Morals are being challenged on many fronts. The protagonists in this program of short films are all faced with difficult moral choices and they don’t always make the right decisions.
Q&A Oct 3 & Oct 5
This short film program includes the following films:
The Silent Ones
Basile Vuillemin, France/Belgium/Switzerland (20 min)
At the end of an unsuccessful fishing trip, a small trawler’s desperate captain and crew ultimately agree they have to do something risky, but potentially lucrative, to change their fortune.
Solar Eclipse
Alireza Ghasemi, Raha Amirfazli, France/Iran (15 min)
A teen girl and her two friends and are off for an afternoon in the largest park in Teheran to photograph a rare total solar eclipse.
A Moral Man
Paul and Simon Wade, UK (19 min)
A right-to-die evangelist must wrestle with his faith and morality when his latest client turns out to be not what she claimed.
For Real
Ernest Lorek, Poland (19 min)
A young man’s house party takes an unexpected turn when his gangster neighbour breaks into his apartment.
Perspective
Alaa Algburi, Iraq/Jordan (10 min)
A symbolic examination of how men treat women in most of the Middle East from a young woman’s perspective.
The Lone Wolf
Filipe Melo, Portugal (24 min)
A talk show radio host has chosen emotions as his theme for tonight’s show, which proves surprisingly banal until he gets a call from an old friend.
Community Partner
Various
Various
2021-2022
Various with English subtitles
Domestic Violence, Gender or Sexual Discrimination, Sexual Violence, Child Abuse
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Muzizi
From the director of the award-winning film Union Street, Jamila Pomeroy, Muzizi embarks on a great culinary adventure through Vancouver’s African diasporic culinary scene. Muzizi explores powerful stories of immigration, resilience, and joy.
Emergence: Women in the Storm
Stories of resistance and recovery, courage, creativity and community in the face of the climate emergency gleaned from women first responders and those impacted in Western Canada, particularly Lytton and the Fraser Valley.
Nomadland
Hamnet director Chloe Zhao picked up one of three Academy Awards (along with Best Picture and Best Actress) in 2021 for this unconventional, compassionate adaptation of Jessica Bruder's nonfiction book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.