Celebrate connection, creativity, and courage with over 20 films that reveal the power of storytelling to illuminate our roots, our present, and the futures we dare to imagine. Please see the schedule and lineup for CineFAM Film Festival below:
From 7pm @ The Hub (Dundas West Studios)
Banned is set in an unknown country, this multi-genre feature film shows how the world will look like if a racist world leader wins an election, and how it will impact the lives of three families, in three phases, as he is close to winning, winning and after becoming president.
Directed by: Reem Morsi
From 7pm @ The Hub (Dundas West Studios)
Brishkay Ahmed
Canada | 2025 | 21min
On the night of the Taliban’s arrival in Kabul, a young woman must work through her fears and find hope in tomorrow
Sunita Miya Muganza
Canada | 2024 | 13min
Halima, a single mother living in a close-knit, East African community in Calgary, is thrust into a precarious situation when she makes a last-minute decision to stop her 13-year-old daughter Salama’s trip back to Kenya to be circumcised
Alicia Harris
Canada | 2024 | 9min
A young Black girl navigates exclusion in her all-white ballet class, reclaiming her beauty, identity, and power in an ethereal and unapologetic celebration of Blackness.
Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Canada | 2023 | 19min
It’s a story about two women, Nawal (Palestinian) and Tanya (Indigenous), who start a guerrilla garden on their apartment building’s lawn and face resistance from management.
Amanda Ann-Min Wong
Canada | 2024 |18m
In 1998 Jakarta, two girls promise to stay friends forever. “Rosa’s Flowers” is a surrealistic, narrative short film exploring the unbreakable bonds of friendship beyond memory, borders, and time.
Yvette Sin, Nikita Zhang
Canada | 2023 | 17min
When a troubled Chinese-Canadian boy gets suspended from school, he spends a week collecting cans with his oddball immigrant grandmother, a fellow outcast who teaches him that, sometimes, it’s okay to cry.
Amanda Strong
Canada | 2024 | 18min
Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unburied swarm of terrifying creatures.
From 7pm @ The Hub (Dundas West Studios)
In a Toronto suburb, an Indo-Caribbean Muslim teenager, Adeela, can’t help but fantasize her way through every part of her day. Adeela is secretly fiery, searching for her confidence amongst the emotionally limiting environments she feels she has no control over. In her daydreams, Adeela explores her desires to be seen and heard as the stylish, artsy, justice-seeking young woman she anxiously wants to be. Hesitant to radiate that confidence in real life, she seeks inspiration from an outspoken classmate and comes to learn that she is the only one capable of giving herself the push she needs.
Directed by: Yazmeen Kanji, Canada, 2024
Jax Guillen
Canada | 2025 | 12min
As a young woman prepares to depart for a life-changing opportunity abroad, she discovers items from her last relationship that she wishes to return to her ex in the hopes of receiving closure from him.
Follows visionary chef Marielle Lau as she fights to save her career. On the brink of being fired from her restaurant’s new owners, she develops an incendiary dish with a bewitching ingredient—one that may change everything. Starring Sook-Yin Lee.
Directed by: Priscilla Galvez
Holly Andersen
Canada | 2023 | 15min
In Hebron Relocation, Holly Andersen explores what makes a place a home as she learns more about her community’s connection to generations of displaced northern Labrador Inuit.
Asia Youngman
Canada | 2021 | 10min
A short comedy about two very different women who find acceptance in one another when they encounter the sexism found in today’s society.
Beatrice Villadelgado
Canada | 2024 | 7min
A coming-of-age, slice-of-life story about Jesse, who faces her fear of driving while navigating the challenges of taking control of her own life.
Alisi Telegut & Dominique Dussault
Canada | 2021 | 10min
A child by all means tries to gain her father’s affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.
Samantha McAdam
Canada | 2024 | 3min
When a late-night emotional eater tries out the latest health craze, a revolutionary smart oven called ‘Gourmade’, she’ll soon find out that delicious meals aren’t the only things this AI oven is dishing out.
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