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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Amrum
Twelve-year-old Nanning (Jasper Billerbeck) sets himself a mission to secure bread and honey for his mother to snap her out of her depression. It is 1945. The war is all but lost, and such luxuries are not easy to find on the remote island of Amrum...
The Power of Restitution: The Spoils
Join us for a special free screening of The Spoils, an acclaimed documentary about German-Jewish art dealer Max Stern, followed by a live panel discussion exploring the urgent and evolving global movement for art restitution.
The Music Room
Devan Scott continues his journey through the history of lighting. This week, he credits Indian director of photography Subrata Mitra for profound innovations that laid the foundation for ideas of motivated lighting + screening of The Music Room.
