Skip to main content
When the Wind Rises film image; people picking things up from shallow water

VIFF Short Forum 4

VIFF Short Forum

Image: When the Wind Rises

This event has passed

Shorts from Brazil, Kenya, Martinique, Mexico, Taiwan, and USA.

 

Sept 30 & Oct 1: Q&A with filmmakers

 

This short film program includes the following films:

Minus Plus Multiply
Chu-Chieh Lee, UK (5 min)

Experiments with drawing, stop motion, and ceramics exploring one’s relationship to emotions through space.

 


Creatures of Light
Sylvie Weber, Mexico (12 min)

Through her connection with the natural world, Valeria brings comfort and lightness to her family.

 


When the Wind Rises
Hung Chen, Taiwan (18 min)

An elderly activist rallies his community against the expansion of an oil refinery in their tiny fishing village.

 


The Return
Laissa Malih, Kenya (16 min)

Malih returns to her community as the first Maasai filmmaker—both an insider and an outsider, a woman amongst men—so that she may carry on the sacred tradition of storytelling.

 


Mermaids
Sarah Malléon, Martinique (16 min)

On the island of Martinique, a young girl attempts to summon mermaids through calls from a conch shell.

 


Dadá
Luisa Arraes, Brazil (19 min)

In this comedy of manners, chaos ensues at a dinner party when the help does not arrive.

 


Fishmonger
Neil Ferron, USA (26 min)

A pathetic fishmonger must survive a sex pact with an ancient fish creature in order to save his mother’s soul.

 

Supported by

    

Community Partner

Director

Various

Country of Origin

Various

Year

2023-2024

Language

Various with English subtitles

18+
112 min
Action & Suspense Animation Award Winners Black Cinema Cinemas of Asia Comedy Documentary Drama Experimental & Avant Garde Family Relations Horror & Sci-Fi Human Rights & Social Justice Q&As at VIFF Romance Shorts Women Directors

Book Tickets

This event has passed.

Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre

Sex

Dir. Dag Johan Haugerud
125 min

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.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Love

Dir. Dag Johan Haugerud
119 min

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).

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

No Bears

Dir. Jafar Panahi
106 min

Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi plays himself in this ingenious meta-fiction about the making of a film, and the unmaking of love story.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

3 Faces

Dir. Jafar Panahi
100 min

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...

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Dreams

Dir. Dag Johan Haugerud
110 min

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...

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
Transit
Transit film image; woman leaning her head against a man's back

Transit

Dir. Christian Petzold
101 min

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.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre