Canada
2022
In English and Îethka with English subtitles
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 4
Bouncing through nostalgic aesthetics and genre storytelling, a contemporary point of view comes into focus.
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The Mother and the Bear
Johnny Ma’s film stars Kim Ho-jung as a Korean woman who flies to Winnipeg when her immigrant daughter is hospitalized there. This crowd-pleaser plays up cultural differences to hilarious effect and offers a touching take on mother-daughter tension.
How Deep Is Your Love
Filmmaker Eleanor Mortimer tags along with a team of oceanographers and marine biologists as they survey the Clarion-Clipperton fracture, one of the most remote spots on Earth, home to a dazzling array of unknown creatures.
Blue Heron
In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behaviour from Jeremy, the family’s oldest child.
The Last One for the Road
Two middle-aged drunkards drive across the Veneto region on a freewheeling bender, taking a young college student along for the ride. A celebration of the spirit of drink and the kinds of stories told around a table of old friends and too much wine.
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.


