Love, Harold

Directed by Alan Zweig | 2025 | Canada | Documentary | 90 minutes | English | Ontario Premiere

Co-Presented by Distress Centres of Toronto & DOC Institute

Post-screening discussion with Alan Zweig

Open Reception at 5 PM (all are welcome) | Box Office opens at 5:15 PM

Award-winning Canadian documentarian Alan Zweig explores the nature of grief and helplessness after an old friend commits suicide. Zweig sits down with numerous friends and acquaintances also dealing with the loss of loved ones by their own hand. Their stories are as varied as the people they’ve lost, and their honesty and candour about their unimaginable experiences make an often taboo subject feel tangible and shared like never before. Their pain is palpable, but so too is their resilience. Love, Harold is a cinematic love letter to those we’ve lost but also a tribute to those left behind to pick up the pieces.

Keywords: Suicide, grief, love, community
Accessibility: Open Captions, active listener
Previous screenings: Calgary International Film Festival

Director Bio
Alan Zweig is a Toronto documentary filmmaker known for using film to explore his own life. His first film was the cult classic Vinyl, which was listed by Pitchfork as one of the best music documentaries ever made. Other films include Hurt, I, Curmudgeon, There Is a House Here and Fifteen Reasons to Live. His films have won the Platform and Best Canadian Feature Awards at TIFF, a Genie and a Canadian Screen Award.

WITH SHORT FILM — Ghost

Directed by Stephanie Quilliams | 2025 | Canada | Animated short | 3 minutes | English

Loss is universal, it's something everyone encounters in some form. Ghost is a journey through some of the different ways one can cope - both healthy and unhealthy. Director Stephanie Quilliams has transformed the pain of losing her sister to suicide into a unique artistic endeavour by animating her sister's ashes.

Director Bio
Stephanie Quilliams an animator, puppeteer, director, and performance and multimedia artist. Steph has had her work shown internationally and has collaborated with artists both in Canada and America. Stephanie's art often pushes boundaries and buttons. Through her most recent work Ghost, Steph takes a departure from her often humorous and bawdy themes to examine the concept of loss and how to cope with it.

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All of our venues are fully accessible. If you require ASL/Interpretation, please inquire no later than October 18th, 2025. We will do our best to accommodate requests for ASL/Interpretation made later than this date but cannot guarantee availability of ASL/Interpreters. Live captioning provided for most spoken events and Q&A's. Open Captions for the vast majority of films. Films in other languages are always presented with English subtitles.