Juliana Curi | BRAZIL
72 min | Full Subtitles
Supported by OPIRG
Uýra, a trans-indigenous artist travels through the Amazon forest on a journey of self-discovery using performance art and ancestral messages to teach indigenous youth and confront structural racism and transphobia in Brazil.
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Shalini Kantayya | USA
91 min | Full Captions
TikTok is one of the most influential platforms of the contemporary social media landscape. Exploring the algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural impacts of this history-making app, TikTok, Boom. balances a genuine interest in the community and its innovative mechanics with a healthy skepticism around the security issues, global political challenges, and racial biases behind the platform.
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Elsbeth Fraanje | NETHERLANDS
55 min ⋅ Full Subtitles
Co-presented by Good For Her
In partnership with Disability After Dark
Evelien, a middle aged woman, spastic from birth, yearns for intimate touch, pleasure, and the full recognition of who she is. After a lifetime of mostly clinical forms of contact, she sets out to claim sexual pleasure as part of her own experience. An introspective, empowered conversation about the longing for intimacy and how crucial it is for wellbeing.
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Alexi Liotti | CAN
66 min
***Ontario Premiere***
Co-presented by Guelph Museums
Fairy Creek (Ada'itsx) is one of the few remaining old growth forests on Vancouver Island. Rich in biodiversity, British Columbia’s old growth forests offer one of the last lines of defense against climate change. This indigenous led movement to protect this old growth watershed has become one of Canada's largest acts of civil disobedience.
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Chase Joynt | CAN/USA
76 min | Full Captions
Co-presented by ArtsEverywhere Festival
In 1958, a young trans woman named Agnes entered a study about sex disorders at UCLA to get the gender-affirming care she needed, by any means necessary. After discovering the case files, a cast of trans actors confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access.
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Henri Pardo | CANADA
90 min | Full Captions
Supported by Guelph Black Heritage Society
Painting a picture of the Black community in Montreal’s Little Burgundy (“Harlem of the North”) by way of a cinematic letter to Jackie Robinson, the first Black man to break the colour barrier in professional baseball, Dear Jackie offers a unique historical and social perspective that unravels the myth of a post-racial Quebec society.
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Fazila Amiri | CANADA |
90 min | Partial Subtitles
Co-presented by CFRU 93.3FM
Amidst the United States and Taliban peace negotiations, Afghanistan’s controversial pop star and activist Aryana Sayeed mentors hopeful contestants on the hit singing TV series Afghan Star, including the only two female singers, Zahra Elham and Sadiqa Madadgar. As their hopes and dreams of becoming national singers begin to manifest into reality, the Taliban returns to power, reversing twenty years of progress for women’s rights.
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