OPENING NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 20, 2024

7:30PM - 10:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY JULIETTE POITRAS | 9 mins | Drama

Fanny keeps quiet : she does not want to be a bother.

Content Warning: Sexual Material

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OPENING NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 20, 2024

7:30PM - 10:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY KYATH BATTIE | 7 mins | Documentary, Experimental

Lingering somewhere between fantasy and realism, this futuristic documentary underscores atmospheric phenomenon within mysterious environmental incongruence.

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OPENING NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 20, 2024

7:30PM - 10:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY JAMES MICHAEL CHANG | 8 mins | Drama, Comedy

In his efforts to connect with his Chinese heritage, a biracial man discovers challenges and complexities he may not have expected in James Michael Chiang’s remarkably deft blending of drama and comedy.

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OPENING NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 20, 2024

7:30PM - 10:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY AYO TSALITHABA | 6 mins | Experimental

A restless spirit returns home through time, space, and memory.

Content Warning: Bright Lights, Flashing Images

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OPENING NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 20, 2024

7:30PM - 10:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY WILL NIAVA, LATIGONE N’GOMA | 22 mins | Drama

Struggling to make a living in the markets of Abidjan, a group of young delinquents try to find new ways to make a living, but at what cost?

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OPENING NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 20, 2024

7:30PM - 10:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY MAZIAR KHATAM | 9 mins | Comedy

Pressured into giving away his clothes, an emasculated young man obsessively attempts to reclaim his cherished sweater before it vanishes into the donation abyss.

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OPENING NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 20, 2024

7:30PM - 10:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY FATEEMA AL-HAMAYDEH MILLER | 14 mins | Romantic Dramedy

A closeted Arab wholesale perfume seller, attempting to mask his identity with excessive amounts of Polo Sport adjacent cologne, is knocked off centre when a charming customer sees through his act.

OPENING NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 20, 2024

7:30PM - 10:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY EVAN GARETH HOFFMAN | 15 mins | Archival-Mockumentary

Ex-Nortel CEO Frank Dunn tries to navigate the modern world after experiencing a classic case of “tech-boom-rise-fall”

Content Warning: Sex and Nudity

OPENING NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 20, 2024

7:30PM - 10:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY NOAH NICHOLSON | 7 mins | Drama, Family

10-year-old Alex struggles to be taken seriously by his older brother Quinn. When an everyday fight between the two takes a serious turn, Alex is pushed to his limit.

Content Warning: Profanity

OPENING NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 20, 2024

7:30PM - 10:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY RAZAN ALSALAH | 8 mins | Experimental, Documentary

Canada Park is an experimental video poem exploring the politics of dis/appearance of Palestine as narrativized, mapped and imaged in Google Streetview and early 20th century colonial landscape photography of the ‘Holy Land’, namely at the site of the village of Imwas which is theologically conflated with Emmaus, a village cited in the bible. Imwas is erased and Emmaus marked a religious touristic site in the park, a self-fulfilled scriptural and algorithmic prophecy.

INDIGENOUS SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 21, 2024

5:30PM - 6:45PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY KENT MONKMAN l 5mins

Move over J.Lo and Cher! Miss Chief Eagle Testickle has a new sexy video of her club track: Dance to Miss Chief - a playful critique of German fascination with North American “Indians” that is guaranteed to make you want to get up and shake your booty! This remix of contemporary and vintage footage celebrates Miss Chief’s on-screen romance with leading man, Winnetou, fictitious “Indian” from Karl May’s German Westerns.

INDIGENOUS SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 21, 2024

5:30PM - 6:45PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY SHARON A. DESJARLAIS l 8mins

This short documentary presents the empowering story of Rodney "Geeyo" Poucette's struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a two-spirited person.

INDIGENOUS SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 21, 2024

5:30PM - 6:45PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY ALETHEA ARNAQUQ-BARIL l 6.5mins

In the 1950s, two Inuit women attempt to protect their relationship when pressure from their community forces them to marry men.

INDIGENOUS SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 21, 2024

5:30PM - 6:45PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY JUSTINE DUCHARME l 15mins

An unapologetic and realistic exploration of sexual desire, the quest for financial stability, and the pursuit of agency over one's own body.

INDIGENOUS SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 21, 2024

5:30PM - 6:45PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY THEO JEAN CUTHAND l 12mins

Resource Extraction colonialism implicates us all.

INDIGENOUS SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 21, 2024

5:30PM - 6:45PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY THEW JEAN CUTHAND l 15mins

My status card says I'm an Indian within the meaning of the Indian act.

STUDENT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 23, 2024

11:00AM - 12:30PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY LIZZIE HAN l 12mins l Drama

Adelaide must look to her painful past for inspiration in order to finish composing the score for a romance film.

STUDENT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 23, 2024

11:00AM - 12:30PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY GIRAN FINDLEY l 12mins l Drama

The boundaries between fiction and reality blur when an aspiring actress is hired to play the missing daughter of a grieving couple.

STUDENT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 23, 2024

11:00AM - 12:30PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY MARISSA BONDI l 14mins l Comedy

Faced with her mortality, Cecillia must take down her church group arch-nemesis, Lucy-Anne

STUDENT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 23, 2024

11:00AM - 12:30PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY GUILLAUME COLIN l 11mins l Experimental

I Don't Want to be in Front of the Camera explores the long-term consequences of domestic violence on the filmmaker's life, as he turns the camera to significant places of his youth.

STUDENT SHORTS PROGRAMME | JUNE 23, 2024

11:00AM - 12:30PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY ALEX LO l Experimental l 12mins

An auto-fictional experimental film about the filmmaker digging a hole from Toronto to Hong Kong.

CLOSING NIGHT PROGRAMME | JUNE 23, 2024

7:00PM - 9:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY AARON POOLE | 92 mins | Drama

A dad and daughter drive around the perimeter of a nuclear power plant, read books, and make up seemingly harmless games. A film that picks at language, mentorship, and the edge of the abyss.

CLOSING NIGHT PROGRAMME | JUNE 23, 2024

7:00PM - 9:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY SALOMÊ VILLENEUVE | 12 mins | Childhood, Memories

By a hot summer day on the lakeshore, three siblings face death for the first time through their contact with nature.

CLOSING NIGHT PROGRAMME | JUNE 23, 2024

7:00PM - 9:00PM EST l PARADISE THEATRE TORONTO

DIRECTED BY JUSTIN BLACK | 4 mins | Experimental

Made in collaboration with composer Gayle Young and sculptor Reinhard Reitzenstein, Amaranth is a hybrid music and film work that transports the viewer beyond anthropocentric perspective into a continuum of experience in which all beings have equal value.