Harbourfront Centre: Festivals Flood and Film Culture

harbourfront centre: It increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd, given how specialized some of these festivals can be, according to NOW Magazine. So after 15 years, Reelworld has decided to evolve. If you follow film culture in Toronto, you know how many smaller festivals flood the city in the weeks after TIFF. Just this weekend, you can choose from Reelworld, Toronto After Dark, COMMFFEST, Cine Iran and BRAFFTV, with ImagineNATIVE and Planet In Focus launching a few days later. Newly installed at Harbourfront Centre, the festival has committed itself to a program of socially and culturally relevant cinema, screening features, shorts and documentaries designed to provoke thought and change, assembling them into a cohesive whole. He cites three documentaries: the festival opener, Shadow World, which examines the global arms trade; Almost Sunrise, about PTSD and the emerging phenomenon of moral injury, in which military personnel cope with battlefield violations of their personal codes; and the British TV documentary Exodus: Our Journey To Europe, in which a group of displaced Syrians document their own flight to safety. So many of the issues that face our city and our world are interconnected, explains Reelworld new executive director, Gave Lindo, and we really wanted to have a space where we could showcase important stories about pressing issues, but also be able to connect the dots a little bit. × Expand Exodus: Our Journey To Europe documents the lives of displaced Syrians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.