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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2023-2024
Various with English subtitles
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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.
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 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.
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.
It Was Just an Accident
Having offered some late-night assistance to a stranger in the wake of an auto accident, a mechanic grows convinced that he recognizes the supposed stranger’s voice as that of his torturer during a grueling prison spell.