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.

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.

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.

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.