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba Run Time: 73 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Spanish
Starring: Angelina Pérez Hernández, Doña Sebastiana Hernández, Margarita Pérez Hernández, Maribel Pérez Hernández, Rosalinda Pérez Hernández
¿Pertenecemos a un lugar o un lugar nos pertenece?
Planet in Focus: Been Here Stay Here
- Thu, Oct 23
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: David Usui Run Time: 86 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
For generations, fishermen have made their home on Tangier Island, in the heart of the Chesapeake Bay on...
Planet in Focus: Your Higher Self
- Fri, Oct 24
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Annie St-Pierre Run Time: 80 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Part sympathetic portrait and part exposé of the absurd, Your Higher Self dives into the world of life...
Planet in Focus: The Last Dive
- Fri, Oct 24
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Cody Sheehy Run Time: 88 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Dawn Wilson, Joyce Clinton, Mike McGettigan, Robert Rubin, Terry Kennedy
How far would you go for a friend?
Planet in Focus: The Family Day
- Sat, Oct 25
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Run Time: 45 min.
Join us for a the free Family Day including an international shorts programme and a continental breakfast. Doors...
Planet in Focus: Snow Leopard Sisters
- Sat, Oct 25
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Andrew Lynch, Ben Ayers, Sonam Choekyi Lama Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
In Nepal’s remote Dolpo region, two Indigenous women form an unlikely friendship to save one of the planet’s...
Planet in Focus: Everest Dark
- Sat, Oct 25
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Jereme Watt Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Pem Futi Sherpa
The mountain is angry.
Planet in Focus: Canadian Shorts Programme
- Sat, Oct 25
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Run Time: 93 min.
This program brings four internationally acclaimed films from four different Canadian directors to Toronto audiences for the first...
Planet in Focus: Gaza Sound Man
- Sun, Oct 26
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Hosam Abu Dan Run Time: 44 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Arabic
Starring: Mohammad Yaghi
Sound engineer Mohamed Yaghi works tirelessly to record sounds in the Gaza Strip, leading an auditory journey through...
Planet in Focus: YANUNI + Closing Night & Awards
- Sun, Oct 26
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Richard Ladkani Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Hugo Loss, Juma Xipaia
Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia fights to protect tribal lands despite assassination attempts. Her struggle intensifies after learning she’s...
THE HANDSOME NED STORY: YOU LEFT ME BLUE
- Sat, Jan 10
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Run Time: 120 min.
Handsome Ned (June 4, 1957 – January 10, 1987) was a Canadian country singer and songwriter. Although he only released...