Short Film Program: WITCHING HOUR

This is a Free Friday screening. Tickets are free and will be available at a first come first served basis on Friday June 6 at our in-person Box Office at the TIFF Lightbox. Haunting, unsettling, and supernatural, WITCHING HOUR reveals to us what grows in places devoid of light. Come prepared to hold your breath in terror of who, or what, you might meet in the dark. Film viewing availability during the online Festival (June 9-15, 2025): The Saint and The Bear (not online; in-person only) Uncommon Ground (available online) Uasheshkun (not online; in-person only) Settler (available worldwide) Haze Over (only in Canada) Inkwo for When the Starving Return (only in Canada)


Haunting, unsettling, and supernatural, WITCHING HOUR reveals to us what grows in places devoid of light. Come prepared to hold your breath in terror of who, or what, you might meet in the dark. Film viewing availability during the online Festival (June 9-15, 2025): The Saint and The Bear (not online; in-person only)Uncommon Ground (available online)Uasheshkun (not online; in-person only)Settler (available worldwide)Haze Over (only in Canada)Inkwo for When the Starving Return (only in Canada)

Tickets for screenings on TD Free Friday (taking place Friday, June 6) cannot be purchased or booked in advance and will only be available on Friday, June 6 at the on-site imagineNATIVE Box Office. There is a limit of two tickets per person. Miigwetch, nia:wen, thank you to TD Bank for supporting TD Free Fridays!


HST REBATE: Status card holders are eligible to claim a rebate of the 8% Ontario portion of HST paid on qualifying goods and services. Please contact boxoffice@imagineNATIVE.org if you wish to use your Status card to purchase packages or tickets online. You can also visit the on-site imagineNATIVE Box Office during the in-person Festival and present your Status card when purchasing in-person tickets.

Presented in Multiple Parts

Uncommon Ground

Set in the Coast Salish region of the Pacific Northwest, 150 years in the future, the true history of North Am...
20 min | Faith Sparrow-Crawford | Ontario Premiere | English
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Uasheshkun

A father tries to save the soul of his daughter, lost in darkness....
9 min | Normand Junior Thirnish-Pilot | N/A | Innu
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Settler

This allegorical horror film is about a 1800s settler family on the “frontier” hoping to establish a prosp...
11 min | Sinakson Trevor Solway | Ontario Premiere | English, Blackfoot
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Haze Over

Musa, takes Vahid, his cousin, on pretext of wood smuggling, to a forest path, where a car accident with a doe...
19 min | Seyed Ali Ghasemi | Canadian Premiere | Persian
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Inkwo for When the Starving Return

Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unb...
18 min | Amanda Strong | N/A | English, Dene
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The Saint and The Bear

Rita sits alone on a park bench waiting for something, or someone, when she is unexpectedly approached by a Ma...
6 min | Dallas R Soonias | N/A | English
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