Skip to main content
Baba film image, co-directors Meran Ismailsoy and Anya Chirkova

World Premiere

All hell breaks loose when a depressed father calls in his son to help mediate an argument with the landlord.

 

Supported by

Community Broadcast Partner

Community Partner

Directors
Cast

Amir Zavosh, Maziyar Khatam, James Choy, Sina Djamshidiat

Credits
Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2022

Language

In Farsi and English with English subtitles

Film Contact
Content Warning

Coarse language; violence

PG
14 min

Featured in:

N'xaxaitkw film image

VIFF Short Forum: Program 6

Cinematic form is given to life’s big mysteries: luck and fate, love and loss, and the spiritual supernatural.

 

More Info

Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre

Georgia O'Keeffe: the Brightness of Light
Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light film image; painted reds, pinks, oranges, and yellows that combine to look like a flower

Georgia O'Keeffe: the Brightness of Light

Dir. Paul Wagner
118 min

Drawing on her copious correspondence and the world's leading scholars, this is a definitive documentary on the life and work of "the mother of American Modernism."

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Under the Skin

Dir. Jonathan Glazer
108 min

Between Birth and the death camps of Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer gave us sex, with Scarlett Johansson, picking up and disposing with interchangeable men. It's a bleakly unforgettable movie, with a mesmeric Mica Levi score.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

Dir. Shoshannah Stern
98 min

A moving and insightful film about the Academy Award winning deaf actress Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God; CODA).

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
More info

Sold Out

Paprika

Dir. Satoshi Kon
90 min

A device capable of transmitting dreams falls into the wrong hands in this dazzling anime meta-movie from visionary filmmaker Satoshi Kon. The imagery here is never less than overwhelming; it's probably the greatest scifi movie of our times.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

E.1027 Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

Dir. Beatrice Minger & Christoph Schaub
89 min

In this elegant non fiction film, actors play Irish designer Eileen Gray, her lover, the architect Jean Badovici, and modernist superstar Le Corbusier, who would become obsessed with the house on the Cote d'Azur that Eileen designed.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Enter the Void

Dir. Gaspar Noé
161 min

Venturing where angels fear to tread, virtuoso filmmaker Gaspar Noé (Vortex) creates a dazzling journey into the Tokyo night, a mind-bending exploration of the outer reaches of human experience inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Credits

Producer

Anya Chirkova, Maziyar Khatam

Screenwriter

Maziyar Khatam

Editor

Maziyar Khatam

Directors

Anya Chirkova headshot, Baba co-director

Anya Chirkova

Anya Chirkova is a Ukrainian-Russian film director/producer. In her work, she’s always looking to tell painful, yet cathartic stories that feel strikingly personal. She is the co-founder of Toronto-based production company Funny Bone Pictures and is a Humber College alumna. Chirkova is currently in pre-production for her first feature film.

Meran Ismailsoy headshot, Baba co-director

Meran Ismailsoy

Meran Ismailsoy is a Toronto-based Azerbaijani filmmaker with a directing and acting background. Ismailsoy approaches film as the art side of philosophy.