Rayn Lakhani

On Sunday, September 28, I had the pleasure of attending UNSILENCED: Anti-Palestinian Racism Shorts, which featured four short films at the TIFF Lightbox as part of the 18th iteration of the Toronto Palestinian Film Festival (TPFF). The series included Sara Balkis’ Between The Silence & The Noise, Paula Sahyoun’s The Silence They Taught Us, Rimah Jabr’s You’ve Seen it on TV, and Rodrigue Hammal’s Exception.

Looking to fuel up with some healthy plant-based meals near your U of T campus? This list compiles a few of the surrounding cafés and restaurants at each campus that specialize in an exclusively to near-exclusively vegan menu. UTM Community Resto Located approximately a 15-minute drive away from campus in Port Credit, Community is a plant-based restaurant that serves a variety of classic homestyle dishes for brunch, lunch, dinner, and beyond.

To what lengths would we go to live as our authentic selves? This was the question explored by filmmaker Farnoosh Samadi in her feature film, Between Dreams and Hope. The film is in Farsi, and centres around the lives of Azad (Fereshteh Hosseini) and Nora (Sadaf Asgari), partners living in Tehran’s underground queer community. The film appeared in this year’s TIFF Platform programme, championing diverse perspectives in film.