Canada
2021
In English and Anishinaabemowin with English subtitles
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 4
Bouncing through nostalgic aesthetics and genre storytelling, a contemporary point of view comes into focus.
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Romería
An orphan from a young age, 18-year-old Marina intends to pursue a university scholarship. The application, however, requires the signatures of her paternal grandparents, compelling her to embark on a pilgrimage and seek out the family she has never met.
Wayne's World
Mike Myers' Canadian roots show through in this smart faux dumb American headbanger comedy directed by Penelope Spheeris (Decline of the American Empire). You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hurl!
Malcolm X
In an indelible role, Denzel Washington give us a layered, compassionate, conflicted man who finds the strength in Islam to transcend his demons and confront the inequity and racism in America head-on. Along with Do the Right Thing, this is Spike Lee's greatest film.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Coppola's woozy, cinematically audacious take on the vampire myth is like a symphonic silent movie in full colour, a delirium of romantic angst with Gary Oldman as the shape-shifting immortal.
Hockney
An engaging, insightful and inspiring film portrait of the late great British and California artist. He’s one of the most accessible figurative painters of the last half century, but look closer, there’s much more to David Hockney than meets the eye.
Credits
Screenwriter
Nathan Adler
Editor
Nathan Adler
Original Music
Nathan Adler
Director
Nathan Adler
Nathan Adler is an artist, writer, editor, and filmmaker. He the author of Wrist and Ghost Lake (Kegedonce Press), and co-editor of Bawaajigan: Stories of Power (Exile Editions). He has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, is a first-place winner of the Aboriginal Writing Challenge, and is a recipient of a Hnatyshyn Reveal Award for Literature. He is Jewish and Anishinaabe, and a member of Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation.



