Shorts from: Canada, India, Spain, Taiwan, USA.
Oct 9 & 10: Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
Santa Clara. Birth in Three Phases
Arturo Franco & Tono Mejuto, Spain (9 min)
Amidst the ruins of the Monastery of Santa Clara, workers clean, weed, and drill.
The Foreigner
Wen-Shuo Hsueh, Taiwan (16 min)
A night in the life of A-bang, a Taiwanese patrol guard amidst a factory of migrant workers.
Canada in the 12th Century
Jack Parker, Canada (10 min)
Two Canadas from the 12th century: one real, one imaginary.
How to Live Together
Tim Nicholas, USA (18 min)
Six people living in a cramped four-bedroom apartment seek a new roommate.
To Look, and to Look Again
Monica Cheema, Canada (6 min)
A meditation on labour and land via a blueberry farm in Surrey, BC.
The Housekeeper
Surya Balakrishnan, India (24 min)
Over time, the routines of Abhi, a young urbanite living in Mumbai, and Deepa, his housekeeper, intertwine.
Paradise Heights
Karl Kai & Robert Mentov, Canada (23 min)
Lah, a narcoleptic seven-year old, discovers an otherworldly bond to her late mother’s past within dreams of the Burmese jungle.
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Turner & Constable
Filmed as a supplement to a blockbuster exhibition at Tate Britain happening right now, this doc in the popular Exhibition on Screen series allows us to view these competitive, complementary English landscape artists side by side.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
One of only a handful of live action children's films to capture the imaginations of generations, E.T. has a luminous warmth; it's a suburban symphony of emotion, and it's fascinating to revisit it in the light of The Fabelmans.
The President's Cake
Nine year old Lamia and her friend Saeed venture into the city to scrounge ingredients for a cake to celebrate Sadaam Hussein's birthday — a quest fraught with real peril in precarious times. Winner, Camera d'Or, Cannes.
Antonia's Line
This month's Pantheon selection spotlights the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Dutch feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris, and her charming, vibrant tale of an emancipated farmer who refuses to conform.



