PROGRAM

DocNow 2024 is open to the public and free of charge, but we do have a limited number of seats available for each screening so we kindly ask that you reserve your tickets beforehand.

Screenings

FIRST EVENING

June 7th, 5PM to 9PM at Paradise Theatre​
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A Blurry Night - Haoyu Wang

A Blurry Night is a hybrid documentary that combines nonfiction and fiction about two futuristic robots who recall the memory of several young filmmakers in the past who remembered their college filmmaking life, their last night’s film showing, and the cinema theater where they screened their last films.
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Hacer Hogar - Pablo Rincón Diaz

Hacer Hogar is a documentary that gathers seven Colombian immigrants living in Toronto and interweaves their reflections on the meaning of home and place-making by portraying seven vignettes containing their voices as they build a metaphorical home through their artistic practices.
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Her Street Market - Hongyi, Zhang (Marina)

Beyond buying and selling, the street market in southwestern China, Yunnan is a bustling hub where gossip and information flourish among the bargaining in various local dialects. It serves as a gathering spot where elderly women reconnect with distant sisters and where young love blossoms. The film is narrated through the oral history of Grandma Zhao, tracing back over 60 years of her life intertwined with street markets, and challenges that elderly women facing with when the tsunami of urbanization hits.
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SECOND EVENING

June 8th, 5PM to 9PM at Paradise Theatre
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Nika - Sydney Wray

NIKA is a short portrait-style documentary film about Nika Takagi, a high-performing Canadian gymnast. In 2014, at 14 years old Olympic-bound Nika was forced by her coaches to compete on an injury and a catastrophic incident cost her her dream - nearly a decade later, she is an NCAA gymnast determined to transform the sport's toxic culture.
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What Ales Us? - Cathy van Ingen

Two women reckon with a broken beer industry in Canada and start a movement to change it. This film explores the battle brewing in the industry and what happens to the women who speak out.
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This is a Story About Self-Love (and boobs) - Carolina Gama Di Grado

This is a Story About Self-Love (and boobs) is a 25-minute poetic, expository, and performative documentary that follows the director as she reflects on the effects of extreme beauty standards imposed on Brazilian women on an individual level.
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Exhibitions

The Land of Rebirth - Yuwen Vera Wang

In her documentary series The Land of Rebirth, Toronto- and Yantai-based artist Yuwen Vera Wang captures the lives and living conditions of the elderly population of Wang Gezhuang village. Drawing on her personal connection to the village and its villagers, Wang’s images poetically record not only the private lives of the inhabitants, but also the collective life of the community. The exhibition runs from May 16 to June 29, 2024 at Artspace Gallery and the reception will be held on Jun 6, from 6 to 9pm.
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The Test - A. Sheikh

In the multimedia installation The Test, A. Sheikh explores the mental health experiences of eight Queer Muslim individuals through audio interviews set in a majlis. The instation runs from June 26 to Aug 3, 2024 at the Image Centre Student Gallery. The Opening reception will be held on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 from 6 to 8 pm
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