2026 Festival

A Cree Approach follows Tristin Greyeyes’ journey towards understanding why Cree isn’t her first language, through the story of her late grandmother, Freda Ahenakew. Through interviews, archival footage and personal reflection, Greyeyes delves into Freda’s legacy, uncovering her work in Indigenous language revitalization. This intimate documentary is both a tribute to Freda Ahenakew’s enduring influence and a call to action for the reclamation of language and identity in Indigenous communities.

Rebirth // Resurgence // Reoccurrence is a selection of ten films by Prairie directors from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Reach out and touch your surroundings. Stop, look, listen. These are films that reconsider our relationships to the spaces around us, to the objects we hold in our hands, to the way our bodies keep moving. Again and again. Squint your eyes. What’s a body anyway?

A Cree Approach follows Tristin Greyeyes’ journey towards understanding why Cree isn’t her first language, through the story of her late grandmother, Freda Ahenakew. Through interviews, archival footage and personal reflection, Greyeyes delves into Freda’s legacy, uncovering her work in Indigenous language revitalization. This intimate documentary is both a tribute to Freda Ahenakew’s enduring influence and a call to action for the reclamation of language and identity in Indigenous communities.

Equal parts art project, history lesson, and whimsy, Celestial Queer: The Life, Work and Wonder of James MacSwain offers a portrait of an artist who defied convention for a life lived on his own terms. Directors Eryn Foster and Sue Johnson spent a decade checking in with the witty, erudite MacSwain as he moved about his life in north end Halifax, returned to his tiny rural hometown of Amherst, Nova Scotia—where he grew up, unable to pass for straight, in the 1950s—and discussed his lifelong, wildly inventive art practice.

imagined landscapes; distant places we’ve only ever heard of; secret spaces; occupied territories. journeys through space and time – to lose ourselves and find ourselves, and to save ourselves.

stories heard in childhood; weathered papers and photos kept safe within precious containers; a way of saying good-bye; a collection of spectral devices that connect you to the earth around you and the sky above, and how you know who you are.

An event conceived of in Saskatchewan in 2000 by Alexander Rogalski, WNDX launched the Winnipeg edition of the One Take Super 8 Event in 2006 during our first festival and it instantly became a favourite event among local filmmakers. Through this program, 20 Manitoba filmmakers are given a cartridge of Super 8 film and they shoot in one take, with no cuts or splices. They then see their finished films for the first time on the night of the screening, alongside the audience.

What time is it? It’s so dark in here. These are films to fill the hole you dug yourself into in the middle of the night. Computer glitches. Wedding presents. Fever dreams. Strange and sensory cinema for when the lights just won’t turn back on.

Twinklight is an ever-changing live film performance observing and reflecting on the experience of online dating and desire to attend the cruising culture as a trans masculine person. The performance combines light and shadows while using the surface of a trans body as a texture for projection.