Still from Village Keeper (2024), by Karen Chapman.
Still from Village Keeper (2024), by Karen Chapman.
Village Keeper
2:30 pm–4:50 pm
Directed by Karen Chapman (Canada, 2024, 83 min.).
While providing for and protecting her two teenage children, Tamika and Tristin, Jean begrudgingly lives with her mother in a crowded Lawrence Heights apartment complex. Despite teaching her kids to become more self-sufficient, Jean is too troubled by the past to let them fully grow up. She is haunted by violence and must help her children cope.
Expertly using sound and flashbacks to construct a layered portrait of this woman’s life, director Karen Chapman reveals the trials and tribulations that women in Jean’s family carry with them.
Official Selection at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
Preceded by
Do You Remember Me?
Directed by Tonia Magras (USA, 2025, 20 min.).
Based on the director Tonia Magras’s true story, Do You Remember Me? follows Nicky as she faces the one person who tried to destroy her almost 38 years earlier. As Nicky recalls and once again lives through the horrific trauma of what happened to her as an 18-year-old in 1987, she remembers the strength and resilience she has found through her faith and love from her husband.
Wheelchair accessible
In-Person Festival Pass
$165
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Available through June 23 at 11:59 pm
Note that additional venues will be listed on your pass purchases as non-MFA screenings.
Admission to the June 19 screening of Paint Me a Road Out of Here is not included with the festival pass. Free tickets are available at the MFA’s Remis box office on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 6 pm on June 19.
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