Happy Dox

FIXED! is a window into the activities of Repair Café Toronto, a volunteer group part of the global Repair Café movement, which hosts free ‘fixing’ events around the city with a goal of reducing landfill waste by getting people to see their broken household goods as repairable and not merely replaceable. The film introduces viewers to a diverse group of volunteers and individuals brought together by the belief that damaged or broken things still hold value and should try to be fixed before they are simply thrown away or discarded as useless. While the interactions captured on-screen are smile-inducing and create a warm and inviting sense of what Toronto Repair Café events are like, what the film ultimately triumphs at is showing how important these one-on-one human encounters are to creating a society where citizens have a strong sense of community and self-worth, and where just as broken objects aren’t discarded, neither are not-so-common skill sets or people.