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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It's a Wonderful Life
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. This Christmas classic is whimsical, sure, but it has the depth to stand up to multiple watches, and it really should be a communal experience, because that is what it's about.
The Nutcracker at Wethersfield
Back in the long, dark Covid winter of 2020, there was no way the New York City Ballet could mount their traditional Christmas production of Tchaikovsky's fairytale. But choreographer Troy Schumacher had a dream to save the show -- reimagining a classic.
North of Ourselves
In the depths of winter, two adventurers set out to cross Quebec from one end to the other on bike and skis, exploring its staggering geography and meeting its inhabitants (human and otherwise) along the way.
Hundreds of Beavers: A Northwoods Christmas
The funniest, and certainly the furriest movie you will see this year, Hundreds of Beavers channels the zany slapstick shtick of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Bugs Bunny through a videogame quest narrative to retell the eternal saga of Man v Nature.
The Secret Agent
Having run afoul of an influential bureaucrat in Brazil’s military dictatorship circa 1977, Marcelo decamps to Recife to live under an assumed name — but he’ll soon come to understand precisely how rampant the country’s corruption has become.
