In Development
90 min | English | Canada | Gabrielle Zilkha
Filmmaker Gabrielle Zilkha embarks on a candid, darkly funny road trip to reckon with a lifelong companion she never chose: her antidepressants. As she retraces a decade of trying to live without them, her private search opens onto a vast and largely invisible world of psychiatric medication, and the millions who quietly depend on it. Part personal journey, part cultural inquiry, the film asks what it really means to feel like yourself.
This Version of Me
The Shape of Blue
90 min | English | Canada | Sybilla Patrizia
Two Japanese indigo dyers embark on a transformative, inner journey: one uncovers the profound meaning within the hues of blue, while the other gains a new way to see through his colorblindness. Together, they fight to revive a century-old tradition on the brink of disappearing.
Theft of Fire
90 min | English | Canada, Palestine, France | Amer Shomali
Theft of Fire tells the story of an art heist that never happened, set on the backdrop of true historical events, people, and places. A duo of a Palestinian archeologist and an ex-Prisoner hatch a plan to steal back priceless antiquities from Israel’s former Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan. Over several decades, Dayan had pilfered antiquities from Palestinian lands and with them, Palestine’s own history.