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VIFF Short Forum: Program 4

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Bouncing through nostalgic aesthetics and genre storytelling, a contemporary point of view comes into focus.

 

Q&A Oct 4 & Oct 6

 

This short film program includes the following films:

Red House
Barry Doupé, BC (3 min)

Created using the Amiga computer console and Deluxe Paint IV software, hand-drawn sequences undergo a continual metamorphosis of images, characters, and forms.

 


My Thoughts Exactly
Mike Archibald, BC (18 min)

Two strangers bring their love, frustration, and desire to the cruising trails within Stanley Park.

 


Tibi
Jarret Twoyoungmen, AB (14 min)

Using archival and self-shot footage, the teaching of Îethka culture is documented through the making of a tipi under supervision of knowledge keepers.

 


Framing the Self
Andrea Cristini, BC (12 min)

A heady but emphatic experiment whereby an animated character improvises in a cinematic vacuum through the direction of their creator.

 


Sexy Highland Stream
Nathan Adler, BC (5 min)

In appreciation of the eponymous stream, this poem is a love letter to the beauty found in nature. Written and spoken in English and Anishinaabemowin.

 


Late Summer
Ryan Steel, MB (12 min)

A young loner grows attached to his camp counsellor at a haunted summer camp.

 


The Ballad of Gus
Brian Barnhart, MB (16 min)

Encouraged by two father figures—one a drug dealer, the other an artist—Gus faces a pivotal moment in his life.

 


Rose
Roxann Whitebean, QC (25 min)

Set in the 1960s, Rose is an Indigenous teen in her last weeks of pregnancy. Pressured by a government agent to give up her baby for Canadian adoption upon delivery, Rose’s family do all they can to intervene—with the help of an unlikely ally.

 

Supported by

Community Broadcast Partner

Community Partner

Director

Various

Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2021-2022

Language

Various with English subtitles

Content Warning

Graphic Violence, Racial Discrimination

Open to youth!

105 min
Shorts

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Silence

Dir. Martin Scorsese
141 min

This sober, probing examination of faith, ego, cruelty and compassion is the most underrated film from the often under-valued latter half of Martin Scorsese's brilliant career; a passion project, about Catholic missionaries in 17th Century Japan.

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Last Breath

Dir. Costa-Gavras
100 min

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Souleymane's Story

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92 min

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Hard Eight

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
101 min

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Boogie Nights

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155 min

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