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7: All day I dream about

VIFF Short Forum

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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.

 

Supported by

Community Partner

         

Director

Various

Country of Origin

Various

Year

2024 & 2025

Language

Various

18+
106 min
BC Spotlight Cinemas of Asia Comedy Documentary Drama Experimental & Avant Garde Family Relations Shorts Talent to Watch Women Directors

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I Am the Blues

Dir. Daniel Cross
106 min

A musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. Plus: Visits with the last original blues devils!

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Palestine '36

Dir. Annemarie Jacir
118 min

An epic historical drama from director Annemarie Jacir that follows an ensemble of rural villagers who face off against British colonial forces during the 1936 Palestinian revolt.

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Happy Together

Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
96 min

Buenos Aires, the end of the world, 1997. Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung are lovers trying to hash out their on-off relationship in an alien environment.

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The Lives of Others

Dir. Florian Henkel von Donnesmarck
137 min

This month's Talking Pictures film is a masterly Cold War thriller set in East Berlin. An agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives...

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Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other

Dir. Manon Ouimet & Jacob Perlmutter
100 min

This intimate and candid film by a younger husband and wife artist team is a delicate and immensely moving dual portrait of two artists, husband and wife, together and apart, at that point in life when the end casts a shadow over even the sunniest day.

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Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story

Dir. Sinéad O'Shea
99 min

Judging by this candid, funny, passionate biographical documentary, it would have been a wild ride to have been Irish novelist Edna O'Brien, or even to have been in her circle of friends and lovers. Well, for an hour and a half we can pretend we were.

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