Relaxed Screenings take place
at 10AM and 2:30PM
Drop-in Art Activities are from 11AM–3PM
Wee Asian is free and drop-in.
No tickets required!
Canada, India, Japan1970–202645 MIN 14 SVarious languages with English SubtitlesAvailable Online
Turning 10 this year, Wee Asian cultivates a place for all ages and generations to experience the festival together. Come and join our free drop-in programming, featuring relaxed film screenings, storytelling, arts and crafts, and time for play or rest!
Remixing Wee Asian with archival short films, this edition reframes what might be discovered in the programme through craft, narratives, and sensory experiences.
For: anyone with a pen in hand, oddballs, narrators, those following a train of thought
India20257 MIN 51 SHindi, English with English SubtitlesComedy, Family-friendly, Open Captions, Sci-fi
How do you cancel an online order? Filmmaker Ansh Sirohi's grandfather, Nanu, certainly has no idea.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film is presented with option captions (all dialogue is subtitled and sound cues indicated).
Ansh Sirohi
Ansh Sirohi is an animation filmmaker and illustrator based in India. Like a bird, she is drawn to all things colourful and bright. She brings fun and life to the personal stories she tells.
Canada19706 MIN 49 SNo Dialogue
Hand-drawn on film by James Anderson, 19, and Keith Lock, 18, this film was inspired by the first Apollo moon landing in 1969 and is critical of Western ideations of advancement.
Keith Lock, James Anderson
Keith Lock is a filmmaker who works across experimental, dramatic, and documentary films. He is Canada’s first Chinese Canadian filmmaker.
James Anderson began making prize-winning films in the 1970s when he was still in high school. In addition, Anderson works as a painter, sculptor, and draughtsman.
Canada20045 MIN 52 SNo DialogueOpen Captions
Traces of birds become calligraphy. Handmade filmmaking creates impressions of flying.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film is presented with open captions (all dialogue is subtitled and sound cues indicated).
Luo Li
Luo Li is an independent filmmaker. He was born and raised in China. He studied film and obtained his MFA in Canada.
Japan20264 MIN 9 SJapanese with English SubtitlesAnimation, Family-friendly
A girl walking home alone takes to the sky to shake off her loneliness. Her ability to use magic is a secret from her classmates.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film is presented with option captions (all dialogue is subtitled and sound cues indicated).
Hana Takubo
Based in Tokyo, Hana Takubo graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts’ design department in 2025 and then entered its graduate school to major in animation.
Canada200712 MIN 26 SEnglish with English SubtitlesOpen Captions
Wanda and Miles move a lot. Whenever they feel like it, they just put on their shoes and go! But one day, Wanda realizes that moving too much makes Miles’s head hurt.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film is presented with option captions (all dialogue is subtitled and sound cues indicated).
Lesley Loksi Chan
Lesley Loksi Chan is an artist and filmmaker. Through experimental, handmade, and process-based filmmaking, she creates moving-image works as mementos.
Canada20061 MIN 37 SNo DialogueAnimation
A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis from rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film has no dialogue (no audio + visual descriptions).
Anne Koizumi
Anne Koizumi is an independent filmmaker and media arts educator. In 2006, she participated in the third edition of the National Film Board of Canada’s Hothouse, an intensive for emerging animators, where she completed her first professional film, A Prairie Story.
Canada20266 MIN 30 SNo DialogueAnimation, Comedy, Family-friendly, Open Captions
Ollie wishes to become a kaiju, like the giant lizard monsters he sees at the cinema.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film is presented with open captions (all dialogue is subtitled and sound cues indicated).
Mari Beatriz Nicole Ramizo
Mari Beatriz Nicole Ramizo is a Filipino Canadian animation student, currently attending Sheridan College. She spent her childhood in the Philippines and has been trying to reconnect to her roots through storytelling and filmmaking.
21 Nov, 2026 10:00 am
Innis Town HallRelaxed Screenings take place
at 10AM and 2:30PM
Drop-in Art Activities are from 11AM–3PM
Wee Asian is free and drop-in.
No tickets required!
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY
This programme is presented with a mix of open captions, and English subtitles.
In 1935, Yonezo Okita left his home in Hiroshima, Japan, for Canada. Then, war and racism changed everything. Three generations later, his grandson Randall Okita leads us on an interactive pilgrimage through an emotional geography of immigration and family to recover what was lost. In this VR experience, Randall Okita explores new possibilities for deeply personal storytelling.
12 Nov. - 21 Nov.
RENT A PLUS-ONE, offers a case study in what happens when filmmakers build for a vertical frame. Its creators unpack their journey from traditional web series to vertical.
16 Nov. 6:30 pm
Start off #ReelAsian30's festival closing day over brunch with Queens of Dim Sum, Toronto's ONLY dim sum drag brunch serving gag worthy Asian drag queens and kings! Join us at Sky Dragon Chinese Restaurant on Sat, Nov 21 at 12PM.
21 Nov. 12:00 pm
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