Schedule:

7 Pm -  Program 1 – The Instability Of Clouds

Films about the things that connect us together or tear us apart. Family histories stashed away in government files. Neighbors who share secrets. Portraits of the people we love and the puzzles they leave behind for us.

File No. 2304
A. S. M. Kobayashi, 2024
RT: 05:22 minutes
Canada forcibly incarcerated and dispossessed thousands of Canadian citizens of Japanese heritage, relocating them to internment camps, or in the case of the Kobayashi family, a sugar beet work farm in the Canadian Prairies. After accessing the 119 page custodial file of her great-grandfather in the National Archives of Canada, Kobayashi discovered details about her family history and their life before their internment that were previously unknown. File No. 2304 is a chapter of her interdisciplinary work, Electric Neon Clock, which explores the government’s custodial file about her family consisting of court transcripts, inventories and forms that reveal hidden narratives and family history.

I Was There
Kamila Kuc, 2024
RT: 12:25 minutes

I Was There is a palimpsest – a layered tapestry where past and present intertwine in the intimate process of activating memory and vulnerability as forms of resistance. I Was There honours the testimonial object inherited from ancestors and the living connection that binds generations in the shared pursuit of justice and healing.

Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy
Anna Kipervaser, 2023
RT: 04:24 minutes

A jovial and dreamy rumination on love. On time passing. On what we collect, what we hold on to, and how we maintain connection to home, place, to ourselves.

Mother
Wenhua Shi, 2024
RT: 04:30 minutes

This piece is a film portrait of my mother. all shot in-camera with 16mm.

Something Went Click
Caryn Cline, 2024
RT: 03:40 minutes

The origin story of my mother’s struggle with manic-depression (aka bipolar disorder): the rural prairie in the 1950s, an old boys’ club of “deciders,” a puzzling disease about which little was known.

Adulting
James Duesing, 2024
RT: 08:10 minutes

A queer valentine has a fever dream.

Lizzy
Susanna Wallin, 2024
RT: 15:00 minutes

Like a shout and a promise, a blank page and a full page, a clean disc, a new house, a pressure wave and a song but no melody yet.

Confetti
Amanda Therese Bonaiuto, 2024
RT: 04:09 minutes

Separation, fever dreaming, and a deflated celebration.

The Instability of Clouds
Zazie Ray-Trapido, 2024
RT: 15:00 minutes

Two neighbors bond after a shared traumatic event, a continuous home development creeps into nature’s threshold, and a community celebrates freedom.

9 Pm - Program 2 – Night Music

Sometimes the closer you look and listen, the less you see and hear. Films about translation and things that are lost in it. Police horses, anechoic chambers, broken eggs, and Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

Night Music
Edwin Rostron, 2024
RT: 03:25 minutes
A little night music for the eyes. Geometric shapes dance and transform in the dark. The rain falls, a storm approaches.

Man number 4
Miranda Pennell, 2024
RT: 09:52 minutes

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

The Cavalry
Alina Orlov, 2024
RT: 16:36 minutes

This hybrid documentary explores the involuntary role of animals in human conflict. Filmed during January to September 2023 in Israel and the West Bank, the film provides a glimpse into daily life in the months preceding the Israel-Gaza War.

An egg, the white is gone but the yellow remains
Mohamed Thara, 2023
RT: 03:50 minutes

Inside an egg, the white and the yellow coexist harmoniously and naturally, even though they don’t have the same texture, color, shape, or smell. But when there is a fracture, a break, or a rupture between them, each follows its own nature.

Simple Forms
Natalia Ryss, 2023
RT: RT: 03:24 minutes

What is Music?

Listening In, Resounding Out
Eislow Johnson, Dominic Bonelli, 2023
RT: 11:23

Through the ears of an acoustic engineer, the film explores how in the near silence of the anechoic chamber, listening is a straining toward understanding and connection. It engages with cinema as a body — one given presence and depth through sound — and a body as a resounding instrument, which listens to its own vibratory depths and amplifies its feedback.

Translation Please
Rankin Renwick, 2024
RT: 15:53 minutes

A film about people who are trying hard to listen, and people who are hardly listening.