Shorts
KAJUTAIJUK: THE SPIRIT THAT COMES
Director: Scott Brachmayer
15 minutes
A hunter in the Arctic tries to live by the traditional skills his grandfather taught him — but these lessons are difficult for a modern man to apply, and the price of failure can be costly.
– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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SLEEPING GIANT (GEANT ENDORMI)
Director: Andrew Cividino
17 minutes
While spending a boring summer on Lake Superior, Adam falls in with two locals and begins attempting ever more hazardous stunts — but the arrival of pretty young Taylor could spark the trio’s riskiest dare yet.
– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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Director: Slater Jewell-Kemker
16 minutes
In this psychological thriller with a sci-fi twist, a young couple takes a walk through a wintery forest — where it soon becomes clear that their relationship is based on dangerously unbalanced power dynamics.
– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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THE WEATHERMAN AND THE SHADOWBOXER
Director: Randall Lloyd Okita
10 minutes
In this bold blend of live action and digital animation, two brothers with conflicting memories of their common past take very different paths. Randall Lloyd Okita bends the boundaries of cinema with spellbinding visuals.
– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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Director: Kazik Radwanski
7 minutes
Told entirely through close-ups, this formally daring story, in which a handyman cuts himself and is confronted with a momentous development in his life, comes from the award-winning filmmaking team behind TOWER AND PRINCESS MARGARET BLVD.
– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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Director: Sol Friedman
6 minutes
The story of Noah’s Ark has rarely been told from the animals’ perspective. In this darkly comic, animated account, the assorted fauna reveal their decidedly unholy natures as the water rises.
– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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Director: Matthew Rankin
8 minutes
The story of Winnipeg WWII hero Andrew Mynarski is told stunningly in this explosive, expressionistic and psychedelic envisioning of his final moments, paying homage to our collective past while transforming fact into brilliant celluloid fantasia.
– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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Director: Kevan Funk
12 minutes
After heading to a ranch for a guys’ weekend, a young man makes an unwelcome discovery. Kevan Funk returns to Canada’s Top Ten with this disquieting study of the continued colonization of the West.
– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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Director: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
15 minutes
A charming domestic moment between a father and his young daughter is disrupted by a phone call. Made with heartbreaking sensitivity, La Coupe is a poetic exploration of family and isolation.
– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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Director: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
14 minutes
Mixing archival footage, re-enactments and animation, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ extraordinarily beautiful and poignant documentaryBihttos (Sámi for "rebel") explores how past injustices impacted the marriage of her mother, who is of Blackfoot descent, and her Sami father.
– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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Countries
Canada
