Filtering by: Community Building
GUELPH | CANADA | USA
79 min
In partnership with Wellington Water Watchers and Water Docs Where-You-Live
A series of entertaining and engaging short films about water and how it impacts our lives as human beings on planet earth.
To the Orcas, With Love by Natalie Lucier | CANADA | 56 min
Onward Ever by Brandon Walsh | USA | 16 min
The Ripple Effects Everything by Jean Little P.S. | GUELPH | 7 min
Buy Tickets
View Event →
WORLD PREMIER
David Curtis | CANADA
91 min
Supported by the Central Student Association
At the far-flung edge of Canada’s boreal forest, outside the tiny sub-Arctic town of Dawson City, Yukon, a handful of unlikely farmers are growing everything from snow-covered Brussels sprouts to apples. These modern-day agrarians have carved out small patches of fertile soil in an otherwise unforgiving expanse of isolated wilderness to make a living and a life.
Buy Tickets
View Event →
Phillip Pike | CANADA
102 min
Supported by Guelph Black Heritage Society
No, the revolution wasn’t televised. But it was hugged, chanted, marched, and danced into existence. Our Dance of Revolution tells the story of how Black queer folks in Toronto faced every adversity, from invisibility to police brutality, and over a four-decade span rose up to become a vibrant, triple-snap-fierce community.
Buy Tickets
View Event →
CANADA | AUSTRALIA | TURKEY | USA
95 min | Partial Subtitles
This series of short docs explores our connections to the land and how we create community.
Life in the City of Dirty Water by Clayton Thomas-Müller & Spencer Mann | CANADA | 20 min
A Few Acres at a Time (ONTARIO PREMIER) by Will Sardinsky | USA | 7 min
Providence by Erin MacIndoe Sproule | GUELPH | 15 min
Rising Puppets of The Limitless Sky (CANADIAN PREMIER) by Anıl Tour | TURKEY | 13 min
Pilliga Rising (CANADIAN PREMIER) by Mark Pearce | AUSTRALIA | 40 min
Buy Tickets
View Event →
Megan Weinberg | CAN
80 min
Jason (aka Suzanbee Anthony), Nemis (aka Queen Lactatia), Bracken (House of Gvasalia), and Stephan (aka Laddy GaGa) are four kids from around the world chasing the friendship and the freedom to be themselves through the art of drag in this beautiful, daring, and intimate portrayal of their challenges and triumphs as they prepare to perform at the big show, Montreal Pride Festival.
Buy Tickets
View Event →
Nance Ackerman ⋅ Ariella Pahlke ⋅ Teresa MacInnes I CANADA 78 min
In Partnership with OPIRG
Not another “broken prison” film, this collaboration is a “broken society” film—an ambitious and inspired rebuild of our community from the inside out. By exploring alternatives to prison through the eyes of women behind bars and empowering them to reimagine their lives through artistic practices, the film compels viewers to examine why we imprison the most vulnerable among us, and at what cost.
Buy Tickets
View Event →
A virtual reality experience & a series of short films played on a loop for the duration of the Guelph Film Festival in small unique venues.
Biidaaban: First Light (VR EXPERIENCE) by Lisa Jackson, Mathew Borrett, Jam3 | CANADA | 10 min
Lake by Alexandra Lagarowich | CANADA | 5 min
Love Letters from Everest by Celeste Koon | CANADA | 7 min
RUNS FROM NOV 1-9 DURING LOCATION BUSINESS HOURS
View Event →