ACTRA Toronto members are in the spotlight again at the 29th edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival!
From November 5 to 15, 2025, Reel Asian will showcase two ACTRA Toronto features and one short.
Below you’ll find a round-up of ACTRA Toronto productions at this year’s festival and the talented casts of ACTRA Toronto Members who bring these stories to life.
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FINCH & MIDLAND
Finch and Midland, an intersection in Scarborough, is like many others in the suburbs of Canada’s largest city. But every intersection has a story to tell. Timothy Yeung’s Finch & Midland focuses on four stories from the wave of Hong Kong immigrants who came to Canada in the 1990s hoping for a new life: a former pop singer trying to reconnect with his daughter; a woman caring for her elderly mother while yearning for love; a single mother who works in a massage parlour and dreams of becoming a realtor; and a factory manager confronted with a glass ceiling.
Featuring: Houston Wong, Jaden Kwan, Cedar Zhang, Samantha Ji, Wavy Zhao, Dmitry Chepovetsky; Stunt Coordinator Plato Fountidakis
Premieres November 9, 2025, at 3:30 p.m.
KARUPY
At her 65th birthday party, Karupy makes an unexpected announcement: She will be ending her own life that very night, sparking a whirlwind of emotions amongst her family. As she prepares for this final act, her party guests confront her about her decision.
Featuring: Sumathy Balaram
Premieres November 7, 2025, at 6 p.m.
ACTRA Toronto is proud to share Karupy was supported by the Permit Access Fund, an initiative between ACTRA Toronto and Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada.
THERE ARE NO WORDS
In There Are No Words, award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee searches for stories of her mother, Song Ji Lee, who died by suicide when Lee was just 12 years old. Through an intimate archive, Lee confronts public, private, and imagined histories in the wake of trauma while negotiating her relationship with her aging father, who met her mother while serving in the Korean Counterintelligence Corps under dictator Park Chung Hee in 1960s Korea. Despite being an unreliable narrator with a history of abuse, Lee’s father is her last direct tie to her mother.
Premieres November 13, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.
Images and descriptions courtesy of Reel Asian.
ACTRA Toronto is proud to be an Industry Sponsor of the 2025 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.
