Canadian Premiere
An aspiring con-artist works on his craft.
Supported by
Community Partner
Dianne Wulf-Mahoney, Constantine Grechko
Canada
2022
English
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Credits
Screenwriter
Ryan Leedu
Cinematography
Tom Gunia
Production Design
Brianna Kolybaba
Director
Ryan Leedu
Ryan is an emerging filmmaker from Edmonton, AB, in Treaty 6 territory, in the Canadian prairies. Inspired by filmmakers as diverse as Kiarostami, Godard, Kieślowski, Varda, Wenders, Yang, Miranda July, and Claire Denis, Ryan has a broad array of cinematic influences. He is interested in films that are patient, stylistically and narratively innovative, and, above all, rooted in a sense of time and place that is socially/artistically/politically relevant to the present. From slow-burning films about generational societal shifts of the New Taiwanese Cinema to the iconoclastic experiments of the French New Wave, Ryan is interested in all things cinema and the moving image.
VIFF Short Forum
See more shorts in this series
1: Call your mother
Shorts from: Canada, China, UK.
2: Memory & mediation
Shorts from: Canada, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Syria, USA.
3: The peripheral core
Shorts from: Brazil, Canada, Japan, Norway, USA.
4: Um, womanhood
Shorts from: Canada, Columbia, France, Netherlands, Sweden.
5: The absurd & spiritual
Shorts from: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Portugal.
6: City slickin’
Shorts from: Canada, France, Jordan, Spain, USA.
7: All day I dream about
Shorts from: Canada, India, Spain, Taiwan, USA.
8: Love and despair
Shorts from: China, France, Germany, Portugal, USA.
9: The scary one
Shorts from: Canada, Korea, Romania, USA.
10: The new socialism; ceasefire now!
Shorts from: Belgium, Canada, China, India, Myanmar, UK.
Short Fuse
An eye-opening collection of shorts exploring memories, experiences and relationships between friends, family, and across generations. From powwows in North America, to the rivers of Ethiopia and beyond, these shorts offer memorable stories on screen.