Shorts from: Canada, Columbia, France, Netherlands, Sweden.
Oct 6 & 7: Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
Pidikwe (Rumble)
Caroline Monnet, Canada (11 min)
Indigenous women of various generations deconstruct the western gaze through traditional and contemporary dance.
Healer
Chelsea McMullan, Canada (17 min)
A young woman attends a healer’s book-signing event with her sick mom.
Origin
Marion Chuniaud-Lacau, Canada/Colombia (18 min)
Loosely inspired by dancer and choreographer Yesenia Fuentes’ work, Memory of a Body Through Time, the body is explored as a site for creation, process, and vulnerability.
Our Pantheons
Rosalie Charrier, France (11 min)
A growing number of onlookers disrupt an archeologist as she tries to work.
Nine Times Better
Lorenzo Follari & Emma Dock, Sweden/Italy (9 min)
Costume design drives this story about one woman’s thirst for romance.
ripe
Solara Thanh Bình Đặng, Canada (20 min)
Lệ must decide if she will enter an arranged marriage in order to support her family of struggling durian farmers.
Extra Life (And Decay)
Stéphanie Lagarde, Netherlands/France (22 min)
In an ode to the multitude, a polyphonic cast of animals, minerals, and vegetables declare their collective resistance against labour exploitation.
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Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre
Frankenstein
Frankenstein and Guillermo del Toro might have been made for each other. The movie does not disappoint, a ripping yarn of grand adventure, spectacle, hubris, passion and XXL body parts, a tale of the fantastic that rings the imagination. Screening in 35mm.
Predators
"Punk'd for pedophiles." That's what Jimmy Kimmel called Chris Hansen's true crime/reality TV show, To Catch a Predator (2004-07). Two decades on, David Osit examines why the show made such an impact, for good or ill, and sits down with Hansen himself.
The Outcasts
One of earliest examples of "folk horror", The Outcasts (1982) draws on Irish mythology and folktales to eerie effect. Simple Maura is rumoured to have spent the night with the mythical fiddler Scarf Michael, with dire consequences for all... Screening followed by a panel discussion on Irish horror.