Shorts from: Canada, Korea, Romania, USA.
Oct 10 & 11: Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
The Littles
Andrew Duplessie, USA/Canada (7 min)
When Juliet stubs her toe on a loose floorboard, she discovers that hers is not the only family living in the house.
Living Grounds
Emile Lavoie, Canada (20 min)
Luc, a weathered corpse mover, is called upon to the scene of a suicide.
Bread Will Walk
Alex Boya, Canada (12 min)
The planet is starving and people resort to eating bread, which turns them into bread themselves. A sister tries to save her bread-brother as he is chased by a hungry mob.
Inanna
Dragos Badita, Romania/Canada (24 min)
“Uncanny” is an understatement in this AI-processed dream-poem inspired by the ancient Sumerian goddess of death and rebirth.
Ramón Who Speaks to Ghosts
Shervin Kermani, Canada (8 min)
In the aftermath of a devastating eruption, Ramón walks the island of La Palma with his microphone, listening for ghosts.
Jeff
Julia Hebner, USA (25 min)
A phone sex operator gets into it with a caller who makes a disturbing confession.
Dinner
Hyejin Yoo, South Korea (22 min)
When a woman is bitten by a zombie, her husband uses a delay patch that extends the duration of her transformation by an hour so they can have one more meal together.
Supported by
Community Partner
Various
Various
2024 & 2025
Various
Flashing/strobing lights, graphic violence, self harm, drug & alcohol abuse
Book Tickets
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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