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🎞️ international movement-on-screen festival
🩵 #FORM11 • November 6-8, 2026
📍 so-called Vancouver
✨ celebrating the body in motion through film

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‼️ CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS ‼️
Whether you’re passionate about film, movement, or just love being part of a creative community, we’d love to have you on board as a volunteer! ⭐

Receive complimentary access to the festival by supporting in any of these roles: 📸Photographers
📲Box Office/Front of House
🔨Event set-up and take down support
🥂Bartenders
🪧 Poster Distribution support 
🔗🩵Learn more & Sign up → link in bio

Slide 1 photo credit by @hantopiaaa taken in Vancouver - Unceeded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Territory by @formvancouver

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‼️2026 BOX OFFICE IS LIVE ‼️  Join us NOVEMBER 6-8, in cinemas, online, and public screens throughout so-called Metro Vancouver and Toronto as we celebrate movement in all its forms through the eyes of #youthartists & #emergingartists! 🎉 
🌐29 Short Films from 13 Countries, 7 World Premieres from Commissioned Artists

🎥Screenings 🕺Cyphers 📝Workshops
🤸FORMations 🎤Artist Panels 🏙️Public Screens

Head to f-o-r-m.ca for tickets/passes‼️
🔗link in bio taken in Vancouver - Unceeded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Territory by @formvancouver

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⭐𝙀𝙨𝙩𝙠𝙚𝙨é𝙥: 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙊𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 by Naomi Watkins
🩵FORM 2026 Commissioned Artist
🌐World Premiere

Estkesép: Moving Fast and Almost Out of Sight is a creative non-fiction short directed by Naomi Watkins that considers the complexities of beginning again through a fragmented introspection on returning to land, water, and Secwépemc language. Shot between three locations, the film traces a journey of discovering an ancestral compass across Turtle Island, looking toward the birds and listening for their songs while reflecting on their relationships to movement, intuition, memory, and what it means to belong.

🎟️Tickets/Passes 🔗link in bio
‼️𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙!!! | Nov 8
💻#DigitalLibrary Nov 9-15

🌱 Read more about the artist and their film on our website → f-o-r-m.ca/2026-festival-schedule by @formvancouver

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⭐0.3𝙢𝙇 by Matisse Dupas (Canada) YOUTH
🩵FORM 2026 Commissioned Artist
🌐World Premiere
Content Warning: Harsh language, mention of sexual themes related to lived experiences of misogyny

0.3mL engages with movement, music, and poetry as sites of transformation where the self is constantly fluctuating, defended, or reshaped. This film draws inspiration from lived experiences, video archives, and love of rap music from the perspective of a mysterious being seeking the language of his/their liberation, somewhere between imitation, memories, and fiction. By intersecting lyrics, images, and sound, it explores transness and metamorphosis not as linear transitions, but as unstable, ongoing negotiations between environment, politics, body, voice, and desire.

🎟️Tickets/Passes 🔗link in bio
‼️𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙!!! | Nov 8
💻#DigitalLibrary Nov 9-15

🌱 Read more about the artist and their film on our website → f-o-r-m.ca/2026-festival-schedule by @formvancouver

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⭐𝙋𝘼𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙄𝙉 by Trey Denzyl (Canada) YOUTH
🩵FORM 2026 Commissioned Artist
🌐World Premiere
Content Warning: Minor strobe lighting

𝙋𝘼𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙄𝙉 is an experimental visual work exploring identity, tradition, and transformation in an age of information overload. Drawing from Trinidadian cultural memory, the film considers how traditions can become distorted, diluted, and reinterpreted through the constant circulation of images and media. The body becomes a site of conflict between inherited identity and an increasingly saturated digital world. Through surreal imagery, movement, ritual, and transformation, figures embody the tension between holding onto what was passed down and confronting what has been reshaped. 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙄𝙉 exists between dance, fashion, and fine-art cinema: a meditation on cultural memory, media saturation, and the search for authenticity.

🎟️Tickets/Passes 🔗link in bio
‼️𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙!!! | Nov 8
💻#DigitalLibrary Nov 9-15

🌱 Read more about the artist and their film on our website → f-o-r-m.ca/2026-festival-schedule by @formvancouver

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⭐𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙! by Bona Lee (Canada) YOUTH
🩵FORM 2026 Commissioned Artist
🌐World Premiere

In a world that constantly produces emerging yet clashing styles across endless niches, microtrends, and aesthetics, one starts to question whether these serve as inspiration for curating an original style or instead become an incoherent mixture far from one’s authenticity. In 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙!, Mia attempts to curate the perfect outfit for an unknown event she gets invited to. With endless options and pressure to impress her friend Jess, she ends up in a frenzy and perhaps not the best dressed.

🎟️Tickets/Passes 🔗link in bio
‼️𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙!!! | Nov 8
💻#DigitalLibrary Nov 9-15

🌱 Read more about the artist and their film on our website → f-o-r-m.ca/2026-festival-schedule by @formvancouver

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⭐𝙍𝙊𝙏𝙏𝙄𝙂 by Liam Minnebo (Netherlands) EMERGING
🌐Canadian Premiere

In pursuit of peace, a young woman finds herself trapped within the moral noise of conflicting climate perspectives.

🎟️Tickets/Passes 🔗link in bio
‼️𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙!!! | Nov 8

🌱 Read more about the artist and their film on our website → f-o-r-m.ca/2026-festival-schedule taken in The Netherlands by @formvancouver

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⭐𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 by Olivia West Alvarez (England) EMERGING
🌐Canadian Premiere

What remains of dance when it is no longer seen? As a performance unfolds out of frame, we are invited to reimagine dance through sound, language and imagination.

🎟️Tickets/Passes 🔗link in bio
‼️𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙!!! | Nov 8
💻#DigitalLibrary Nov 9-15

🌱 Read more about the artist and their film on our website → f-o-r-m.ca/2026-festival-schedule taken in London, England by @formvancouver

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🩵‼️𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙!!! 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙈 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨’ 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨
🤝Presented with Festival Supporter SFU Live
🎤With Guest Introduction by Carmen Papalia
🗓️Sunday November 8 | 5:30-7:00PM | Doors: 5:00 PM
📍Location: SFU - Djavad Mowafaghian Theatre

𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙!!! is a collection of cinematic responses to the ways that information consumes us from every angle. Artists ponder the existential, wondering how traditions, morality, and individual expressions are diluted by compounding trends and discourses.

🎟️Head to our box office for Weekend Screening Pass and Individual Screening Ticket options
 Wanna experience these films online? Our #DigitalLibrary is available November 9-15 💻with a Digital Screening Pass

Films Screening:
𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 by Olivia West Alvarez @oliviawestalvarez
𝙍𝙊𝙏𝙏𝙄𝙂 by Liam Minnebo @liamminnebo
𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙! by Bona Lee @luvbblee
𝙋𝘼𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙄𝙉 by Trey Denzyl @treydenzyl
0.3𝙢𝙇 by Matisse Dupas @the_m_dupas
𝙀𝙨𝙩𝙠𝙚𝙨é𝙥: 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙊𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 by Naomi Watkins @naomiwatkinsva

🎞️Poster featuring: Film still of @liamminnebo’s 𝙍𝙊𝙏𝙏𝙄𝙂  #movementonscreen #youthartists #emergingartists#emergingartists

Carmen Papalia is a nonvisual social practice artist whose performances, public interventions, and curatorial projects explain aspects of disability culture, such as interdependence, de-medicalization, and creative accessibility. taken in SFU Woodward's by @formvancouver

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🟣𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹: 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁?
🤝Presented with Festival Supporter @sfulive
🗓️Saturday November 7 | 8:00-9:30 PM | Doors: 7:45 PM
🎤With Guest #Panelists: karmella benedito de barros, Ogheneofegor Obuwoma, Sonia Medel
📍Location: SFU - Djavad Mowafaghian Theatre 
Following the 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗪𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 screening, this panel discussion brings together filmmakers involved in the festival and artists in our community to collectively reflect on the stories we’ve experienced on screen. Films can extend beyond the cinema and inspire us over the days, months, and years that follow watching a work. How do stories of migration, diaspora, and personal discovery continue to inform artists as storytellers and the audience members who bear witness?

🎟️Free by Registration, registration included with Weekend Screening Pass & Individual Screening Ticket
🔗link bio

Hear from our 2026 Opening Film Commission Artist

karmella benedito de barros is 2spirit Afro-Brazilian & Nêhiyawak/mixed-settler, and a member of the Mistawasis First Nation (treaty 6). they are an interdisciplinary artist, organizer and co-founder or the art ecoststem collective.

Ogheneofegor Obuwoma (she/they) is a Nigerian-born artist, writer, and arts worker based in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Working across moving image, photography and installation, their practice considers how colonialism and neocolonial dispossession shape the body, the land, and the conditions under which Black identity and belonging are delimited and negotiated.

Interdisciplinary Latina artist Sonia Medel advances decolonial, intersectional feminist arts through performance, research, analysis, publishing, curation, and directing across the Americas. taken in SFU Woodward's by @formvancouver

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⭐𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝙁𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙙 by Julia Kushnarenko (Belgium) EMERGING
🌐Canadian Premiere

A poetic documentary where the experience of migration and the search for identity is explored through dance.

🎟️Tickets/Passes 🔗link in bio
🟣𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗪𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 | Nov 7
💻#DigitalLibrary Nov 9-15

🌱 Read more about the artist and their film on our website → f-o-r-m.ca/2026-festival-schedule taken in Belgium by @formvancouver

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⭐𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙨 𝙜𝙞𝙧𝙡 by Abbey Richens (Canada) YOUTH
🌐World Premiere

An explorative dance film about being a girl and playing tennis.

🎟️Tickets/Passes 🔗link in bio
🟣𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗪𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 | Nov 7
💻#DigitalLibrary Nov 9-15

🌱 Read more about the artist and their film on our website → f-o-r-m.ca/2026-festival-schedule taken in Toronto, Canada by @formvancouver

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