Chase Joynt | CAN/USA
76 min | Full Captions
Co-presented by ArtsEverywhere Festival
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Guelph Youth Music Centre
Tickets: $20/PWYC
Event: Post-screening discussion with director Chase Joynt, moderated by Aimee Copping.
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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Alexi Liotti | CAN
66 min
***Ontario Premiere***
Co-presented by Guelph Museums
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Guelph Civic Museum
Tickets: $12/PWYC
Event: Post screening talkback with Pappy’s Garden director Mikaela Roberts.
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.
Pappy’s Garden
Mikaela Roberts | CANADA
9 min
A story about immigration, family, and the comfort of nature. After struggling with poverty and homesickness when he first arrived in Toronto in the 1950s after immigrating from Jamaica, Pappy’s one connection to home was his love of gardening.
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Rachel Lears | USA
105 min | Partial Subtitles
***IN-PERSON ONLY***
Co-presented by OPIRG Guelph
Time: 11:30am
Venue: Guelph Civic Museum
Tickets: $12/PWYC
Event: Community talkback with local youth activists, Horeen Hassan & Megan Peres, moderated by Memona Hossain.
Stopping the climate crisis is a question of political courage, and the clock is ticking. Over three years of turbulence and crisis, four remarkable young women of color fight for a Green New Deal and ignite a historic shift in US climate politics.
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Elsbeth Fraanje | NETHERLANDS
55 min | Full Subtitles
Co-presented by Good For Her
In partnership with Disability After Dark
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Art Gallery of Guelph
Tickets: $20/PWYC
Event: Post-screening discussion with Andrew Gurza (host of Disability After Dark) & a door prize from Good for Her.
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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Henri Pardo | CANADA
90 min | Full Captions
Supported by Guelph Black Heritage Society
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Heritage Hall
Tickets: $12/PWYC
Event: Post-screening discussion with director Henri Pardo, moderated by Justin Reid.
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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Shalini Kantayya | USA
91 min | Full Captions
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Art Gallery of Guelph
Tickets: $12/PWYC
Event: Community Talkback
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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Sean Stiller | CANADA
72 min | Full Captions
***IN-PERSON ONLY***
Co-presented by the Art Gallery of Guelph
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Art Gallery of Guelph
Tickets: $20/PWYC
Event: Video message from director Sean Stiller.
A tale of healing and loss told through two journeys: Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Jack-Webstad’s unresolved trauma from attending
St. Joseph Mission Residential School in Williams Lake, B.C., and the cultural impact of the decimation of wild salmon species on the Secwépemc Nation.
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Juliana Curi | BRAZIL
72 min | Full Subtitles
Supported by OPIRG Guelph
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: 10C
Tickets: $12/PWYC
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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Various Countries
40 min Ages | 4-12
Co-presented by Downtown Guelph Business Association
Time: 11:30am
Venue: 10C
Tickets: $5 Adults/ Kids Free
Event: Meet our local kid filmmakers.
Thoughtful and funny short animated films from Canada and around the world, paired with a series of micro-docs made by local kid filmmakers.
Our Farm by Cadence Lopez-D'Alimonte
The Guelph Outdoor School by Ada O'Donovan
Broomstick Basil, Double the Magic by Beatrice McMurtry
Into the Woods by Lucas Steininger
Felix’s Market Moments by Felix Messer
100% Real Facts About Nature by Guelph Outdoor School's Waxwings
I'm Not Afraid! ***Canadian Premier***
Marita Mayer | NORWAY | 7 min
Maq and the Spirit of the Woods
Phyllis Grant | CANADA | 8 min
Jaime Lo, Small and Shy
Lillian Chan | CANADA | 7 min
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Sophie Robinson & Dunstan Bruce | UK
88 min | Full Captions
***IN-PERSON ONLY***
Co-presented by Brewers Supply Group & Hillside Festival
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Royal City Brewing Co.
Tickets: $20/PWYC
Event: A performance by Hellion Ton — a band who won't be knocked down!
Dunstan Bruce is 59 and he’s struggling with the fact that the world seems to be going to hell in a handcart.Where did it all go wrong? For him. For humanity.
Twenty years after his fall from grace, the former frontman of the anarchist band Chumbawamba is angry and frustrated. But how does a middle-aged, retired radical, get back up again?
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CAN/GERMANY/AFGHANISTAN
88 min | Partial Subtitles
Supported by Art Not Shame
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Guelph Civic Museum
Tickets: $12/PWYC
This series of short docs explores the power of artistic expression.
1. Bill Reid Remembers
Alanis Obomsawin | CANADA
24 min
2. The Sunny Side
Samuel Kilpatrick | GUELPH
12 min
3. Violet Gave Willingly
Claire Sanford | CANADA
23 min
4. Out There
Sebastian Hill-Esbrand | CANADA
13 min
5. Vibrations – Inner Music
Cadenza Zhao | GERMANY/ AFGHANISTAN
16 min
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Karl Malakunas | AUSTRALIA/PHILIPPINES/HONG KONG/USA/UK
94 min | Partial Subtitles
***IN-PERSON ONLY***
Co-presented by Guelph Civic Museums
Time: 11:30am
Venue: Guelph Civic Museum
Tickets: $12/PWYC
Palawan appears to be an idyllic tropical island. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders trying to protect its spectacular natural resources, it is more akin to a battlefield. Land defenders are being killed in record numbers, as Bobby, Tata, and Nieves risk their lives to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying what is left of the rainforests.
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Fazila Amiri | CANADA
90 min | Partial Subtitles
Co-presented by CFRU 93.3FM
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Guelph Youth Music Centre
Tickets: $20/PWYC
Event: Post-screening discussion with director Fazila Amiri, moderated by Sara Sayyed.
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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A series of short films played on a loop for the duration of the Guelph Film Festival in small, unique venues.
A Rad Dad’s Ode to Skateboarding
Matt Soltys | GUELPH | 9 min
Time: During business hours
Venue: 10C
ABCs of Anxiety ***World Premiere***
Brian G. Smith | CANADA | 3 min
Time: During business hours
Venue: Planet Bean—Hilltop
FREE
