
Canada
2022
In English and Îethka with English subtitles
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VIFF Short Forum: Program 4
Bouncing through nostalgic aesthetics and genre storytelling, a contemporary point of view comes into focus.
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Love
This warm, thoughtful piece offers shrewd comic observations on modern dating as it trains a quizzical eye on the trysts of a female doctor, Marianne (Andrea Bræin Hovig), and her colleague, a gay male nurse, Tor (Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen).
Sex
Two chimney sweeps living in heterosexual marriages find their views on sexuality and gender challenged by a series of unexpected events. In a set of sharply scripted conversations, both men confront heretofore unexplored aspects of their identity.
3 Faces
Iranian filmmaker Panahi and actress Behnaz Jafari, both playing themselves, receive a video in which a distraught teenaged girl, whose acting dreams have been quashed appears to kill herself. Panahi and Jafari decide to investigate...
Dreams
The third installment in the Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy is another rich, absorbing tale. 17-year-old Johanne writes a confessional about her flirtation with a (female) teacher. But the writing is too good to stay private...
Transit
Trust the director of Phoenix and Barbara to re-imagine a WWII romantic intrigue into something unsettlingly contemporary. With occupying forces closing in, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski) assumes a dead writer's identity and flees to Marseille.
Credits
Cinematography
Elshia Jimmyjohn, Saliyha Ear, Miranda Chiniquay
Original Music
Stoney River, Jarret Twoyoungmen
Director

Jarret Twoyoungmen
Jarret Twoyoungmen is a storyteller whose passion is community. He co-founded the Nakoda AV Club, a storytelling collective based on the Mînî Thnî reserve. He is a writer, director, and musician, and is instrumental in the collective’s ability to connect with youth and Elders, and to tell stories in a uniquely Îethka way. His first language is Îethka.