Canada
2022
Without dialogue
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 1
What kind of alchemy occurs to transform hardship into fortune? Here, the extraordinary burn brightly.
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Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other
This intimate and candid film by a younger husband and wife artist team is a delicate and immensely moving dual portrait of two artists, husband and wife, together and apart, at that point in life when the end casts a shadow over even the sunniest day.
Image: © Manon et Jacob and Final Cut For Real
Lingua Franca
Lingua Franca is a tender portrait of intimacy shaped by migration, vulnerability, and the quiet negotiations of belonging. Centered on an undocumented Filipina trans woman living in New York, the film moves with delicate restraint.
Erupcja
Charli xcx headlines this indie gem about a young English couple coming unmoored over a few days in Warsaw. Will means to propose. Beth has cold feet -- and an escape hatch she has barely admitted to herself... Think Before Sunrise 2025.
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
In which former OC star Ben McKenzie brushes off his economics degree and digs into the cryptocurrency conundrum. If bitcoin is truly all about transparency, how come no one can explain it?
Credits
ANIM
Ashleigh Vaillancourt
Director
Ashleigh Vaillancourt
Ashleigh Vaillancourt is a multimedia artist and filmmaker working on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam)̓ Nation (Vancouver, Canada). She studied art and animation at Emily Carr University, and has shown her films and digital projections in film festivals and galleries internationally. Her work explores themes of personal resilience and social empathy, as well as the interplay of analog painting and generative digital art.



