Shorts from: Canada, India, Spain, Taiwan, USA.
Oct 9 & 10: Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
Santa Clara. Birth in Three Phases
Arturo Franco & Tono Mejuto, Spain (9 min)
Amidst the ruins of the Monastery of Santa Clara, workers clean, weed, and drill.
The Foreigner
Wen-Shuo Hsueh, Taiwan (16 min)
A night in the life of A-bang, a Taiwanese patrol guard amidst a factory of migrant workers.
Canada in the 12th Century
Jack Parker, Canada (10 min)
Two Canadas from the 12th century: one real, one imaginary.
How to Live Together
Tim Nicholas, USA (18 min)
Six people living in a cramped four-bedroom apartment seek a new roommate.
To Look, and to Look Again
Monica Cheema, Canada (6 min)
A meditation on labour and land via a blueberry farm in Surrey, BC.
The Housekeeper
Surya Balakrishnan, India (24 min)
Over time, the routines of Abhi, a young urbanite living in Mumbai, and Deepa, his housekeeper, intertwine.
Paradise Heights
Karl Kai & Robert Mentov, Canada (23 min)
Lah, a narcoleptic seven-year old, discovers an otherworldly bond to her late mother’s past within dreams of the Burmese jungle.
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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.