Examining the cyclical nature of workplace trauma and the relentlessness of health care work, the daily grind of a bedside nurse is embodied through movement, rhythm, and dance.
Supported by
Community Broadcast Partner
Community Partner
Chloe Van Landschoot, Avery Konrad
Canada
2022
English
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 3
The camera eye knows no bounds in these stories that push the limits of gravity and grace.
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Breaking the Waves
Kicking off our 2026 Pantheon series of the greatest films ever made, Lars von Trier's 1996 masterpiece is a devastating melodrama featuring an indelible performance from Emily Watson as the woman whose love for her husband knows no bounds.
The Track
In the middle of a mountain forest above Sarajevo, three boys train for the Olympics in a bullet-ridden luge track abandoned since the 1984 Winter Games. An ambitious, hopeful look at the next generation striving to overcome the sins of their fathers.
Yunan
In this haunting mood piece, Munir is a middle-aged Syrian writer in exile in Germany. In crisis, he takes himself up to one of the Halligan islands in the North Sea, a suitable place to end it all...
The Secret Agent
Having run afoul of an influential bureaucrat in Brazil’s military dictatorship circa 1977, Marcelo decamps to Recife to live under an assumed name — but he’ll soon come to understand precisely how rampant the country’s corruption has become.
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.
Credits
Producer
Chloe Van Landschoot, Nicholas Nyhof
Screenwriter
Chloe Van Landschoot
Cinematography
Charlie Benoit
Editor
Mike Reisacher
Original Music
Charles Spearin
Directors
Chloe Van Landschoot
Chloe Van Landschoot is a registered nurse, actor, dancer, and filmmaker. She finds that the nursing profession has been the greatest storytelling education she has come upon. It is these lived experiences as a healthcare worker that inspire many of her impulses as an artist. She is the writer, co-director, and co-producer of her debut short Tidal, and is currently a series regular on Epix’s From. She is also the co-founder of Collective H’arts, an initiative that unites healthcare workers and creative expression.
Niamh Wilson
Niamh Wilson is a Canadian actor, dancer, and filmmaker born and raised in the suburbs of Toronto. They began their career as an actor at only four years old and have been privileged to make filmmaking their lifelong passion over the past 20 years. Their desire to direct came after taking an elective cinema course during their anthropology degree at the University of Toronto. Tidal is their directorial debut.