Shorts from: Canada, France, Jordan, Spain, USA.
Oct 8 & 9: Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
Budget Paradise
LaTajh Simmons-Weaver, USA (14 min)
Chester, a non-binary artist, wanders the streets of Oakland in search of a spot to paint in peace.
Our Room
Jaume Claret Muxart, Spain (28 min)
Envisioning a fusion of classical and electronic music, Gal-la and Paul start a new radio show.
Father Alphonse and the Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Diana Thorneycroft, Canada (10 min)
A new priest must walk from his apartment to the town church during the last hour of Mardi Gras.
Ambush
Yassmina Karajah, Canada/Jordan (21 min)
An after-hours rooftop party puts self-control, desire, and participation to the test.
There’s a Devil Inside Me
Karina Lomelin Ripper, USA (16 min)
Following a Catholic confirmation class, Teresa snoops in the church’s sacristy and puts on a nun habit. Mistaken for a real sister, an altar boy gives her a collection basket full of cash.
No Skate!
Guil Sela, France (24 min)
A friendship forms between Isaac and Cleo over their shared disdain of skaters.
Supported by
Community Partner
Various
Various
2024 & 2025
Various
Drug & alcohol abuse
Book Tickets
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The Executioner
Regularly cited as the greatest Spanish film ever made, Berlanga's masterpiece is a pitch black comedy about an undertaker lined up by the state executioner to marry his beautiful daughter -- but he'll also have to inherit the old man's job.
The Mother and the Bear
Johnny Ma’s film stars Kim Ho-jung as a Korean woman who flies to Winnipeg when her immigrant daughter is hospitalized there. This crowd-pleaser plays up cultural differences to hilarious effect and offers a touching take on mother-daughter tension.
The Plague
At a water polo camp, Ben is plunged into the deep end of toxic peer pressure. Terrified of incurring his campmates’ wrath, he joins them in tormenting a kid whose skin rash has been branded “the plague”. But then he experiences a breakout of his own...
The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés + Por Derecho (For the Right) Live
Winner of the Goya Award for Best Documentary, this is an exquisite and surprisingly intimate portrait of the brilliant young guitarist Yerai Cortés, preceded by an hour of passionate flamenco music, song and dance performed by Flamenco Rosario.