Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) CFMDC is Canada's foremost non-commercial distributor of independent and artists' films.

CFMDC is Canada's foremost non-commercial distributor of independent and artists' films from both Canada and around the world.

07/28/2026

🏅On Now until July 31: Labocine presents its July Edition, Fields of Play.

Labocine’s July Issue “Fields of Play” explores the field as a space of collective movement, unity, and belonging — where bodies come together through play.

This issue includes all-around junior male by Lindsay McIntyre, a single-subject portrait of a young Nunamiut athlete through the practice of his sport, which focuses on the materiality of film and its surface textures.

Fields of Play also includes CFMDC titles: Fragments de corps by Mélanie Saumure; La dureté du mental by Charles-André Coderre; and Lines Drawn by Chris Kennedy.

🗓️ Now until July 31, 2026
🔗 Labocine or https://www.labocine.com/issues/fields-of-play

Clip: all-around junior male (2012) by Lindsay McIntyre Lindsay McIntyre (artist/director/filmmaker)

07/15/2026

📣 Host your event at CineCycle@CFMDC!

CineCycle is a unique, underground cinema and bicycle repair shop opened by Martin Heath in 1991 and housed in the Victorian-era coach house at 401 Richmond since 1994. CineCycle has been an essential part of Toronto’s indie and experimental film community since its inception.

CineCycle offers an intimate setting for screenings, talks, workshops, performances, and community events.

🌟 Highlights:

🏠 Historic coach house with exposed brick interior located in the 401 Richmond Arts hub
👽 60 person capacity
📀 Digital Projector with 5.1 surround sound cinema system and DCP capability
📽️ Analog projection available
♿️ Wheelchair accessible & gender neutral washrooms (see website for detailed accessibility notes)

💌 Contact us for a free site visit!

Book CineCycle by filling out a booking request form on our website or reach out to us directly at [email protected]

Postcards by net plaza fan account

07/13/2026

📣 Attention Educators! Looking for exciting and provocative films for your classroom?

Check out the Experimental Films for Educational Environments Box Sets!

🏳️‍🌈 Qu**rs on the Verge: This compilation brings together challenging and innovative film and video works that explore LGBTQIA+ culture by both
Q***r pioneers and emerging makers. It covers a broad range of subject matter including gender and sexual identity, social dynamics, coming out, the impact of AIDS, and Q***r youth culture.

🎞️ Super Super8: Introduced as a home-movie format almost 40 years ago, Super 8 film remains a vital and accessible medium for filmmakers worldwide. This compilation of works by both emerging makers and lifelong Super 8 devotees provides a glimpse into the form, aesthetics and politics of this popular but often overlooked gauge.

🎤 Fem Crit: Made by women and dedicated to feminist subject matter that is political, poetic and provocative. These works explore the complexities of identity and womanhood, addressing often-difficult issues such as domestic violence, body image and poverty, and locating the intersections where language, race, class and gender collide.

👐 Made by Hand: In response to an increasingly technological world, there has been an explosion in the number of “handmade” films - those created by working directly with the material of the film. This
compilation showcases works that use a range of handmade and artisanal techniques, including photograms, hand-processing, cameraless animation and collage.

📚 FREE Study Guides available for each DVD set. Guides include an essay by Catherine Burwell and Megan Boler, prompts and questions for classroom discussion, resources for further reading, and viewing recommendations.

✨ Educational and Personal Licenses available

💌 Contact [email protected] for details and check out the CFMDC Shop for more Box Sets, books, and DVDs.

Song: Coloured Concrete by Nemahsis

07/11/2026

▶️ On Now until July 31: Labocine presents its July Edition, Fields of Play.

Labocine’s July Issue “Fields of Play” explores the field as a space of collective movement, unity, and belonging — where bodies come together through play.

This issue includes Fragments de corps by Mélanie Saumure which follows Isabelle, a female boxer from the south shore of Montreal. As an athlete, she inevitably relies on her body. Her gym, a cold building made of steel and concrete, is located in the industrial area of an anonymous and typical suburban town. Her body, made of flesh and muscles, is continually pushed to its limits.

⏯️ Fields of Play also includes CFMDC titles: all-around junior male by Lindsay McIntyre; La dureté du mental by Charles-André Coderre; and Lines Drawn by Chris Kennedy.

🗓️ Now until July 31, 2026
🔗 Labocine or https://www.labocine.com/issues/fields-of-play

Clip: Fragments de corps (2009) by Mélanie Saumure

07/08/2026

🏅 On Now until July 31: Labocine presents its July Edition, Fields of Play.

Labocine’s July Issue “Fields of Play” explores the field as a space of collective movement, unity, and belonging — where bodies come together through play. This issue includes La dureté du mental by Charles-André Coderre, transforming Olympic wrestling and pole vaulting Soviet films from the 1980s into expressive and painterly imagery, appearing as a film practitioner’s decathlon.

Fields of Play also includes CFMDC titles: all-around junior male by Lindsay McIntyre; Fragments de corps by Mélanie Saumure; and Lines Drawn by Chris Kennedy.

🗓️ Now until July 31, 2026
🔗 Labocine or https://www.labocine.com/issues/fields-of-play

Clip: La dureté du mental (2025) by Charles-André Coderre

06/23/2026

🎀 Available now on VUCAVU, “THE PLEASURE FILES: Q***r & Feminist Joy in the Canadian Video Archive”, curated by Axelle Demus

“THE PLEASURE FILES: Q***r & Feminist Joy in the Canadian Video Archive” brings together five works from the Canadian audiovisual archival record that revel in feminist joy, q***r irreverence, and unruly laughter.

Including Gabey and Mike: A Jewish Summer Camp Love Story by Alexis Mitchell and Stephanie Markowitz. Taking its name from a song by Mermaid Café - a folk band composed of Andi D., Joe A. Rider and Merrill Nisker (now known as ‘Peaches’) that gained popularity at Canadian Jewish summer camps in the early 90s. A q***r re-staging of the classic summer camp movie, the film juxtaposes the tropes of this genre alongside references from iconic q***r films.

The titles in this program are available to watch with an active VUCAVU.education institutional subscription or can be purchased for limited-time rental via the Private Page function. Learn more by emailing [email protected].

Clip: Trailer for Gabey and Mike: A Jewish Summer Camp Love Story (2016) by Alexis Mitchell and Stephanie Markowitz

06/09/2026

💧June 15 in Vancouver, BC: Notes in Origin: The Films of Ellie Epp presented by DIM Cinema and the Iris Film Collective

This retrospective features Epp’s four 16mm films (1975–1996) in new digital restorations, and five more recent digital video works never before shown in Vancouver.

“Epp’s meticulously minimalist films invite a lyrical looking and seeing, listening and hearing. Each work is an instrument of perceptual and philosophical inquiry, an encounter with fleeting and feeling moments.” - DIM Cinema

“Several filmmakers continue to explore space and landscape on film.... Ellie Epp’s ‘Trapline’ (1976) is the most cooly beautiful of all: filmed in the Silchester Road Public Baths, London, it sets a sequence of geometrically organized shots, outwardly but gently alive with light changes, ripples and reflections, within the continuous, distantly reverberant sound space of the entire building.” - Tony Reif, Self Portrait: Essays on the Canadian and Quebec Cinemas

🗣️ Introduced by programmer Alex MacKenzie of Iris Film Collective.

🗓️ Monday, June 15, 7pm
📍 The Cinematheque, Vancouver BC
🔗 https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2026/ellie-epp

Clip: Trapline by Ellie Epp (1976)

05/27/2026

🎶 June 2nd in Toronto, ON: CFMDC co-presents What Will I Become? at CineCycle

In What Will I Become?, directors Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos explore the vulnerability of their transmasculine+ community. They delve into their own personal experiences, intertwining the stories of two young trans men who died by su***de.

Homecoming king Blake Brockington and soft-spoken Kyler Prescott were poets, musicians, and community advocates. The film traces their joys and challenges, their tragic deaths and resulting media attention, and the larger aftermath within their communities. The film also uplifts resources that affirm trans boys and the trans community as a whole to provide an understanding of su***de-prevention practices.

What Will I Become? asks why the transmasculine community is particularly vulnerable to living briefly and dying quietly.

🗣️ Post screening Q&A moderated by Lily Kazimiera.

🗓️ Tuesday June 2, 2026, Doors open at 6:30pm, screening at 7:00pm.
📍 CineCycle, 129 Spadina ave
🔗 https://arquives.ca/event/what-will-i-become/

Image: poster for ‘What Will I Become?’ Courtesy of the Arquives

05/12/2026

🌟 May 13-17 in Calgary, AB: Fairy Tales Q***r Art & Film Festival returns for its 28th year with films, performances, installations, DJs, drag, and nightlife.

Don’t Take My Joy Away by Omar Gabriel screens May 16th as part of Programmers Choice Shorts Package. Set in Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, two friends revel in the small joys of life until violence suddenly disrupts their world. Forced to flee, they embark on a dangerous journey of survival, confronting fear, chaos, and the stark realities around them. Along the way, they must choose between remaining in the shadows or seeking the light.

💫 “Programmer’s Choice is a bold, unforgettable collection of films that rose to the top—where humour meets heartbreak, and intimacy collides with provocation. Spanning continents and experiences, these stories linger in the body and mind, inviting us into moments of risk, desire, and transformation that refuse to be forgotten.”

🗓️ May 13-17, 2026
📍Calgary, AB
🔗 https://q***rfilmfest.ca/ ***rartsyyc

Clip: Don’t Take My Joy Away (2024) by Omar Gabriel

05/06/2026

💫 May 7-10 in Halifax, NS: The 15th Annual Animation Festival of Halifax (AFX 15) includes workshops, panels, artist Q&As, film screenings, and special events.

Don’t miss:
🎨 Martha Griffith’s film Menders screens May 8 as part of Up Late. This short is follows a female art conservator restoring Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus.”
🎞️ Richard Reeves Retrospective showcases a selection of films from Reeves’ impressive oeuvre of direct animation, spanning the early 90s to today. The screening will be preceded by the work made in his open studio and followed by a Q&A with the artist himself.

🗓️ May 7 - 10, 2026
📍Halifax, NS
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Clip: TV (2018) by Richard Reeves

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