Cultural Suppression and Revival
SAVAC is pleased to co-present this panel discussion with TPFF that will explore these implications and other attempts to suppress Palestinian arts and culture, and artists who support Palestinian human rights.
Nasir
Nasir by Arun Karthick 2020 | India/Netherlands/Singapore | Tamil with English subtitles | 78 minutes | Toronto Premiere நாசிர் | அருன் கார்த்திக் 2020 | இந்தியா/ நெதர்லாந்து / சிங்கபூர்| தமிழ், ஆங்கில துணை உரையுடன்| 78 நிமிடம்| டொரோன்டொ...
Nimtoh (Invitation)
Nimtoh (Invitation) by Saurav RaiINDIA, 2019, DIGITAL, 85 MIN, NEPALI Presented by Images FestivalCo-presented by SAVAC, MUBI, AGO, Sanghum Film Series and the Toronto Nepali Film Festival Live Stream Set in a remote mountain village that lies...
My Lovely Lunarite
Presented by the Images FestivalCo-presented by SAVAC, aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival, Sanghum Film Series and Sur GalleryWatch via Live Stream A “lunarite” refers to the rocks that make up bright portions of...
We Have Always Been Here
Co-presented with the Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF) How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don’t exist? Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety...
Chaos
Sara Fattahi / 2018 / Arabic and German with English Subtitles / Austria, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / 95 min / Toronto Premiere Winner of the Golden Leopard Award at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival,...
Piece of Mind
SAVAC is happy to co-present Piece of Mind by Erin Hembrador at the Breakthroughs Film Festival. She writes: “An elderly Filipino man finds a young, distraught woman rummaging through his yard. After realizing the...
Domestic Cinema
We are pleased to co-present “Domestic Cinema” at the Images Festival. Artistic Director Steffanie Ling writes that the ongoing discourse of Domestic Cinema springs from Gabi Dao’s film The Protagonists. Examining the relationships that...
Ali Asgar
Exile Series = Rising Sadness Performance and Artist Talk by Ali Asgar Presented by OCAD University’s Art and Social Change, The President’s Office and Onsite Gallery Co-sponsored by SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) and...
