TOPS: Speed Sisters

Each summer, the Toronto Outdoor Picture Show (TOPS) presents an a open-air festival program at four home parks across Toronto: Fort York, Christie Pits, Corktown Common, and Bell Manor Park. Corktown Common showings are on Thursday evenings starting July 3.

Join your neighbours at the park and enjoy Eats and Treats at 7pm, with the moving starting at sundown, ±9pm. Nestled between the Distillery and the Don, you get an unbeatable view of Toronto’s skyline. Bring a picnic blanket, folding chair, meditation cushion.... whatever you need to be comfortable hanging out with hundreds of neighbours on a big green lawn.

From the TOPS website: "

Lebanese-Canadian Director Amber Fares’ first feature length documentary Speed Sisters gives audiences an under-the-hood look at the first all-women car racing team in Palestine... At the centre of this year’s Spotlight on SWANA Stories programme, the film highlights four subjects, Marah, Noor, Mona and Betty, who represent Palestine on the track with national pride and a deep passion for driving. Fares (who is being celebrated on the festival circuit this year for her recent documentary feature Coexistence, My Ass!) uses an empathetic camera to show the growing pains these young women face outside of racing, as they find balance between home life, work and play in the face of the barriers imposed by occupation and disenfranchisement. Ultimately it is their ability to persevere and the joy driving cars competitively provides that keeps them on track to pursue their goals no matter the roadblocks, as they weave racing into the fabric of their lives a quarter kilometre at a time."

Screenings are open to anyone who would like to attend, with no barriers to entry. TOPS is always free to all, and charitable donations make this possible.

Full program here

July 3: Opener: Dazed and Confused

July 10: Moonlight

July 17: Speed Sisters

July 24: Stand By Me

July 31: Challengers

August 7: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane