Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) CFMDC is Canada's foremost non-commercial distributor of independent and artists' films.

CFMDC is Canada's foremost non-commercial distributor of independent and artists' films from both Canada and around the world.

10/05/2026

🦟 October 2-11 in Bucharest, Romania: Animest Festival returns for its 21st year with ten days of animated films and workshops.

Emily Pelstrings hand-processed 16mm film Petal to the Metal screens in What a Wonderful World shorts program on October 5 & 8. The film draws a parallel between the photographic alchemy of cinematic experiments and the photosynthetic processes of plants.

🗓️October 5 & 8, 2026
📍Bucharest, Romania
🔗https://www.animest.ro/

Still: Petal to the Metal (2021) by Emily Pelstring Emily Pelstring

09/21/2026

🍓ON NOW Until September 30: Labocine’s September Issue “Immortality”

This issue explores immortality not as an escape from death, but as a process of transformation—through regenerating bodies, resurrected species, ancestral memories, enduring images, digital ghosts, and machines that may outlive us.

An autobiographical fable at the cross-section between SCI-FI and Memory Film. L’Arrière Pays by Federica Foglia explores the journey of two dreamers trapped between Past and Present, between Dream and Reality. It combines excerpts from an immigration journal, found text and images suspended in a dystopian dark space.

Immortality also includes CFMDC films: Concrete Shape by Jesi Jordan, in the jasmine vines by Nada El-Omari, souvenir by Cecilia Araneda, and Exhumation by Daniel McIntyre.

🗓️ Now until September 30, 2026
🔗 Labocine or https://www.labocine.com/issues/immortality

Clip: L’Arrière-Pays (2020) by Federica Foglia Federica Foglia

09/14/2026

🪨 ON NOW Until September 30: Labocine’s September Issue “Immortality”

This issue explores immortality not as an escape from death, but as a process of transformation—through regenerating bodies, resurrected species, ancestral memories, enduring images, digital ghosts, and machines that may outlive us.

Concrete Shape is a site specific film created and performed by Jesi Jordan at the Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City. The special effects are hand made using biodegradable materials such as Oaxacan clay, lava rocks, cactus husks, chicken eggs, and water.

Immortality also includes CFMDC films: L’Arrière-Pays by Federica Foglia, souvenir by Cecilia Araneda, in the jasmine vines by Nada El-Omari and Exhumation by Daniel McIntyre.

🗓️ Now until September 30, 2026
🔗 Labocine or https://www.labocine.com/issues/immortality

Clip: Concrete Shape (2023) by Jesi Jordan Jesi Jordan

09/11/2026

🌸ON NOW Until September 30: Labocine’s September Issue Immortality

Labocine’s September Issue explores immortality not as an escape from death, but as a process of transformation—through regenerating bodies, resurrected species, ancestral memories, enduring images, digital ghosts, and machines that may outlive us.

Including souvenir by Cecilia Araneda, examining the evanescence of memory and the process of forgetting. Araneda uses hand-processed B&W 16mm film that is hand-coloured with photochemical toners and incorporates found sound.

Immortality also includes CFMDC films: Concrete Shape by Jesi Jordan, L’Arrière-Pays by Federica Foglia, in the jasmine vines by Nada El-Omari, and Exhumation by Daniel McIntyre

🗓️ Now until September 30, 2026
🔗 Labocine or https://www.labocine.com/issues/immortality

Clip: souvenir (2023) by Cecilia Araneda Cecilia Araneda

09/08/2026

🌱 ON NOW Until September 30: Labocine’s September Issue Immortality

Labocine’s September Issue explores immortality not as an escape from death, but as a process of transformation—through regenerating bodies, resurrected species, ancestral memories, enduring images, digital ghosts, and machines that may outlive us.

Including Nada El-Omari’s experimental short in the jasmine vines.
“Shaping a memoir of my personal return, in the jasmine vines is an assertion that the amalgam that makes my complex identity belongs, gifted by my grandfather and his story and honoured by the generations following his. Forming an imagery of complex memory, archive, story and imagination, this film is a learnt way to place my existence within a narrative. And so, I look for the scents they carry in the jasmine vines.” - Nada El-Omari

Immortality also includes CFMDC films: Concrete Shape by Jesi Jordan, L’Arrière-Pays by Federica Foglia, souvenir by Cecilia Araneda, and Exhumation by Daniel McIntyre

🗓️ Now until September 30, 2026
🔗 Labocine or https://www.labocine.com/issues/immortality

Clip: in the jasmine vines (2021) by Nada El-Omari Nada El-Omari

09/05/2026

☀️ ON NOW Until September 30: Labocine’s September Issue “Immortality”

This issue explores immortality not as an escape from death, but as a process of transformation—through regenerating bodies, resurrected species, ancestral memories, enduring images, digital ghosts, and machines that may outlive us.

A response to news of a celebrity paternity suit and the mythology adhered to it, “Exhumation” by Daniel McIntyre obsesses over buried memories to create one’s own monster from memory. Re-composed of images chemically treated to disintegrate, the figures peel their identities away to remain as ghosts of what once was. At once a diary of a death mask and of speculative hope, “Exhumation” dives through years of hurt feelings to find that although the body was here, you vanished.

Immortality also includes CFMDC films: Concrete Shape by Jesi Jordan, L’Arrière-Pays by Federica Foglia, souvenir by Cecilia Araneda, and in the jasmine vines by Nada El-Omari

🗓️ Now until September 30, 2026
🔗 Labocine or https://www.labocine.com/issues/immortality

Clip: Exhumation (2018) by Daniel McIntyre daniel mcintyre, MFA LOL

08/31/2026

🍃September 8 in New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives presents Dawn Wilkinson’s short Dandelions, screening with Michèle Stephenson’s documentary True North

“Lyrical and full of mirth, this filmmaker wonders out loud in her first film: ‘How do I make myself at home in a landscape made foreign to me?’ Wilkinson looks at herself - black - and ponders in the white landscape called Canada how can she ‘enjoy the flowers’ as she cartwheels with great panache through fields of them. What kind of relationship to the land can she have in a place where she sees herself but where others constantly ask: Where are you from? Wilkinson’s existence vis a vis the land seems to lie somewhere in between the extreme long shots and the close-ups that make up the film, giving at once the feelings of intimacy and estrangement.” - Marian McMahon

Dandelions precedes Michèle Stephenson’s documentary True North which weaves archival footage and intimate new interviews, immersing us in Black life in 1960s Montreal. Michèle Stephenson will be present!

🗓️ September 8, 2026, 7pm
📍Anthology Film Archives, New York
🔗 Anthology Film Archives

Clip: Dandelions (1995) by Dawn Wilkinson

07/28/2026

🏅On Now until July 31: Labocine presents its July Edition, Fields of Play.

Labocine’s July Issue “Fields of Play” explores the field as a space of collective movement, unity, and belonging — where bodies come together through play.

This issue includes all-around junior male by Lindsay McIntyre, a single-subject portrait of a young Nunamiut athlete through the practice of his sport, which focuses on the materiality of film and its surface textures.

Fields of Play also includes CFMDC titles: Fragments de corps by Mélanie Saumure; La dureté du mental by Charles-André Coderre; and Lines Drawn by Chris Kennedy.

🗓️ Now until July 31, 2026
🔗 Labocine or https://www.labocine.com/issues/fields-of-play

Clip: all-around junior male (2012) by Lindsay McIntyre Lindsay McIntyre (artist/director/filmmaker)

07/15/2026

📣 Host your event at CineCycle@CFMDC!

CineCycle is a unique, underground cinema and bicycle repair shop opened by Martin Heath in 1991 and housed in the Victorian-era coach house at 401 Richmond since 1994. CineCycle has been an essential part of Toronto’s indie and experimental film community since its inception.

CineCycle offers an intimate setting for screenings, talks, workshops, performances, and community events.

🌟 Highlights:

🏠 Historic coach house with exposed brick interior located in the 401 Richmond Arts hub
👽 60 person capacity
📀 Digital Projector with 5.1 surround sound cinema system and DCP capability
📽️ Analog projection available
♿️ Wheelchair accessible & gender neutral washrooms (see website for detailed accessibility notes)

💌 Contact us for a free site visit!

Book CineCycle by filling out a booking request form on our website or reach out to us directly at [email protected]

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07/13/2026

📣 Attention Educators! Looking for exciting and provocative films for your classroom?

Check out the Experimental Films for Educational Environments Box Sets!

🏳️‍🌈 Qu**rs on the Verge: This compilation brings together challenging and innovative film and video works that explore LGBTQIA+ culture by both
Q***r pioneers and emerging makers. It covers a broad range of subject matter including gender and sexual identity, social dynamics, coming out, the impact of AIDS, and Q***r youth culture.

🎞️ Super Super8: Introduced as a home-movie format almost 40 years ago, Super 8 film remains a vital and accessible medium for filmmakers worldwide. This compilation of works by both emerging makers and lifelong Super 8 devotees provides a glimpse into the form, aesthetics and politics of this popular but often overlooked gauge.

🎤 Fem Crit: Made by women and dedicated to feminist subject matter that is political, poetic and provocative. These works explore the complexities of identity and womanhood, addressing often-difficult issues such as domestic violence, body image and poverty, and locating the intersections where language, race, class and gender collide.

👐 Made by Hand: In response to an increasingly technological world, there has been an explosion in the number of “handmade” films - those created by working directly with the material of the film. This
compilation showcases works that use a range of handmade and artisanal techniques, including photograms, hand-processing, cameraless animation and collage.

📚 FREE Study Guides available for each DVD set. Guides include an essay by Catherine Burwell and Megan Boler, prompts and questions for classroom discussion, resources for further reading, and viewing recommendations.

✨ Educational and Personal Licenses available

💌 Contact [email protected] for details and check out the CFMDC Shop for more Box Sets, books, and DVDs.

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