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FEATURE FILMS
It Comes in Waves
Fitch Jean
105 minutes
Canada
Ontario
Toronto Premiere
After tragedy strikes their family, Rwandan refugee Akai becomes the sole caretaker for his younger sister Zera. As mounting pressures threaten to tear them apart, Akai must navigate impossible choices to keep them together. A powerful story about family, resilience, and the lengths we'll go to protect those we love.
October 16, 2025
11:00 PM
Director:
Fitch Jean
Rising Through The Fray
Courtney Montour
88 minutes
Canada
Quebec
World Premiere
Set against the hard-hitting, fast-paced world of roller derby, Rising Through the Fray goes on an intimate and captivating journey with Indigenous Rising—the first team in roller derby history to break the barriers of representing a single country at the Roller Derby World Cup – a moment that ignited a change that pulsates throughout the sport and within each other.
October 18, 2025
3:00 PM
Director:
Courtney Montour
Circo
Lamia Chraibi
88 minutes
Canada
Quebec
Ontario Premiere
In Rio de Janeiro, Richard dreams of dazzling audiences in the world’s biggest circus tents. But when the 20-year-old artist is kicked out of his home by his adoptive mother, his life is turned upside down. His once-clear dream begins to drift out of focus, and he embarks on a lengthy quest to find his way.
October 18, 2025
5:30 PM
Director:
Lamia Chraibi
Foreigner
Ava Maria Safai
80 minutes
Canada
British Columbia
Ontario Premiere
Persian teen Yasamin Karimi is desperate to fit in at her new high school in 2004. When she dyes her hair blonde to blend in, she unknowingly unleashes a demon tied to the parts of herself she’s trying to erase. Blending horror with heart, Foreigner explores the terrifying cost of assimilation and the haunting power of identity denied.
October 18, 2025
8:00 PM
Director:
Ava Maria Safai
Have You Heard Judi Singh?
Baljit Sangra
79 minutes
Canada
British Columbia
Toronto Premiere
Originally from Edmonton, gifted jazz singer Judi Singh defied expectations as a Black-Punjabi artist in the late 1950s. Her ethereal voice captivated musicians and niche audiences, yet the industry failed to duly recognize her. Weaving together moments of brilliance, struggle, and resilience, Have You Heard Judi Singh? reintroduces a forgotten artist to the spotlight she always deserved.
October 18, 2025
10:30 PM
Director:
Baljit Sangra
A Tribe Called Love
Mohamed Ahmed
89 minutes
Canada
Ontario
World Premiere
A Tribe Called Love is a Romeo and Juliet story set in the Somali community of Toronto, in the style of Scott Pilgrim vs The World mashed with Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing. Farah and Halima are from different tribes, and traditional tribal conflicts drive their relationship towards inevitable catastrophe.
October 19, 2025
1:00 AM
Director:
Mohamed Ahmed
Treasure of the Rice Terraces
Kent Donguines
75 minutes
Canada/The Philippines
Ontario
Feeling his identity slipping away, Filipino-Canadian filmmaker Kent Donguines returns home to reclaim it. Travelling to Buscalan, a secluded mountain community, DOnguines learns about the history and symbolism of Kalinga tattoos—once banned under colonization and now a powerful symbol of pride and belonging—from the legendary artist, 107-year-old Apo Whang-od and her apprentices.
October 19, 2025
3:00 PM
Director:
Kent Donguines
In the Room
Brishkay Ahmed
76 minutes
Canada
British Columbia
Ontario Premiere
In the face of exile, five Afghan women’s commitment to freedom and equality empowers them to take the world stage and reclaim their homeland in Brishkay Ahmed’s documentary In the Room. Through a series of honest conversations, these extraordinary rebels reveal the deeply personal history of Afghanistan in all its complexity, beauty and struggle.
October 19, 2025
6:00 PM
Director:
Brishkay Ahmed
Montréal, Ma Belle
Xiaodan He
116 minutes
Canada
Quebec
Ontario Premiere
Feng Xia, a 53-year-old Chinese immigrant and mother living in Montreal, has spent her life shaped by duty — to her family, her culture, and a loveless marriage. But when she meets Camille, a spirited young Québécoise, a long-buried desire is awakened. Her awakening becomes a profound reckoning with identity, exile, and the steep cost of liberation.
October 19, 2025
8:30 PM
Director:
Xiaodan He
Designed By Preeti
Gayatri Everitt Bajpai
93 minutes
United States
British Columbia
Canadian Premiere
Designed by Preeti is a compelling and heartfelt romantic drama about Preeti Kumar, a resilient woman in her 50s who courageously escapes an oppressive and unfaithful marriage. Her journey towards independence is met with scorn from her conservative community as her daughter Mallika struggles to untangle the conflicting stories from her parents.
October 20, 2025
12:00 AM
Director:
Gayatri Everitt Bajpai
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