Canadian Premiere
Treated and multilayered Super 8 images are juxtaposed, illuminating tensions that bridge protest and reclamation with the perils of nationalism.
USA
2025
No Dialogue
Indigenous & Community Access
Indigenous Access Tickets Community Access Tickets Ticket Donation Requests
Credits & Director
Producer
Jeremy Drummond
Screenwriter
Jeremy Drummond
Cinematography
Jeremy Drummond
Editor
Jeremy Drummond
Original Music
Robert Donne
Jeremy Drummond
Jeremy Drummond is an artist, filmmaker, and field recorder born in Edmonton and raised in Vancouver and Toronto. Working at the intersection of documentary and experimental media, his art is informed by interdisciplinary research and a commitment to sustained, first-person fieldwork that explores cultural, historical, and socio-political relationships between people and place. Drummond teaches experimental film and video at the University of Richmond where he also runs the annual Frames of Reference program. His works have been exhibited in festivals, galleries, and museums worldwide.
Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre
Late Fame
Based on a novella by Arthur Schnitzler (Eyes Wide Shut) this is a sly, poignant comedy about vanity and art from director Kent Jones, starring Willem Dafoe as a mailman belatedly acclaimed for a book of poetry he wrote in his youth.
Memory of Princess Mumbi
In 2093, a filmmaker arrives in the African village of Umata, where he meets Princess Mumbi, a woman torn between love, legacy, and the future of storytelling. It's a fabulous genre-blending fable about memory, invention and cinematic resistance.
Lessons of Darkness
Werner Herzog's unforgettable documentary reveals the unfolding disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames in 1991 as a sweeping inferno of mesmerizing power.
Beau Travail
Inspired by Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Claire Denis' transfixing Beau Travail is set in East Africa. Sgt Galoup (Denis Lavant) reflects on his time in the French Foreign Legion, and the impact of the handsome Sentain (Gregoire Colin).
But I'm a Cheerleader
Megan (Natasha Lyonne) is the perfect All-American Girl, or so she thinks. That is until she’s shipped off to conversion therapy. This pitch black comedy is wrapped in a saccharine bow, featuring the icon herself, RuPaul, as a conversion counsellor.