Experience this year's essential stories of bravery, resilience, peace, and reconciliation, and all for free. The annual Film for Peace and International Peace Festival returns to Toronto this September
SUNDAY, OCT 6, 2024
4 PM - 8 PM
CHARLES PACHTER GALLERY
22 GRANGE AVE,
TORONTO ON M5T 1C7
Best Supporting Actress Zena
Best Student Short Film Yirui
Windows: Dancer YiRui was recovering from an injury at home. She passed by different families to practice walking in her neighbourhood and heard disputes and fights through their windows. Also during this time, YiRui found a girl named Tang Tang who locked herself in the room because she became deaf after an accident. YiRui began to dance in front of TangTang's window to offer her positive energy so that Tang Tang can gain hope in her life. Eventually, Tang Tang walked out of her house and danced with YiRui, and the same for other local residents who stopped arguing and dancing with them on the street.
Film For Peace (FFP) screens a variety of independent short films and showcases filmmakers whose work may fall outside of the mainstream festival market. We also assist emerging artists grow in their careers by offering feedback on the projects they have submitted to FFP. As a grassroots festival, we also invite the community into the world of filmmaking through several events.
FFP video and short film creators are asked to focus on their vision in expressing issues of conflict and resolution, including reconciliation processes. Film for Peace is here to support the creative searches of young filmmakers, in addressing such issues as drug abuse, mental health, bullying, social isolation, racism, poverty, especially with a focus on the problems encountered by youth.
Entrants are judged on their ability to effectively communicate, through the medium of film, potential solutions to achieving sustainable peace as a community. Thirty films, over eleven categories, will be selected to be showcased at the FFP festival on September 20-24, 2024.
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