Shorts from Belgium, Canada, France, South Korea, Taiwan, and USA.
Oct 1 & 2: Q&A with filmmakers
This short film program includes the following films:
Stuffed
Louise Labrousse, France (11 min)
A woman decides to treat herself to a bowl of noodles in the bath.
Strawberry Shortcake
Deborah Devyn Chuang, Taiwan (21 min)
A teenage girl falls into a Freudian phantasy with her mother.
The Painting
Michèle Lemieux, Canada (11 min)
Using pinscreen animation, an instance of institutionalized incest in art history is examined through the portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria, who was 14 when she married her uncle.
Zanatany, When Soulless Shrouds Whisper
Hachimiya Ahamada, Belgium/France/Qatar (27 min)
Tensions rise in the community, days before the little known 1976 Majunga massacre.
Shadow
Kamell Allaway, USA (12 min)
A young mother’s shadow takes on a life of its own, terrorizing her and her daughter.
Hatch
Alireza Kazemipour & Panta Mosleh, Canada (11 min)
A group of Afghan refugees hide inside a water tanker as they attempt to cross the border to safety.
Time to Dilate
Kim Nayoung, South Korea (22 min)
Two lovers, Myung-ki and Do, break up because of a secret Myung-ki’s been hiding. When they meet again, this secret cannot be ignored.
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Various
2023-2024
Various with English subtitles
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The Art of Adventure
The unbelievable adventure story of how painter Robert Bateman and ecologist Bristol Foster drove a Land Rover from Africa to Australia in 1957, developing a love of nature to last a lifetime. An inspirational love letter to the adventure of life itself.
Chasing Ice
This visually stunning film follows renowned National Geographic photographer James Balog on a harsh Arctic expedition where he captures a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers — undeniable evidence that our planet is in crisis. The screening will be introduced by James Balog.
Dead Lover
A foul-smelling gravedigger's romance ends in tragedy, spurring her to attempt a resurrection through a madcap series of science experiments. Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie’s film is a zany DIY horror that zaps fresh life into Mary Shelley's classic.
Calle Málaga
Seventy-nine-year-old María Ángeles lives independently in Tangier's Spanish quarter. When her daughter pressures her into selling her apartment, she refuses to give in, finding in her old age a new resilience and an unexpected romantic connection.
Sansho the Bailiff
The third of the great Japanese masters (with Ozu and Kurosawa), Mizoguchi is a poet of suffering. There's plenty of that here in his exquisite telling of an ancient folktale about the enslavement of a woman and her two children.