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⚖️ THE THIN BLUE LINE 👮

Considered one of the best docs of all time, Errol Morris' classic makes a case for a man erroneously convicted of murder.

Featuring an introduction by Maxim Billig.

📅 Screening:
Sunday, May 24, 3:30 PM

🎨 EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: FRIDA KAHLO 🌺

Who was the woman behind the bright colours, the big brows, and the floral crowns? Take a vivid journey through the life and art of a true icon in this in-depth look at the real Frida Kahlo.

📅 Screenings:
Sunday, May 10, 4:00 PM
Sunday, May 24, 6:30 PM

👠 SOME LIKE IT HOT 🎷

In honour of Marilyn’s 100th birthday, Midtown Matinees revisits this enduring classic just in time for the summer heat.

📅 Screening:
Sunday, May 31, 3:15 PM

🌾 SIKSIKAKOWAN: THE BLACKFOOT MAN ✨

Amidst a sweeping Prairies backdrop, this luminous exploration of strength and vulnerability spans generations of Siksika men and boys as they learn to embrace the intricacies of self-discovery, identity and love in a world that often misunderstands and stigmatizes them.

Join director Trevor Solway @trevorthecreator for a special post-screening discussion on May 23. @onf_nfb

📅 Screening:
Saturday, May 23, 7:00 PM

💄 MODERN WH🌸RE 👠

MODERN WH💍RE is a hybrid documentary that reimagines popular depictions of sex work through the lived experiences of writer, performer, and sex worker, Andrea Werhun.

Join director Nicole Bazuin @nicobazuin and producer/subject Andrea Werhun @weenerwoman
for a special post-screening discussion on Friday, May 22.

Nicole Bazuin and Andrea Werhun will be joined by producer Lauren Grant for a discussion after the Saturday, May 30 screening.

📅 Screenings:
Friday, May 22, 6:30 PM
Saturday, May 30, 4:30 PM

🏛️ CURIOUS MINDS TORONTO: CINEMA CITY 🎬

Curious Minds Lectures return with this four-week course that looks at the history of film exhibition in Toronto.

Toronto's history can be told through its movie theatres. From bustling neighbourhood cinemas and Yonge Street grindhouses, experimental film co-ops, to the corporate rise of multiplex chains and decades of censorship battles, the city's screens have mirrored its cultural, social and political life.

In Toronto: Cinema City, journalist and film historian Eric Veillette @veilletteinto will lead us through a four-part journey through Toronto's exhibition history, uncovering the theatres, controversies, and communities that shaped how Torontonians have watched movies for 130 years.

📅 Saturdays, June 6 - 27 at 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
🔗 Register for the full course and save at Hotdocs.ca/CuriousMinds

⚖️ THE THIN BLUE LINE 👮

Considered one of the best docs of all time, Errol Morris' classic makes a case for a man erroneously convicted of murder.

Featuring an introduction by Maxim Billig.

📅 Screening:
Sunday, May 24, 3:30 PM

🌾 SIKSIKAKOWAN: THE BLACKFOOT MAN ✨

Amidst a sweeping Prairies backdrop, this luminous exploration of strength and vulnerability spans generations of Siksika men and boys as they learn to embrace the intricacies of self-discovery, identity and love in a world that often misunderstands and stigmatizes them.

Join director Trevor Solway for a special post-screening discussion on May 23.

📅 Screening:
Saturday, May 23, 7:00 PM

🎤 THE BLIND COUPLE FROM MALI 🇲🇱

The world’s most celebrated African duo, Amadou & Mariam prepare their final album and a homecoming concert in Mali.

📅 Screening:
Friday, May 29, 7:00 PM

📚 Author Talks Returns in June ✍️
Author Myra Bloom joins award-winning journalist Rachel Giese rachelagiese to discuss her new book Evasive Manoeuvres: Canadian Women's Confessional Writing

Focusing on the work of Tanya Tagaq, Nelly Arcan, Sheila Heti, and Sina Queyras, Myra Bloom offers a dynamic exploration of women’s confessional writing in Canadian autofiction and poetry.

As Canadian literature becomes increasingly confessional in its texts, institutions, and discourse, Evasive Manoeuvres provides an exciting in-depth study of an overlooked force driving literary innovation in Canada.

📅 Wednesday, June 17 7:00 PM

🎨 JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD 👑

In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol.

Director Tamra Davis pays homage to the iconoclastic artist in this examination of a brilliant life cut short.

Featuring an introduction by Odessa Paloma Parker. @odessapaloma

📅 Screening:
Saturday, May 23, 4:00 PM

The @imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival returns from June 2-7, 2026 (Toronto) and June 8-14, 2026 (online). We’re excited to be a co-presenter of AANIKOOBIJIGAN, Screening at TIFF Lightbox.

AANIKOOBIJIGAN [ANCESTOR/GREAT-GRANDPARENT/GREAT-GRANDCHILD]
Directors: Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zack Khalil (Ojibway)
Denmark/USA | 2026 | 80 min
English | Documentary Feature
Content Warning: Flashing/Strobing Lights

Ancestors trapped in museum archives demand a reckoning, and it’s time we listen. Guided by defiant Indigenous voices—past, present and future—and shaped with a bold artistic vision, this urgent film confronts entrenched practices and calls for the rightful return of Indigenous human remains to their community.

Preceded by

All My Love Thanks
Director: Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo)
USA | 2026 | 3 min
English | Music Video

A Laura Ortman music video.

Learn more at imagineNATIVE.org