Shorts from Australia, Canada, France, and South Korea.
Oct 5 & 6: Q&A with filmmakers
This short film program includes the following films:
On Plains of Larger River & Woodlands
Miguel de Jesus, Australia/Portugal (13 min)
Living in the rural suburbia of Sandy Bay, two Tasmanian teenagers find ways to articulate their isolation and boredom.
Uncommon Ground
Faith Sparrow-Crawford, Canada (20 min)
In the year 2171, Tawni and her aunt live in the Shadowlands. While on a journey to the capital for medicine, Tawni discovers a plane crash survivor and risks her own safety to treat him.
Julian and the Wind
Connor Jessup, Canada (15 min)
Two boarding school roommates share a strange sleepwalking experience.
The Mysterious Adventures of Claude Conseil
Marie-Lola Terver & Paul Jousselin, France (24 min)
An ornithologist experiences a case of mistaken identity via social media.
Get Thee on the Dance Floor
Hyun Hahn, South Korea (27 min)
A middle-aged man, his ailing father, and his father’s caregiver take a day trip together to the bathhouse.
Time Space Love
Marie-Louise Gariépy, Canada (15 min)
A probe equipped with artificial intelligence is launched towards the star Rigel on a thousand-year journey to establish contact with an unknown extraterrestrial consciousness.
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2023-2024
Various with English subtitles
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Agatha's Almanac
Shot over six years on vibrant 16mm film, Agatha’s Almanac is an artful documentary portrait of filmmaker Amalie Atkin’s octogenarian aunt, who has fashioned herself an endearingly simple and self-sustaining lifestyle on her Manitoba farm.
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.
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.
The Blue Trail
77-year-old Tereza makes a break for the Brazilian jungle in this trippy septuagenarian fantasy, the latest from Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro is a quirky picaresque, lushly photographed and filled with mordant humour.
Follies
After two kids and 16 years of marriage, François and Julie decide to open up their relationship in a bid to rekindle their dwindling sex life. A painfully hilarious and brutally honest depiction of love, sex, and intimacy in the age of the internet.
Castration Movie Anthology 1: Traps
Louise Weard's underground movie is a talk-a-thon in two chapters and four hours: a sex worker contemplates having her testicles removed, and a movie production assistant pitches himself right out of a job, and other misadventures in Vancouver life.