Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival announces 2025 award winners
Charlie Smith
November 7, 2025
Montréal, Ma Belle, which stars Charlotte Aubin and Joan Chen, won the RBC Best Canadian Feature Award.
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Kurdish artist Pedram Baldari transforms deadly weapons into healing musical instruments
Charlie Smith
November 5, 2025
Baldari, a University of Michigan scholar, demonstrates how to re-imagine armaments with Resonant Transmutations.
Toronto alt-pop artist Vicki Lovelee invites listeners to experience dark, theatrical pop in her opera house
Charlie Smith
October 29, 2025
Lovelee studied classical piano and has a degree in jazz vocals but nowadays, she transforms pain into powerful anthems.
Dr. Holic bridges rap and Cantopop in crafting catchy, cross-cultural hip-hop
Charlie Smith
October 27, 2025
With original works like “RICE!”, “Like Sunshine”, and “New York to Taipei”, the Toronto-based artist is creating a sound all his own.
Literary stars Madeleine Thien and Kiran Desai will be at Toronto International Festival of Authors
Charlie Smith
October 26, 2025
Thien is author of The Book of Records; it’s about people from different centuries who take refuge at a staging post between migrations.
Reel Asian: Skillful filmmaker Mayumi Yoshida delves into deep emotional terrain in Akashi
Charlie Smith
October 25, 2025
The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival will feature Akashi at its Centrepiece Gala Presentation on November 9.
Reel Asian: “Tears Burn to Ash” depicts diaspora’s distance from ancestral homeland
Charlie Smith
October 23, 2025
Veena Yamano plays a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian in her 20s who lands in Tokyo in “Tears Burn to Ash”.
Tennyson King makes you pause and look inside yourself with new video for “Most of My Days”
Charlie Smith
October 18, 2025
According to King, his song is about finding the courage to speak our truths and not being afraid of judgment from others.
Nikki Shaffeeullah’s “Purgatory” delivers authentic take on Indo-Caribbean Muslim life in Canada
Charlie Smith
October 16, 2025
With “Purgatory”, the Toronto artist resists the tumult of what one might expect from a queer Muslim tale.
Baljit Sangra gives voice to hidden Canadian history in Have You Heard Judi Singh?
Charlie Smith
October 13, 2025
The Reelworld Film Festival + Summit will present the Toronto premiere of Have You Heard Judi Singh? on Saturday (October 18).
Cathy Xinman: Sound
Cathy Xinman
June 21, 2026
How China’s ‘red lines’ are quietly shaping global news reporting
Staff
June 18, 2026
How older racialized immigrants are lost in translation in Canadian cities
Staff
June 17, 2026
Nadir Sarıbacak’s compelling performance carries Gazelle from start to finish
Staff
June 16, 2026
Immersive Katma pays homage to Khartoum culture, diasporic communities, and LGBTQIA+ underground
Charlie Smith
June 14, 2026
Cathy Xinman: Love Prepared for the Rain
Cathy Xinman
June 11, 2026
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