CineFAM 2025: Ancestral Imaginations

CineFAM Film Festival is back, celebrating limitless imagination and daring, original films by Canadian women and non-binary creators of colour!

Ancestral Imaginings

We are nothing without those who came before us and in their histories we may find allegories that fuel our search for redemption and cultural understanding. These eight films all examine aspects of ancestral lineage and how that ties into our present realities. Sometimes, we look backwards so we can imagine a better future.

Screenings will include:

Boutique

Brishkay Ahmed

Canada | 2025 | 21min

On the night of the Taliban’s arrival in Kabul, a young woman must work through her fears and find hope in tomorrow

Good Girl

Sunita Miya Muganza

Canada | 2024 | 13min

Halima, a single mother living in a close-knit, East African community in Calgary, is thrust into a precarious situation when she makes a last-minute decision to stop her 13-year-old daughter Salama's trip back to Kenya to be circumcised

On A Sunday At Eleven

Alicia Harris

Canada | 2024 | 9min

A young Black girl navigates exclusion in her all-white ballet class, reclaiming her beauty, identity, and power in an ethereal and unapologetic celebration of Blackness.

Mawtini (My Homeland)

Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller

Canada | 2023 | 19min

It's a story about two women, Nawal (Palestinian) and Tanya (Indigenous), who start a guerrilla garden on their apartment building's lawn and face resistance from management.

Rosa's Flowers

Amanda Ann-Min Wong

Canada | 2024 |18m

In 1998 Jakarta, two girls promise to stay friends forever. “Rosa’s Flowers” is a surrealistic, narrative short film exploring the unbreakable bonds of friendship beyond memory, borders, and time.

Good Boy / 乖仔

Yvette Sin, Nikita Zhang

Canada | 2023 | 17min

When a troubled Chinese-Canadian boy gets suspended from school, he spends a week collecting cans with his oddball immigrant grandmother, a fellow outcast who teaches him that, sometimes, it's okay to cry.

Inkwo for When the Starving Return

Amanda Strong

Canada | 2024 | 18min

Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unburied swarm of terrifying creatures.

Doors at 7PM, Screenings start at 730PM.

Estimated runtime: 115min

More information about schedule at cinefam.ca/film-festival-2025/

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