The Summitt will be partnering with The Flaherty to host The 70th Flaherty Film Seminar Yearning.  This is an opportunity to join some particularly curated screenings and discussions at The Summitt with fellow Film enthusiasts, thinkers and ‘Letterboxd’ers.  ;)

A curated program and discussion of this year's screenings of the 2025 Seminar Yearning will take place on Thursday June 26th through Sunday June 29th.

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Notes from the programmers:

Yearning 

The 70th Flaherty Film Seminar

In an effort to lift the veil between the leadership of The Flaherty, our history, and our programs, The Flaherty is honoured to work over the next two years with curator, researcher and writer Jemma Desai. We are inspired by Desai’s long standing commitments to the underlying practices that drive curatorial and programming work and their position within the ecologies that cultural workers in film work in. Her engagement with our board, staff team, and the archives will culminate in her curation of the 70th seminar, tying our long history together with possible visions for the future. A question that she will hold during this time is What might happen if we used the phenomenology of yearning to appraise our cultural production infrastructure? Not yearning to belong to what we have, but yearning to be longing: to embody a desire for something else? How might both understanding more clearly our own desires as well as attending closely to the ways that reformism, managerial moderation and ‘professional practices’ contain the work that is possible lead us to more congruent and committed ways of working?