ImagineNATIVE celebrates 25 years of Indigenous cinema in summer event – CBC

May 26, 2025

‘Looking back’ will be a big theme this year, says festival director

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto celebrates its 25th year in 2025 with a move to summer.

Naomi Johnson, the festival’s executive director, said she’s hoping the festival’s new June dates will set them apart from the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). In previous years, imagineNATIVE was held in October about a month after TIFF.

“We had to get away from that fall season,” she said.

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