Distribution News: November 2026
Local Screenings
Gimmie Some Truth Documentary Festival is screening two works by Tyson Houseman! Endless Sunlight is preview-screening Surrendur by Karthik Pandian on November 6th, and opwêyakatâmêw is screening in Shorts Program #1: Flowers Flicker on Friday November 6th.
"This year’s edition explores the importance of interconnection as a radical act of surviving the current moment, highlighting the significance of community. These films interrogate the threshold between documentation and dream, survival and spirit, reminding us that documentary is an act of reimagining the world as it might yet become."
WNDX Festival of Moving Image is screening Computer-Assisted Simulation Technology for Optimizing Rivers by Ryan Hill in the Open Call 1: DON’T BE NERVOUS program on November 12th.
"What time is it? It’s so dark in here. These are films to fill the hole you dug yourself into in the middle of the night. Computer glitches. Wedding presents. Fever dreams. Strange and sensory cinema for when the lights just won’t turn back on."
Gallerie Buhler's exhibition What Colour is the Sacred runs from September 17th from 6-9pm. The show features a selection of works curated by hannah_g, including opwêyakatâmêw by Tyson Houseman and August by Sharon Alward.
"What is the sacred’s hue, texture, form? How is it perceived and expressed through art? A wonderfully alive quality of the sacred is that it refuses tethers—a quality shared by great art. In this group exhibition, the art works hold the potential to tell us something about where the sacred might be found, whether this is outside ourselves or within.
Quelle est la teinte, la texture, la forme du sacré? Comment est-il perçu et exprimé à travers l’art? L’une des qualités les plus saisissantes du sacré est qu’il refuse toute contrainte – tout comme le grand art. Dans cette exposition collective, les œuvres d’art ont le pouvoir de nous révéler où se trouve le sacré, que ce soit à l’extérieur ou à l’intérieur de nous-mêmes."
Inter/National Screenings
Dream Sequence London is screening Anthology of Fruits and Vegetables by Dawn George in Food on Film on November 9th
"Food on Film serves up a series of experimental short films that explore food not merely as something that nourishes us, but as a provocation, a material and an element within the filmmaking process itself."
Interspecies Library and Field Meridian are screening See Weeds by Dawn George on November 14th at Sensoria Session 1, curated by Jacob Lindgren.
"Sensoria Sessions invites us to attune our human senses to alternative frequencies, intelligences, and more-than-human ways of being. Through guest-curated films, soundscapes, book selections, and sensory activations, each session builds an immersive environment for critical, speculative, and tactile encounters with worlds beyond our own.
For the first gathering, Sensoria Session I brings together zines and moving images"
Stamped Film Festival in Pensacola is screening The Fruit Machine: A Space Opera by Lorri Millan and Shawna Dempsey on November 15th.
UCLA Film and Television Archive is screening Just Dandy by Theo Jean Cuthand in Archive Talks: Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds on November 15th. The program features a wide variety of works by trans and gender expansive filmmakers, and a pre-screening talk by Laura Horak, author of Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds.
"Archive Talks pairs leading historians and scholars with screenings of the moving image media that is the focus of their writing and research. Each program will begin with a special talk by the invited scholar that will introduce audiences to new insights, interpretations and contexts for the films and media being screened."
North Bay Film Festival is screening two works in the VP catalogue:
- Endless Sunlight by Tyson Houseman is screening on November 16th alongside It Was Just an Acciddent by Jafar Panahi
- The Fruit Machine: A Space Opera by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan is screening alongside No Other Choice by Park Chan-wook November 16th
"This 3 day festival features international, Canadian, and local films along with filmmaker Q&As, receptions, workshops, and industry events. NBFF serves audiences living in and around North Bay. We are dedicated to presenting the best of contemporary cinema, principally highlighting the work of Canadian, Indigenous and Northern Ontarian filmmakers. Our mission is to shine a spotlight on new perspectives, marginalized voices and bold artistic visions."
Image+Nation is screening four works in the VP catalogue:
- Peripheral Vision by B.G-Osborne is screening online and in the Becoming program on November 21
- The Fruit Machine: A Space Opera by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan is screening online in the Made au Canada program on November 27th
- Host by Zachery Longboy and Poem by && are both screening online in the Indigiqueer Voices programÂ
RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival) is screening Endless Sunlight by Tyson Houseman in the National Short and Medium-Length Competition program on November 27th and 29th.
Now Introducing to the Catalogue...
Opals metal gravy by Alana Bartol
Opals metal gravy weaves dream narration with images of animals to explore queer kinship across distance and time. Moving across distance, time, and species, dreams become a way of transmitting love, connection, and knowledge between worlds.
Atopic by Herlinda Dalayoan
Atopic is an experimental short film that uses analogue video processes to glitch skin textures,
viewing the body as a technological system that retains cultural memory. The work investigates
how Atopic Dermatitis (eczema) results from diasporic displacement and persists in an
environment the body was not made for.
Atopic was made through VPMAC's Video Commission Residency. The work premiered alongside Kiss the Wound by Christian Hajjar and Ghosts along the shoreline by Kaya Joan on Sept 18th in VCR VOL. 4: ATTRITION at VPMAC's Poolside Gallery
Kiss the Wound by Christina Hajjar
A group of cousins visit home, looking for answers about the past. Through the emotional landscape of Lebanon, the body becomes a portal for ritual and memory. In this personal documentary, Haifa Wehbe’s pop lyrics set the stage for a poetic meditation on wounds as director Christina Hajjar traces the fault lines of freedom and belonging. The sun beams sweetness onto fig trees and the sea, charcoal rubbings form keepsakes, and a full moon brings release.
The Sanctuary by Ashkan NejadebrahimiÂ
Our Bodies are the forefront of encountering the outer world.
A border between the self and the other. Where we receive pain and pleasure, and experience joy and grief.
Our bodies are the only true sanctuary we have.
Persian Frankenstein by Ashkan Nejadebrahimi
Immigration can feel like to live with fractures of past and present. Pieces that the person brought from the root and parts that gathered through the path. Persian Frankenstein is a video art work that narrates a self-portrait of artist in relation to displacement and immigration through the context of mark making.
The Trees Barely Moved by Sylvia Matas
Aerial photographs of forests are combined with subtitles describing tornado intensity and
wind speed. As the storm escalates, the titles move through the creation of carbon atoms, the
emergence of life, the formation of fossil fuels, and the impact of humans on our environment.
The Direction of Time by Sylvia Matas
The images are satellite photos of the Antarctic Thwaites Glacier spanning 40 years. The
subtitles describe the movement of heat from a hand into a cave wall or window, connecting
human history and the small scal
If you're interested in bringing your work into our catalogue please contact madeline@videopool.org for inquiries!