Location:

TIFF Lightbox Cinema

350 King St W, Toronto, ON M6K 1H7

From notions like the anti-colonial leader, poet, and agronomist Amilcar Cabral’s concept of “returning to the source”, to the “right to return” for Palestinians and displaced Indigenous people across the globe, how can film be used to disrupt the settler logic of static time and linear progression?

Spanning struggles and geographies across the Caribbean, India, Bangladesh, Angola, and Palestine, this program looks to artists and filmmakers who use a diversity of tactics of staging return through an examination of artifacts of the past, re-creations, rehearsals, repetitions, reincarnations, speculative fictions, and spectro-poems. This program proposes film as a possible site for exhibiting and envisioning an infinite number of returns of people, land, resources, kinships, and insurgencies. With works by Suneil Sanzgiri, Onyeka Igwe, Basel Abbas & Ruanne About Rahme, Sarah Maldoror, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Noor Abed.