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Come celebrate Niagara’s film community, connect with fellow film lovers, and get a first look at what’s in store for this year’s festival. Save the date, bring your friends, and join us for the official MNFF #6 launch party!

A controversial documentary made in 1970 by Denys Arcand about the Quebec textile industry. The film highlights the phenomenon of factory closures, the daily lives of workers afflicted by illness (industrial deafness, pneumochonyosis), and finally, the strikes and struggles to escape this difficult situation.

Tidal Surges is a dynamic collection of short films exploring the ways we move through, connect with, and respond to a changing world. This MNFF program brings together local filmmakers with distinct perspectives, creating a varied and surprising cinematic experience. Come ride the wave and discover something new.

After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete.

Join us for the launch of Barry Grant’s Peter Jackson: Film Authorship in a Global Hollywood, followed by a screening of Jackson’s 1995 mockumentary Forgotten Silver—New Zealand’s most notorious media hoax..

After being sent to rural Québec to perform at a seedy motel, exotic dancer Gina (The Silent Partner’s Céline Lomez) establishes a friendship with a group of visiting documentary filmmakers and becomes aware of a lecherous Ski-Doo gang hiding out on an abandoned ship. Keenly aware of one another’s presence, Gina and the gang develop an antagonistic relationship that eventually leads to a horrific assault. But what these ski-masked snow deviants don’t realize is that Gina works for some of Montreal’s most dangerous criminals, and they’re on their way to enact an ugly revenge.

Dive into the wild and unpredictable currents of Tidal Surges, a series of short films that brings together local and regional filmmakers exploring a range of stories, ideas, images, and perspectives that will surprise, challenge, and stay with you long after the credits roll.

Carry Me Home Songs From Niagara is a music documentary that includes 10 music videos and interviews featuring 10 Niagara original songwriters and 10 local venues / businesses in collaboration. The documentary highlights Niagara artists and business/venues in the region.

Reality Frictions explores the intersection of fact and fiction on the screens of Hollywood, highlighting moments when images, people or events from the real world intrude on the cinematic one

Before there was “Vine”, before there was “Tik Tok”, the Niagara Falls' Sylvia Ang Film Festival celebrated the magic of the moment with videos ten seconds and under. Inspired by the innovative videos of poet Sylvia Ang, the Mini Mighty Niagara Film Festival invites you to gather or create mini films and to celebrate the videos that say a lot in very little time.

In How We Stand, writer-filmmaker Marie Clements follows three sisters through the long aftermath of the Native American Relocation Program that uprooted Indigenous families. Opening in 1950s Oklahoma, we’re introduced to a single mother (Cara Jade Myers) and her three young daughters. Drawn by promises of opportunity and stability, the family moves to Los Angeles, but their ambitions never materialize, and a traumatic event separates the girls. Twenty years later the sisters have taken vastly different paths: Jessie (Amber Midthunder) is a clinic doctor; Miranda (Alyssa Wapanatâhk) is an activist-turned-actor; and Janey (Isabel DeRoy-Olson) is unraveling under the weight of a trauma she’s never been able to name.

Dive into the wild and unpredictable currents of contemporary cinema. This series of short films showcases local artists who bend form, fracture narrative, and push the boundaries of image and sound to create bold, thought-provoking works that ripple far beyond the screen.

Join us for two short films exploring food, farming, and wine. From a chef who finds a new path through farming after losing his senses, to a father and daughter whose shared life in the vineyard becomes a meditation on love, labour, and legacy.

Post-screening Q&A with Pirate Produce director Sandy Chronopoulos, Chef Shane Harper and Restaurant Pearl Morissette Chef & Co-Founder Daniel Hadida.

Two untalented actors follow their dreams despite disastrous attempts at success in show business.

Brigitte and Ginger Fitzgerald are teenage sisters with a fascination with death and a pact to escape their suburban hometown together. When Ginger is attacked by a mysterious creature on the night of her first period, her body and behaviour begin to change, putting their fiercely close relationship to the test.

Awake gently to the soothing SMASH! CRASH! BOOM! POW! of Saturday morning cartoons in NAC’s Microcinema. Another whack of whackiness has been carefully curated by NAC member Kevin ‘Attic Daddy’ Richardson with some classics thrown in from the 16mm collections of NAC member JC Culp and a pick or two from NAC’s own legendary film archive!

The Better Cities Film Festival St. Catharines Edition returns this November as part of the Mighty Niagara Film Fest, bringing people together through films, local places, and ideas about how we shape the cities we call home.

This is a pay-what-you-can event, with donations going to Community Care.

Before the internet and reality television, Ralph Zavadil was entertaining Southern Ontario audiences with The Cap’n Video Show, a cable access series built around outrageous and occasionally dangerous stunts. Running from 1990 to 1995, the show developed a small but devoted following. All it took to finally get noticed was a broken neck.

This kaleidoscopic culture jam from visionary filmmaker Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century, Universal Language) details the rise of Canada’s 18th prime minister through a satirical collage of archival footage, television nostalgia, and national mythmaking.