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.

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.

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.

Pleasure Dome and Bleeding Edge present a screening of works by Toronto-based filmmaker Kalil Haddad at Innis Town Hall on October 28, which includes the world premiere of his film Victim of Circumstance (2024).

Pleasure Dome co-presents two screenings of experimental work at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 28-29, 2024. These programs highlight formally inventive and politically urgent works by Palestinian and diasporic artists, offering powerful reflections on memory, resistance, and the aesthetics of liberation.

Pleasure Dome is excited to present the 2024 edition of New Toronto Works, our annual showcase of recent experimental media by artists based in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. A highlight of our programming year, this screening and roundtable offers a unique opportunity to experience the range, urgency, and innovation emerging from the city’s moving image community.

Pleasure Dome is excited to present The Transfiguration International Film Festival. This traveling international film festival showcases an eclectic range of experimental shorts. Programmed by Jonni Peppers, this festival is artist-driven, audience-minded, and playful in its approach, with an awards ceremony taking place at the end of each iteration. For the Toronto screening, we are thrilled to announce Métis filmmaker Terril Lee Calder and animator Aaron Long will be joining us as our jurors! Be sure to place your vote for the audience choice awards. You don’t want to miss this fun marathon of an evening.

Pleasure Dome is pleased to present the Toronto premiere of non-binary artist Jonni Peppers’s five-part film WASTELAND. Created while Peppers was a student in experimental animation at CalArts, the film explores takes up  isolation, mental illness, and the subjective perceptions of reality in the context of the 2020s. Guest curated by Justyne Benico and Jacob Crepeault.