Hello Film! Ninth Floor

Free screening, Thursday February 19, 7 p.m.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. To reserve your seats, click here

Mina Shum, 2015
81 minutes
Original English version, French subtitles

Director Mina Shum makes her foray into feature documentary by reopening the file on a watershed moment in Canadian race relations – the infamous Sir George Williams Riot. Over four decades after a group of Caribbean students accused their professor of racism, triggering an explosive student uprising, Shum locates the protagonists and listens as they set the record straight, trying to make peace with the past.

The documentary will be preceded by the short film reXistence (Will Prosper, 2025, 9 min)

This event is co-presented by Ciné Cozry. The screening will be followed by a discussion with author and professor David Austin on what Black radicals imagined when they spoke of freedom, and on the internationalism these revolutionaries helped bring about, then and now.

As part of Black History Month, this screening provides a space for critical and collective reflection on the foundational ideas of 1968–1969.

The discussion will be held in both English and French.