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VIFF Short Forum 9

VIFF Short Forum

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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.

 

Supported by

    

Community Partner

Director

Various

Country of Origin

Various

Year

2023-2024

Language

Various with English subtitles

18+
114 min
Action & Suspense Art, Music & Photography Award Winners BC Spotlight Cinemas of Asia Comedy Drama Experimental & Avant Garde Family Relations Horror & Sci-Fi Indigenous Cinema LGBTQIA2S+ Q&As at VIFF Shorts Women Directors

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Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Dir. Göran Hugo Olsson
240 min

Drawing on 30 years of television archives, Göran Hugo Olsson relates the early history of the state of Israel, as reported by Swedish filmmakers, politicians and journalists. "An astonishing, invaluable document." William Mullally, The National

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Dir. Guillermo del Toro
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The Ballad of a Small Player

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105 min

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Woman in the Dunes

Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
147 min

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Checkpoint Zoo

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107 min

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Predators

Dir. David Osit
96 min

"Punk'd for pedophiles." That's what Jimmy Kimmel called Chris Hansen's true crime/reality TV show, To Catch a Predator (2004-07). Two decades on, David Osit examines why the show made such an impact, for good or ill, and sits down with Hansen himself.

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