Shorts from Armenia, Canada, Tibet, Colombia, Japan, and Turkey.
Oct 3 & 4: Q&A with filmmakers
This short film program includes the following films:
Grizzly Bear Country
Mave Ky, Canada (6 min)
Masculinity and male friendships are explored through three friends who go on a backcountry hiking trip in the Alberta Rockies.
Magic Candies
Daisuke Nishio, Japan (21 min)
Somewhat of a loner, Dong-Dong is content playing marbles on his own. One day, he goes to buy new marbles but leaves the shop with a bag of magic candies instead. Based on the Korean picture book, Magic Candies by Heena Baek.
The Egg
Vahan Grigoryan, Armenia (12 min)
A struggling actor decides to steal an egg at the grocery store.
Morî
Yakup Tekintangaç, Turkey (20 min)
When a new teacher starts at school, Morî is convinced that he is her long-lost father.
The Boys and the Donkey
Tsering Yangjyab, China (21 min)
In the Tibetan Plateau, four friends roughhouse with a neighbour’s donkey, leading to a nasty scratch on one of their faces. They resolve to punish the beast.
Culture Shock
Barry Bilinsky, Canada (15 min)
While Joey struggles to fit in at Culture Camp—where she is sent after defacing a mural—the mural artist’s sister is there also, looking for the vandal.
We Deserve an Empire
Mauricio Maldonado, Colombia (23 min)
Scrap metal thieves prepare to excavate an abandoned mine for gold.
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2023-2024
Various with English subtitles
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L'Étranger
Recreating 1940s Algeria in vivid, high contrast black and white cinematography, L'Etranger is erotic, enigmatic and brutal in equal measures, a masterful screen version of Albert Camus's insoluble classic of existential alienation.
The Chronology of Water
Kristen Stewart's fearless directorial debut is based on the best-selling memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch (Imogen Poots), a chronicle of her abusive childhood, traumatized adulthood, and escapes through swimming, drugs, sex, and ultimately writing.
All That's Left of You
Jordan's submission for the Academy Awards, All That's Left of You makes the most of its epic format to chronicle seven decades of Palestinian history while tracking the psychological impact of cycles of exile and oppression on three generations.
Islands
In this sly, engrossing mystery, a dissolute English tennis coach in a Canary Islands holiday resort falls under suspicion when the husband of a beautiful guest disappears after a night of heavy drinking...
Sentimental Value
A once-revered director crashes back into his family’s lives, eager to recruit his daughter for a film role. When she declines, he finds a new muse in an eager but unpolished Hollywood star, sending his botched reconciliation spiraling into chaos.