New Toronto Works 2025

Patricia Marcoccia & Maziar Ghaderi, Nonna’s Seeds, 2024 (4:00)

**Pleasure Dome Presents New Toronto Works Screening**

Thursday, September 25, 2025
Doors at 6:30pm | Screening starts promptly at 7:00pm
Innis Town Hall, Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

Pleasure Dome is pleased to present New Toronto Works 2025, our annual program showcasing the vitality, range, and risk-taking spirit of Toronto’s film and moving-image communities. This year’s edition brings together twelve works that span intimate reflection, social commentary, sharp humour, and playful experimentation—works that respond to the urgencies of our time while reimagining the possibilities of the screen. Join us on Thursday, September 25 at Innis Town Hall for an evening that showcases fresh work by both emerging voices and established experimenters in Toronto. The screening will be followed by an in-person roundtable and Q&A with the artists.

The screening is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first come, first serve basis, so we strongly encourage you to arrive early.

Hala Alsalman, The Rod & The Ring, 2024 (9:00)

Program:

Brian R Donnelly, Yonge Again, 2024 (1:00)
Sydnie Baynes, African American Express, 2024 (2:38)
Patricia Marcoccia & Maziar Ghaderi, Nonna’s Seeds, 2024 (4:00)
William Hunt, crack my heart open to the sky, 2024 (2:00)
Hala Alsalman, The Rod & The Ring, 2024 (9:00)
Adrienne Scott, Finding another entrance, trying the same door, 2024 (15:00)
Vivek Shraya & Christopher Sherman, Sex is Sex (My Daddy), 2024 (1:00)
Nathan Donovan, Blue Stomach, 2024 (4:00)
Mariana Grezova, Does It Remind You Of Something, 2024 (1:43)
Christina Dovolis & Tavis Putnam, Taking the Piss, 2024 (4:10)
JL Whitecrow, The First Indigenous Female Pornographer, 2024 (13:20)
Ian Keteku & Komi Olafimihan, Sankofa, 2024 (5:36)

Estimated run time of the program: 1 hour, 7 minutes

Content warning: There are works in this program that contain graphic nudity and sexual content, including depictions of pornography. Recommended for audiences 18 years of age and older. Viewer discretion is advised.

Please direct any questions to Pleasure Dome’s executive director Lauren Fournier at pleasuredomemanager@gmail.com

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