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.

05/27/2026

🎶 June 2nd in Toronto, ON: CFMDC co-presents What Will I Become? at CineCycle

In What Will I Become?, directors Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos explore the vulnerability of their transmasculine+ community. They delve into their own personal experiences, intertwining the stories of two young trans men who died by su***de.

Homecoming king Blake Brockington and soft-spoken Kyler Prescott were poets, musicians, and community advocates. The film traces their joys and challenges, their tragic deaths and resulting media attention, and the larger aftermath within their communities. The film also uplifts resources that affirm trans boys and the trans community as a whole to provide an understanding of su***de-prevention practices.

What Will I Become? asks why the transmasculine community is particularly vulnerable to living briefly and dying quietly.

🗣️ Post screening Q&A moderated by Lily Kazimiera.

🗓️ Tuesday June 2, 2026, Doors open at 6:30pm, screening at 7:00pm.
📍 CineCycle, 129 Spadina ave
🔗 https://arquives.ca/event/what-will-i-become/

Image: poster for ‘What Will I Become?’ Courtesy of the Arquives

05/12/2026

🌟 May 13-17 in Calgary, AB: Fairy Tales Q***r Art & Film Festival returns for its 28th year with films, performances, installations, DJs, drag, and nightlife.

Don’t Take My Joy Away by Omar Gabriel screens May 16th as part of Programmers Choice Shorts Package. Set in Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, two friends revel in the small joys of life until violence suddenly disrupts their world. Forced to flee, they embark on a dangerous journey of survival, confronting fear, chaos, and the stark realities around them. Along the way, they must choose between remaining in the shadows or seeking the light.

💫 “Programmer’s Choice is a bold, unforgettable collection of films that rose to the top—where humour meets heartbreak, and intimacy collides with provocation. Spanning continents and experiences, these stories linger in the body and mind, inviting us into moments of risk, desire, and transformation that refuse to be forgotten.”

🗓️ May 13-17, 2026
📍Calgary, AB
🔗 https://queerfilmfest.ca/

Clip: Don’t Take My Joy Away (2024) by Omar Gabriel

05/06/2026

💫 May 7-10 in Halifax, NS: The 15th Annual Animation Festival of Halifax (AFX 15) includes workshops, panels, artist Q&As, film screenings, and special events.

Don’t miss:
🎨 Martha Griffith’s film Menders screens May 8 as part of Up Late. This short is follows a female art conservator restoring Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus.”
🎞️ Richard Reeves Retrospective showcases a selection of films from Reeves’ impressive oeuvre of direct animation, spanning the early 90s to today. The screening will be preceded by the work made in his open studio and followed by a Q&A with the artist himself.

🗓️ May 7 - 10, 2026
📍Halifax, NS
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Clip: TV (2018) by Richard Reeves

04/22/2026

🔢 ON NOW until April 30, online: Labocine’s April 2026 Edition mathēmatiká explores cinema through numbers, patterns, algorithms, and abstraction: films where geometry becomes choreography, probability becomes narrative, and equations dissolve into image and sound.

“Robin Riad’s short hand-drawn analogue film ostensibly teaches the pronunciation of the Arabic Alphabet in 28 easy steps. In actuality, the hand-drawn letters were printed using a laser jet printer onto the optical soundtrack of 16mm film, and what you hear in the film is the projector reading the letters, and interpreting them into sound. Riad uses humour to play with and sit with her mother tongue, offering a ‘false’ lesson in pronunciation. A response to a digital form of anti-Arab hate that Riad witnessed online coming out of the genocide in Gaza, Abgad Hawaz is a way for her to hold close to her language, culture, and roots.” - Tara Hakim, Toronto Q***r Film Festival

The April issue of Labocine also includes CFMDC films: Lines Drawn by Chris Kennedy and Ville Marie by Alexandre Larose.

🗓️ April 1-30, 2026
🔗 Online labocine.com

Clip: Abgad Hawaz (2024) by Robin Riad

04/20/2026

📽️ April 30 to May 3 in Hawick, Scotland: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival returns for its sixteenth year, presenting thoughtfully curated screenings and exhibitions of artists’ moving image works.

🔆 Don’t miss CFMDC films the following shorts programs:
1️⃣ Robin Riad’s short Abgad Hawaz screens in the program How Do we Communicate, How, which ponder the power and politics of language.
2️⃣ A Place That Can Never Be Reached ruminates on perception and interpretation through mapping and includes Morgan Sears-Williams’ short through the bushes and the trees, you’ll find me.
3️⃣ Lilan Yang’s film Untitled Film Disinfection Project 1 screens in Your Body Has Never Been Your Own, a program that situates struggle and survival within the structures of the state apparatus. & Lilan Yang is present for the Q&A of this screening!

🗓️ April 30 - May 3, 2026
📍 Hawick, Scotland
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Clip: Untitled Film Disinfection Project 1 (2025) by Lilan Yang .studio

04/14/2026

🌳ON NOW until April 30, online: Labocine’s April 2026 Edition mathēmatiká explores cinema through numbers, patterns, algorithms, and abstraction: films where geometry becomes choreography, probability becomes narrative, and equations dissolve into image and sound.

Chris Kennedy’s film Lines Drawn (2023), shot in two downtown Toronto parks over the course of the pandemic, looks at various measures of persuasion, containment and control that were brought to bear over the course of the City’s attempts to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Throughout the pandemic, space was defined by how the social bond was re-formed and which barriers were designed for mutual and directional protection. What are the shapes of the pandemic and how did they shape our interactions with each other?

➕ The April issue of Labocine also includes CFMDC films: Abgad Hawaz by Robin Riad and Ville Marie by Alexandre Larose

🗓️ April 1-30, 2026
🔗 Online labocine.com

Clip: Lines Drawn (2023) by Chris Kennedy

04/09/2026

🍃 April 1-30, online: Labocine’s April 2026 Edition mathēmatiká explores cinema through numbers, patterns, algorithms, and abstraction: films where geometry becomes choreography, probability becomes narrative, and equations dissolve into image and sound.

Including Ville Marie by Alexandre Larose, an optically printed dream of falling, both gorgeous and ominous. The body in mid-air. A canyon of high-rise buildings.

“The works of Alexandre Larose amount to a contemporary cinema of attractions. They are a continuous attempt at describing (and making palpable) the overlapping meshes of film, memory, and the way we experience dreams and space.” -Alejandro Bachmann, Austrian Film Museum

The April issue of Labocine also includes CFMDC films: Abgad Hawaz by Robin Riad and Lines Drawn by Chris Kennedy.

🗓️ April 1-30, 2026
🔗 Online labocine.com

Clip: Ville Marie (2009) by Alexandre Larose

03/31/2026

✨ New hi-resolution scans of Martha Davis’ short films Introducing Elwy (1979), Applying and Removing (1979) and A Ball in California (1980) are now available at CFMDC!

1️⃣ Introducing Elwy (1979) Elwy Yost as a purely physical presence as he talks to the camera, often in extreme close-up.

2️⃣ Applying and Removing (1979) Applying: a n**e woman is painted completely black. Removing: she washes herself off in the bathtub, and goes from black to grey to white

3️⃣ A Ball in California (1980) I took along a beach ball on my trip to California; it is bounced, rolled, tossed, kicked and carried by a motley collection of complete strangers who express a great range of attitudes towards the camera, the ball and me.

Martha Davis has been making films and photographs for the past 40 years in Toronto, Canada. Self-taught, she has created two feature-length films, one of which has screened internationally (“PATH,” 1987), and 18 shorts, two of which were nominated for Genies and were screened at TIFF (“Elephant Dreams”, 1988 and “Reading between the Lines,” 1990).

🌟 Accessibility has become a key focus for collecting organizations of all kinds. Given CFMDC’s role as a distributor, the work of providing more open, widespread, and easier access to titles in our collection is a primary focus. To improve the accessibility of the films in our collection, we collaborate with the TMU film lab to digitize older works. These new hi-resolution scans mean that we now have a significantly higher quality digitization for circulation.

💌 For rental and sale inquiries, contact [email protected]

series focuses on different aspects of the CFMDC film collection that are held in our film vault.

Clip: Applying and Removing (1979) by Martha Davis

03/23/2026

✨ From the CFMDC Collection: Armoire by Vincent Grenier

It was all started by a Red Robin who one day in the spring, obsessively went after his double in the large mirror at the end of our garden. (VG)

“The secret might have been the unassuming wonder of Vincent Grenier’s Armoire, a film in which a small bird expands the edges of the frame by hopping and fluttering about. As the frame responds to his light, unpredictable movements, it is at times rushing sideways or holding still, shrinking and stretched in every imaginable permutation. And yet the frame doesn’t always manage to capture or contain the bird, who in the end darts out of sight. It is as if he is the true filmmaker, directing the scene and, with his own star exit, deciding when to cut.” – Genevieve Yue in SENSES OF CINEMA, Observation in Progress, Views from the Avant Garde, 45th New York Film Festival.

Vincent Grenier’s experimental films and videos have earned numerous awards and have shown in North America, Europe and China at major museums, showcases and festivals. Grenier has made over two dozens films and since 1990 videos.

🟠 CFMDC is a not-for-profit artist-run centre that focuses on non-commercial independent, artist-made work on film and video, including works from historically underrepresented communities. We have one of the most important collections of artist-made moving image on film in Canada that includes 16mm, 35mm and (s)8mm films.

💌 For rental and sale inquiries, contact [email protected]

Clip: Armoire (2007) by Vincent Grenier

03/12/2026

💨 March 1-30, online: Labocine’s March 2026 Edition ODORAMA gathers films that explore odors, smells, and atmosphere as invisible portals—carriers of memory, chemistry, place, and emotion.

Including Christina Battle’s experimental documentary the air we breathe (2023) which approaches the complexities of air pollution by weaving together themes of environmental catastrophe, environmental racism, cultural and political shifts, and conspiracy.

🗓️ March 1-30, 2026
🔗 online at labocine.com

Clip: the air we breathe (2023) by Christina Battle

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