Festival Archives Results

FILM DREAMING OF WORDS By Nandan, India     FeNjattyela Sreedharan, a fourth standard drop-out, compiles a dictionary connecting four major Dravidian languages. Traveling across four states and doing extensive research, he spent twenty five years making the multilingual dictionary. This unique dictionary offers a comparative study of Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. ‘Dreaming of […]

VISUAL ART AND OTHER ENCOUNTERS IN TRANSIT AT DENTONIA PARK On Saturday May 21st, join In Transit curator Mitra Fakhrashrafi with artist and activists Jessica Kirk, L. Akhter and Sarom Rho and curator for a day of workshops, dialogueand activities in Dentonia Park. HOW CAN WE LIVE: AN ARTIST TALK AND COMMUNITY DIALOGUE WITH JESSICA […]

FILM KÍMMAPIIYIPITSSINI: THE MEANING OF EMPATHY Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Canada   The urgent, astounding, much lauded new film by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers imbues the act of witnessing her community’s response to the opioid crisis with an ethic of empathy, love, and great care. Framed within the ongoing and historical impacts of settler colonialism in Blackfoot territory, this […]

” FILM Displaced Labour: Shorts Program   These films explore the ways that migration and forced displacement, on a global and local scale, shape our relationships to work and the communities that sustain us. Sunday May 15th, 3PM-5PM (Doors open 2:30PM) at Innis Town Hall. Registration required, RSVP here.     A Horse Has More […]

FILM COMPANY TOWN Peter Findlay, Canada     On the anniversary of General Motors’ 100th year of manufacturing vehicles in Oshawa, Canada, union workers are forced into a life-and-death fight to save their members’ jobs when the company announces it will be shuttering the plant at the end of the next year. This screening is […]