🎬 DID YOU KNOW... you can borrow equipment from CINSSU?
Do you need equipment for a film project? Have an itch to direct your first short? CINSSU has some filmmaking equipment for you to rent!
Deposits are returned once the equipment drop off is completed.
💡 Check the link in bio for more info and to borrow.
Congratulations to our 2026/2027 CINSSU executive team 🎉
President: Arjen Karaoglan
Vice-President, External: Ava Derro
Vice-President, Internal: Shakira Rodriquez
Treasurer: Karina Pandurangadu
Equity Director: Vince Woodford
Secretary: Ava Palma
We want to thank everyone who ran and voted in the election this year, we had our biggest voter turnout!
We also want to give a big thanks to this year‘s team. Everyone at CINSSU has done a wonderful job this year and deserves a round of applause for their hard work and dedication.
⭐️ It is the first day of school and we want to remind you that our events are OPEN TO ALL*!
This includes:
❀ the public
❀ UofT students
❀ non-UofT students
❀ anyone interested in cinema
* Unless stated otherwise. Make sure to check the description of posts as we occasionally host student-only events!
CINSSU x Film Students 4 Palestine
🇵🇸 Divine Intervention (2002)
Is it possible to find love at a checkpoint? Between Nazareth and Jerusalem is the Al-Ram checkpoint, where Divine Intervention follows a Palestinian couple separated by both imaginary and physical borders. Told through Elia Suleiman’s signature surreal, deadpan style, the film gives us a portrait of daily life in occupied Palestine and the challenges facing Palestinian lovers with different citizenship statuses. Join @cinssu and @filmstudents4palestine for a screening of one of contemporary cinema’s most singular and subversive films.
🫒 Light bites and refreshments will be provided!
EVENT DETAILS:
📅 Date: Thursday, April 30 @ 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue
This screening is FREE of charge. Early arrival and RSVP through link in bio is recommended but not mandatory!
‼️ GIVEAWAY ‼️
We've partnered with @bleeding.edge.movies to give away a double pass for you to see $POSITIONS at its Toronto Premiere with the Director in attendance for a Q&A!
Synopsis: Blue-collar Midwesterner Mike Alvarado attempts to save his family from the throes of poverty by investing their savings into speculative cryptocurrencies. However, as his investment strategy decays into a full-blown gambling addiction, he sends his life into a nightmarish anxiety-inducing downward spiral, compromising his relationships with his girlfriend, his developmentally disabled brother, and his recovering addict cousin. A twitchy, hyper-contemporary comedy with equal doses of laughs and panic attacks.
📅 Date: Friday, April 24, 8:30 PM
📍 Location: Paradise Theatre
Want to win a pair of passes? Here’s how:
🔐 Follow @cinssu AND @bleeding.edge.movies
💛 Like This Post
👫 Tag someone you would bring with you
Contest closes on April 20. Winners will be contacted via DM.
‼️ GIVEAWAY ‼️
We've partnered with @elevation_pics and @thetarogroup to give away double passes for you to see MILE END KICKS while it is in theatres!
Synopsis: The film follows her immersion into the local indie music scene, where she becomes romantically entangled with two members of the same band, "Bone Patrol," while struggling with creative, personal, and professional self-sabotage
📅 Date: MILE END KICKS is in theatres April 17, 2026.
📍 Location: any time/day at any Cineplex location in Canada
Want to win a pair of passes? Here’s how:
📱 Follow @cinssu
💛 Like This Post
👫 Tag someone you would bring with you
Contest closes on April 12. Winners will be contacted via DM.
‼️ GIVEAWAY ‼️
We've partnered with @elevation_pics and @thetarogroup to give away double passes for you to see THE CHRISTOPHERS while it is in theatres!
Synopsis: Desperate for an inheritance, two siblings conspire to forge their father's unfinished paintings so they become valuable after his death.
📅 Date: THE CHRISTOPHERS is in theatres April 17, 2026.
📍 Location: any time/day at any Cineplex location in Canada!
Want to win a pair of passes? Here’s how:
🖼️ Follow @cinssu
🤍 Like This Post
👫 Tag someone you would bring with you
Contest closes on April 12. Winners will be contacted via DM.
🗞️ LAST NEWSLETTER OF THE SCHOOL YEAR 🗞️
💕 In this issue, we announce the 2026/27 CINSSU Executive team, highlight our last WTF Wednesday Shorts program (happening in 2 days) and look back at our Film Festival!
✏️ Thank you for reading our monthly newsletter this year!
🎥 CIN365H1S - Nonfiction Video Practice End-of-Year
Screening 🎥
EVENT DETAILS:
📅 Date: Wednesday, April 08, 2026 7:00 pm
📍 Location: Innis Town Hall, Innis College
Come to watch films made by UofT students in this semester's Non-Fiction Video Practice class!
Free and open to all.
🍿 Snacks! Student films! Non-fiction and documentary!
⁉ LAST WTF WED ⁉
Join us for the last WTF Wednesday of the year, where we will be screening some short films we really like (which may have the potential of making you say WTF).
🤔 Lots of surprises.
NON-STUDENTS can register by DMing us!
We hope to see you there this Wednesday at 7PM in Robarts room 3023!!!
⭐️CINSSU FILM FESTIVAL⭐️
For the first time in years, CINSSU hosted a film festival showcasing films made by University of Toronto students. The evening was hosted by our festival director, Ava Derro (@ava.derro ). 10 incredible films were screened at Innis Town Hall on March 29. We would like to thank all of the filmmakers for submitting their films. Another special thank you goes out to our programmers, special events coordinators, and all of the CINSSU members who took the time to make this event possible. Please find a list of the films we screened below!
1. HOSTAGES (@kadinfehr )
2. 1 Path (@batutuh21 )
3. North American (@akira.visual.arts@crocpsy )
4. Les Aventures d’une Rêveuse (Adventures of a Dreamer) (@dianayin28 )
5. Silver Linings (@oliviaabill )
6. Retrace (@ario.shakarami )
7. Steel (@dantepleu )
8. Mirror (@biasmarcilio )
9. Where I Call Home (@theroyhan )
10. Beanis (@nervousyoungyormin )
Photos by the best @shuhruh 📸❤️
✨️ POSTER REVEAL ✨️
"The world is a balance of light and dark and so are you." – THE FALLS (1991)
This gorgeous event poster for Desire in Motion's upcoming screening is inspired by the serene artworks of Canadian artist Lawren Harris, a founding member of The Group of Seven and a visionary in Canadian landscape art. It's only natural to depict the majestic Horseshoe Falls with the same reverence and skill, capturing the cascading flow in a warm glow.
💙 Poster designed by @seeyouniru
Mini postcard-style posters will be available to the first 100 attendees, so arrive early to get one!
THE FALLS - 35th anniversary for @canfilmday
Post-screening Q&A with @kmcmahontoronto and @mmprimitive
Co-presented with @planetinfocus and @cinssu@paradiseonbloor on April 15, 2026
Doors - 6pm / Film - 6:30pm
The screening is now SOLD OUT but there will be a rush line in effect!
