JUNE 19, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY LAURENCE OLIVIER

13 mins | Documentary l Ontario Premiere

On a freezing night, in an isolated village, masked figures prowl. The monsters lurk by the houses, knock on doors. You let these strangers into your home. They remain silent. They observe you.

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JUNE 19, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY ROBIN RIAD

2 mins | Experimental

Lingering somewhere between fantasy and realism, this futuristic documentary underscores atmospheric phenomenon within mysterious environmental incongruence.

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JUNE 19, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY GIRAN FINDLAY

12 mins | Drama l Toronto Premiere

Things Behind the Sun follows a week in the life of a teenage tennis player, struggling to balance practice with his home life as an important tournament approaches. 

JUNE 19, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY SABRINA WAY

19 mins | Drama

While at a dinner party with friends in the city, 20-something masculine presenting Logan receives a phone call that her estranged Father has been in a car accident. With encouragement from her Mother, Logan decides to travel back to her rural hometown to care for him.

JUNE 19, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY SHALAN JOUDRY

5 mins | Documentary

Struggling to make a living in the markets of Abidjan, a group of young delinquents try to find new ways to make a living, but at what cost?

JUNE 19, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY RAME IBRAHIM

19 mins | Drama l Canadian Premiere

“Eid” follows two women, each who are not able to visit their son’s graves due to them being buried in different countries. The film is inspired by the true story of Abdelaziz Ibrahim, an artist for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike.

JUNE 19, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY MJ TREMBLAY

6 mins | Experimental l World Premiere

Missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada.

JUNE 19, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY ALEXANDER FARAH

17 mins | Drama

One day this kid will feel something stir in his heart and throat and mouth. One day this kid will reach a point where he senses a division that isn’t mathematical. One day this kid will talk.

JUNE 19, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY AMÉLIE COURTOIS

3 mins | Documentary l Eastern Canadian Premiere

A poetic film inspired by nature and what it offers us: colours and softness. A tribute to Mother Earth, this film takes the time to look at the little details of the forest.

JUNE 19, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY MATILDE-LUNA PEROTTI

13 mins | Documentary

In a deeply moving short documentary, a filmmaker returns to her grandmother after six years of silence to confront the family taboo: the sexual assault she suffered.

JUNE 20, 2025 l 8:00PM - 10:45PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY SAMUEL PLANTE

110mins l Drama l Toronto Premiere

Based on true events: After a shocking revelation turns Andrea’s life upside down and tests the bond with her younger sister Claire, they embark together on a strange scavenger hunt - searching for hidden truths, and a way back to each other.

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JUNE 20, 2025 l 8:00PM - 10:45PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY SARA JADE ALFARO-DEHGHANI

15mins l Comedy

A casual afternoon of ritualistic body hair removal between three witchy Iranian matriarchs unleashes a classic middle eastern emotional purge, while marking the chaotic coming-of-age for twelve year old Nora.

Filmmakers in attendance for a Q&A.

JUNE 20, 2025 l 8:00PM - 10:45PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY AMMAR KESHODIA

10mins l Drama l World Premiere

A young man returns home and spends the night trying to fulfill his father's dying wish for a proper Islamic burial.

Filmmakers in attendance for a Q&A

JUNE 22, 2025 l 10:30AM - 12:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY JULIA LALONDE

12mins l Drama

13-year-old Evelyn longs for the attention of her class crush. When she notices his fascination with their female teacher’s bouncing chest, she determines that boobs are the key to his heart.

JUNE 22, 2025 l 10:30AM - 12:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY SYDNIE BARNES

3mins l Animation

An abstract animated critique of Black consumerism, African American Express fuses Soviet-inspired visuals and historical quotes to unravel the ties between identity, capitalism, and cultural legacy.

JUNE 22, 2025 l 10:30AM - 12:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY LUVLEEN HUNJAN

14mins l Drama

A girl longed to accompany her father’s journey to India to bid farewell to her ailing grandmother, but was not allowed. In a turbulent car ride home after picking up her grieving father from the airport, she struggles to shield him from the weight of her silent yearning.

JUNE 22, 2025 l 10:30AM - 12:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY KENNEDY HEADON

13mins l Fiction

Follows emotionally shut down Des on her journey through grief after experiencing a great loss.

JUNE 22, 2025 l 10:30AM - 12:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY LUKE DONOVAN

3mins l Experimental l Toronto Premiere

Two dreamers collide on a quiet night.

JUNE 22, 2025 l 10:30AM - 12:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY NOA BLANCHE BESCHORNER

14mins l Experimental, Documentary l Ontario Premiere

A modern day city symphony of Berlin - a city whose inhabitants, streets and movements inspire the traveler's observations. 

JUNE 22, 2025 l 3:00PM - 4:45PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY DEVIN SHEARS

73mins l Drama l Toronto Premiere

A gentle character study of Harvey - a straight, fat man who decides to submit a photograph of himself to a gay magazine for 'big men and their admirers'.

Filmmakers in attendance for a Q&A.

JUNE 22, 2025 l 3:00PM - 4:45PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY AMÉLIE HARDY

16mins l Documentary

Between loads of laundry at the corner laundromat, Cooper shares the tumultuous story of her gender reassignment journey.

JUNE 22, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY REBECCAH LOVE

92 mins | Drama l Toronto Premiere

A quiet reflection on womanhood, psychosis and friendship, our story begins capturing the whimsical and platonic love that exists between two old friends, as they eat, tan and play on the sunny shores of an old worldly summer cottage. When a boyfriend arrives on the scene, for them all to perform an age old fairytale for the neighbouring cottagers, one of the friends descends into a frightening trance, sharing the pains of living shackled to a dated ideal of womanhood.

JUNE 22, 2025 l 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY JESS X. SNOW

15 mins l Drama

After her mother's traditional Chinese medicine shop is vandalized, a young botanist draws on the resilience of her local community and the healing remedies of her ancestors to contend with her deepest anxieties.