Spring 2026

Pleasure Dome is proud to serve as a Community Partner for the 2026 iteration of Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP), hosted by the Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF). Featuring new work by John Greyson, Mama Ganuush, Teodor Vladár, Dua Omari, Huss AC, and R.R. This is a low barrier event with pay what you can and free options. Proceeds from tickets will go towards alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society who were foundational in establishing critiques of pinkwashing.

Toward Return is a screening and media art installation programme curated by Jennifer Laiwint and Gladys Lou, which takes its title from the paradox of aspiring toward a state that once was. This program explores forms of rehabilitation—medical, cultural, personal, and ecological—while acknowledging the tensions and contradictions within these processes. What does it mean to recover from a deep wound? Can what is damaged or lost be repaired? How do we navigate hope and grief, distance and familiarity? Is it possible to return to a “normal state”? Featuring single-channel videos and an installation, the works position recovery as a shifting state between restoration, exhaustion, and reactivation. Together, these works show the possibility of experimental media for facilitating recovery in various forms.

Pleasure Dome co-presents with TIFF Outside the Frame: The Works of Helen Lee, a retrospective of work by experimental Korean-Canadian filmmaker. Curated by Jacob Crepeault and presented between Pleasure Dome and TIFF Bell Lightbox, this program showcases four of the artist’s early works in their original 16mm and 25mm print formats. In her 2024 film, Paris to Pyongyang, Lee ponders whose stories get told throughout history and why others are left behind with questions like: “What is outside the frame? What can we not see? What cannot be shown?”. These inquiries have been at the core of her early works.