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Event Series: SHIFT Film Festival

SHIFT Film Festival

February 8 @ 3:00 pm 9:00 pm

Shift Film Festival is an intimate, intentional film experience created by Labia Cinematica to spotlight bold, tender, and radical stories by women and gender non-conforming filmmakers, with a strong focus on Black and queer voices.

This first edition is designed as more than just a screening. It’s a space to gather, feel, and connect through cinema that explores identity, pleasure, intimacy, resistance, and healing. The films selected for Shift challenge dominant narratives and invite us to shift the gaze, toward stories rooted in care, complexity, and truth.

Throughout the evening, audiences will experience a curated program of short films, documentaries, series and feature films, followed by filmmaker Q&As and panels. Whether you’re a filmmaker, artist, student, or simply someone who loves powerful storytelling, this festival is for you.

What to expect: 

  • A curated selection of creative works by women, non-binary & trans women directors
  • Post-screening Q&A and discussion
  • Networking with artists, creatives, and community members

Shift Film Festival is about creating space for our stories, our bodies, our desires, our softness, and our power. We can’t wait to welcome you.

Reclaim the Gaze.

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2 Daly Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2 Canada
(613) 580-9838
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