⭐🎟️ Your Weekend Festival Pass will give you access to all festival events plus other perks, including:

• 3 live in-person screenings 
• • From the Cypher to the Screen 
  • When We Perceive the Personal 
  • Information Overload!!! featuring FORM Commissioned Artists’ World Premieres)
• 2 artist panels 
• • Panel: After Perceiving, What Happens Next? 
  • Panel: Insight Into the Artistic Process
• 2 workshops 
• • FORMations: Footage Never Lies…? 
  • Grant Writing Workshop
• 1 opening party
• 25% off a Digital Screening Pass

⭐🎟️ Your Digital Screening Pass will give you access to our Digital Library, where you can watch all 25 films screened at this year’s festival. Films will be available for viewing online from November 9-15, 2026.

Date: Friday November 6

Time: 6PM-6:30 PM Doors: 5:30PM

Location: VIVO Media Arts Centre (2625 Kaslo St, Vancouver, BC V5M 1Y8)

Traversing across vibrant imagined outerspaces to the dynamic city streets of Brasil, this collection of films reenergizes our understanding of the ways that street dance(s) interact with the camera. Tied together through the rituals of exchange and connection, these films become living archives of street dance communities near and far, commemorating the people keeping the culture alive.  

🎟️ From the Cypher to the Screen ticket holders will automatically get access to our FORMations workshop immediately following the screening.

Date: November 7

Time: 6:30-8:00 PM Doors: 6:00PM

Location: SFU - Djavad Mowafaghian Theatre (149 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4 | 3rd floor)

Spanning experimental documentaries and poetic embodied explorations, a collection of nine films coalesce to share personal reclamations of physical, social, and ancestral spaces. 

Moments of falling make way for instances of personal memories to be shared as individuals become the agents of their own stories. Against ethereal evening backdrops, our expectations of binary frameworks of purpose and gender are suspended. Narratives continue to reveal themselves through firsthand accounts of diasporic coming of age, migration, disability, and colonization spanning the remaining collection of works featured in When We Perceive the Personal. We are left to feel the imprints of these intimate moments. How have our attunements to our world shifted?

🎟️ When We Perceive the Personal ticket holders will automatically get access to our artist panel immediately following the screening (Panel: After Perceiving, What Happens Next?).

Date: Sunday November 8

Time: 5:30-7:00PM Doors: 5:00PM

Location: SFU - Djavad Mowafaghian Theatre (149 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4 | 3rd floor)

Information Overload!!! Featuring FORM Commissioned Artists’ World Premieres

An abundance of information exists in the world. We are drifting in a sea of news, pop culture, and social media trends. Seeing image after image can feel absurd, hilarious, or draining. What do we do when we’re oversaturated with information? How does it make you feel? Do you choose to embrace the chaos? Do you resist it?

🎟️ Information Overload!!! featuring FORM Commissioned Artists’ World Premieres ticket holders (November 8th) will automatically get access to the artist panel immediately following the screening (Panel: Insight Into the Artistic Process).

Date: Friday November 6

Time: 6:45-9:15 PM Doors: 6:30 PM

Location: VIVO Media Arts Centre (2625 Kaslo St, Vancouver, BC V5M 1Y8)

In this movement and filmmaking workshop led by Kosi Eze, we examine the significance of archival and contemporary footage on the future imaginaries of street and club dance. Inspired by the format of Kosi’s @yuckmouthsessions, participants will engage with movement ideas gathered from case study footage to create a short film by the end of the workshop.

We encourage you to stay afterwards to join us for our opening party! We’ll be celebrating FORM’s 11th year with a party, cypher competition, and music by DJ Rita Spirit! One cypher royalty winner will be selected by a secret judge to receive a cash prize and a Top 8 spot in Cypher Killa Vol. 4 happening in December. 

Date: Saturday November 7

Time: 4:00-6:00 PM | Doors: 3:45 PM

Location: SFU Room 2205 (149 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4)

Date: Saturday November 7

Time: 8:00-9:30 PM Doors: 7:45 PM

Location: SFU - Djavad Mowafaghian Theatre (149 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4 | 3rd floor)

Following the When We Perceive the Personal screening, this panel discussion brings together filmmakers involved in the festival and artists in our community to collectively reflect on the stories we’ve experienced on screen. Films can extend beyond the cinema and inspire us over the days, months, and years that follow watching a work. How do stories of migration, diaspora, and personal discovery continue to inform artists as storytellers and the audience members who bear witness?

Date: Sunday November 8

Time: 7:15-8:30 PM Doors: 7:00PM

Location: SFU - Djavad Mowafaghian Theatre (149 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4 | 3rd floor)

Following of our closing screening, join us for a panel discussion with the artists involved in our 2026 Commissioning Fund Program and Mini Commissions Program. From a cohort of interdisciplinary artists spanning practices in street dance, visual arts, live performance, and experimental film, we’ll learn more about how their unique relationships to movement informed their interpretation of a curatorial theme. This intimate conversation will lift the veil on their journeys from the initial sparks of inspiration to the completion of a final film.

Date: Friday November 6

Time: 9:15-11 PM

Location: VIVO Media Arts Centre (2625 Kaslo St, Vancouver, BC V5M 1Y8)

Register to reserve your spot to join us in celebrating FORM’s 11th year with a party, cypher competition, and music by DJ Rita Spirit! One cypher royalty winner will be selected by a secret judge to receive a cash prize and a Top 8 spot in Cypher Killa Vol. 4 happening in December.