Hello Film! Ninth Floor
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Free screening, Thursday February 19, 7 p.m.

As part of the Hello Film! screening series (free admission with reservation)

Screening of Ninth Floor by Mina Shum (2015, 81 min) Co-presented by CinéCozry

Alanis Obomsawin Theatre. A discussion with author and professor David Austin will follow.

It started quietly when a group of Black Caribbean students began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams (now Concordia) protests in Montreal—a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation’s history.

Preceded by the recent short film reXistence by Will Prosper (2025, 9 min). Through striking Canadian archival footage, the film exposes systemic violence and celebrates Black strength in Canada.

The screening will be followed by a discussion in English and French with author

David Austin, a professor at John Abbott College and McGill. Topics will include what Black radicals envisioned in speaking of freedom and the internationalist ideals these revolutionaries inspired, both then and now.

This event will also mark World Day of Social Justice (February 20).