Images Festival 38th Edition: Tickets on Sale Now

Door Prize (Film Still) 2025, John Greyson.

Images Festival 38th Edition:
Not only stars, but parts of constellations

April 10 – 14, 2025
Various locations, Toronto & Online

Images Festival’s 38th edition opens next week! From April 10-14, 2025, we will be presenting films, exhibitions, performances, tours, and talks. Get your tickets on a tiered sliding scale. We also have passes available for all audiences.

Anchored in Gloria Anzaldúa’s call to be ‘parts of constellations’, this year’s program celebrates collective vision over solitary stars, and is curated by Programming Director Jaclyn Quaresma with Curators-in-Residence: The Camelia Committee (Mira Adoumier and Nour Ouayda), Heather Canlas Rigg, Kate Wong and the 2025 Images Festival Emerging Curator, Nala Haileselassie.

Festival screenings will take place at Innis Town Hall, with additional programming at Gallery TPW, Vtape, TIFF, Gallery 44, Mercer Union, LIFT, Cinecycle, and Le Labo, with thanks to our festival partners!

Admissions at a glance:

• Single Tickets ($5-$75): Available on a tiered sliding scale for all budgets.
• Festival Pass ($65): Access to all in-person screenings.
• Industry Pass ($65): Access to all in-person screenings with remote access to screenings, anywhere in the world.
• Student Pass ($30) Access to all in-person screenings (ID required)

We provide tickets at no cost for those who require financial assistance. If you require an access ticket, please email frontofhouse@imagesfestival.com.

Features & Performances:

• Dionne Brand’s Long Time Comin’ – April 11 at 11am
• World Premiere of John Greyson’s Door Prize – April 13 at 7pm (with ASL and Active Listeners)
• Maryam Tafakory’s first Canadian performance! Entangled for the First Time – April 12 at 5:30pm
• Poetry performance by m. nourbeSe philip: A Smile Split by the Stars – April 12, 8pm (free to attend)
• Annie Wong’s Burial for a Hungry Ghost – April 14 at 1pm (ASL interpreted)
• Natalia Lassalle-Morillo’s Passage of the Spiral – April 11 at 3:30pm.
• Sanaz Sohrabi’s One Image, Two Acts – April 11, 6pm
• Arjuna Neuman & Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims – April 13, 2pm (ASL and described audio).

Screenings of Shorts:

• Nowhere close to halfway (Ayo Akingbade, Adebukola Bodunrin, Alex Lo, Annie Sakkab , Eri Saito, Evelyn Pakinewatik, Jia-Chae Chang, Mona Benyamin) – April 11, 12:30pm
• A Thousand Landscapes (Charline Dally, Helena Girón, Jad Youssef, Samuel M. Delgado, Samy Benammar) – April 12, 11:30am (with Active Listeners)
• Screening of Student Films! I didn’t hear the wind echo (Alejandra Harrison, Alejandra Saldivar , Amel Moyersoen, Eva Swiatkowski, Liz Adler, Sandra Ignagni, Tram Anh Nguyen) – April 12, 3pm
• A Thousand Bodies (Agnès Hayden, Gala Hernández López, Irina Tempea, Martin Davalos, Nikola Ilic, Sarah Ballard) – April 13, 4pm (with Active Listeners)
• But this is the language we met in (Hassan Khan, Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh, Shen Xin, Sohrab Hura, Tao Hui, Theo Jean Cuthand) – April 14, 11am
• Online Screening: Stream Arjuna Neuman & Denise Ferreira da Silva’s trilogy (Serpent Rain, 4 Waters – Deep Implicancy, Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum) globally, April 11–15.

Talks, Tours, and Events (Free):

• Opening Reception at Gallery TPW: Never One Thing Alone – April 10, 7:30pm
• Opening Party with DJ ESCOBUTT at Gallery TPW – April 10, 9pm-Midnight
• Opening Reception at Mercer Union: An Impossible Address – April 11, 8pm
• Student Mixer at Innis Town hall Lobby – April 12 at 4:30pm.
• Artist Talk: The Camelia Committee at Le Labo (French language) – April 13, 1:30pm
• Artist & Curator Talk: This Could Be You: 15 Years of Zeesy Powers – April 14, 4pm
• Tour: LIFT Facilities Tour (RSVP required) – April 14, 3pm
• Closing Party at CineCycle – April 14, 5-10 pm.

Submissions for 2026:

Film submissions for the 39th Images Festival—taking place in April 2026 will— open on April 10, 2025 and remain open through the summer! Visit the submissions page on our website for more details.

For the full calendar and details of programs and events, please visit imagesfestival.com.

About Images Festival

Images Festival is a non-profit, artist-led festival dedicated to experimental film, media arts, contemporary art, and the spaces in which these forms coexist. Images’ programming interrogates the conditions of contemporary moving image culture, and provides a platform for artists, filmmakers, curators, and other practitioners to engage with experimental practices in both form and content.

Press

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