Your Tomorrow

Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 12:00 pmYukon Arts Centre

Your Tomorrow is an observational portrait of Ontario Place, Toronto's iconic modernist waterfront park, in the last year before its redevelopment from a public space into a private spa and water park. Filming for nearly 100 days, Your Tomorrow follows an eccentric yet lovable group of characters who use and care for this magical, once celebrated park. And it asks a vital question for us all: how do we protect the public commons in our communities?

A security guard who has worked there for forty years, a pair of Taiwanese retirees who visit the park daily and mark the changing seasons in the film, a swimmer/self-described "cyborg" who leads his cult following in year-round lake dips - plus a wider chorus of artists, urban explorers, birdwatchers, government officials, and environmentalists. The film documents a transitional moment in the landscape of the city, asking viewers to consider what our modern cities should look like and what a diverse urban society needs to thrive, while shedding light on the values of our generation. 

Ali Weinstein is a documentary filmmaker from Toronto, Canada whose work often centres on people searching for community and a sense of belonging. She holds an MFA in Documentary Media Studies from TMU. Her first feature doc Mermaids (Super Channel), about a group of women living a mermaid lifestyle, debuted at Hot Docs 2017 and has since been broadcast in Canada, Israel, Brazil, France, and Germany. In 2018, she co- directed The Impossible Swim (TSN) about a 16-year-old girl attempting to swim across Lake Ontario at its widest point. Ali directed #BLESSED (CBC) in 2020 about the stunning success of an Evangelical church amongst the youth of downtown Toronto, and that same year she produced the feature documentary, There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace (CBC), about the redevelopment of the iconic Honest Ed’s store in Toronto, which was nominated for two CSAs and won an Audience Choice Award at Hot Docs.

 

Screening with

Hello Anson

DIR. YVONNE SUNG, 2024, ONTARIO | 15 MIN | ART, DOCUMENTARY

Hello Anson is a documentary about Anson Ng, a Canadian landscape painter that documents Ontario’s nature and iconic Chinese landscapes. “My paintings highlight landscapes as living, timeless entities by portraying the value in its impermanence.” Anson paints the corners, foods and restaurants of Chinatown that many Asian Canadians can easily spot and share an instant connection and familiarity with.

To many Asian Canadians, seeing and sensing familiar places in an artist’s work is like going to their favourite local restaurant, ordering a bowl of wonton soup or pho. It’s comforting and warm.