The return of scary: fear in all its chilling, suspenseful, and unsettling shades.
Oct 2 & 3: Filmmaker Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
Udders!
Michael Spencer, USA (6 min)
Naked in a cornfield, a man runs for his life.
Content Considerations: Animal cruelty, nudity, graphic violence, flashing lights
Pre-Parenting
Yu Yu, Taiwan (15 min)
Shu-Han uses augmented reality glasses to get a head start on parenthood. When a car crash claims her unborn daughter and embeds a lens fragment in her brain, she begins to see the child everywhere.
Who Killed Narin G**** ?
Ayçe Kartal, France (5 min)
An animated exploration of human darkness based on the real-life murder of eight-year-old Narin Güran.
Content Considerations: Child abuse, animal cruelty
Jabber
Aubert Sénéchal, Canada (15 min)
It’s the day before the big move. Alice is packed and ready. Jab is not.
Bagman
Connor Gaston, Vaughn Gaston, Canada (11 min)
A researcher monitoring wildlife cameras notices a mysterious garbage bag in a forest clearing. Her supervisor goes to investigate, and opens the bag to find…
Object of Riddle
Chiara Caterina, Belgium/Italy (18 min)
Objects are 3D scanned and transferred onto 16mm film to provide clues to a familiar but irresolvable mystery.
The Animal Remains
Ivana Vogrinc Hovorka Vidali, Slovenia/Czech Republic (23 min)
Mira and her dog Baxus live a peaceful and isolated life in the countryside until, one day, they intervene in a sexual assault in the woods.
Content Considerations: Sexual violence, assault, animal cruelty
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The Secret in Their Eyes
This month's Talking Pictures screening is a multi-layered, poignant thriller interweaving the personal lives of a prosecution investigator (Ricardo Darin) and a judge, with a manhunt spanning twenty-five years. Stay for cookies, coffee and a chat after!
The Haunting
Directed by Robert Wise in 1963, The Haunting is a classic exercise in the suggestive power of cinema, adapted from Shirley Jackson's 1959 best-seller, The Haunting of Hill House, a provocative blend of supernatural and psychological horror.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Once Upon a Time in Harlem splices together footage shot by William Greaves in 1972 of a group of Harlem Renaissance luminaries in conversation at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. The film is a living archive of memory, disagreement, style, and Black genius.
Possible Love
Lee Chang-dong’s first film since Burning (2018) is a sardonic, slow-burning satire about two couples: a documentary filmmaker married to a wealthy businessman, and a working-class family struggling to make ends meet after the husband has been laid off.
