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Documentary which chronicles the genocide of the Greeks, and other indigenous Christians from 1913-1923.

Join us to host these two celebrated Indigenous scholars that illuminate Indigenous Science, Technology, and Environment Studies. The Technoscience Research Unit (TRU) is pleased to host these two public keynotes as part of our first Indigenous Science, Technology and Environment Studies (Indigenous STES) Symposium, a closed event for Indigenous scholars from across Turtle Island, on May 15-17th,… Continue Reading Gathering Indigenous Science, Technology and Environment

Welcome to M Works Film Festival, where movie magic meets creativity in a celebration of independent cinema!

Bestselling author, economist, and alumnus Jeff Rubin (BA ’77 Innis) returns to Innis College to launch his provocative new book, A Map of the New Normal: How Inflation, War, and Sanctions Will Change Your World Forever. Jeff Rubin is a world-leading expert on trade and energy and former chief economist and chief strategist at CIBC World Markets. In his… Continue Reading “A Map of the New Normal” with Jeff Rubin

Saturday May 11, 2024, 3:30 pm Event details and registration at https://allevents.in/toronto/80008235901662 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀: Date: May 11, 2024 (Saturday) Time: 2:30 PM (The performance will last for about an hour) Venue: Innis Town Hall (Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5) ＊Free Seating (Kindly note that you are requested to arrive at the venue… Continue Reading The Art of FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE｜霸王別姬 聲•色•藝

TPFF marks the 76th year of the Nakba with an evening of art and reflection.  Marking the 7th month of the genocide, the evening’s program will reflect on the Nabka of the present and its ties to the Nakba of 1947/8. TPFF’s commemoration event commences at 6pm with a reception in the lobby, which is… Continue Reading 76 Years of Nakba: Then & Now

The Toronto Serbian Film Festival is a must-attend event for anyone interested in the art of filmmaking and Serbian culture. With our carefully curated program, talented filmmakers, and passionate audiences, the festival promises to provide a transcendent cinematic experience. Join us for the 23rd edition of the festival and discover the best of what Serbian… Continue Reading Toronto Serbian Film Festival 2024

The Boehm Lecture on Public Health and Healthcare is brought to you in collaboration with CBC Ideas. The 2024 Boehm Public Lecture presents… In 2020, while wealthy countries stood first in line for COVID-19 vaccines, a pioneering group of South African lawyers sued their own government for a look inside the secret deals Pretoria had… Continue Reading Dalla Lana School of Health presents: How Can Canadians Help Lead The Global Fight For Health Equity?

Free screening of John Ford’s 1924 silent Western, The Iron Horse with live musical accompaniment by Jordan Klapman. Tuesday, May 7, 3-6pm in Innis Town Hall. This screening is for CIN240H1F – The Western and will be accompanied by a lecture from course instructor, Joshua Wiebe.

Everyone is invited to attend the first class of CIN105Y1 - Introduction to Film Study on Tuesday, May 7, 10am in Innis Town Hall featuring a free screening of Dolemite Is My Name. Instructor, Daniele Iannucci will give an introduction to to the course.

Join Maria Zuber — the first woman to lead a science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the first to lead a NASA planetary mission — as she explores the possibility of a human expedition to Mars at the 2024 annual Martin Lecture, hosted by the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy &… Continue Reading Martin Lecture in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Reelworld Screen Institute is honoured to celebrate 15 years of partnership with Asian Heritage Month. The Asian Heritage Month Film Festival, held in collaboration with Reelworld Film Festival, presents a curated program about families across borders. The event will feature a Shorts and Series Programme in addition to a Q/A featuring the filmmakers, moderated by… Continue Reading 2024 Asian Heritage Month Screening

ROM & UTM presents: Arts Of The Indian Ocean.

Documentary film "Alexander" Ky event organizohet nga 'Albanian Canadian Immigration Association', shoqatë e cila synon të ndihmojë imigrantët shqipëtare ne Kanada. Filmi me regji të Ardit Sadikut, përfaqësoj Shqipërinë në Oscars 2024 si filmi më i mirë ndërkombëtarë dhe dokumentari më i mirë. “Alexander” pati sukses në kinematë Shqiptare dhe u vlerësua pozitivisht nga kritika… Continue Reading Alexander screening

University of Toronto Chinese Music Club presents a candle light concert.

Join us for a special May Day screening of Richelieu, followed by a discussion on migrant justice with organizer Sarom Rho and filmmaker Pier-Philippe Chevigny. Trying to get her life back on track after a breakup, Ariane moves back to her hometown by the Richelieu river in southern Quebec. To save her sinking finances, she… Continue Reading Mayworks Festival 2024: Richelieu screening

During an era marked by political, economic and social challenges, acclaimed filmmaker, author and organizer Astra Taylor has created a body of urgent, thought-provoking work that off ers insight into the networks of power that govern society and our existence. Whether through her documentary What is Democracy? or her latest book The Age of Insecurity, Taylor fearlessly… Continue Reading Hot Docs presents: Astra Taylor in Conversation with Brett Story

A Film by Carlos Fung.

No Arms In The Arts Festival screening: GAZA: BETWEEN IMAGES AND BODIES Films by: Forensic Architecture Mohamed Harb Mustafa Abu Ali Oraib Toukan Rehab Nazzal Programmed by Regards Palestiniens Innis Town Hall. 2 Sussex Avenue at St George, south of Bloor, TTC: St George 6 PM | Poster pick up with @palposteringto 7 PM | Screening… Continue Reading GAZA: BETWEEN IMAGES AND BODIES

Join us for the world premiere of a new DIY Toronto classic, Spiders Web, from directors Ben & Oliver Roberts + Frank 'Spider' Dunsten.

Wellbeing has declined among the least educated, especially prime-aged non-graduates who are notably susceptible to what Case and Deaton refer to as “deaths of despair.” Rapid decline in the wellbeing of the young - especially young women – means that those under the age of 25 have poorer mental health than older people. Although wellbeing… Continue Reading The Declining Wellbeing of the Young – The 2024 Morley Gunderson Lecture in Industrial Relations and Labour Economics

DEEPFREEZE Length : 26 minutes Director : Yannick Boissenot Original version, with English subtitles 37 years ago, Patrick Gabarrou and Hervé Bouvard defied the impossible by opening the "Walker Directissime" on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses. No climber has managed to repeat this route until February 2023. Charles Dubouloz, Symon Welfringer and Clovis… Continue Reading Mountains On Stage – The Mountain Film Summer Edition 2024

On April 23, the Canadian Film Forum presents a special screening of the CBC Gem web series, Content Farm, with creators Alaine Hutton (HBA ’11 Cinema) and Lauren Gillis (HBA ’11). Content Farm is a three-part, science-fiction social commentary about two rogue bots who teach themselves to be human on the internet. Nothing is original, and clicks are king. Alaine and… Continue Reading Content Farm Screening and Q&A

Join us as we learn about the history of Sudanese Cinema at an evening screening of Talking About Trees (2019) by Suhaib Gasmelbari.

April 16 is Advance Care Planning Day in Canada and the GTA Chapter of Dying With Dignity Canada is planning a stimulating event to mark the occasion. Dr. Jeff Myers will interview Dr. Sammy Winemaker and Dr. Hsien Seow about their essential guide for patients and family, Hope for the Best Plan for the Rest.… Continue Reading Hope For The Best, Plan For The Rest event.

Sense of independence–what is it for you and me? Creating a nation outside of a state–is that possible? Did we fail? What am I inhabiting? What inhabits me?  Taking place in the Yakutian Arctic, or the Republic of Sakha Yakutia, filmmaker Svetlana Romanova graciously invites the audience into her line of inquiry that vitally challenges… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: CLOSING FEATURE: Voyage of Jeanette

The image is not going to speak for itself explores the possibilities of processing archival footage in the hands of two filmmakers as they read, navigate, and probe our understanding of historic events. Both films in this program use archival footage by radical Palestinian and international filmmakers who formed the Palestine Film Unit; a collective cinematic… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: The image is not going to speak for itself

In Viento del este (East Wind), Maia Gattás Vargas brushes against the multitude of collisions between the materiality of land and the territory of memory. Seeking her lost ancestral roots in Palestine, Maia investigates the mystery of her father’s disappearance in the Jordan River, a river that traverses Palestine and Israeli-occupied territories. The water, snow, rivers,… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: AFK | Screenings Viento del este (East Wind)

This shorts program couples Batoul Faour’s Shafāfiyyāh and Daphne Xu’s A Thousand-Year Stage to consider how urban infrastructures in cities as disparate as Beirut and Xiongan New Area, can function as sites where memory, power, and refusal consistently collide in the geographies of everyday life. In the immediate aftermath of the devastating explosion in August 2020, the city of… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: To look and to loiter: Shafāfiyyāh and A Thousand-Year Stage

Turning the 2024 theme Rehearsing Refusal on its head, this official selection of student shorts curated by the festival’s Emerging Curator, Cole Forrest, is a dynamic reflection of “refusing rehearsal.” These six unique, experiential works explore movement within and outside bodies that are remembering, suffering, moving through identity, taking up space, and experiencing change. Arina Chernova Arina… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: Physical Rehearsal – Our bodies’ identities through narratives

In CodeNames II, maryam tafakory revisits films made in Iran after 1979 through digital projection, live performance, and an archival search for the unspoken that is speaking. It is a search for forgotten names, for forbidden bodies, for women’s disappearances both on and off the screen. Working between cinema and live performance, maryam makes textual and filmic collages… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: CodeNames II

Filmmakers make the light. There is always poetry in images and images in poetry: imagination, desire, steadfastness, and liberation are entangled into material manifestations of scenes, vignettes, soundscapes, lightscapes, stillness, and rhythm. The films and videos in dreamworlds are thought of as material possibilities in which worlds appear that are made up of dreams; worlds dreamt in… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: dreamworlds

The poet is the one who makes the light. Jackie Wang In Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism there is a part called “The Prison Abolitionist Imagination” where Jackie presents a poem by Mahmoud Darwish, the iconic Palestinian poet. In the poem, “In the Presence of Absence,” Darwish writes from the perspective of the “poet-prisoner” who is addressing the… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: The Dream

There is an app on my phone called Pixel Thoughts. When you open it, a piano tune begins to play while a bright translucent circle appears on the screen with a prompt above it: Put a stressful thought in the star. Beneath the star, a blue cursor blinks and the box asks: What’s bothering you?… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: A Little More Connected

How might a city fail? Who determines which factors contribute to its success? Its livability? Which principles determine what is monitored and measured? Whose wants, needs, sorrows, dreams, and desires are considered? What is a city in pursuit of? And who decides? Artist Tamara Jones’ moving image practice engages research and site-specific performance. In This is… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: a city in pursuit

In this time of heightened war and unfolding genocide, the role of the witness remains at the forefront of our collective attention. Daily incursions on Palestinian civilians are live streamed direct to screens, held in our hands. As Ariella Azoulay writes in the Civil Contract of Photography, viewing images of such catastrophic circumstances becomes a civil… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: A Tyrant’s Fear of Songs

This film program considers the more-than-human rhythms that sustain all life on this planet, including our own. At times ominous, and others humorous, spiritual, and tender, the videos in Measured by Some in Seasons invite the audience to become tangled in nature’s timeline, placing oneself and their community within a greater shared web of ecosystems that are… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: Measured by Some in Seasons

A Cuban poet has been arrested and sent to prison. There he meets a young Evangelical man from the countryside and an older actor who has been accused of trying to assassinate Fidel Castro. The actor ushers the two men into the prisoners’ social world, showing them how to resist the authorities’ attempt to re-educate… Continue Reading Images Festival presents: OPENING NIGHT! La noche eterna (The Eternal Night)

Innis College invites all friends, family, and colleagues of the late Peter H. Russell (1932-2024) to remember and celebrate his influential career and remarkable life. Wednesday, April 10 from 6 to 8pm Town Hall, Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave Please register below. Peter was many things: a prolific writer, government advisor, producer of stage dramas, activist, administrator,… Continue Reading A Memorial in Honour of Peter Russell

The Academy for Lifelong Learning Toronto offers a full program of workshops / courses, talks, walks, special interest groups and special events for seniors and older adults (50+) who want to be part of an active learning community. The Academy is a not-for-profit organization operated by volunteers, with a mission to promote learning and social… Continue Reading Spring Talks 2024

'Reset' movie screening and a talk with director Min Bae.

Our last FFF of the year is “Cecil B. Demented” (2000) dir. John Waters! We will also be hosting a social prior to the screening to celebrate our zine, ZINZZU 6-7pm (free refreshments and snacks will be provided). Free and open to all!!

Directed and written by Tomás Ó Súilleabháin and released in 2019.

Learn how rapid urban growth across Canada challenges what long-term future sustainability affordability and quality of life looks like.

Glen Coulthard is Associate Professor @UBC_FNIS @UBCPoliSci who researches contemporary political theory, Indigenous thought and politics, and radical social and political thought. He is a co-founder of @Dechinta_ and is Yellowknives Dene.

CINSSU presents: A 35mm print screening of Secretary.

This panel will be a great opportunity to learn more about film criticism with UOFT ALUMNI Adam Nayman, Saffron Maeve, Alicia Fletcher, and Erika Balsom.

Acclaimed writer and scholar McKenzie Wark discusses current AI text generation within the longer history of automated writing technics.

We are thrilled to present 'Climate Coins & Consciousness: A Collective Cellphilm', a remarkable film crafted over a 5-week cellphilm workshop series. Through the innovative use of cellphones, this film emerges as a true masterpiece, drawing upon arts-based and participatory research methods. This groundbreaking project showcases the voices and stories of 10 passionate racialized climate… Continue Reading ‘Climate Coins & Consciousness: A Collective Cellphilm’ Screening Event

UTSB presents the 13th annual Toronto Sports Industry Conference (TSIC) at Innis Town Hall at UofT on Saturday, March 23 from 10am-5pm.

Join us in celebrating Black Excellence at our Movie Night! Immerse yourself in the timeless classic "Friday" (1995) this Friday at 7pm. Let's come together to honor and appreciate the cultural significance of this film while fostering community and dialogue!

  he Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education (KPE) cordially invites you to the inaugural Peter Donnelly Lecture in Sport Policy Studies, Open Spaces and Social Good: Removing Obstacles to Sport and Physical Activity. Keynote Speaker We are delighted to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Parissa Safai, Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science in the Faculty… Continue Reading Open Spaces & Social Good: Removing Obstacles to Sport & Physical Activity

On March 20, Carmen Logie (BA ’97 Innis, PhD ’10) delivers the 2024 Innis Alumni Lecture, titled “More than clouds and condoms: Connecting climate change and sexual health.” Carmen is the Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations and a professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. Amaya Perez-Brumer,… Continue Reading Innis Alumni Lecture with Carmen Logie

Join us for a Rotman Documentary Insights presentation of "Uncharitable" followed by a Q&A with activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta.

KESKUS International Estonian Centre in downtown Toronto will be a dynamic hub showcasing our rich heritage and promoting Estonian innovation. It will be a vibrant gathering place for Estonians of all generations and backgrounds to connect, celebrate, and share our culture and achievements with each other and the world. (Opening spring 2025) Toronto kesklinna rajatav… Continue Reading Estonian Film Festival

This week’s FFF screening is a double bill of “Crimes of the Future” (1970 & 2022) with MUBICanada. Celebrate David Cronenberg's Birthday!!

Queer Directions is an annual symposium at The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies addressing pressing issues in queer, trans, and sexuality studies, politics, and culture. This year’s theme is Queer & Trans Reflections with speakers Jasbir Puar, Roderick Ferguson, Billy-Ray Belcourt, and Dora Silva Santana. Sexual Diversity Studies is experiencing its 25th anniversary, and… Continue Reading Queer & Trans Reflections: 8th Annual Queer Directions Symposium

Description The 2024 Avie Bennett Literature Matters Lecture: Eden Robinson & Joshua Whitehead EDEN ROBINSON (Haisla / Heiltsuk): Fictional Homes:  Being in Community and Community Representation JOSHUA WHITEHEAD  (Oji-Cree): On Indigenous Joy and Futurisms: The Affects of our Literatures Followed by a dialogue with each other hosted by: Smaro Kamboureli Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian… Continue Reading The 2024 Avie Bennett Literature Matters Lecture: Eden Robinson & Joshua Whitehead

Respirator-Mandatory Screening of a Comedy Classic!

Description A screening of BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK (ดาวคะนอง) by Thai director, Anocha Suwichakornpong. More information to come.

We are having an Oscar party with CINSSU on March 10th.

CINSSU presents a Free Friday Film Double feature!

Join us for a viewing of "One Night in Al-Aqsa" that uncovers the mysteries of the Holy Mosque!

In her most recent film Elegies (2023), Ann Hui documents Hong Kong’s poetry through several of its leading lights. Although the film focuses on living poets, its English-language title points to a poetic form defined by loss and retrospection. In exploring Hui’s mobilization of elegy as that which connects poetry and cinema, this talk develops a critical… Continue Reading Disappearing Acts: Reassessing Hong Kong’s Cinema of Nostalgia Talk by Jean Ma

An exploration of diverse Ukrainian culture through the showcasing of films!

Innis College and the Cinema Studies Institute remember late Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer (1975-2023) with a special screening of his first feature, Nurse.Fighter.Boy, which was inspired by his sister’s struggle with sickle cell anemia and nominated for 10 Genie Awards. Following the screening, a distinguished panel of Charles’s collaborators and friends will reflect on his impactful life and… Continue Reading Remembering Charles Officer: Nurse.Fighter.Boy Screening

This week’s FFF is “The New World” (2005) dir. Terrence Malick (the extended cut)!! This screening is open to all, bring your friends!!!

Join the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE) on Wednesday, February 28th for a Black History Month event featuring Valerie Jerome and her new book, Races: The Trials & Triumphs of Canada's Fastest Family. The Jerome family's impressive list of athletic accomplishments should be a source of national pride. Valerie's grandfather, John "Army" Howard, became Canada's first… Continue Reading Valerie Jerome on RACES

Emissions Record Shop presents a FREE screening with a Q&A with Damian Abraham(Turned Out A Punk podcast) & Otto Buj(Film Producer).

Come for the Canadian premiere of an invigorating American indie, Salamander Days, from directors Rebekah Sherman-Myntti and KJ Rothweiler.

Join us for the premiere of "Nothing with Us, Without Us," which explores anti-Black racism in Canadian Cities (Little Jamaica in Toronto, Hogan's Alley in Vancouver, and Africville in Nova Scotia). This powerful mini-documentary sheds light on the persistent issue of anti-Black racism and its impact on urban planning. Through interviews, personal stories, and expert analysis,… Continue Reading Film Launch: Anti-Black racism in Canadian city planning

CINSSU presents: Free Friday Film - Days Of Being Wild by Wong Kar Wai.

CINSSU presents Oliver Stone's JFK as this week's Free Friday Film. Film starts at 7pm, free and open to all!

Please join Knopf Canada and Another Story Bookshop as we celebrate the launch of Canisia Lubrin’s debut fiction, Code Noir.

Description A screening of the 1968 Stanley Kubrick classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey with an introduction by CIN211H1S - Science Fiction Film instructor, Roshaya Rodness. All are welcome to this free screening.

Hosted by: LHAE DSA Theme: Praxis of Human Rights - Navigating Identity and Belonging through Education Sub-themes: Panel A: The Human Rights Scholar and Knowledge Stewardship Panel B: Accountability Frameworks in Education Panel C: Indigenous Governance / Sovereignty Panel D: Curriculum Transformation and Social Justice Two dynamic components: Student Presenters and Panel Discussion featuring industry experts.

CINSSU presents: Free Friday Film - Demonlover. Free and open to all!

UC Follies presents The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The CSGSU, in partnership with the Cinema Studies Institute, Archive/Counterarchive, The Department of Italian Studies, the Jackman Humanities Institute, the Centre for the Study of the United States, and the Asian Institute at the Munk School is happy to announce the details of our upcoming annual graduate student conference, themed Fragmentation. Please join us at… Continue Reading Fragmentation: 2024 Annual Cinema Studies Graduate Student Conference

n January 31, please join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary Someone Lives Here — the story of one man’s inspiring response to Toronto’s housing crisis. This special Canadian Film Forum event is presented by Innis College, the Cinema Studies Institute, and the Urban Studies Program. A panel discussion will follow the screening with documentary… Continue Reading Someone Lives Here Screening and Panel Discussion

We are back with our annual January film showcase! This year we are bringing contemporary Japanese cinema to Innis Town Hall to warm your hearts and keep out of the cold with our soul-stirring lineup of films. The kotatsu (炬燵 or こたつ) is a signature piece of furniture and the centre of Japanese homes during cold seasons. The modern… Continue Reading KOTATSU: Japanese Cinema

n 1994, in the successful tutorial class of higher education and banning love, the youthful Zhang Zhengheng, Cheng Xiang and monk were the headaches of the class. Their friendship, thanks to the addition of the class flower Chen Si, begins to produce subtle changes. Zheng Heng secretly loves Chen Si, but Chen Si thinks Zheng… Continue Reading Pride Asian Film Festival presents: After School

A panel discussion on the transformative power of public art and creative mediums in urban design to engage and empower youth.

Praveen Kumar is debuting in Canada with his "Family Man Returns" after the stupendous success of his US Tour! About this Event Praveen Kumar (PK), known for his highly successful tamil stand up comedy shows such as "36 Vayathiniley", "Kancheepuram Mapla," and "Family Man," is set to captivate the audience in Toronto with his "Family… Continue Reading Family Man Returns

CINSSU presents Free Friday Films. This week: Mishima - A Life In Four Stages.

Book launch of Jaivet Ealom's Escape from Manus Prison: One Man's Daring Quest for Freedom (Penguin Random House Canada, 2022). Moderated by Elizabeth Wijaya, the roundtable features Jaivet Ealom, Thy Phu, Maral Aguilar-Moradipour, Matthew Walton, and Palita Chunsaengchan.

Get Red On Blue Monday.

Isthmus Join us for the premiere of "Isthmus," the first English film by the talented Abdolreza Kahani, a well-known Iranian director. It dives into the tough topic of spousal sexual assault, shedding light on the untold stories of women caught in challenging relationships. Be part of this impactful screening!

Band Four screening and Concert with Kings & Queens!!!

We're Still Breathing, Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia is a short documentary about the systemic silent genocide of the Amhara people.