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Canada's largest environmental film festival // October 20-25 2026 @paradiseonbloor

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Delighted to announce that my short animated film “The Music of the Spheres” will have its Canadian Premiere at @planetinfocus on Sunday, October 25th, 3 PM at the Paradise Cinema @paradiseonbloor My short precedes the feature film “We Are Stardust.” I couldn’t think of a more perfect pairing.

The Music Of The Spheres
Director: Jennifer Linton | Country: Canada | Canadian Premiere | 7 min

Three celestial beings contemplate a post-human Earth where newly hybridized lifeforms have evolved out of the debris of the Anthropocene.

#animation #2danimation #cosmology #ecology #plastic

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I am thrilled to announce that my new film tierra will have its World Premiere at @planetinfocus 🌎🌱

This stunning festival is Canada’s largest and longest- running environmental film festival and I am honoured to be a part of it! If you are in Toronto next weekend come view a collection of important shorts about Land, Loss and Resilience. I am so excited to share this new little film with you all. Special thanks to @toddmandolin who created the tender and quirky sound for the film.

🍃 Saturday October 24th @ 6:30pm
💚 Paradise Theatre

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✨ Our North American premiere! ✨

We Are Stardust is heading across the Atlantic for its first screenings outside Europe, at Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. 🌎✨ It is Canada’s longest-running environmental film festivals, founded in 1999.

A film about Jon Larsen’s hunt for stardust, the origins of the universe, the wonders hidden in the dust beneath our feet, and our place in the cosmos feels right at home at a festival exploring our relationship with the planet we call home.

For me, it will also be a first: my first time in Canada! I’m so looking forward to meeting fellow filmmakers, connecting with the documentary community, and discovering new conversations around the film.

From European gutters to a new continent - the Stardust journey continues 💫❤️

🎬 North American Premiere
📍 Paradise Theatre, Toronto
🗓 Sunday, 25 October 2026
🕒 3:00 pm
🎤 Followed by a conversation with director Elisabeth Rasmussen

#WeAreStardustfilm #PlanetInFocus #NorthAmericanPremiere #DocumentaryFilm #femaledorector @filmfatalesorg @wearestardust_documentary @planetinfocus

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I’m excited to share that my new short film, Years Coming Together, will premiere at the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival at Paradise Theatre in Toronto on October 22.

Link in bio for tickets.

Synopsis
Constructed from archival footage by the National Film Board of Canada spanning the 1950s to the early 2000s, “Years Coming Together” approaches the climate crisis through a layered montage of encounters between the natural world and human ambition.

Credits
Footage: NFB Archives
Editing: Kyle Gregory Sanderson, Seth Fluker
Sound: Kyle McCrea, Seth Fluker
Voiceover: Damian Rogers, Max Fluker
Colour: Dimitri Levanoff
Funding: Canada Council for the Arts

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Really happy to finally be bringing Replanting a Garden home to Toronto!

After screening at festivals over the past year, the film will have its Canadian premiere at @planetinfocus on October 24 at 3 PM.

The film follows fishers, coral gardeners and conservation leaders in Oracabessa, Jamaica, working to restore their reef after a devastating coral bleaching event.

If you’re in Toronto, come see it on the big screen

October 24 · 3 PM · Toronto @paradiseonbloor
Tickets available through @planetinfocus

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Out on the Water has its Toronto premiere at @planetinfocus
 Wed, Oct 21 · 9 PM · Paradise Theatre

Two Black queer entrepreneurs, a pair of fly rods, & a sport that has rarely pictured them in it.

Directed by Anushay Sheikh & Cathy van Ingen.
 Made possible with support from the 2SLGBTQI+ (Rainbow) Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub @rekh_csea and the Canadian Queer Chamber of Commerce @queerchamberca

Tickets at Planet in Focus

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Am primit o veste care mă onorează enorm: pe 24 octombrie, @planetinfocus Environmental Film Festival din Toronto îmi va acorda 2026 International Eco-Hero Award.

Anul trecut, același premiu a fost primit de Juma Xipaia, lideră indigenă din Amazon și protagonista documentarului Yanuni, produs cu Leonardo DiCaprio. Faptul că numele meu urmează după al ei spune pentru mine foarte mult despre greutatea acestei recunoașteri.

Există și o ironie pe care viața mea o repetă. În România, munca mea a fost adesea incomodă pentru autorități, corporații și interese puternice. Recunoașterea vine însă, iar și iar, de la mii de kilometri distanță. După EuroNatur Award și UN Champion of the Earth, acum vine această distincție din Canada. Cumva, cei de departe văd mai limpede valoarea unei lupte decât cei care trăiesc lângă ea.

Și se întâmplă într-un context foarte frumos: în aceeași seară, la Paradise Theatre din Toronto, va fi proiectat și Wild East. Premiul este pentru mine, iar filmul spune o parte esențială din munca pentru care îl primesc.

Wild East există datorită Maiei Wikler, Ceciliei Brown, lui Audrey Popa și Winslow Crane-Murdoch, iar Lina Brunellius este alături de mine într-o parte importantă a poveștii din Suedia, unde ne întoarcem la originile IKEA și la contrastul dintre imaginea sa verde și ceea ce am găsit în păduri.

Dacă sunteți în Toronto pe 24 octombrie, veniți la @planetinfocus . Pentru premiu, pentru Wild East și pentru pădurile care au nevoie ca adevărul lor să călătorească mai departe decât zgomotul drujbelor.

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ONTARIO PREMIERE

We are honoured to be the closing film at the Planet in Focus Film Festival (@planetinfocus ) at the historic Paradise Theatre (@paradiseonbloor )!

Planet in Focus is Canada’s leading environmental media arts organization and hosts the country’s largest and longest-running environmental film festival. Their mission is to enlighten, engage, and entertain audiences of all backgrounds through film.

We love their expansive definition of “environment,” which embraces natural, cultural, social, and political-economic systems, from the bodies we live in and the physical structures we build, to the languages and cultures we share, and of course, Earth and its complex multitude of life.

Our film will be preceded by the experimental short Materia by the incredibly talented @alisitelengut . We’re deeply grateful to be part of such a wonderful evening!

📅 October 25 6:30pm
📍 Paradise Theatre, Toronto

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ESTRENO EN ONTARIO

¡Es un honor para nosotras ser la película de clausura del Planet in Focus Film Festival (@planetinfocus ) en el histórico Paradise Theatre (@paradiseonbloor )!

Planet in Focus es la principal organización de artes audiovisuales ambientales de Canadá y organiza el festival de cine ambiental más grande y de mayor trayectoria del país. Su misión es inspirar, involucrar y entretener a públicos de todos los orígenes a través del cine.

Nos encanta que su definición de “medio ambiente” abarque los sistemas naturales, culturales, sociales y político-económicos: desde los cuerpos que habitamos y las estructuras físicas que construimos, hasta las lenguas y culturas que compartimos y, por supuesto, la Tierra y su compleja multitud de vida.

Nuestra película será precedida por el cortometraje experimental Materia, de la talentosísima @alisitelengut . ¡Estamos profundamente agradecidas de ser parte de una noche tan maravillosa!

📅 25 de octubre, 18:30 h
📍 Paradise Theatre, Toronto

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Best things to do in Toronto this October Part 2! 👻

#todotoronto #funthingstodo #freethingstodo #fallinspo #fallactivities

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Después de su estreno mundial en Sheffield DocFest, queríamos que el estreno en Colombia fuera en un lugar que hablara de lo mismo que habla nuestra película, la vida de quienes defienden su territorio. Por eso fue tan especial estar en la edición 11 del @festicinejardin , “Ecos y voces silenciadas: vida y muerte de líderes sociales en Colombia”.

Como escribió Pedro Adrián Zuluaga en @revistapapel1 , frente al cuerpo doblegado hay que oponer “la alegría de los cuerpos erguidos, la potencia de los cuerpos que luchan”. Eso fue Jardín para nosotros. ✊🏾

Y como si fuera poco, el público nos regaló su premio. 🏆 Gracias, Jardín, por recibirnos con tanto cariño. Gracias a Víctor Gaviria y a todo el equipo del festival por abrirle espacio a estas historias.

Y gracias a este equipo hermoso que hizo posible el camino 💛

Próxima parada: @viffest VIFF, Vancouver 🇨🇦 · 8 y 9 de octubre

La Sed del Viento had its Colombian premiere at the 11th Jardín Film Festival, an edition dedicated to the lives and struggles of social leaders, the perfect home for our film. We’re deeply grateful to have won the Audience Award 🏆 Thank you, Jardín, and thank you to our beautiful team 💛 Next stop: @viffest , Vancouver 🇨🇦, October 8 & 9.

#LaSedDelViento #CurareFilms #FestivalDeCineDeJardín

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By the pricking of our thumbs, something wicked this way comes this month in Paradise! 🧙‍♀️🧹👻🎃

Check out our October lineup! Genre classics, new releases and restorations, live shows, plus more to be announced!

🎟️link in bio

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Thrilled to announce that my short animated film “The Music of the Spheres” will have its Canadian Premiere at @planetinfocus International Environmental Film Festival in Toronto. The festival takes place October 20-25, 2026 at the beautiful Paradise Cinema on Bloor (@paradiseonbloor )

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