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Opening night
Thursday, October 15, 2026, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. - Théâtre Plaza
To kick off these ten days of celebration, cinema and resistance, we invite you to the Plaza Theatre for our grand opening night.
This opening event is an opportunity to come together to celebrate the vitality and strength of Afro-LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit Indigenous narratives, to discover the highlights of this 18th edition and to celebrate together the start of the festivities.
Free event, open to all, reservation required.
PROJECTION
The program includes the screening of an excerpt from the film My Gender Is Black by Terry Blade, presented as a Canadian premiere.
Terry Blade | 2026 | USA | 20 minutes | English with French subtitles
experimental documentary
My Gender Is Black explores how Black masculinity, sexuality, and gender are produced, controlled, punished, embellished, feminized, sanctified, athleticized, seated, endowed, watched, and performed through objects, institutions, speech, silence, music, posture, and the body.
Director's Note: My Gender Is Black rejects the idea that Blackness can be dissociated from gender, that gender can be understood independently of history, or that the body can be interpreted outside of the forces that have shaped it. It asks what it means to be truly seen in a world that often views Black male bodies through a distorted lens.
ARTISTIC PERFORMANCES
At the heart of this opening night, guest artists take over the space to make bodies, voices and stories resonate through dance, music, spoken word and performances.
DEEJOYCE
DJ TOKYO MAMII
More artists and surprises to come...