After her divorce, a mother drives a rented moving truck with her daughter in the passenger seat. The two head into a new future, only to discover the pain and difficulties of leaving the past behind.

After 100th The Thursday Testo, the tri-linguistical references such as the Roman and Korean (Hangeul)alphabets and the Japanese syllabic (Katana) alphabet.

When Nabil learns his mentally ill brother has ordered for euthanasia, he’s forced to decide whether or not to respect his brother’s wishes.

A deeply personal film inspired by true events adapted from a screenplay that won the Writers Guild of Canada prize at SODEC’s Cours Écrire ton Court (Sprint for your Script) competition.

This powerful drama explores timely and challenging subjects through the unique lens of South Asian Canadian brothers in middle age where there is no black and white answer and everything is grey.

Based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Dédé Chen is an author and filmmaker interested in exploring the dynamics of filiation. She holds a degree in anthropology from Laval University and completed a master’s in international relations at the University of Beijing. Upon her return, she began developing a writing practice, blending poetics and politics, and focusing on themes such as sexual violence, the body as territory, and archival work. She co-edited Les Asiatitudes (2024), the first French-language anthology of authors descending from Asian diasporas in Quebec, and has published autofiction works in literary journals such as Le double de la mère in Moebius (2021), Femmage in Le Crachoir de Flaubert (2022), and Renasiance in Estuaire (2024). Her first short film, Papaya (2022), premiered at the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, and was awarded the Prix du Coup de Coeur at the Festival Accès Asie, as well as an honorable mention at the Festival Filministes and the Vancouver Festival of Recorded Movement.

She feels a need to reconnect with her community of origin in the city and amplify the voices of adopted people. In 2021, she co-founded Soft Gong, the first French-speaking organization by and for adoptees from China.

Of Cambodian and Vietnamese origin, Laurence Ly holds a master’s degree in cinema and moving image from UQAM and a diploma in directing from L’inis. He has directed the web series LES LAURIERS (2022) and the short films CORRESPONDANCE (2022) and LE PETIT PANIER À ROULETTES (2024), which have been shown at local and international festivals. His next short-film project, with the support of the CAC and CALQ, is LA NUIT DU CANTONNIER, a fantastical tale of a Chinese road-mender in 1939. He works as a producer, director and screenwriter, and curates and programs films for Festival Accès Asie.

Steven Lee is a programmer for the Asian section of the Fantasia festival. He previously participated in the selection of short films for the HorrorHound festival. He has written film reviews for websites such as Montreal Rampage, Borrowing Tape, and Movie Marker. He has always had a personal goal of promoting Asian representation in film and music, while expressing his passion for Korean cinema.

Keith Lock is the first Chinese-Canadian filmmaker. His career stands out with the variety of forms he has worked in, alternating experimental, dramatic and documentary practices. In addition to having been Claude Jutra’s assistant, he has been Micheal Snow’s director of photography on Two Sides to Every Story (1974). His masterpiece, Everything Everywhere Again Alive (1975) has been restored by Black Zero in 2021. In 2022, the Reel Asian Film Festival of Toronto awarded him its honorary award, the Fire Horse Award.

Gavin Seal is a Writers Guild of Canada prize-winning screenwriter, Golden Sheaf-winning director and award-winning producer at Intersectionnel Films. His films explore the tension between social expectations and individual agency when faced with seemingly impossible life choices.

kimura byol lemoine is a conceptual multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Ze focuses on multi-identities such as diaspora, displacement, colorism and gender. In 1988, zer debut short film Adoption won the Grand Prix “To Be Young in Europe” at the Brussels International Super 8mm and Video Festival. In 1996, ze won the First Prize for the Scenario Competition at the First Seoul International Documentary Film Festival for To Korea, Mother Nation, and #6261 with Regard sur Montréal Cinema residency (NFB/Microclimat Films, 2016). Ze is an art curator seeking projects that give voice to (in)visible minorities.

Rui Ting Ji is a Canadian-Chinese animator and filmmaker based in Montreal, Quebec. Playing with new and old art forms, she works in animation, interactive narratives, documentary, and animated comics. She is most interested in sharing stories of hidden perspectives and finding beauty in the smallest details. Her films tend to focus on real people or issues, and have screened around the world. She has animated for award-winning documentaries, feature films and short films alike and teaches animation in college. Her most recent film, still moving,  is an animated short film exploring the liminal moment between “what was” and “what is next” between a mother and her daughter.