Screenings

Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk, Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF)

Pleasure Dome is honored to co-present filmmaker Sepideh Farsi’s experimental documentary Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk (2025) at this year’s Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF). Farsi’s bold and deeply personal work exemplifies her distinctive approach to filmmaking, blending poetic form with political urgency to explore resistance, memory, and belonging. Join us for this screening on Saturday, September 27 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Part of Fall 2025

New Toronto Works 2025

Pleasure Dome is pleased to present New Toronto Works 2025, our annual program showcasing the vitality, range, and risk-taking spirit of Toronto’s film and moving-image communities. This year’s edition brings together twelve works that span intimate reflection, social commentary, sharp humour, and playful experimentation—works that respond to the urgencies of our time while reimagining the possibilities of the screen. Join us on Thursday, September 25 at Innis Town Hall for an evening that showcases fresh work by both new voices and established experimenters in Toronto.

Part of Fall 2025

Dislocated Visions: Experiments in Representing Place

Dislocated Visions brings together ten works that engage with moving image as a method of thinking through place—where place is not a fixed site but a layered and shifting impression shaped by lived experience, memory, displacement, and the technologies of perception. Spanning geographies from Iran and Ukraine to Finland and North America—as well as the human body—these works attend in experimental ways to territories marked by colonialism, extraction, migration, and resistance.

Part of Spring 2025

Emilia Beatriz: barrunto

Pleasure Dome co-presents with the Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF) a presentation of UK-based Puerto Rican artist and access worker Emilia Beatriz’s expansive debut feature film barrunto. The screening will open with a short film by Canadian filmmaker Morgan Sears-Williams. The screening will take place in person at the Tranzac Club and be available for viewing online at TQFF.ca.

Part of Spring 2025

Programming Archive

Announcements

Call for Submissions: Annual Open Call & New Toronto Works 2025

Pleasure Dome announces that our annual call for submissions is now live! We welcome works to be considered for our open call (short, medium, long films, and expanded media), and for our annual New Toronto Works screening. Please note that in order to be eligible for New Toronto Works 2025, the artist must be based in Toronto or the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and the work must have been made in the 12 months prior to the deadline (completed after March 2024). The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2025 (11:59 pm EST).

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Pleasure Dome’s Executive Director Interviewed for Akimbo’s 25th Anniversary

Akimbo is celebrating its 25th anniversary by interviewing arts organizations in the community under a column called “Reflections.” Because Pleasure Dome was Akimbo’s very first client, we marked their first conversation in the series. Pleasure Dome’s Executive Director Lauren Fournier sat down to speak with Akimbo’s Terence Dick about our organization’s history and vision for the future.

 

 

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Annual General Meeting

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Members of PLEASURE DOME is called for and will be held ONLINE on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 7:00 pm ET. As our membership, your vote at this meeting is vital to the health of our organization. We hope you will join us.

 

 

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