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Broken Film Festival 2026

Films

Program #1: Interstitiating

April 17th - 7:30pm

Silence

46 Essex St

Films in this program hover in dreams, nightmares, and indecision. They seek to find their way back into frame or adjust to a liminal life. They are in passage—transitory, in-between, and not quite. They interstitiate. All but the “soundie” opener of this set will be lived-scored by the Broken Film Festival Silent Film Ensemble. 

Tempo Rubato

Forced Choice // Heaven Has No Beauty Like A Woman Scored

Forced Choice // Heaven Has No Beauty Like A Woman Scored

Director: Sonny Newman

Country: United States

The night before her 18th birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducted by three ghouls.

Forced Choice // Heaven Has No Beauty Like A Woman Scored

Forced Choice // Heaven Has No Beauty Like A Woman Scored

Forced Choice // Heaven Has No Beauty Like A Woman Scored

Director: Amanda Tkaczyk

Country: Canada

A sequence of questions reveals the subtle coercion embedded in participatory frameworks in this filmed performance art piece.

The Money Curse

Forced Choice // Heaven Has No Beauty Like A Woman Scored

The Money Curse

Directors: Abigail Smith

Country: United States

A fogged-out fairy tale of vengeance and greed.

The Entryway

Repertoire of Death

Repertoire of Death

Director: Karen Ralph

Country: Canada

After finding the back door wide open in the middle of the night, a woman soon discovers that she may no longer be alone in her house.

Repertoire of Death

Repertoire of Death

Repertoire of Death

Director: Guadalupe Arellanes

Country: United States

A lucid dream leads to a dance with Death.

Aperta Clausa

Repertoire of Death

Closed Off Opening

Director: Jacob A. Mittermaier-Zubeck

Country: Canada

The gap between what humans can perceive and what exists beyond has left us disconnected from the natural world.

Closed Off Opening

Closed Off Opening

Closed Off Opening

Director: Justin Rhody

Country: United States

An aurae psycho-portrait of a bush in bloom, time spent alongside it & a newfound comfort in isolation.

Out of Frame

Closed Off Opening

Out of Frame

Director: Evan Bode

Country: United States

Trapped in their frames and monitored by a menacing curator, two paintings long to escape from the art gallery's white walls.

Amphibian

Closed Off Opening

Out of Frame

Director: Morteza Rashid

Country: Iran

A man who lives in the middle of nowhere finds a turtle one day and this turtle changes his life.

Program #2: Reassociating

April 18th - 1:30pm

Art Not Shame

119 Wyndham St N

How might people reassociate through dreamstates, unexpected places, or desolate spaces? How might we move through or better carry our collective trauma to arrive somewhere else? What’s on the other side? Is this how the light gets in? Films in this program contend with these questions and seek solutions. 

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Director: Gizem Gungor

Country: Canada

A young woman explores recordings of her dreams in an effort to understand herself.

1 Path

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Directors: Thomas Moray, Stefano Montjoy, Burak Batu Tunçel

Country: Canada

Everyday class-conflict exacerbates into an unexplainable phenomenon in Toronto’s labyrinthine underground PATH system.

Odyssey

Odyssey

Directors: Daniel Jaśniewski

Country: Poland

An anti-road movie shot from a bed-level perspective in a room next to a busy street.

Algorithmia

East of Asessippi

Algorithmia

Director: Thomas M Downs

Country: United States

A poetic contemplation of the psychological impact of confronting the algorithmic function.

I Bear

East of Asessippi

Algorithmia

Director: Nina Razzeghzadeh

Country: Canada

Through memories and abstractions, the past reveals more about the present.

East of Asessippi

East of Asessippi

East of Asessippi

Director: Bob Kotyk

Country: Canada

Two people meet and make a connection at a subway station in downtown Toronto.

Nowhere Left

Nowhere Left

East of Asessippi

Director: Elly Moghtaderi

Country: Iran

Maede gets a call: the world is ending.

Boutique

Nowhere Left

Boutique

Director: Pouya Dastgiran

Country: Iran

An argument, a fish, a gendered divide. 

Beaudry

Nowhere Left

Boutique

Director: Jacob A. Mittermaier-Zubeck, Adam Leo Inniss

Country: Canada

 A hero finds an object in Beaudry station during his commute on the Montreal Metro system.

Program #3: Destructuring

April 18th - 7:30pm

 Art Not Shame

119 Wyndham St N

Pushpins, clowns, circuses, abstraction, and meaning-making. What else is there left to be desired in life? While this program suggests that there is connection in disconnection, it also speculates that screaming in a hole might be the best way forward. 


DYNAMICS

A Collection of Eccentricities

A Collection of Eccentricities

Director: Teo Baehler

Country: Netherlands

Fantasy, form, and texture merge into sensory experience in this stop-motion film, created using everyday materials.

A Collection of Eccentricities

A Collection of Eccentricities

A Collection of Eccentricities

Director: David Finkelstein

Country: United States

Unfolding in the form of a poetic dialog, an examination of the need to map out the world by identifying the objects, people, and works of art which define one’s sensibility.

Dark Circus

A Collection of Eccentricities

Dark Circus

Director: Dee Hood

Country: United States

How much madness can a people endure, how many cycles of history must replay, before we awaken to a path grounded in respect and shared humanity?

Last will of the clown

Intimate Communications

Intimate Communications

Director: Kianoush Eslami

Country: Iran

A drunken clown is fired from his job.

Intimate Communications

Intimate Communications

Intimate Communications

Director: Jamie Lynch

Country: United Kingdom

A film for all who feel the desire to scream with frustration, with pain, with longing... with all our hearts.

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Intimate Communications

virtual DISCussion

Directors: cyber//chiffon

Country: United States

Two films that centre feelings of rage conjured by being trapped by the perception of others and unsolicited attention.

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Watch With The Weary Ones

virtual DISCussion

Director: Mobin Hajilooie

Country: Iran

A struggling writer sells his books on the street. One day, he discovers a mysterious flyer on a tree, leading him to an unknown company where nothing is as it seems.

Whispers Mary

Watch With The Weary Ones

Watch With The Weary Ones

Director: Justine McCloskey

Country: Canada

As Venla documents plants in solitude, she slips deep into the fantastical world she observes and begins to question her senses and reality.

Watch With The Weary Ones

Watch With The Weary Ones

Watch With The Weary Ones

Director: Sina Khani

Country: Iran

An exploration of the American urban landscape  juxtaposes with the filmmaker's inner feelings while returning to images of home.

Beyond the Screen

The BFF Silent Film Ensemble

BFF's opening night on April 17th features four exceptional musicians from Guelph and Hamilton who will providing live score for all  silent films screened. 

Nim Agalawatte

Marcela Echeverri

Nim Agalawatte

No-input Mixing Board

Connor Bennett

Marcela Echeverri

Nim Agalawatte

Saxophones and Woodwinds

Germaine Liu

Marcela Echeverri

Marcela Echeverri

Drums and Percussion

Marcela Echeverri

Marcela Echeverri

Marcela Echeverri

Electric Bass

Installations

New media installations will be running as part of BFF at Art Not Shame on April 18th. Check them out in between screenings.

Worm Pornography

Director: Ian Haig

Country: Austrailia

A hazmat-suited researcher in a bathroom/toilet, credited only as the slime narrator, talks about discovering a new kind of parasite that attempts to complete its life cycle within various contemporary media platforms.

Panel Discussion

 4PM | Art Not Shame | Free


Join us mid-afternoon after "Reassociating" on April 18th for a panel discussion. Find out what panelists feel about experimentation in the 2026 arts landscape. 

Megan Arnold

Jacob Mittermaier-Zubeck

Megan Arnold

Artist and Educator

Thomas Chan

Jacob Mittermaier-Zubeck

Megan Arnold

Curator and Organizer

Jacob Mittermaier-Zubeck

Jacob Mittermaier-Zubeck

Jacob Mittermaier-Zubeck

Director and Artist


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