As time moves ever the more forward, histories are revisited. Some continue to be honoured while others are called for a reckoning.
September 29 & October 1: Q&A with the film teams
This short film program includes the following films:
Our Grandmother the Inlet
Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos, Kayah George, BC (9 min)
Kayah George, a young Tsleil-Waututh woman and her grandmother Ta7a, daughter of the late Chief Dan George, reflect on their relationship to water, culture, and land.
Unspeakable Heap
Kara Ditte Hansen (14 min)
An accumulation of histories is explored via the filmmaker’s uncle, a retired Grego-Roman Olympian wrestler who lives in a sinking house built atop a decommissioned landfill.
Master of the House
Dylan Maranda, BC (17 min)
A young sommelier struggles to balance friendship and ambition on the night an acclaimed restaurant critic dines at his work — Reclamation, a restaurant hyped on reinventing Indigenous cuisine.
The Company We Keep
Wojtek Jakubiec, QC (6 min)
An intimate portrait of a ceramics artist and her dog.
Modern Goose
Karsten Wall, MB (20 min)
The adaptive behaviours of the Canadian geese are examined as city co-habitants affected by human intervention and climate change.
Outside Center
Eli Jean Tahchi, QC (21 min)
Finding community via his gay rugby league, Jamaican-born Desmond navigates life, love, and identity as an immigrant living in Munich, Germany.
Death Mask
John Greyson, ON (10 min)
This experimental opera reenacts the lesser known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older German sexologist and gay rights pioneer during Nazi Germany.
All the Days of May
Miryam Charles, QC (7 min)
Following the production of a documentary on the death of her daughter, a mother reflects on life, grief, and time.
Mothers and Monsters
Edith Jorisch, QC (16 min)
In this surrealist satire, a celebratory banquet hosted for and by new mothers is disrupted by a series of strange disturbances.
Supported by
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Canada
2023
VIFF Short Forum
Various with English subtitles
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Jackie Brown
Take half a dozen characters who know they're in a fix, and give them half a million dollars to fight over. Tarantino's crime movie (his best) transcends genre in large part because in Pam Grier and Robert Forster it gives us people we truly care about.
Cookie Queens
A documentary about the annual Girl Scouts' cookie sale is probably not high on your list of must-sees, but don't be too sure — this movie is a delight, a rare celebration of girlhood, supportive family relations, and the art of salesmanship.
A Simple Machine
Cutting costs, swapping four wheels for two, Nick is downsizing to pay off his student debt. It's a path which leads to savings he had not anticipated, even if his girlfriend thinks he's losing it (and she may be right). A lean, low budget gem.
Searching for Satyrus
Award-winning filmmaker and photographer Rena Effendi embarks on a quest to track down the very rare Satyrus Effendi, a butterfly discovered by her father in the mountains of Aberbaijain. But what she finds is altogether more personal, and more upsetting.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Sasha Waters' documentary takes us through the life of America's best-selling late twentieth century poet, a private woman who shared her innermost thoughts and made them indispensable.