Shorts from: Canada, China, UK.
Oct 3 & 4: Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
Le Tour De Canada
John Hollands, Canada (6 min)
Rivals go head to head in a cross-country cycling race.
Weekend One
Mykea Fairweather Perry, UK (15 min)
After his divorce, a father’s first weekend with his sons proves challenging.
No Matter the Weather
Florence Lafond, Canada (15)
Lafond documents her relationship with her grandmother Renée, who is recovering from a broken ankle.
Paradaïz
Matea Radic, Canada (10 min)
Through absurdist animation and archival images, a young woman visits her slippery and surreal homeland.
A Soft Touch
Heather Young, Canada (20 min)
After a friend stops replying to her messages, 81-year-old Ellen must find a way to recover the money she loaned them.
No One Knows I Disappeared
Hanxiong Bo, China (17 min)
Systemic issues of state surveillance and migrant labour exploitation collide when the sudden disappearance of an elderly woman sends her caregiver, Lin, on a relentless search.
Winkie
Daniel Duranleau, Canada (24 min)
Upon discovering a young orphaned girl, a caring monster decides to raise the child as his own.
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2024 & 2025
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Book Tickets
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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.
The Sandbox
Borders are the faultlines of the world. Kenya-Jade Pinto's doc examines how modern surveillance technology, bio-metrics and AI are combining to make land and sea borders as impenetrable as air travel, and suggests the unspoken cost is our own humanity.
Atonement
A former Marine suffering from PTSD seeks a meeting with the Iraqi family to which he did great wrong ten years earlier in the Gulf War. Atonement navigates challenging, politically-charged psychological territory with diligence and sensitivity.
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Slavoj Zizek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. From The Sound of Music to Titanic, Jaws to The Dark Knight, Zizek offers new ways to understanding Hollywood.
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made (Hitchcock, Lynch, Tarkovsky et al). Serving as guide is Slavoj Zizek, the superstar Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst.
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