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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The Grapes of Wrath
In this Film Studies workshop, Devan Scott explores the purposes of three-point lighting and the influence of German Expressionism on Hollywood studio filmmaking. Followed by a screening of The Grapes of Wrath, photographed by Gregg Toland.
The Last One for the Road
Two middle-aged drunkards drive across the Veneto region on a freewheeling bender, taking a young college student along for the ride. A celebration of the spirit of drink and the kinds of stories told around a table of old friends and too much wine.
Blue Heron
In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behaviour from Jeremy, the family’s oldest child.
How Deep Is Your Love
Filmmaker Eleanor Mortimer tags along with a team of oceanographers and marine biologists as they survey the Clarion-Clipperton fracture, one of the most remote spots on Earth, home to a dazzling array of unknown creatures.
Amrum
Twelve-year-old Nanning (Jasper Billerbeck) sets himself a mission to secure bread and honey for his mother to snap her out of her depression. It is 1945. The war is all but lost, and such luxuries are not easy to find on the remote island of Amrum...