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Surrendur | World Premiere

Karthik Pandian
USA | 2026 | DCP | 86 min | English, Spanish, K'iche', Tamil, Anishinaabemowin, and Dakota with English subtitles in select scenes.

A mandala for falling monuments, for falling into relation, for opening the manasu—meaning both heart and mind in Tamil—to the frequency of love in revolt transmitted from Minneapolis and conducted by artist Karthik Pandian with activists Mike Forcia (Bad River Anishinaabe) and Ta Pe'juta Wičháȟpi Win (Hunkpati Dakota Oyate), and Jamaican sonic sculptor Douglas R. Ewart.
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Surrendur

sur•ren•dur

a mandala for falling monuments, for falling into relation, for opening the மனசு¹ the frequency of love in revolt

ren•dur

to describe this world, destroy it, open the portal to the next, and repeat

en•dur

expanding time

communing there

Surrendur transmits the stories of Mike Forcia (Bad River Anishinaabe)—the American Indian Movement activist who orchestrated the toppling of a monument to Christopher Columbus—and Ta Pe'juta Wičháȟpi Win (Hunkpati Dakota Oyate), whose political consciousness was awoken when she danced around the fallen statue with her daughter. The George Floyd Uprising, the Anishinaabe Seven Fires Prophecy, and the Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride are interwoven through the director’s unique style of editing nonsynchronous 16mm film and sound. Oscillating between intimate conversation and kinetic montage, Surrendur traces the riverine network of migration and homecoming, chance encounter, and carefully cultivated collaboration that drew Pandian into deep relation with Forcia, Win, and other luminous activists and artists from Minneapolis, the heart of revolt at the centre of Turtle Island.

¹ Translated from Tamil as manasu, meaning both heart and mind.

This screening will not have captions available.

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Curated by
Jaclyn Quaresma
Date / Time
April 10, 2026
7:30PM – 9:30PM EDT
Conversation

Please join us on Monday, April 13, 2026, from 2:30–3:30 PM for an intimate follow-up conversation with filmmaker Karthik Pandian and a special guest. This session will build on the themes discussed and offer an opportunity for deeper dialogue. Location, details, and registration information is available here.

Location
Innis Town Hall

2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

Sidewalk-level entrance, elevator and ramp available, door width 32 inches, no automatic doors. No accessible parking on-site. Four wheelchair accessible seats in the cinema. 15 step-free seats in row 9. Accessible gender-neutral washroom located on the 2nd and 3rd floor.

For a map to Innis Town Hall, click here

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Karthik Pandian
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Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all. 

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us. 

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.