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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NAZA
NAZA is a codeword euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians it expects will be killed in an airstrike. This chilling documentary exposes the policy and process of state-sanctioned mass killings.
The Sandbox
Borders are the faultlines of the world. Kenya-Jade Pinto's doc examines how modern surveillance technology, bio-metrics and AI are combining to make land and sea borders as impenetrable as air travel, and suggests the unspoken cost is our own humanity.
Atonement
A former Marine suffering from PTSD seeks a meeting with the Iraqi family to which he did great wrong ten years earlier in the Gulf War. Atonement navigates challenging, politically-charged psychological territory with diligence and sensitivity.
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Slavoj Zizek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. From The Sound of Music to Titanic, Jaws to The Dark Knight, Zizek offers new ways to understanding Hollywood.
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made (Hitchcock, Lynch, Tarkovsky et al). Serving as guide is Slavoj Zizek, the superstar Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst.
You Had to Be There
In a strange quirk of fate, the legendary Toronto '72 production of the musical comedy Jesus hit Godspell launched a constellation of comedy stars, all unknown at the time but now known to us as Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Victor Garber, et al