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Modern Whore
In director Nicole Bazuin's cheeky, stylized documentary, Modern Whore-memoirist Andrea Werhun (Paying for It) recounts her experiences as an escort and stripper in Toronto, debunking misconceptions about the world’s oldest profession.
Castration Movie Anthology 1: Traps
Louise Weard's underground movie is a talk-a-thon in two chapters and four hours: a sex worker contemplates having her testicles removed, and a movie production assistant pitches himself right out of a job, and other misadventures in Vancouver life.
The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes
A beautiful portrait of E.J. Hughes, who quietly helped reshape the artistic landscape of British Columbia in the 20th century. This extraordinary documentary explores Hughes’s legacy not only as an artist, but as a devoted, humble human being.
Agatha's Almanac
Shot over six years on vibrant 16mm film, Agatha’s Almanac is an artful documentary portrait of filmmaker Amalie Atkin’s octogenarian aunt, who has fashioned herself an endearingly simple and self-sustaining lifestyle on her Manitoba farm.
Canadian Film Showcase
Canadian Film Showcase
Apr 10 – 19
Canadian Film Showcase features returning festival favourites, brand-new premieres, free screenings on National Canadian Film Day (April 15), and a specially curated program by Sook-Yin Lee (Paying for It).
DIY: Making Movies No Matter What
Apr 17 – 19
Curated by Sook-Yin Lee (Paying for It), DIY: Making Movies No Matter What spotlights filmmakers who’ve relied on resourcefulness over resources and mobilized their communities to create extraordinary independent cinema.
Queering Cinema
Apr 1 – 29 | Curated by Fay Nass
This year’s Queering Cinema brings together films that inhabit the space where desire collides with displacement, fantasy, power, migration, and risk.
Fucktoys Advance Screening + Annapurna Sriram Q&A
Bold, irreverent, and fiercely queer, Fucktoys plunges into a world where pleasure, performance, and identity collide. This special advance screening comes with a Q&A with filmmaker Annapurna Sriram.
Lingua Franca
Lingua Franca is a tender portrait of intimacy shaped by migration, vulnerability, and the quiet negotiations of belonging. Centered on an undocumented Filipina trans woman living in New York, the film moves with delicate restraint.
Pantheon: The Greatest Films of All Time
Pantheon is a monthly series showcasing a selection of the “greatest movies of all time,” inspired by the mother of all film lists, the critics’ poll that has run once a decade in the UK’s Sight & Sound magazine since 1952.
Sansho the Bailiff
Apr 19
The third of the great Japanese masters (with Ozu and Kurosawa), Mizoguchi is a poet of suffering. There’s plenty of that here in his exquisite telling of an ancient folktale about the enslavement of a woman and her two children.
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