Shorts Programme with Q&A

In Person

Jun 3

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FOFS Official Selections | Shorts Programme with Q&A

Film Screenings

Join us at Cineplex’s Scotiabank Theatre for this year’s Opening Night Screening presenting two shorts film followed by the Festival’s first ever feature film. The screening will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A moderated by Aashna Thakkar.

Rebeccah Love’s Eve Parade, Rebeca Ortiz’s Abuela, and Haya Waseem’s Quickening are three GTA (Greater Toronto Area) set stories, observing distinct intersectionalities of experience from the perspective of women during very different stages in their lives. These are works that seek to articulate a marginal subjectivity: discerning the white, settler-state hegemony of Canada; interrogating the psycho-affective roles of assimilation with reference to dynamics of race and mental health.

— Zac Goldkind | Director of Programming, FOFS

- Proof of vaccination required by all Festival guests, masks encouraged.
- This event will have ASL interpretation.
- Both short films will include open captions.
- The feature film, Quickening, includes closed captioning accessible via Scotiabank Theatre’s Captiview devices, available upon request.
- Limited number of accessible seating inside the auditorium.
- Guide animals permitted.
- Elevator and escalator access inside theatre.
- Click here for Scotiabank Theatre’s full accessibility policy.