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Pleasure Dome is pleased co-present LUCID, a two-work film screening curated as part of the 2026 iteration of Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF). The theme for this year’s TQFF is “Pissed Off, Still Laughing.” Join us on Thursday, October 15 at the Tranzac Club for this screening, which showcases an experimental feature film by Deanna […]

Pleasure Dome is thrilled to announce the 2026 iteration of our highly-anticipated screening New Toronto Works. This annual program features work made in the last 12 months by artists and filmmakers based in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area.

Pleasure Dome is proud to serve as a Community Partner for the 2026 iteration of Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP), hosted by the Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF). This is a low barrier event with pay what you can and free options.

Toward Return, curated by Jennifer Laiwint and Gladys Lou Toward Return explores the paradox of recovery: our desire to return to a prior state and the reality that healing is rarely linear. Through experimental films and an interactive installation, the program considers what it means to repair, reclaim, and create from what has been damaged, lost

Outside the Frame: The Works of Helen Lee is a retrospective of the experimental Korean-Canadian filmmaker, curated by Jacob Crepeault and co-presented between Pleasure Dome and TIFF Bell Lightbox. For over 30 years, Seoul-born, Toronto-based filmmaker Helen Lee has created captivating worlds that explore Asian Canadian experiences through a femini

Pleasure Dome is honored to co-present filmmaker Sepideh Farsi’s experimental documentary Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk (2025) at this year’s Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF). Farsi’s bold and deeply personal work exemplifies her distinctive approach to filmmaking, blending poetic form with political urgency to explore themes of resista

Pleasure Dome is pleased to present New Toronto Works 2025, our annual program showcasing the vitality, range, and risk-taking spirit of Toronto’s film and moving-image communities. This year’s edition brings together twelve works that span intimate reflection, social commentary, sharp humour, and playful experimentation—works that respond to the u

Pleasure Dome co-presents with the Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF) a presentation of Emilia Beatriz’s expansive debut feature film barrunto and Morgan Sears-Williams’s 16mm short film through the bushes and the trees, you’ll find me. Join us for an intimate evening of queer filmmaking that engages with sensorial experience and poetic storytellin

Pleasure Dome is pleased to present a screening of works by Toronto-based filmmaker Kalil Haddad, co-presented by Bleeding Edge. Featuring the world premiere of Haddad’s brand new film Victim of Circumstance (2024).