The St. Catharines Edition of the Better Cities Film Festival returns from October 27 – 29, 2023, curated by Better Neighbourhoods Inc. and co-sponsored by Main Street Engineering. This film festival seeks to bring important discussions out of City Halls, academic lecture rooms and conference centres to bring planning, urban design and city-building conversations to the community. Join us for neighbourhood walking tours, film screenings, panel discussions and more! This pay-what-you-can event is designed to inspire and empower communities to collaborate in the project of city-building. Enjoy a series of films to complement locally-relevant city-building topics such as active transportation, housing, grassroots placemaking, and the economics of urban growth. Festival programming has been planned for the whole weekend so you can take what you learned from the silver screen into the streets!

Click here for festival programming. 

For full tour descriptions and registration, click here. 

Film tickets can be purchased through the First Ontario Performing Arts Centre.