See below for the Digital Tickets and Festival Passes. For more information, refer to our Box Office.
We're welcoming back online screenings to the 29th edition of Reel Asian! This year, our virtual lineup brings the festival experience to your home with features and shorts. Grab your popcorn and enjoy cinema on your terms with flexible digital passes or individual feature tickets!
See below for the Digital Tickets and Festival Passes. For more information, refer to our Box Office.
Individual Digital Features – $18Select titles are available for one-time online viewing including:
Festival VOD Pass - $75The Festival VOD Pass is your one-stop digital access pass! View all our available content online from November 10 thru November 23. Not valid for in-person screenings or live events.
Shorts VOD Pass - $35The Shorts Pass gives you unlimited VOD access to shorts titles online from November 10 thru November 23.
Wee Asian VOD Pass - FREEThe 2025 Wee Asian Pass gives you unlimited VOD access to Wee Asian digital offerings, all for free! Valid from November 10 thru November 23.
10 Nov, 2025
to 23 Nov, 2025
Online
A discussion on artist labour conditions and funding challenges. The IMAA team will present on the Alliance’s resources including the Fee Schedule, the Resource Access Network and the Advocacy Toolkit, followed by a reception and mingling portion. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with the Alliance team, industry leaders, artists, and peers. Free and open to the public!
Barbora Racevičiūtė
IMAA National Director
Barbora Racevičiūtė is the National Director of the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA). She a curator and cultural worker based in Montréal. She co-runs the curatorial collective shell.
Marilyne Parent
IMAA Communications and Membership Manager
Marilyne Parent is the Communications and Membership Manager at the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA). She is a cultural worker involved in the associative media arts based in Montreal. Marilyne is a composer/performer in electronic music who is committed to the development of good practices and the creation of safer spaces through her involvement in night culture as an event and festival organizer.
Lindsey Wilson
IMAA Program Manager
Lindsey Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist and the Program Manager of DS4Y at the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA). Her work engages with themes of embodiment, queerness, and interconnectivity at the intersection of craft, art, and science. Lindsey completed an MFA at the University of Ottawa and a BFA with a minor in Gender Studies at Queen’s University.
11 Nov, 2025 6:30 pm
Commons Lobby at 401 Richmond Street
The building is wheelchair and step-free accessible via a ramp & button operated door. The event space is on the 4th floor accessible by an elevator, with accessible washrooms located on the same floor. This event will feature a d/Deaf panelist and ASL interpretation will be provided.
If you require accessibility accommodation for this event, please click the link below.
If you require any accessibility accommodations or have questions about venue accessibility, please contact Samir at samir@reelasian.com.
Reel Ideas presents a rich programme of conversations, panels, and networking sessions for filmmakers and artists at every stage of their careers.
Reel Asian and the Writers Guild of Canada present a candid conversation on the pathways and pitfalls of building a sustainable career in screenwriting.
In collaboration with the Independent Media Arts Alliance, Reel Ideas will co-host a three-day mini-conference focused on artist advocacy, fair pay, and building an equitable arts ecosystem.
Hang out with us for Festival Happy Hour, open to the public! Grab a drink and join in on the casual activities each day.
Thursday November 6th, 4-6 PM. Space Cadet Social at CineCyle.
Friday November 7th, 4-6 PM. Celebrating the 52 with Museum of Toronto at 401 Richmond Lower Lobby.
Saturday November 8th, 4-6 PM. Reel Asian x Pamplepuss Mini-Mart and Mahjong at 401 Richmond Lower Lobby.
Sunday November 9th, 4-6 PM. Unsung Voices 15 Reception at CineCyle.
Tuesday November 11th, 6:30-8:20PM. What’s Brewing with IMAA at 401 Commons Lobby.
9 Nov, 2023
to 12 Nov, 2023
Commons Lobby at 401 Richmond Street
Join us for a conversation with directors and filmmakers Mayumi Yoshida, Janus Victoria, Timothy Yeung, and Nach Dudsdeemaytha on the creative, logistical, and personal realities of co-producing films across borders. Each filmmaker brings a unique perspective on how shooting overseas shaped their debut features - from financing and creative collaboration to the evolution of personal and cultural perspective.
The discussion will explore what makes co-productions appealing to filmmakers, and how working under different cultural and industrial systems can influence both storytelling and process. Panelists will share how international collaboration reshaped their scripts, informed their visual worlds, and expanded their understanding of creative partnership.
Learn with us as each filmmaker reflects on their filmmaking journey and how they navigated the world of co-productions from development to post - and how much this formed their debut feature films.
Jay Wu
Creative Producer, Writer & Director
Named to Playback’s 10 to Watch in 2024, Jay Carolyn Wu is a creative producer who leads scripted series and features, including a sitcom with CBC Comedy and Tyra Banks’s SMiZE Productions, and other projects with partners like Crave, Pageboy Productions, and Bruce McCulloch, with two features shooting in 2026.
Mayumi Yoshida
Director, AKASHI
Mayumi Yoshida 吉田真由美 is a Vancouver-based director, actor, and writer whose global upbringing shapes her “in-betweener” storytelling. An alum of TIFF Writer’s Studio and Warner Bros. Discovery Access, she directed the Juno-nominated Different Than Before, has won SXSW’s Jury Award, and screened at Oscar- and BAFTA-qualifying festivals.
Janus Victoria
Director, DIAMONDS IN THE SAND
Janus Victoria, a Manila-based writer-director, creates documentaries and films on human-place connections. She’s made six shorts, including Myth of Manila, as well as the documentary Encounters with Silence. Diamonds in the Sand is her debut feature.
Timothy Yeung
Director, FINCH & MIDLAND
Timothy Yeung is a Canadian-born Chinese filmmaker and holds a master of fine arts from New York University. A TIFF Filmmaker Lab alumnus, his short 90 Days was acquired by Sundance Selects. He won the MAS Award at the Busan Asian Project Market in 2018.
Nach Dudsdeemaytha
Producer, AKASHI
Nach Dudsdeemaytha is a Thai-Canadian filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC. He holds over a dozen producer credits on award-winning films and web series. Nach is a recent alumni of the NSI / EAVE ACCESS Producer Program. Outside of Musubi Arts, Nach works as a Line Producer and Production Manager for independent feature films.
9 Nov, 2025 1:30 pm
Commons Lobby at 401 Richmond Street The building is wheelchair and step-free accessible via a ramp & button operated door. The event space is on the 4th floor accessible by an elevator, with accessible washrooms located on the same floor. This event will feature a d/Deaf panelist and ASL interpretation will be provided.
If you require accessibility accommodation for this event, please click the link below.
If you require any accessibility accommodations or have questions about venue accessibility, please contact Samir at samir@reelasian.com.
In collaboration with the Independent Media Arts Alliance, Reel Ideas will co-host a three-day mini-conference focused on artist advocacy, fair pay, and building an equitable arts ecosystem.
Join us for a special presentation of 18 to 35, a bold new workplace comedy created by Rahul Chaturvedi and executive produced by Andrew Phung.
Reel Ideas presents a rich programme of conversations, panels, and networking sessions for filmmakers and artists at every stage of their careers.
Wind down festival week with us at 401 Richmond’s lower lobby for a cozy Happy Hour Mini-Market in collaboration with Pamplepuss. Shop our limited custom #ReelAsian29 collection, designed by local artists, and enjoy a few friendly rounds of mahjong with the community.
Pamplepuss
Pamplepuss is a collective that celebrates diverse voices and shared joy through community-driven events, creative collaborations, and cultural storytelling.
8 Nov, 2025 4:00 pm
to 8 Nov, 2025 6:00 pm
401 Richmond Lower Lobby
Celebrate the launch of the Sari-Sari Xchange Assetory, a storytelling-led virtual asset library prototype created with and for the Asian diaspora, and play with mobile resource units designed to facilitate the making and exhibition of XR creative works.
pasawày
pasawày is the experimental sound and media art project of apè Aliermo and kat estacio. They re-imagine alternate worlds of resistance as they explore various spectrums of their identities. They build multi-sensory performances and immersive installations that encourage self-trust and incite inspired actions. Currently based in Tsí Tkaròn:to, pasawày has taga-ilog/Tagalog and Bisaya ancestry.
Gangping Zuo
Gangping Zuo is a sixth-generation inheritor of Yang-Style Taijiquan, a sixth-duan Chinese martial artist, and a first-class national martial arts coach. He is also the founding president of the Jiangyin Yongnian Yang-Style Taijiquan Association. He apprenticed under Master Zhao Youbin, a ninth-duan Chinese martial arts grandmaster and a fifth-generation family inheritor of Yang-Style Taijiquan.
Gangping Zuo
Haoran Chang is a visual artist, media art researcher, and experimental game designer. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at York University in Cinema and Media Studies. His practice and research focus on game studies, immersive media, posthuman media, ethnographic game design, somatic design, reenactment studies, and art in cosmotechnics.
Tara Rose Morris
Tara Rose Morris is a new media artist with a practice that spans live performance, immersive installation, and digital artifacts. They investigate the thresholds between spectacle and embodiment, using technology as a site for speculative imaginaries where bodies, memory, and identity converge, flicker, and dissolve.
The workshop activities are accessible to people using wheelchairs as the object plinths will be at various heights. The workshop will use the Polycam app on smartphones (iPhones, Androids) for scanning purposes. Participants are free to use their own devices, and there will be a couple of iPhones and iPads available for people to use if needed. If the participants have their device set up for low vision accessibility, they could use it to operate the app. Team members will facilitate engagement and guide patrons as needed,
14 Nov, 2025 6:00 pm
to 9:00 pm
49 McCaulOpen Space Gallery
49 McCaul
This venue has level-entry access from the sidewalk but the elevator has access limitations due to its dimensions – please visit the intake form by clicking the button below for details and options. Suite 403 has level entry from the hallway and is open-plan in design with no internal barriers.
Render Me in Your Worlds is a multi-day symposium that highlights the Sari-Sari Xchange and Reel Asian's shared mission of amplifying Asian representation in the creative emerging media industries.
Explore the XR worldbuilding practices of media artists working at the confluence of body, space, and technology.
This immersive workshop will introduce the practice of traditional tai chi. Participants will experience its calm, flowing movements under the guidance of Mr. Zuo, a sixth-generation successor of traditional Yang-style tai chi.
Join us at Sankofa Square (1 Dundas St E) at 12PM–1:30PM as we announce this year’s #ReelAsian29 programming with guest directors Min Sook Lee, Haaris Qadri, Timothy Yeung, and Anushay Sheikh in attendance. Following that there will be an artist talk with this year’s Festival Creative, Janet Mac, as she shares how she created Muse, the animation for this year’s festival.
Muse will screen during the event and stay on rotation at Sankofa Square through November 23. Come see it in action and hear the voices and stories shaping this year's festival!
27 Oct, 2025 12:00 pm
to 1:30 pm
Sankofa Square
For the 29th edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, we’re bringing something extra special to the table! Alongside our exclusive festival shirts, we’ve partnered with a group of amazing local artists to create a collection of limited handmade merch.
From one-of-a-kind trinkets to thoughtfully crafted keepsakes, these custom pieces celebrate the artistry and collaboration that make Reel Asian so special.
Shop merch at our Festival Launch Party, Opening Night Reception, RA Mini Market + Mahjong, Centrepiece Reception, and Closing Night Reception.
Shop merch at:
Festival Launch Party
28 Oct, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Tha Phae Tavern
Opening Night Reception
5 Nov, 5:00 – 6:00 pm
Raffaella, The Annex Hotel
Mini Market + Mahjong
8 Nov, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
401 Richmond, Lower Lobby
Centrepiece Reception
9 Nov, 9:30 pm
CSI Spadina
Closing Night Reception
15 Nov, 9:00 pm
CSI Spadina
Nail sets by CC_TheseHands
“This year’s festival animation brings a sense of whimsy and playfulness that I wanted to capture in these press-on sets. The characters from the animations are individually hand painted and sculpted on each nail, bringing these creatures to life.”
Custom Plates by Jesseca Buizon
“The MUSE subject matters and characters reminded me of feeling. The plates I made for this festival feature the wildlife made by Janet and the blue was a nod to the cyanotypes she used to create the animation.”
Paper Fleurs by Seden's Workshop
“Seden developed a series of paper flower sculptures drawing on the aquatic elements of this year’s artwork.”
Ceramic Charms by ateliermisbah
5 different handmade ceramic charms inspired by this year’s festival animation, MUSE
Crochet Pieces by Jacob Steer Kagayama
“After watching this year’s opening animation by Janet Mac, I knew I wanted to bring the creatures to life! The vibrant colours and soft tone felt like the perfect match for a crochet recreation. I’ve brought to life the inchworm and fish in keychain form and the dancing flowers as clothing items perfect for your mini companions. The pieces are meant to bring the animation from screen to you and on to all the adventures that await!”
CC_TheseHands
CC_TheseHands was created as a fun side project by Reel Asian’s Festival Operations Coordinator, Amanda!
Jesseca Buizon
Jesseca Buizon (she/her) is an illustrator and ceramicist who goes by the internet alias of JAYYMADETHIS. Her work recurringly observes the mundane and the human experience using digital and traditional mediums. She is currently based in Toronto.
Seden's Workshop
Artist working with paper… and some bling bling
Misbah Ahmed
Misbah Ahmed (she/her) is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, ceramic sculpture, and printmaking. Her art merges research on historical non-Western crafts and artifacts with a dedication to environmental themes, reflecting her growing concern for ecological issues.
Jacob Steer Kagayama
A crochet artist and graphic designer based in Toronto. I’m here to bring all your ideas to life: from hats, to blankets, to keychains, you think of it, and I can hand make it. My work strives to emphasize the value of handcrafted design while building a lasting connection with the piece
The 29th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is taking flight! Join us for our Festival Launch Party on Tues, Oct 28, from 5–8PM hosted at Tha Phae Tavern.
Enjoy great music from DJ WalkWithAnime, delicious bites from Pai, Tha Phae Tavern, and Makilala and get ready to celebrate the first scenes of #ReelAsian29. Plus, take a shot at the claw machines to score prizes from our generous sponsors! All proceeds from the claw machine sales go towards supporting the festival.
This is a free event.
28 Oct, 2025 5:00 pm
Tha Phae Tavern
Germany202413 minEnglishAnimation, Available Online
Sam, a deviant artist and proud flower person, is spending one last day in a flower spa with his mother before his final performance act.
IN PERSON: This film is scheduled to be presented fully captioned (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated).
ONLINE: This film is fully captioned in closed captions (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated).
Ariel Victor Arthanto
Ariel Victor Arthanto is an Indonesian-born animation filmmaker and illustrator based in Berlin, crafting vibrant 2D worlds that mix playful compositions, bold figures, and character-driven storytelling across film and illustration.
This film is part of the Shorts Presentation
This film also screens as part of the Let’s do the Time Warp Again! Shorts Presentation
15 Nov, 2025 10:00 am
Innis Town HallPG
Founded in Toronto in 1997, Reel Asian is Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival and a year-round cultural organization dedicated to championing Asian and Asian diasporic artists and storytellers. What began as a grassroots film festival has grown into a national platform supporting filmmakers and audiences through screenings, education, industry initiatives, artist development, and community programming presented across Toronto, the GTA, and online across Canada.
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