Film Lineup
Lineup for 2024
Saturday: (3 - 4:30 pm)
- Medicine/William Amos McKegg/ 15 min/ fiction/ New Zealand/ 2023
- Dragon Fruit/J.Brown/ 27 min/ animation/ Canada/ 2023
- Silhouette/Savva Dolomanov / 18 min/ fiction/Czech Republic/ 2023
On Xerxes’ Throne/ Evi Kalogiropoulou/ 15 min/ Fiction/ Greece/ 2022
- Wind Speaks/Junno Pak / 3 min/ fiction/ Canada/ 2023
- Split Ends/ Alireza Kazemipour/ 14 min/ Iran/ 2022
Medicine
William Amos McKegg/ 15 min/ fiction/ New Zealand/ 2023
When Marjorie and Jack offer their help to a passenger and things take an unexpected turn, one wonders who was actually helping who.
Dragon Fruit
J.Brown/ 27 min/ animation/ Canada/ 2023
In a violent, dystopian future, a single mother attempts to grow a dragon fruit sprout so she can one day sell it for cash.
Silhouette
Savva Dolomanov/ 18 min/ fiction/ Czech Republic/ 2023
When boarding a train the Boy meets the Girl. He is immediately fascinated by her and watches her during the whole ride. That’s when He becomes a witness to a burdensome moment in which the Girl is sexually harassed by two incoming strangers. The Boy would love to help her out, but gets overwhelmed by fear and doesn’t step in. The two young people then meet each other at the station and what follows is a glimpse of an elusive yet vivid relationship. It starts as a game for Him but He slowly realizes that this game has a dark side of domestic violence – that the Girl is a victim of. In the end, the Boy faces Her dominant father but most importantly, He comes to a point in which he faces his fears.
A dystopian workplace at the Perama shipyard. A ban on physical contact has turned human interaction into otherworldly simulations. The suppression of touch has alienated the workers communication transforming the boatyard into a charged landscape of alienation and repressed sensuality beyond stereotypical heteronormative desires.
Wind Speaks
Dunno Pak/ 3 min/ fiction/ Canada/ 2023
A mother reflects on her relationship with her distant son.
Split Ends
Alireza Kazemipour/ 14 min/ Iran/ 2022
Split Ends is about a relationship between an Iranian bald girl and a long-haired boy in Tehran.
Bundle 2
Red Pine
Saturday: (7 - 8:30 pm)
- At Little Wheelie Three Days Ago/ Andrew Stephen Lee/ 18 min/ Fiction/ United States/ 2022
- Silkworm/Amir Honarmand/ 25 min/ Fiction/ Canada/ 2022
- Roll On By/Lyra Kathleen Murphy/ 14 min/ fiction/ Canada/ 2023
- Garrano/Vasco Sá, David Doutel/ 14 min/ Animation/ Portugal/2022
- The Fruit Tree/ Isabelle Tollenaere/ 14 min/ Experimental/ Belgium/ 2022
At Little Wheelie Three Days Ago
Andrew Stephen Lee/ 18 min/ Fiction/ United States/ 2022
When a soul-shaking viral video shudders through town, a jobless father struggles to keep hold of his existence.
Silkworm
Amir Honarmand/ 25 min/ Fiction/ Canada/ 2022
A used smartphone sends a boy in rural Iran on an unexpected journey of reconnecting an estranged couple
Roll On By
Lyra Kathleen Murphy/ 14 min/ fiction/ Canada/ 2023
Roll on By is a short film about Sammy, a highschool girl, handling rejection by her peer group. She navigates a painful break up with her childhood best friend. After her heartbreak Sammy finds solace and acceptance at a groovy local roller rink
Garrano
Vasco Sá, David Doutel/ 14 min/ Animation/ Portugal/2022
A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under a blazing sun.
Young boy Joel discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire.
The Fruit Tree
Isabelle Tollenaere/ 14 min/ Experimental/ Belgium/ 2022
In The Fruit Tree a young woman, Sharleece, views a property to rent in the sleepy desert town where she lives, California City. Looking out of the window evokes unexpected memories of her childhood home in Los Angeles.
Bundle 3
Red Alder
Sunday: (3:30 - 5pm)
- 2720/ Basil Da Cunha/ 25 min/ fiction/ Portugal/ 2023
- Live Today/ Evelin Mariana Maris Mora/ 5 min/ animation/ Mexico/ 2023
- To Go/ Seval Şener/ 23 min/ fiction/ Turkey/ 2023
- Seventeen/ Geqi Li/ 14 min/ fiction/ United States/ 2023
- Mastermind/ Abdul Hameed Alem/ 20 min/ fiction/ Saudi Arabia/ 2023
2720
Basil Da Cunha/ 25 min/ fiction/ Portugal/ 2023
Jyzone has just got out of prison. He has found a new job, but the people he meets on the way to work risk making him late for his first day. Through a choreographic and poetic portrait outlined by skillful camera work, Basil Da Cunha explores the violent neighborhood of Reboleira in Lisbon, with the participation of its inhabitants.
Live Today
Evelin Mariana Maris Mora/ 5 min/ animation/ Mexico/ 2023
A mother, a job interview, and an egg never blend well together. Miss Alarm must decide between her daughter’s breakfast and her job opportunity.
To Go
- Seval Şener/ 23 min/ fiction/ Turkey/ 2023
Trying to escape from the difficulties she is experiencing in Turkey, Derin has only one goal, to leave the country! This will change when she befriends her Canadian neighbor.
Mastermind
Abdul Hameed Alem/ 20 min/ fiction/ Saudi Arabia/ 2023
Two stupid friends team up with a guy who has a dark past to steal illegal money from an illegal business man in makkah.
The Murder Of Olof Palme
Joaquim Weibull, Paco Garcia/ 20 min/ Documentary, animation/ Sweden/ 2023
Olof Palme was Sweden’s Prime Minister from 1969–1976 and 1982–1986. Olof was a controversial politician who dominated Swedish politics for a long time. In 1986, Olof Palme was shot dead on an open street in Stockholm. The assassination has been an unsolved mystery that has plagued Sweden ever since. At a press conference in June 2020, the Police’s Palme investigation pointed out Stig Engström as Olof Palme’s killer. The Palme investigation is the world’s largest murder investigation.
This film shows what happened on the day Olof Palme was murdered and how the killer planned and carried out the assassination.
Bundle 4
Red Maple
Sunday: (6-7:30 pm)
- Father’s Footsteps/ Mohamad W. Ali/ 28 min/ Fiction/ Syrian Arab Republic/ 2023
- Hinter-land/ Christopher Angus/ 13 min/ Animation/ Canada/ 2023
- Prima/ Diana Ashimova/ 12 min/ Fiction/ Kazakhstan/ 2022
- De Imperio/ Alessandro Novelli/ 13 min/ Animation/ Portugal, Spain/ 2023
- Gold Teeth/ Alireza Kazemipour/ 13 min/ Fiction/ Canada
Father's Footsteps
Mohamad W. Ali/ 28 min/ Fiction/ Syrian Arab Republic/ 2023
In the Syrian War, a woman lost her husband trying to hide the truth from her tongue-tied(Muted) child by acting the father role, facing life alone trying to protect her family.
Hinter-land
Christopher Angus/ 13 min/ Animation/ Canada/ 2023
A musical gardener ejects his hired hand, leading to things on his little planet going horribly astray.
Prima
Darina Manapova/ 12 min/ Fiction/ Kazakhstan/ 2022
De Imperio
Alessandro Novelli/ 13 min/ Animation/ Portugal, Spain/ 2023
De Imperio is the last chapter of a trilogy on human conditions entitled “Deconstruction”. After “The Guardian” and “Contact” , this last chapter explores the dynamics and relationships among Powers and society through a metaphoric surreal Universe.
The Gold Teeth
Alireza Kazemipour/ 13 min/ Fiction/ Canada
Sahra, an Afghan refugee in Canada asks an Iranian ex-dentist, Hamd, to extract her father”s gold teeth before they bury him in order use that money to smuggle her queer brother from Afghanistan.