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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Left-Handed Girl
Co-written and edited by Sean Baker (Anora), Shi-Ching Tsou's heartwarming solo feature debut follows a single mom in Taipei who is too consumed with her noodle stand to keep tabs on her five-year-old daughter's burgeoning shoplifting habit.
The Librarians
Dispatches from the front line of America's culture wars (and ours too): librarians speak out about the war against ideas, history, freedom of expression and sexual identity, a campaign in which an open mind is the ultimate enemy.
Caravaggio
In the latest from Exhibition on Screen, co-directors David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky shed light not only on Caravaggio's paintings, but his life, often kept half-hidden in the same chiaroscuro tones he shaded his masterpieces with.
Train Dreams
A lovely, ruminative movie set in the Pacific Northwest in the first half of the last century. Robert (Joel Edgerton) is a lumberjack, a taciturn man who comes to appreciate the life slipping between his fingers.
Little Amelie or the Character of Rain
Baby Amelie believes herself to be a god. Her parents (Belgian diplomats in 60s Japan) can barely cope -- but find the perfect nanny to restore order in this delightful animated feature.
