Films
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29e
World at Stake
Susanna Flock & Adrian Jonas Haim & Jona Kleinlein
Austria, Experimentation
Shot in sports video games, the film "A World At Stake" turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiates social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, a feeling of political powerlessness remains.
Nothing less than the world is at stake.
Nothing less than the world is at stake.
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29e
Wâhkôhtowin | All My Relations
Barry Bilinsky
Unceded territories Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Animation
The power of stories, told over many nights, over many years, through all the languages across the world, are encapsulated in an intimate story between a grandmother and her children’s children on a clear winter night in the teepee. This short is exhibited at the Indigenous Peoples Experience cultural centre in Fort Edmonton Park.
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29e
You can't get what you want but you can get me
Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh
Finland, Netherlands, Experimentation
A unique slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling madly in love. Over the course of one year, the artist couple Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh gathered photographs from real-life events such as their first kiss, meeting each other's parents, long-distance thirst traps, a beach wedding, and top surgery and its subsequent recovery. A sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love with life and art all tangled up.
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29e
Zizanizzz
Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
France, Animation
A sheet of music was left on a composer's work desk. A music-loving fly comes to place its leg there. She twirls and begins to sow discord. At the other end, a spider does not intend to miss such a great opportunity to feast.
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29e
Zoé
Rémi St-Michel
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
The remaining shreds of Zoe's mind desperately cling to her vague memories of better feelings.
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29e
Ça va finir par finir
Nancy Pettinicchio
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Gabriel Drolet-Maguire, a queer fashion designer living in Montréal, takes us into their artistic world to speak about their HIV diagnosis and the process of acceptance that led them to reach out to the HIV-positive community. IT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END is a timely and hopeful look at past and present day HIV activism in Quebec.
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29e
Émergence
Julie Bernier & Clarissa Rebouças
Haiti, Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Katiana speaks about her experience as a woman in Haiti. Because of her gender, she faces many limitations and suffers abuse from men who are more privileged than she is. Despite the challenges of her situation, she has found the courage to achieve greater personal and financial independence.
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28e
A Bear Named Jesus
Terril Calder
Canada (Unceded Territories), Animation
At Aunty Gladys’ funeral, Archer Pechawis heard a tap on the window -- it was a bear named Jesus... an allegory for religious interference, with an aching yet humorous look at estrangement and mourning for the loss of someone still living.
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28e
A kind of testament
Stephen Vuillemin
France, Animation
A young woman comes across animations on the Internet that have clearly been created from her private selfies. An unknown female with the same name confesses to identity theft. But death is quicker than the answer to the question: “Why?”
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28e
A menos que bailemos
Hanz Rippe Gabriel & Fernanda Pineda Palencia
Colombia, Documentary
Bonays, an Afro dance teacher, undertakes an initiative to rescue young people from the crime that stalks Quibdó, the city with the highest homicide rates in Colombia. This is how Black Boys Chocó emerged, a dance company where hundreds of young people face brutal destinies through a passion. Unless We Dance portrays union and dance as the greatest expression of shielding the Afro people; it is a tribute to their act of resilience and to all the lives that have been lost along the way.