Shorts from: Brazil, Canada, Japan, Norway, USA.
Oct 5 & 6: Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
Resistance Meditation
Sara Wylie, Canada (5 min)
Wylie posits disability as ’crip time’: a site of resistance to capitalism.
A Very Straight Neck
Neo Sora, Japan (11 min)
After waking from a haunting dream with horrible neck pain, a woman struggles to maintain her routine in a crumbling world.
Not Enough for the Love Inside
Marcelo Matos de Oliveira & Wallace Nogueira, Brazil (18 min)
For Cássio and Otto, the challenge of losing their sight is also a challenge to stay together.
The Sphinx
Jesse Padveen, Canada/USA (17 min)
A man without a nose goes on a date.
Confluence
Charlene R Moore & Oliver Darrius Merrick King, Canada (11 min)
Made for the Winnipeg Film Group’s 50th anniversary, Indigenous members of the collective meditate on the future of filmmaking.
In My Hand
Marja Helander & Liselotte Wajstedt, Norway (24 min)
The historical struggles of the Sámi people can be seen through the extraordinary life of Indigenous activist Niillas Somby.
Cocotte Coulombe, Filmmaker
Charles-François Asselin, Canada (11 min)
Upon discovering a family archive of Super 8 reels taken by his late great-aunt, Asselin reflects on her practice, and his own.
We Were the Scenery
Christopher Radcliff, USA (15 min)
Hoa Thị Lê and Huệ Nguyên Chế recall their experience of working as extras on Apocalypse Now after fleeing Vietnam in 1975.
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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