NFB Docs on Trauma, Healing at Rendezvous Madness

National Film Board

Two powerful and award-winning documentaries from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be featured at the 2024 Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival in Toronto, taking place October 25 to November 3.

The festival's opening night film, Vancouver-based filmmaker Jules Arita Koostachin's WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) unravels the tangled threads of silence suffered by residential school Survivors through truth, freedom and power.

The festival will host the Ontario premiere of Montreal filmmakers Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky's immersive documentary fable A Man Imagined, a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.

More about the films

WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) by Jules Arita Koostachin (80 min)

SCREENING: Friday, October 25, 2024, 6:30 p.m. | Arrell Family Foundation Auditorium at CAMH (1025 Queen Street West, 2nd Floor)

Produced by Teri Snelgrove and executive produced by Shirley Vercruysse for the NFB

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