DIFFUSION 2024

Razan AlSalah, A Stone’s Throw, courtesy the artist

DIFFUSION 2024

August 8 – 11, 2024
401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
Bachir/Yerex Screening Room (4th Floor) & Building Courtyard (Ground Floor)

The third edition of DIFFUSION presents non-fiction artist films from Canada and across the globe in seven programs of shorts over four days. Talks and writing and gatherings run parallel. All are welcome!

Our summer festival returns from Thursday, August 8 to Sunday, August 11, 2024. We’ll have indoor screenings at 401 Richmond on the 4th floor and outdoor screenings in 401 Richmond’s lovely courtyard at dusk each evening.

Here are the amazing artists and filmmakers featured this year:
Razan AlSalah | Basma al-Sharif | Che Applewhaite | Ballroom Throwbacks TV | Samy Benammar | Chanasorn Chaikitiporn | Demie Dangla | Carl Elsaesser | Husna Farooqui | Renée Green | Kaleem Hawa | Faisal Karadsheh | Gelareh Khoshgozaran | Rizki Lazuardi | Yuqian Li | Jordan Lord | Marlow Magdalene | Kinga Michalska | Monica Maria Moraru | Luciana Decker Orozco | Van Luber Parensen | Leonardo Pirondi | Jocelyne Saab | Mike Stoltz | Emir West | Teo Wey Yinn | Chris Zhongtian Yuan

The full program schedule is now online

All screenings are by donation; $5-10 suggested, no one turned away. Building is wheelchair accessible with gender neutral washrooms near both venues. Snacks and beverages available.

COVID-19 safety: please monitor your situation and for everyone’s interest, especially those immunocompromised we asked that you not attend if you are feeling unwell. Face masks are encouraged for indoor programs (KN-95 and other mask options provided).

About re:assemblage collective
Since 2016 this collective has been committed to championing underrepresented voices and perspectives through public film/video screenings. We are itinerant and intentional. We are “reassembling” assumptions about artist film/video practices: who is shown and the forms of works championed. The re:assemblage collective was co-instigated by Christina Battle and Scott Miller Berry and is currently comprised of Faraz Anoushahpour with Miller Berry and calls Tkaronto/Toronto home.

Programming team for DIFFUSION 2024
Faraz Anoushahpour
Daphne Xu
Scott Miller Berry

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401 Richmond Street West
Bachir/Yerex Screening Room (4th Floor)
Building Courtyard (Ground Floor)
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8

DIFFUSION 2024 made possible thanks to generous funding from Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des arts du Canada and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council. Special thanks to 401 Richmond, The Commons at 401 Richmond, Lost Craft Brewery, all of the artists + film distributors, our team and audiences!

Kaleem Hawa’s curatorial program is supported and co-presented by York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies with funding support through a SSHRC Connection Grant. With special thanks to Leila Pourtavaf and Robin Simpson.