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🎥 Western Canada's largest documentary film festival taking place annually at venues across downtown Vancouver.

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Set in the charming seaside town of Fish Hoek, « Normal To Me » is an intimate feature documentary exploring the lives of individuals with special needs employed at a local protective workshop. Through heartfelt interviews and compelling visuals, the film follows selected individuals on their daily journeys, revealing the resilience, talent, and perspective that make each of them extraordinary.

Film co-presented by: DOXA Documentary Film Festival

Stream online
Available Nov 6 - Nov 20

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NEXT WEEK!

Oceanic Asias: Richard Fung

Film Screening (BC Premiere):
The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo
Post-screening discussion with Richard Fung, Phanuel Antwi, and Dharani Persaud.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema

Artists in Conversation:
Richard Fung and Shani Mootoo
Thursday, October 15, 2026 | 5:30 PM
Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre

Both at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, 149 W Hastings St., Vancouver.

Oceanic Asias: Richard Fung is presented as part of the Global Asias 30th Anniversary Speaker Series & the Margaret Lowe Benston Lecture Series in Social Justice

Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, SFU David Lam Centre, SFU Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, SFU Global Asia Program, and SFU Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology.

Media Partner: Rungh. Community Partner: Indian Summer Festival.

FULL INFO: www.sfu.ca/sca/events

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🇨🇦 We’re honored to announce that Who Moves America will have its International Premiere this Thursday and Friday at the 2026 Vancouver International Film Festival as part of the Insights program, celebrating documentaries that challenge how we see the world and the collective power to change it.

📍 Vancouver International Film Festival
🗓️ October 8 • 6:00 PM
🗓️ October 9 • 1:30 PM

The festival writes that director @yaelbridge “brings a clear-eyed attention to organizing as an everyday practice, compiling footage from meetings, rallies, votes, and the ordinary moments where people decide what they owe one another… Who Moves America turns labour struggle into a human drama of risk, solidarity, and building power.”

Thank you to @viffest, media partner @thetyee, and community partners @docubc, @doxafestival, and @reel_causes for helping bring this story to Vancouver.

Tickets at the link in bio.

#WhoMovesAmerica #VIFF #VIFF2026 #DocumentaryFilm #LaborMovement

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Join @sfucontemporaryarts @sfu_globalasia @rungh.means.colour

Oceanic Asias:Richard Fung screening.

Media Partner: Rungh Magazine @rungh.means.colour

Film Screening (BC Premiere): The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema (Room 3200)
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W Hastings St., Vancouver

https://www.sfu.ca/sca/events---news/events/oceanic-asias--film-screening.html

Post-screening discussion with Richard Fung, Phanuel Antwi, and Dharani Persaud.

Harold Sonny Ladoo was the first Trinidadian and the second Caribbean novelist published in Canada, yet he remains little known except among a group of devoted enthusiasts. No Pain Like This Body was released in 1972 by House of Anansi Press, edited by the press’s co-founder and Toronto’s first Poet Laureate Dennis Lee. It’s a vivid and poetic yet devasting depiction of Indian indentureship. Ladoo’s second novel, Yesterdays, one of the queerest works of Caribbean fiction, was published in 1974, the year after his battered body was found by a roadside in Trinidad. He was 28. Beyond his literary achievements, Harold’s life and death remain mysterious, in part because he kept reinventing his biography.

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En seulement quelques jours : 103 cinéastes et 111 personnes ou organisations de l’industrie ont soutenu notre vision d’un engagement féministe au sein du milieu. Ajoutez votre voix dès maintenant pour montrer que la lutte intersectionnelle est non seulement essentielle, mais aussi la manière dont le milieu du cinéma souhaite avancer pour une plus juste représentation des cinéastes.

Nous tenons à remercier les plus de 230 personnes solidaires à notre geste. Le nombre de témoignages que nous avons reçus, en plus des signatures, démontre un problème bien plus grand qu’un vote pour ou contre l’inclusion dans une mission au sein de cet organisme féministe.

Un organisme qui n’est pas intersectionnel ne peut pas représenter adéquatement notre industrie aujourd’hui. L’appui des personnes non-cinéastes démontre aussi un besoin pour le public et l’industrie de savoir que les réalisatrices et réalisateurices qui portent des récits ont le droit d’être reconnues et valorisées pour toutes les parties de leurs identités.

Il est encore temps de signer notre lettre pour sortir du silence et adresser l’inclusion comme une priorité : lien en bio pour ajouter votre voix 📝

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A festival brings people together. A community makes it possible.

As we celebrate everything iSAFF 2026: DREAMSCAPES became, we want to recognize our festival supporters, community partners and media partners who helped make it happen.

To our festival supporters: thank you for sharing your time, resources, creativity and expertise. Your contributions helped turn an ambitious vision into a celebration of South Asian cinema, and we are deeply grateful for the care you brought to it.

To our community partners: thank you for opening your networks, spreading the word and inviting your communities to be part of iSAFF. You helped our stories reach further and made the festival a place for connection, belonging and discovery.

To our major media partners—Global BC, Daily Hive and Drishti Magazine and every one of our media partners: thank you for giving these stories a wider platform. Every feature, interview, mention and shared post helped connect our filmmakers and festival with audiences.

To every organization and individual pictured here: please know that your support mattered. Whether you worked behind the scenes or helped carry our message out into the world, you were an essential part of this festival.

iSAFF 2026 would not have been possible without this collective support. You believed in the value of South Asian storytelling and helped us create space for it to be celebrated.

The screenings may be over, but the connections and memories remain and you helped make them possible.

From all of us at iSAFF, thank you. This celebration is yours, too.

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Unfiltered! I have returned to tell you about why I love @doxafestival and think that you should support their online auction. Bidding closes Sunday at 9pm, 🔗 in bio 📽️

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DOXA 2026 Opening Night Gala @ SFU's Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre

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#DOXA #canadianfilm #documentary #eventphoto #yvr

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Judy Treichel - Executive Director at Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force - speaking at a hearing on the proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository.

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Special Jury Award 2025 international competition at @visionsdureel , Best Feature Documentary Honorable Mention at @doxafestival 2025

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I had such a wonderful time participating in the annual #DOXA film festival in #VancouverBC

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It was such a wonderful opportunity to not only meet new and local filmmakers, but learn through the means of educational documentaries. I learned so much and I am so thankful!

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#vancouver #documentaryphotography #supportlocalfilm @destination_vancouver @doxafestival @cbcvancouver

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🔥💧Academy Award nominated director of Fire of Love, Sara Dosa, returns to theaters with another National Geographic documentary - Time and Water.

🇮🇸The film follows Icelandic climate author Andri Snær Magnason as he attempts to process the rapidly changing climate in Iceland. He is one of the first people in the world to write an “obituary” for a completely melted glacier - Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier to disappear entirely.

🧊Blending narration with intimate home-movie footage, the film offers a unique opportunity to witness Iceland’s shifting landscapes and be part of the first Icelandic glacier expeditions.

🎬First screened in Vancouver during the DOXA Film Festival, this film definitely made us shed a tear and we can’t wait for you to experience it too.

📍Now playing at VIFF from June 12 to June 18.

#cinemafixyvr #movierecommendations

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