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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Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Once Upon a Time in Harlem splices together footage shot by William Greaves in 1972 of a group of Harlem Renaissance luminaries in conversation at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. The film is a living archive of memory, disagreement, style, and Black genius.
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Alex Gibney's doc relates the near-lethal attack on Salman Rushdie in 2022, the writer's painful rehab and recovery, and his reflections on life before, during and after the publication of The Satanic Verses.
Possible Love
Lee Chang-dong’s first film since Burning (2018) is a sardonic, slow-burning satire about two couples: a documentary filmmaker married to a wealthy businessman, and a working-class family struggling to make ends meet after the husband has been laid off.
You Had to Be There
In a strange quirk of fate, the legendary Toronto '72 production of the musical comedy Jesus hit Godspell launched a constellation of comedy stars, all unknown at the time but now known to us as Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Victor Garber, et al
House of Hope
"House of Hope" is the name of a Waldorf elementary school near Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, founded by Manar and her husband Milad. This documentary follows their efforts to go about their lives before, during, and after the events of October 7.
NAZA
NAZA is a codeword euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians it expects will be killed in an airstrike. This chilling documentary exposes the policy and process of state-sanctioned mass killings.