All Films

Olympia

2018 • 7 min

The bread basket is made of wicker.

Volcano

2018 • 10 min • Brazil

She has a mysterious and indomitable urge.

We Are The Vancouver Men's Chorus

2018 • 23 min

In 1981, the Vancouver Men’s Chorus (VMC) broke ground and became Canada’s first gay chorus. Over the next thirty-eight years, they’ve grown into a nationally acclaimed and internationally recognized chorus. While they’ve charmed audiences from Toronto to San Francisco, no crowd loves the VMC as much as Vancouver, with many of us attending their signature performances Making Spirits Bright and Big Gay Sing year after year.

Under the Volcano

2018 • 9 min

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Reliefs

2018 • 10 min • Spain

Reliefs: a stereoscopic symphony of the city of Toronto.

Ritual

2018 • 18 min • Russia

A documentary immersion into the creative world of the artist and musician Svyatoslav Ponomarev, who develops Tibetan throat singing in Russia. The film uses materials from the artist's personal archive, newsreels taken from open sources, as well as fragments of texts by Sergei Kuskov and Heydar Dzhemal.

Pawn

2018 • 18 min

A professional chess player is tormented by an evil entity after buying a chess board in an antiquarium.

Decision

2018 • 22 min • Macedonia

Аn old lady is being closely watched by a young man, who actually acts like a caring one. Later on, he meets an ordinary thief and asks him to break in the old lady's apartment. He manages to convince the thief to do the theft even though the latter expressed his unwillingness. After a week, the thief manages to do the evil act. Soon after that, the old lady gets ill. The thief finds himself in a situation of making a life-changing DECISION.

Forbidden Tikka Masala

2018 • 16 min

A recently retired Indian woman allows her palate to take her on a unique - and sacrilegious - culinary journey.

The Lightkeeper

2018 • 17 min

Set on a remote stretch of stormy coastline, a hardened young woman agrees to dinner at the home of an aging recluse.

El Monopolio de la Memoria

2018 • 49 min • Mexico

This film takes a dive into a photographic archive that portrays the 1968 student movement in Mexico. By reviewing over 1300 photographs of students, soldiers and citizens, and the development of a movement inside the Mexican capital, marked by the massive uprisings and the government's repression, the film questions the relationship between memory, power and representation.

Parade of Dreams

2018 • 15 min

A young man takes us through his journey of coming out, becoming a drag-queen, and the dangers that this lifestyle created.

Dream Goblin

2018 • 2 min

Gurt Magnum hunts down a mysterious goblin who is terrorizing a small town in this fictional '80s horror trailer.

E'ville

2018 • 12 min

E’ville (short for Elisabethville, name given to the city of Lubumbashi before 1960). A film in layers, which superimposes musical atmospheres, sound archives, images and ghosts. A juxtaposition of images of an empty place with the weight of history, through an intimate story in off: an open letter from Lumumba to his wife. The desolation of the place unfolds under the impulse of the voices and the bodies which cross it. Combining family intimacy with history, the film immerses us in the collective memory of the country.

A Day in the Life of the National Arts Centre

2018 • 4 min • Canada

How does design activate a space? What motivates people to make it their own? The rejuvenation of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa preserves yet transforms a Brutalist performing arts complex from insular fortress for the arts to an engaging, connected centre.

To Wake Up the Nakota Language

2018 • 7 min • Canada

“When you don’t know your language or your culture, you don’t know who you are,” says 69-year-old Armand McArthur, one of the last fluent Nakota speakers in Pheasant Rump First Nation, Treaty 4 territory, in southern Saskatchewan. Through the wisdom of his words, Armand is committed to revitalizing his language and culture for his community and future generations.

Luna y la rebelión de las canas dignas

2018 • 7 min • Mexico

An interview with Adriana Luna Parra about old age for women.

The Fiddle

2018 • 9 min • Israel

On a lonely slanted roof, a hunched figure plays the fiddle. His soulful music finds its way into the simple homes of the people of Anatevka. But this fiddler did not always sit on the roof. Come to think of it, he didn't always have a fiddle to play either. Based on Sholem Aleichem's short story "The Fiddle", this is the story of Sholom, the boy that was destined to become the fiddler on the roof.

May and June

2018 • 14 min • Singapore, United States of America

May knows how to fence, what she doesn't know is how to make a friend. Especially now when she needs one most. Will she let June in or will her ambition and her attraction to her coach get in the way?

The Swan

2018 • 4 min • United States of America

A single woman searches for purpose in a confusing and coupled world.

genizah; passages from the lublin book graveyard

2018 • 10 min • Canada

Passages retrieved from the lublin genizah, a ruinous non-archive where the sacred is slowly being released from it's corporal form.

The Broken Ones

2018 • 17 min • Argentina

Ailín and Pedro are an ex-couple who meet to go to a hotel. Both embark on a journey through the nightlife of Buenos Aires looking for what they are missing.

の・622

2018 • 27 min • Japan

The Son of the Town

2018 • 15 min • Argentina

Fernando returns to his hometown after dropping out of university. He discovers that the world he had left behind has changed completely. Feeling lost, rejected, and unseen, he will lose control.