Guests expected to be in attendance at the September 21 screening.
These nonfiction films offer perspectives on the human experience spanning cultures, communities, memories, and memorials. What’s real and true is defined through the eyes of these documentary filmmakers.
IT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END
(ÇA VA FINIR PAR FINIR)
Gabriel Drolet-Maguire, a queer fashion designer living in Montréal, takes us into their artistic world to speak vulnerably about their HIV diagnosis
LIVESTREAMS WITH GRANDMAPUZZLES
A lifelong hobby becomes a lifeline for an unexpected Twitch streamer.
MY MEMORY-WALLS
(MES MURS-MÉMOIRE)
An elderly painter transforms the walls of her home into a museum.
GRANDMA'S FOUR COLOR CARDS
(BÀI TỨ SẮC CỦA NGOẠI)
101-year-old Ngoai hosts nightly illegal card games in Saigon’s slums, finding laughter, dignity, and survival with her cat and close-knit community.
UNFOLDING FAITH
A filmmaker chronicles her family’s spiritual fracture as she and her ex-pastor father break five generations of Pentecostal tradition.
ICEBREAKERS
Same-sex pairs are strictly forbidden in elite figure skating - but once every four years, a parallel skating universe appears…
TIGER
Award-winning Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger reflects on her family and the resurgence of the Tiger t-shirt company.
DEATH EDUCATION
(死亡教育课)
A high school teacher introduces a DEATH EDUCATION class to help students understand and contextualize the meaning of death.