Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
A Mother’s Love is resilient, strong and determined. It transcends physical boundaries. It finds a village, shared among sisters and aunties, and it does it on its own. This program honors the ways motherhood can exist.
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
A whimsical trek through the woods, connecting with and standing up for the earth, reconnecting with the past and present.This is an online exclusive shorts program. Films: Starlight Sojourn, Ni Wapiten (I see), Follow, Nemi, Rieban - the Fox, The Bull of Cold, HOME, and Whistling Woods.
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
These stories from Māori filmmakers explore how water, land and breath supports their cultural identity as they navigate hostile spaces.
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Coming of age, uplifting the inherent divine connection to land, and falling back on ancestral knowledge. Matriarchs in the Making captures the strength of women upholding generational power and breaking cycles.
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Navigating a world of misconceptions around race, sexual and gender identities can be tough, but becomes a lot easier when we can ground ourselves proudly in who we are.
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Technological futurisms, mythological, supernatural, macabre encounters - these shorts will give you a twisted sense of the world as we know it.
Oct 18 '23 5:00 PM – 6:47 PM (TBLB 1 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Feature
After experiencing a traumatic event in Igloolik (an Inuit hamlet in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut), Uyarak leaves her community and family in Nunavut to live in Montréal. When Covid-19 lockdowns close off the Canadian Arctic from the rest of the world, Uyarak is further separated from her closest friend, eldest sister, Saqpinak. This screening is supported by CBC.
Oct 19 '23 1:00 PM – 2:55 PM (TBLB 3 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Feature
Based on the play of the same name by Kenneth T. Williams, and inspired by true events, Café Daughter is a coming-of-age story about Yvette Wong, a young Chinese Cree girl in 1960s Saskatchewan, who explores and embraces her Cree identity after the passing of her mother. This screening is supported by Telefilm.
Oct 19 '23 9:30 PM – 11:19 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Feature
This film is preceded by "Sunflower Siege Engine" directed by Sky Hopinka. Observation of an important infrastructure in Amazonia: downstream on a cargo boat that brings passengers and goods to the isolated communities in the Peruvian rain forest. Cargo boats form a non-lieu, a space of transition for the travellers taking journeys that can last days, as well as for the Indigenous communities living on the edges of the Amazon River, fighting for the survival of their cultural traditions and struggling to adapt to modernity.
Oct 19 '23 5:30 PM – 7:19 PM (TBLB 1 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Feature
Vaychiletik explores this fierce yet beautiful reality, forged from the dreams of the Mayan people of Mexico.
Oct 20 '23 2:30 PM – 3:59 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
The imagineNATIVE Institute welcomes APTN Lumi, along with past participants of the imagineNATIVE + APTN Lumi Web Series Pitch, to the Industry Days stage for the premiere of Tales From the Rez and D dot H. This screening will be followed by a moderated Q&A where the Artists will discuss the motivation behind and the creation of their projects.
Oct 20 '23 6:30 PM – 8:48 PM (TBLB 3 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Feature
The imagineNATIVE Originals program showcases the creations of up-and-coming filmmakers, developed through imagineNATIVE Institutes' commissioned mentorships and continuous year-round support.
Oct 20 '23 7:30 PM – 9:03 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
Big hair, big fashion, make-up, dance, drag, vogue, catwalk. Whatever way you werk it, you’ll leave grandma screaming “That’s My Baby!”
Oct 21 '23 9:15 PM – 10:33 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
Compelling experimental shorts that weave soundscapes with the evolution, formation and connection to land and water.
Oct 22 '23 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM (TBLB 1 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Feature
WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) explores how children of Indian Residential School survivors — including three generations of director Dr. Jules Koostachin’s own family — are moving beyond the burden of intergenerational trauma and into healing.
Oct 22 '23 5:00 PM – 6:45 PM (TBLB 3 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Feature
In this documentary, Mexican Tzotzil director Xun Sero confronts his past with honesty, understanding and forgiveness.
Oct 22 '23 4:30 PM – 6:02 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
A large part of the human experience is learning how to deal with the multitude of ways we can experience and process grief. Whether the grief is deep and spiritual, steeped in love, cultural, physical, sudden or anticipated, learning to embrace loss is a life skill.
Oct 18 '23 – Oct 23 -29 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Oct 19 '23 – Oct 23 -29 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Oct 22 '23 – Oct 23 -29 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Oct 20 '23 – Oct 23 -29 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Oct 21 '23 – Oct 23 -29 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Oct 19 '23 – Oct 23 -29 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Oct 22 '23 – Oct 23 -29 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Oct 20 '23 – Oct 23 -29 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Oct 21 '23 – Oct 23 -29 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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