Growing up is hard to do, often harder as we get older.
Q&A Oct 5 & Oct 9
This short film program includes the following films:
Reste
Ginger Le Pêcheur, QC (8 min)
Alone in a messy home, a young girl spends the day playing by herself.
Pro Pool
Alec Pronovost, QC (8 min)
Charles-Olivier, a recent graduate who had majored in Viking history, begins a new job at a pool shop.
Agony
Arnaud Beaudoux, QC (13 min)
Over the course of 15 days on a commercial trawler, a hyper-intimate portrayal of life and death on the high seas is documented.
The Faraway Place
Kenny Welsh, BC (14 min)
A young woman and her father, both of whom have horns, flee from a violent cult on a mission to eradicate their kind.
I Empower as a Mother
Inder Nirwan, Dani Barker, BC (11 min)
Patricia Massy, the founder and director of Massy Arts Society and co-founder of Indigenous Brilliance collective, shares aspects of her life, work, and business, Massy Books.
Brasier
Amélia Raposo, Tiago Freire Brosseau, QC (19 min)
After joining a high school soccer team made up of older girls, 11-year-old Pierre-Amelia is exposed to teenager sex talk. This precipitates her sexual awakening, and she develops an unexpected, taboo crush.
The Passing
Jackson Harvey, QC (6 min)
A dairy farmer searches for one of his cows that has wandered off in a blizzard.
Rocket Fuel
Jessie Posthumus, ON (12 min)
Three siblings decide to collect the cans and bottles left over from they backyard party their parents hosted the previous night. On their journey to the bottling depot, obstacles arise.
Heartbeat of a Nation
Eric Janvier, AB (21 min)
Honouring the Dene Drum, this documentary celebrates the healing of a community and nation through the reclamation and passing down of traditional teachings within a Dene family.
Supported by
Community Broadcast Partner
Community Partner
Various
Canada
2021-2022
Various with English subtitles
Incest
Open to youth!
Book Tickets
Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre
Cold War
This month's Talking Pictures screening (coffee and cookies on the house!) is a Polish love story about a musical director who falls under the spell of a singer while on a Communist-sponsored mission to package native folk songs for the social good.
Spring After Spring
Three daughters strive to live up to the standards set by their mother Marie Mimi Ho, and keep Vancouver Chinatown's Spring Parade going through thick and thin, in this enormously affectionate local documentary by Jon Chiang.
The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes
A beautiful portrait of E.J. Hughes, who quietly helped reshape the artistic landscape of British Columbia in the 20th century. This extraordinary documentary explores Hughes’s legacy not only as an artist, but as a devoted, humble human being.
Montreal, ma belle
In this Valentine to discovering love later in life, the ever-elegant Joan Chen plays Feng Xia, a 53-year-old Chinese immigrant and mother in Montreal whose world is turned upside down when she meets and falls in love with a young Quebecoise.
Sirât
A desperate father (Sergi Lopez) searchers for his missing daughter through the spiritual wasteland of the Moroccan desert. An unforgettable sensory powerhouse, Sîrat will have you riveted and rattled for hours after the end credits have rolled.
