What's On
Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Silverio is an esteemed Mexican documentary filmmaker going through an existential mid-life crisis. Returning to his homeland for a few days, he is visited by dreams, old friends, ghosts, and his own uneasy conscience. From the director of Birdman.
A Couple
In his 90s, the great documentarian Fred Wiseman has made his first fiction film, a bittersweet vignette based on the letters and diaries of Sophia Tolstoy, and her (off-screen) husband, Leo. "Valuable and insightful." Guardian
MENA 2022: Generations
Generations is a bundle that deepens our understanding of home, lineage and family for communities within the SWANA region and its diaspora. These films discuss intergenerational trauma, the tension between 'here' and 'there' and how land follows us wherever we go.
EO
Veteran director Jerzy Skolimowski returns in triumphant form with this tale of animal life. Sometimes harsh, sometimes sweet, always beautiful, EO tells the story of a donkey and its journey through a world dominated by humans.
MENA 2022: Flee
Flee is a powerful, deeply personal animated documentary that tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a secret he's kept for 20 years; one that threatens to derail the life he's built for himself and his soon-to-be husband.
White Noise
America in the age of anxiety, as experienced by Professor of Hitler Studies Jack Gladney (Adam Driver), his fourth wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) and multiple kids... A chemical spill leads to an airborne toxic event and the mass evacuation.
MENA 2022: How to Finance Your Film: Where and Who to Pitch It To?
We bring to local filmmakers two representatives from Canada Media Fund and Telefilm Canada to help you navigate these federal funding agencies. You are hoping to make a short film or feature length? Join us for an intimate workshop session.
MENA 2022: Geographies
Geographies explores our direct relationship to nature and how our survival is deeply interconnected with the land. These films discuss how climate change impacts our relationships to both natural and human made spaces, and the creatures we share them with.
MENA 2022: The Stranger
In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, the life of a desperate unlicensed doctor who is going through an existential crisis, takes another unlucky turn when he encounters a man wounded in the war in Syria.
MENA 2022: Montréal Girls
A Middle-Eastern medical school student, new to Montreal, puts his relationship with his father at risk when he forfeits his education after being forever changed by two young women. Montréal Girls follows his journey and his quest for love and enlightenment.
MENA 2022: Constellations
Constellations is a mix of local Vancouver-based and Canadian talents. As constellations change relative to where you stand, these shorts are a unique accumulation of our specific place and time.
MENA 2022: Award Ceremony
Come and join us as our dedicated jury will give out awards to the films in competition, including the inaugural Faces of MENA Award.