19min | Documentary | Toronto Premiere

At the beginning of summer, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to families and friends to question their cultural heritage. Through tender conversations, Here and There juxtaposes the different influences that steer the blossoming of the cultural identities of second and third-generation immigrants.

Director: Chadi Bennani
Writer: Chadi Bennani
Producers: Chadi Bennani and Laurie Pominville
DOP: Etienne Roussy
Editor: Jérémie Mazan
Music: Louis-Joseph Cliche

Cast: Ana Cyr-Lamonda, Adam Pelletier-Aliou, Dahlia Charbonneau

19min | Drama | World Premiere

After discovering her recently deceased grandmother's secret love letters, a Chinese-Canadian millennial and her girlfriend try to track down the recipient to deliver her grandmother’s last letter.

Director: Alice Wang
Writer: Alice Wang
Producer: Kathlyn Rose Gardiner
DOP: Lulu Wei
Production Designer: Shian Grace
Editor: Michelle Hanitijo
Music: Susie Wang

Cast: Tristen Huang, Anoushka Prasad, Lily Li, Kang Ho

4min | Experimental | Canadian Premiere

A poetic exploration of identity through the eyes of a Harari woman, displaced via war, now living in Canada. She uses poetry and movement as a meditative method of reconnecting with her roots and in doing so, establishes a magical bond with her ancestors.

Director: Niya Ahmed Abdullahi
Writer: Niya Ahmed Abdullahi
Producer: Niya Ahmed Abdullahi
DOP: Rividu Mendis
Editor: Sonya Mwambu

Cast: Manal Abdullahi

11min | Drama

When a new South Asian mother, gives birth, she realizes she may be stuck in a place of darkness, without knowing how to get out. Be it her struggles with breastfeeding or the crippling anxiety that something can happen to her newborn, Pari soon dissolves into her puddle of grief.

Director: Asis Sethi
Writer: Armin Sethi, Asis Sethi
Executive Producer: Armin Sethi, Asis Sethi
Producer: Daisy Guron, Rabiya Mansoor
DOP: Daniel Everitt-Lock
Production Designer: Alexis Fisette
Editor: Asis Sethi
Music: Janal Bechthold

Cast: Gauri Prasad, Sukhman Gill, Ronica Sajnani, Sarabjeet Singh, Jasmine Sawant, Rehraas Kaur Sethi-Randhawa, Amayra Patel

14min | Drama, Comedy

Mohamed sells knock-off perfume while living as a knock-off version of himself. Grappling with the loss of his father, his mother's anxious attempts to get him married and the shadow of his hidden Queer identity, Mohamed finds solace in a day spent with a stranger who lives in true self-acceptance.

Director: Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Writer: Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Executive Producer: Lauren MacKinlay
Producer: Farah Abdo
DOP: Issa Shah
Production Designer: Maria Al-Sa'di
Editor: Naseem Loloie
Music: Suad Bushnaq, Howlin' Circus, Tara Moneka

Cast: Mostafa Shaker, Guled Abdi, Hamsa Diab Farhat, Augusto Bitter