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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2024 & 2025
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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.
Measures for a Funeral
When a young academic discovers a personal link to Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow, she is compelled to dig deeper. Her investigations lead her on the trail of an elusive concerto, lost for over a century, but which she is determined to bring to light.
Jay Kelly
In Noah Baumbach's wise and witty comedy, George Clooney plays Jay Kelly, a world-famous movie star touring Europe with his friend and manager, Ron (Adam Sandler). Faced with nagging dissatisfaction, Jay starts to ask himself some tough questions.
He Ran All the Way
John Berry's gripping, poignant thriller stars John Garfield in his final film performance. He plays Nick Robey, a small-time hood on the run from a stick-up gone wrong. The last gasp of "Red" Hollywood, this fine film deserves to be better known.
Meadowlarks
Fifty years after being separated during the Sixties Scoop, four Cree siblings reunite for the first time on a long weekend trip to Banff. Tasha Hubbard’s sensitive drama relates an emotional and life-affirming story of kinship and belonging.



