DOUBLES
91min | Drama | Toronto Premiere
Directed by Ian Harnarine

A Trinidadian street vendor must travel to Toronto and decide if he will help save his estranged father from dying.

DOUBLES will be preceded by the short film XIE XIE, OLLIE

LOOK AT ME
86min | Drama, Comedy | Canadian Premiere
Directed by Taylor Olsen

A fictional autobiography about an insecure, awkward and lonely bisexual actor who goes on an unwitting journey of self-love in the midst of an eating disorder relapse.

LOOK AT ME will be preceded by the short film NOSOCOMEPHILIA

KITE ZO A
70min | Documentary
Directed by Kaveh Nabatian

In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. "Kite Zo A” (Leave the Bones) is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to modern, made in collaboration with poets, dancers, musicians, fishermen, daredevil rollerbladers, and Vodou priests, set to poetry by Haitian author Wood-Jerry Gabriel.

KITE ZO A will be preceded by the short film HELLO ANSON

HAILEY ROSE
93min | Drama, Comedy | Toronto Premiere
Directed by Sandi Somers

Set on the beautiful Nova Scotia coast, Hailey Rose is a contemporary family comedy about love in all its expressions. Hailey's at a personal crossroads when her frantic sister calls with news compelling her to return home - only to discover a stunning surprise waiting for her. A tragic yet heart-warming tale about running away, facing your past and accepting your loved ones, old and new.

HAILEY ROSE will be preceded by the short film SAINT BERNARD

PLACE OF BONES
93min | Drama | Toronto Premiere
Directed by Audrey Cummings

1876. A mother and daughter alone on a remote ranch fight for survival against a gang of ruthless outlaws.

PLACE OF BONES will be preceded by the short film IN THE HEAT

WILD GOAT SURF
103min | Drama | Toronto Premiere
Directed by Caitlyn Sponheimer

Set in a rundown Penticton, Okanagan RV park during the summer of 2003, Goat, a surfing-obsessed, thirteen-year-old skater girl, navigates the unbridled, unstructured, summer days of youth, dreaming about becoming a surfer like her deceased father...all while living 700 km from the ocean.

WILD GOAT SURF will be preceded by the short film UNIBROW

VALLEY OF EXILE
106min | Drama | Toronto Premiere
Directed by Anna Fahr

Set in the early years of the Syrian war, Valley of Exile chronicles the journey of Rima and Nour, two sisters who find unexpected refuge in a makeshift settlement in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after fleeing war-torn Damascus. Older sister Rima, who is eight months pregnant, is set on reuniting with her husband and rebuilding their lives in Lebanon while younger sister Nour is determined to find their missing brother and eventually return home to Syria.
In the camp, the sisters forge alliances with other women who are similarly forced to live without the support of family they've lost to the war. This propels them onto separate paths: Rima finds work as a housekeeper, hoping to earn money to rent an apartment before her baby is born, while Nour sets out to investigate their brother's whereabouts, risking her own safety in the process.

VALLEY OF EXILE will be preceded by the short film KHASTEGARI

DAUGHTER OF THE SUN
108min | Drama, Sci-Fi | Toronto Premiere
Directed by Ryan Ward

A 12-year-old girl struggles with life on the run as she travels across the country with her father who has Tourette Syndrome. Wanting nothing more than a normal family life, she befriends a community of outcasts in the remote countryside who want to harness a volatile supernatural power her father is hiding.

DAUGHTER OF THE SUN will be preceded by the short film BLEAK AS THE SETTING SUN

WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN
91min | Drama, Comedy
Directed by Kim Albright

In an alternate world where hearts are made of objects and suppressing emotions is self-care, a lonely woman rips out her own heart for the man she loves, only to discover that he has run away with it.

WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN will be preceded by the short film BIBI’S DOG IS DEAD

WAAPAKE (TOMORROW)
80min | Documentary
Directed by Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin

For generations, the suffering of residential school Survivors has radiated outward, impacting Indigenous families and communities. Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin’s deeply personal documentary WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) moves beyond intergenerational trauma, with an invitation to unravel the tangled threads of silence and unite in collective freedom and power.

WAAPAKE will be preceded by the short film AFTERCARE

THE BURNING SEASON
89min | Drama | Toronto Premiere
Directed by Sean Garrity

Alena and Tom arrive at Luna Lake for JB and Poppy’s wedding. The night implodes when JB’s secret affair with Alena is finally exposed. THE BURNING SEASON begins at the end, then takes us backwards, each previous summer revealing progressively deeper insights. As the conundrum unfolds, it challenges our preconceptions, tracking the affair over eight summers, and culminating in a surprising revelation that recontextualizes everything we thought we knew…

THE BURNING SEASON will be preceded by the short film TABLE FOR THREE