
Award-winning filmmaker Nisha Platzer’s, deeply personal documentary feature debut “back home” will play for audiences in Toronto as the opening night film at Rendezvous with Madness 2023.
Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival is a signature event of Workman Arts, produced annually in Toronto since 1993. The Festival investigates the facts and mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction as presented by both Canadian and international filmmakers, as well as by visual and media-based artists.
Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival started in 1993 and takes place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Award-winning filmmaker Nisha Platzer’s, deeply personal documentary feature debut “back home” will play for audiences in Toronto as the opening night film at Rendezvous with Madness 2023.

This Friday, November 5th, the nine-day Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, kicks off with a screening of Carl Bessai’s Repeaters. The film follows three rehabilitation residents as they are forced to relive the same day over and over. With over 20 programs of feature and short films, the films’ themes are diverse, ranging from the startling journey of Ron Hynes in The Man of a Thousand Songs to the inner battles of motocross legend Larry Linkogle in Mind of the Demon: The Larry Linkogle Story.