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
Giant
This was the Yellowstone of its time: a big, sweeping modern Western built around an imposing ranch and family dynamics -- except Giant is much more subversive. James Dean strikes it rich as Jett Rink, much to the disgust of his former boss, Rock Hudson.
Familiar Touch
A loving portrait of an octogenarian transitioning into an assisted living facility, this award-winning first feature by choreographer Sarah Friedland has a simplicity and warmth that's exceptionally poignant.
Super Happy Forever
This beguiling film depicts a man’s return to the Japanese seaside town where he met his now-deceased wife five years earlier. He tries to relive the past, and in the film's final section -- a flashback to 2018 -- the audience is afforded that privilege.
A Streetcar Named Desire
"I don't want realism. I want magic!" declares Blanche du Bois, the tragic heroine who meets her nemesis in her sister's husband, Stanley Kowalski, in Tennessee Williams' great play. Brando's performance as Stanley is a turning point in American acting.
Georgia O'Keeffe: the Brightness of Light
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."
