Diaspora Film Festival 2025

Welcome to the Diaspora Film Festival 2025!

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Celebrate cultural diversity through film at the Innis Town Hall Theatre. Join us for a cinematic journey showcasing stories from around the globe. Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of world cinema and engage with filmmakers pushing boundaries.

Experience the power of storytelling and the universal language of film at this in-person event. Connect with fellow film enthusiasts and embrace the beauty of different perspectives. Mark your calendars for a memorable cinematic experience at the Diaspora Film Festival 2025!

Info: Based on a novel of the same title by Azar Nafisi. With Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir-Ebrahimi
In Farsi and English, with English subtitles, Nominated, Best Film, Rome FF 2025; nominated, Best Film, Tallin FF 2025; Nominated, Best Director, Miami FF 2025
Azar Nafisi, a former professor at Tehran University, secretly gathers seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As fundamentalists seize control, the women
remove their veils, speak about their intimate hopes, loves, and disappointments, their femininity, and their search for a place in an increasingly oppressive society. By reading Lolita in Tehran, they
celebrate the liberating power of literature in revolutionary Iran and form their own future.

Info: A Vibrant hand-painted animation brings whimsical Karuara spirits to life in Peru's Amazon. Their mission: maintain the Marañón River's ecological balance as the Kukama people fight for the river's legal personhood.

Info: Tamara Segura inherits family photos unveiling difficult secrets. Interviewing three generations, she pieces together how her well-intentioned father became an abusive alcoholic, paralleling dysfunction in patriarchal systems.

Info: An estranged Métis mother and daughter struggle to overcome their differences but their world comes crashing down when an alluring woman enters their lives.

Info: Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi's one-woman show tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the struggle for equality, challenging audiences with uncomfortable truths when her pursuit of coexistence starts sounding absurd.

Info: Female actors vying for the role of Scheherazade in a famous director's adaptation of "A Thousand and One Nights" discover the audition process may have hidden motives beyond simply selecting a lead actress.

Info: On a quest to save Rambo, his dog and best friend; Hassan is forced to confront the fears of his past and rediscovers himself.

Info: Based on a true story. Best friends Ari and Zahra (14), face life-changing challenges when Ari learns she's terminally ill just as Zahra is ordered to return to Afghanistan. In a heartfelt act of friendship, Ari writes a letter to the Minister, offering her place in the Netherlands to Zahra: "I am dying. Can she take my place?

Info: Summer in The Bronx. He sells "nutcracker" cocktails, gets high, stays moving. Then she moves in. Two kids in a cramped apartment, playing house until the city reminds them how fast the streets make you grow up.

Info: Brittany's Town has unanimously decided to accept Ukrainian refugees in exchange for government subsidies. However, instead of seeing Ukrainians arrive, they now see Syrian migrants, which has caused some conflicts.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Canada