Cinematic form is given to life’s big mysteries: luck and fate, love and loss, and the spiritual supernatural.
Q&A Oct 6 & Oct 9
This short film program includes the following films:
The Flying Sailor
Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby, AB (8 min)
Based on the true events of the Halifax Explosion in 1917, a sailor soars above the blast towards the great unknown.
Meeting With Robert Dole
François Harvey, QC (16 min)
Dialectical in form and content, this documentary explores the connection between schizophrenia and theology through the life of Robert Dole.
N’xaxaitkw
Asia Youngman, BC (17 min)
New to town, Zaraya befriends her next-door neighbour, who invites her to go on a search for the legendary lake monster, N’xaxaitkw—known to settlers as Ogopogo.
I, Sun
Julien Falardeau, QC (12 min)
A sun worshipper’s commitment grows desperate when he catches a sunflower turning towards him.
Baba
Meran Ismailsoy, Anya Chirkova, ON (14 min)
All hell breaks loose when a depressed father calls in his son to help mediate an argument with the landlord.
Grown in Darkness
Devin Shears, NL (17 min)
Emmanuel pays his longtime friend, Henry, a visit on his rhubarb farm during harvest. Through the next few days, the two examine the nature of their relationship.
La Plage aux êtres
Kendra McLaughlin, ON (20 min)
Time, memory, and grief are explored in this close look at the preservation of an unidentified creature.
Supported by
Community Broadcast Partner
Community Partner
Various
Canada
2021-2022
Various with English subtitles
Open to youth!
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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.
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
Whether he was a man, a musician, or an emissary from Saturn (as he claimed), Sun Ra was one of the unique visionaries of the 20th century. Christine Turner’s documentary explores the legacy of this iconoclastic who turned his life into a work of art.