Join us on April 5 for the 2023 Innis Alumni Lecture with Professor Melissa Franklin (BSc ’77 Innis), Harvard University’s trailblazing experimental particle physicist. In her lecture, “The Time It… Continue Reading Innis Alumni Lecture with Melissa Franklin
Calling all Innis student leaders! Sign up for our Transitions Day 2023. All Innis student leaders are invited to our annual Transitions Day. At this interactive, in-person workshop, we will… Continue Reading Transitions Day 2023
Calling all Innis student leaders! Sign up for our Transitions Day 2023. All Innis student leaders are invited to our annual Transitions Day. At this interactive, in-person workshop, we will… Continue Reading Transitions Day 2023
With the purchase of this ticket, you are invited to kick off Images Festival's 36th edition. Join us in celebrating over complimentary food, drinks and music in advance of the… Continue Reading Images Film Festival presents: Opening Night: So To Speak: Light
In The Body's Wake interprets the theme of (g)hosts as it takes place in and through the body. Here “wake” takes on the meaning of both a vigil and “that… Continue Reading Images Film Festival presents: In The Body’s Wake
This program explores a haunted presence: whether through the examination of everyday fears and anxieties or in the memories of people who remain in our thoughts, even long after their… Continue Reading Images Film Festival presents: Ghosts Which Do Not Speak
In Sebastian Salfate’s experimental film Niña Hermosa, the road is simultaneously the central character, antagonist, soundtrack, and host. The work chronicles, over four years, a single animita—a type of shrine… Continue Reading Images Film Festival presents: Sites For Spectral Transference
Storyline “It is a hurricane to blast you from the orchestra pit to the first mezzanine. It is a hurricane to film your eyes with a spin-drift, to beat at… Continue Reading Toronto Film Society presents: The Hurricane
I Am My Own Ghost: distance, disassociation and discomfort as memory of the (meta)physical approaches Images 2023's thematic of (g)host by reconsidering the ghosts we carry as future memories, rather… Continue Reading Images Film Festival presents: I Am My Own Ghost – distance, disassociation and discomfort as memory of the (meta)physical.
The third meeting of Innis College Council, for the 2022/23 governance cycle, is on Wednesday, April 19 at 11:30am.Council meetings are open to the college community, though voting is reserved… Continue Reading Innis College Council Meeting
Here, Better, Now is a four-part program that details forms of solidarity, art, activism, and policy change emerging from the overdose crisis.
Galare Khoshgozaran’s work sets up a deep engagement with moving images that address the geopolitical urgencies afflicting our contemporary context. Viewers are invited to a close study of Khoshgozaran’s films… Continue Reading Images Film Festival presents: a dream, a mountain, a ruin
Run Time: 97 min. | b&w Director: Vittorio De Sica Stars: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy Storyline Miracle in Milan is a film with strange… Continue Reading Toronto Film Society presents: Miracle In Milan
With queer coupledom at its core, Companion Piece consider closeness through friends, family, kin, companions, lovers, partners, and community, as well as the manifold forms they might take in the… Continue Reading Images Film Festival presents: Companion Piece
Alize Zorlutuna's live, digital storytelling performance unfolds before the audience while the artist contends with the entanglements of land, place, longing, family, and forgiveness through wisdom and the technologies of… Continue Reading Images Film Festival presents: Being a guest in a place that was always meant for you
According to the Smithsonian, the practice of testing the safety of a coal mine for human laborers by deploying a canary first began in Britain in 1911 and was quickly… Continue Reading Images Film Festival presents: Whispers in the Air
Passages foregrounds the work for four Iranian filmmakers: Parastoo Anoushapour, Naghmeh Abbasi and Siavash Yazdanmehr, and Rojin Shafiei. The works examine the political positioning of land, body and belonging in… Continue Reading Images Film Festival presents: Passages
The Quoddy Fold, 56:00, 4K digital, 2019 The Quoddy Fold focuses on the ecological succession of an abandoned settler-house, situated in West Quoddy, Nova Scotia, on the shore of the… Continue Reading AD HOC #37: Paulette Phillips in person with The Quoddy Fold
Looking to give back to the community? To support your peers?Join Innis's mentorship team to have a real, direct impact on our incoming class.Insider Mentors are a vital source of… Continue Reading Apply now to be an Insider Mentor!
The Film Stage & Bleeding Edge Present the Toronto Premiere of Bertrand Bonello’s Coma This May Nick Newman○April 18, 2023 Few––I mean one or two––films from last year were equal… Continue Reading Coma screening
AD HOC #38: Field Trip, with filmmaker Richard Kerr, in person May 5, 2023, 7pm, Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave. Innis Town Hall Program: Field Trip (Richard Kerr, 2021, 50:00,… Continue Reading AD HOC #38: Field Trip, with filmmaker Richard Kerr
Bloomberg Nursing Week 2023 – Keynote Lecture May 9 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Free Breaking Barriers: The Future of Nursing and the Fight for Global Health Equity with… Continue Reading Breaking Barriers: The Future of Nursing and the Fight for Global Health Equity
What matters Length : 37 minutes Director : Timothée Ranger et Etienne Valentin Original version, with English subtitles The GR20, the mythical traverse of Corsica, is usually completed in 15… Continue Reading Mountains On Stage – Summer Edition
AD HOC presents Bruce Posner in person with his film everything that happens must happen someplace (1966-2023). The film will be preceded by a lecture on the films of Joseph… Continue Reading AD HOC #39: Everything That Happens Must Happen Someplace (1966-2023)
43 minutes | 2004 | Documentary | Mandarin Chinese, Sichuanese Dialect | Chinese and English Subtitles 55th Berlin International Film Festival – The Forum Wolfgang Staudte Prize 6:45 PM, FRI, MAY 12… Continue Reading Mulan Festival presents: Before The Flood
CCNC-SJ & @reelasian Co-Present, Incorrigible - A Film About Velma Demerson, free film screening and panel featuring Karin Lee, Lisa Mar, and Rosel Kim with moderator Jan Wong!
93 minutes | 2007 | Documentary | English, Sichuanese Dialect and Mandarin Chinese | English Subtitles 45th Golden Horse Film Festival – Best Documentary A luxurious cruise ship sails along the… Continue Reading Mulan Festival presents: Up The Yangtze
08 minutes | 2006 | Fiction | Sichuanese Dialect, Jin and Mandarin Chinese | English Subtitles 35mm Film 63rd Venice International Film Festival – Winner of the Golden Lion A town… Continue Reading Mulan Festival presents: Still Life
116 minutes | 2016 | Fiction | Mandarin Chinese | English Subtitles 66th Berlin International Film Festival – Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution53rd Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival – Best… Continue Reading Mulan Festival presents: Crosscurrents
104 minutes | 2020 | Fiction | Wuhan Dialect Chinese | English Subtitles Sister Rong, a foot masseuse, lives peacefully with her brother. But the murder that happened 18 years ago… Continue Reading Mulan Festival presents: River Of Salvation
TPFF will mark the 75th year of the ongoing Nakba with a free screening of the documentary film Recovery directed by Rashid Masharawi, featuring author talk with the highly acclaimed… Continue Reading TPFF Nakba Commemoration Event
Annual Asian Heritage Month Concert Performances by Award-Winning Asian Canadian Artists including singing, music and dance About this Event Annual Asian Heritage Month Concert Date and Time: Wednesday, May 17,… Continue Reading Annual Asian Heritage Month Concert
the Films: The Angel Outside Not Moldova, 1937 Film On Film Bacchanal Le Temps Phantome Birds
Trophy Storytellers One of the most talked about experiences at PIF 2022, the Trophy storytelling tents are returning for PIF 2023. Each tent will feature someone telling the true story… Continue Reading Provocation Ideas Festival Toronto: Trophy Storytellers
A thought-provoking and dynamic discussion focused on the implications of digital technology. Panelists will explore probing questions about digital's impacts on democracy, free speech, media ethics, equity and diversity, privacy,… Continue Reading Provocation Ideas Festival presents: The Promise and Perils of Digital
The Promise and Perils of AI As artificial intelligence surges into use and into the public discourse, important questions have been raised about its use and the need for regulation.… Continue Reading Provocation Ideas Festival presents: The Promise and Perils of AI
Step into this theatrical way station between our present and future, a playful place to pause and reflect on our shared humanity and the ever-evolving technology landscape. This performance installation… Continue Reading Provocation Ideas Festival presents: The Provocateuse is Present: DanceGPT
Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humour and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee, and… Continue Reading Provocation Ideas Festival presents: Foragers
Time & Location May 21, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. EDT Toronto, Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5, Canada Guests About the event 導演：徐岱靈 Dora Choi 、祁凱達… Continue Reading To Be Continued screening
With Berlin-based filmmaker Cem Kaya in attendance for audience Q & A and moderated discussion with Müge Turan (Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto) Innis Town Hall, Innis College, 2… Continue Reading Love, Deutschmarks, and Death screening
Reelworld Screen Institute and Asian Heritage Month Film Festival presents A Brief Record of My Fathers Time at Sea dir. Jeanette Kong
Lecture: 6:00 – 7:15pm Reception at Innis Town Hall: 7:15 – 8:30pm Revolution Through Relationship: Caring for Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma Our healthcare systems often go wrong when dealing… Continue Reading Alumni Association Distinguished Speakers Series: Revolution Through Relationship — Caring for Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma, with Robert Maunder
In 2020, when Covid first reared its ugly head, TJFF was the first Festival to go online because of the excellence of Jeremie Abessira, our Director of Operations and the… Continue Reading Toronto Jewish Film Festival
When and Where Friday, June 02, 2023 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Innis Town Hall Innis College 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Eric Jennings Description We’re very… Continue Reading The Enslaved Teen Who Cracked Vanilla’s Secret—CBC JHI Annual Lecture
On June 3, we're opening our doors to our alumni and supporters for an afternoon of family-friendly fun, entertainment, food, and refreshments. RemINNIS with fellow grads and friends and help… Continue Reading Alumni Reunion & Campaign Launch
Dounia leaves Aleppo for a new world, drawing courage & hope from her family’s love, her grandmother’s recipes, and the princess of Aleppo herself.
When and Where Wednesday, June 07, 2023 10:00 am to 11:30 am Innis Town Hall Innis College 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Basil Jones Adrian Kohler Lawrence… Continue Reading Puppets in Action: Theory, Practice, and Possibilities
Join us to celebrate trace press and launch this vital new anthology! river in an ocean: essays on translation Readings & Conversations with: Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Nedra Rodrigo, Suneela… Continue Reading River In An Ocean: Essays On Translation Book Launch & Readings
Food for Thought Discover the science behind what we eat through engaging talks from experts exploring food’s impact on our health!
SHEER DRIFT: The Snake America Newsletters (1-100) is a body of work about valuable and rare things (about 400 eBay auctions for vintage clothes, furniture and similar I found, researched… Continue Reading Snake Presents: Sheer Drift – The Snake America Newsletters
Films by Keith Lock, Eva Kolcze, Rob Fothergill, Christine Lucy Latimer, Richard Kerr, Jean-Claude Labrecque, and Stephen Broomer!
Housing affordability: No issue will define the next mayoralty more than the deepening challenge of housing affordability. From attainable market ownership and rental to affordable housing and basic human shelter,… Continue Reading School Of Cities presents: A Mayoral Debate: Anybody Home? How to Solve Toronto’s Housing Crisis.
The JHI is thrilled to announce that author Amanda Peters will join us for the inaugural Indigenous Writers Day on June 12. Her debut novel, The Berry Pickers is a… Continue Reading Indigenous Writers Day: Reading, Interview & Book Signing
Keyboard Fantasies – Celebrating the Works of Beverly Glenn-Copeland You are registering to attend Keyboard Fantasies – Celebrating the Works of Beverly Glenn-Copeland on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 from 3pm-5pm… Continue Reading Keyboard Fantasies: Celebrating the Works of Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Roll out the red carpet for youth invested in activism + the art
This Thursday and Friday at Innis College, presented by @CSI_UofT and AD HOC: a launch for Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema, a new monograph by @zrydmichael , published by… Continue Reading Ad Hoc presents: A book launch for – Hollis Frampton: Navigating The Infinite Cinema
The Toronto Smartphone Film Festival (TSFF) is the fastest growing, innovative mobile film festival in North America. We encourage filmmakers to share their stories shot on smartphones (and tablets). Smartphones… Continue Reading Toronto Smartphone Film Festival
Join us for a special screening of Alanis Obomsawin’s When All the Leaves are Gone (2010, 17 min.) and Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair (2021, 30 min.) with a moderated… Continue Reading An Afternoon with Alanis Obomsawin
Showcase your creative talent at Innis!Submit to our Student Art Exhibition.Are you a photographer, illustrator, designer, filmmaker — a visual artist and storyteller? Innis is looking to display new pieces… Continue Reading Innis Student Art Exhibition Submission Deadline
In celebration of Pride Month, Sharon Lewis (BA ’89 Innis) presents her award-winning film, With Wonder — a subjective documentary that tries to answer the question: can you be Christian and Queer?… Continue Reading With Wonder with Sharon Lewis
In celebration of Pride Month, Sharon Lewis (BA '89 Innis) presents her award-winning film, With Wonder — a subjective documentary that tries to answer the question: can you be Christian and Queer?The… Continue Reading With Wonder Screening and Q&A
Join us on June 21st to discover new approaches to healthcare infrastructure that will transform the way we care for our communities!
AD HOC #43: Waves, with Mike Hoolboom, in person world premiere! June 23, 2023, 7pm. Innis Town Hall Free Admission AD HOC presents the world premiere of Mike Hoolboom's new… Continue Reading AD HOC #43 – Waves, with Mike Hoolboom in person!
One evening in the 1980s, Qiu Fu, a leading clown-role actor in 20th-century Sichuan opera, departs this world and must reluctantly set off for the Ghost City under the escort… Continue Reading Mulan Festival presents: A New Old Play
One day in the late 1990s, a blizzard was about to hit a forest on the Tibetan Plateau, and three uninvited guests broke into the forest ranger’s wooden house. Subsequently,… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: One And Four
ILLUME x MulanIFF Advance Screening Mad Fate 命案 Soi CHEANG 108 minutes | 2023 | Fiction | Cantonese Chinese | Chinese and English Subtitles 73rd Berlin International Film Festival –… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Mad Fate
Live Music by Night Chill
Join our two co-founders, SHEN Wei, Artistic Director, and Promise Xu, Director, Marketing in our first-ever Behind the Festival: Curation, Programming, and How It All Started event. Enjoy a fireside… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Behind the Festival: Curation, Programming, and How It All Started
The Sunny Side of the Street 白日青春 LAU Kok Rui 111 minutes | 2022 | Fiction | Cantonese, Urdu | English and Chinese Subtitles Toronto Premiere Content Advisory: This film… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Opening Night – The Sunny Side Of The Street
FOUNTAINHEAD The Fountainhead programme celebrates and promotes emerging talents and their works with creative originality. Fountainhead Short Films / “源泉”短片合集 – 3:00 PM, SAT, AUG 12 @ Innis Town Hall… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: The Fountainhead programme
RETROSPECTIVE The Retrospective programme features award-nominated or -winning films that reveal the zeitgeist and enormous changes in China and the Chinese society since the early 20th century; and that capture… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Retrospective
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: WUXIA The Special Presentation programme celebrates classical award-winning wuxia films this year. Dragon Inn 龙门客栈 – 6:30 PM, TUE, AUG 15 @ Innis Town Hall Goodbye, Dragon Inn… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Special Presentation: Wuxia
LILI VS. LEVIATHAN The Lili vs. Leviathan programme serves to advance the appreciation of female filmmakers’ and actresses’ endeavours, as well as to recognize the identity and power of female protagonists in… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Lili vs. Leviathan
YIN AND YANG The Yin and Yang programme is dedicated to films that reflect on social issues related to gender inequality, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation, thereby advocating equality and solidarity. Secrets… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Yin And Yang
Innis Orientation is coming up!Fill out the registration form to indicate your preferences.Our annual orientation for incoming students, presented by the Innis College Student Society, is taking place September 4… Continue Reading Incoming students: register for Innis Orientation today!
Do you have questions about what happens after graduation?Find an alumni mentor through Innis's annual mentorship program. By signing up for our Innis Alumni Mentorship Program you can be paired with… Continue Reading Apply to be a mentee with the Innis Alumni Mentorship Program!
When and Where Monday, September 11, 2023 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Innis Town Hall Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Jun Robles Lana Bliss Lim… Continue Reading Screening Of ‘Big Night!’ and Q&A With Director Jun Lana
Represent your fellow students' needs.Nominate yourself for the Fall By-Election!Your Innis College Student Society (ICSS) is holding its annual Fall By-Election to elect 17 student representatives to the ICSS council… Continue Reading Student By-Election Nomination Period
Calling all first-year Innis students!Come to our first Insider Social.All first-year Innis students and Insider mentors are invited to celebrate the launch of The Insider’s Fall/Winter in-person programming at a… Continue Reading The Insider Social: Welcome Party
The First Free Friday Film event of the year! Presented by CINSSU.
Christie Refugee Welcome Center presents: a screening of 'The Cost Of Freedom:Refugee Journalists In Canada'. A fundraising event with director James Cullingham and Abdulrahman Matar.
When and Where Monday, September 18, 2023 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Innis Town Hall Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Julien Christian Lutz (Director X)… Continue Reading Music Video Vanguard: In Conversation with Director X
Transformations: A Cross Generational Commissioning Project In-person Screening and VOD September 1, 2023—In 2021 the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto’s (LIFT) celebrated its 40th anniversary as an artist-run organization.… Continue Reading Transformations: Short Films Exploring A City In Flux
Studying is a lot easier when you do it together. Join a co-working session. Innis's weekly co-working group, Association for Students Against Procrastination (ASAP), is back on Friday afternoons this… Continue Reading Association for Students Against Procrastination (ASAP) Coworking Sessions
CINSSU presents: A Free Friday Film - Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues!
Plantadas is an independent film premiered at the Miami Film Festival in 2023 winning 2 awards. The film follows three women who fight to restore and stabilize democracy to their… Continue Reading Plantadas screening
Join us for a screening of "Letter to a Shadow", a documentary film based on Hector Abad Faciolince life and works.
JAYU presents: Someone Like Me.
An ICSS by-election is coming up.Meet your candidates and vote!27 of your peers are running for positions on the ICSS and Innis College Council. Learn more about these candidates and… Continue Reading Student By-Election Voting Period
Description In the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day air time to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these… Continue Reading Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence
In honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Canadian Film Forum presents a special screening of the award-winning film, Wildhood. In this coming-of-age drama, a two-spirit teenager… Continue Reading Wildhood Screening and Q&A
To commemorate the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Canadian Film Forum presents a special screening of the award-winning film, Wildhood.In this coming-of-age drama, a two-spirit teenager runs away from… Continue Reading Wildhood Screening and Q&A
CINSSU's Free Friday Film this week is Bad Education. A film by Almodovar.
I Love Greece – Feature Film Jean and Marina, a Franco-Greek couple, are going to Athens for their summer holiday. There they meet up with Marina’s exuberant Greek family and… Continue Reading Greek International Film Festival screening: I LOVE GREECE & DIGNITY
Blackstone – Feature Film While filming absent civil servants, a documentary crew stumbles upon Haroula, a desperate, overprotective Greek mother in search of her son. But when he is accused… Continue Reading Greek International Film Festival screening: BLACKSTONE & MY PEOPLE
SCARPEDICEMENTE – Feature Film Scarpedicemente is a claustrophobic, dark comedy based on the play written by the two leads, husband and wife team John Vamvas and Olga Montes. Luigi (John… Continue Reading Greek International Film Festival screening: SCARPEDICEMENTE
When and Where Thursday, October 05, 2023 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222E Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Skip Elsheimer Description Skip… Continue Reading An Evening with the AV Geeks Archive
IMAN – Feature Film A terrorist attack connects three stories, each involving characters whose actions may mean the difference between life and death as well as their own journeys into… Continue Reading Greek International Film Festival screening: IMAN
CINSSU presents: Free Friday Film - Passages with a Fashion contest!!
