Fri, February 6 - 1pm
dir. Lesley Loksi Chan
In her Golden Bear–winning short documentary, Lesley Loksi Chan brilliantly repurposes the footage of Lloyd Wong’s long-lost video project that traces the late Chinese Canadian artist’s intimate struggle to bring awareness and demystify the challenges of living with AIDS.
dir. Will Niava
In Will Niava’s masterfully orchestrated jazz ride, Koffi, son of a legendary trumpet player, must confront the weight of his father’s legacy and leave the ghosts of Ivory Coast behind.
Official Selection, TIFF ’25
dirs. Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, the team behind the Oscar-nominated Madame Tutli-Putli, return with a lavish period stop-motion animation doubling as a timely cautionary tale about greed and susceptibility.
Official Selection, TIFF ’25
Winner, Best Canadian Short Film Award, TIFF ’25
dir. Heather Young
A tenant in seniors’ housing is forced to make a heartbreaking decision after she lends money to someone who disappears, revealing the isolation and fragile security experienced by those living on the margins of society in Heather Young’s deeply affecting drama.
Official Selection, TIFF ’25
dir. Caroline Monnet
Transcending time, space, form, and genre, Caroline Monnet’s Pidikwe is a spellbinding celebration of the ancestral feminine and its cultural multiverse, featuring an electric fusion of Indigenous and contemporary dances.
Sat, February 7 - 1pm
dir. Martin Edralin
For the chosen families of Xochimilco, Mexico, stewardship of Baby Jesus icons is more than just tradition. Martin Edralin’s vibrant snapshot of a community absorbed in the annual handover ceremony captures complex emotions and deeper socio-cultural implications of this all-important custom.
dir. Solara Thanh Bình Đặng
Earthly and spiritual guides are a young Vietnamese woman’s allies as she decides whether to enter an arranged marriage in Solara Thanh Bình Đặng’s ethereal drama steeped in sensual rhythms of the land.
Official Selection, TIFF ’25
dir. Shervin Kermani
For Ramón, a sensitive sound recordist and subject of Shervin Kermani’s delightful mockumentary, making sure that the ghosts of La Palma island are given a voice is a life’s purpose.
Official Selection, TIFF ’25
dir. Gavin Baird
Body horror meets prairie gothic in Gavin Baird’s mind-blowing period sci-fi that flips the script on colonization as an alien in the form of an Indigenous man infiltrates a remote Saskatchewan community and seduces its members one by one.
Official Selection, TIFF ’25
dir. Yassmina Karajah
Sounds of bustling nightlife, crowded markets, and techno parties fill the air as the lives of two unlikely strangers intersect in Yassmina Karajah’s lyrical and dreamy love letter to the pulsing, vibrant, and deeply charming city of Amman.
Official Selection, TIFF ’25