September 26, 2024
ONE DAY THIS KID
DescriptionBiosContactDescription US Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 An exploration of silent struggle and unspoken tension as Hamed, a first-generation Afghan Canadian man, navigates an undefined future with his father. Inspired by David Wojnarowicz's renowned text. Bios Alexander Farah is an Afghan-Canadian filmmaker whose work has screened at Berlinale, Telluride and...
September 26, 2024
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
DescriptionBiosDescription Driving alone in the middle of the night, Shula comes across the body of her uncle, lying lifeless on a deserted road. Immediately inhabiting the role of dutiful family member, she ensures that the body is taken care of and, the following day, begins funeral preparations. Finding herself unable to suppress feelings of discomfort...
September 26, 2024
OCTOPUS BANANA HOTCHPOTCH (HOBOTNICA BANANA MISMAS)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 A lively and dynamic journey through the lives of best friends and soulmates, Mila and Mara. Their life paths join in an adventure over many decades, enriched and driven by sisterly love. Bios Milanka Fabjancic is an academic painter, graduating from the department of painting at...
September 26, 2024
MY MOTHER IS A COW
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Left in her aunt’s care at the edge of a burning wetland, Mia is desperate for her mother’s touch – but in this volatile, threatening world, love comes in an unexpected form. Bios Moara Passoni wrote and directed the award-winning essay film...
September 26, 2024
NO OTHER LAND
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Basel Adra is a Palestinian activist living under occupation in the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta. Yuval Abraham is an Israeli journalist whose freedom of movement allows him to come and go as he pleases. As unlikely as it might seem, the two strike up a friendship and, together with Rachel Szor and...
September 26, 2024
MY FAVOURITE CAKE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Barred from traveling internationally and facing a court case as a result of making this film, Iranian filmmaking duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha (BALLAD OF A WHITE COW) bravely imagine the possibility of freedom and pleasure within their homeland’s repressive regime. Seventy-year-old widow Mahin lives a solitary lifestyle with her daughter having emigrated...
September 26, 2024
NEXT?
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 Half-animal, half-human creatures meet at a speed-dating dance where they explore their differences and difficulties communicating. When a lovestruck man-cum-anteater falls for a woman-cum-shrew, he gets caught up in their courtship ballet. Bios After studying applied arts, Christel Guibert worked in animation for 10...
September 26, 2024
NIGHTBITCH
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with producer and actor Amy Adams moderated by writer and film critic, Scott Mantz. Motherhood is a (night) bitch in Marielle Heller's (DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME) frank, perceptive and fur-ociously funny adaptation of Rachel Yoder's bestselling novel. Oscar® nominee Amy Adams stars as...
September 26, 2024
MISERICORDIA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Death and desire make a potent cocktail in Alain Guiraudie's (STRANGER BY THE LAKE, AFI FEST 2013) delicious Hitchcockian thriller, which premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival. A former baker, Jérémie (a beguiling Félix Kysyl), returns to the small French village of his youth after his mentor's death. Perhaps overstaying his welcome, Jérémie...
September 26, 2024
MEET THE BARBARIANS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription U.S. Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, writer and actor Julie Delpy. Both art house darling and one of France's leading filmmakers, Julie Delpy expertly walks the line between crowd-pleasing comedy and serious-minded drama in this deft exploration of frequently contradictory European attitudes to immigration, as well as rising xenophobia...
