Jeanette Kong’s Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China is to open the ReelWorld Film Festival, organizers said Wednesday.

Kong’s documentary follows Paula Williams Madison and her two brothers on a journey from Toronto to Jamaica and then to China to discover their lost-long grandfather.

ReelWorld will also close with Maria Ripoli’s Traces of Sandalwood, a drama about a Bollywood actress who after 30 years of separation reunites with her little sister in Barcelona.

The festival, to run from March 2 to 8 in Toronto, will present Canadian titles that include Jag Parmar’s Dowry, which stars Ana Sani and Shireen Hampton, Lalita Krishna’s Listen to Me, a documentary about a counselor for women, and Kathryn Fasegha’s Treacherous Heart, a romancer that stars Olawumi Adeniyi Montel Swaray and Kalyn Gilbert.

Other Canadian titles booked for ReelWorld include the documentary Quebekoisie, in which co-directors Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins take on ties between aboriginals and non-aboriginals in Quebec, and Turbulence, writer/director Soran Mardookhi’s drama about a former electrical engineer from Kurdistan trying to settle in Canada, starring Kamal Yamolky and Camillia Mahal.