片单｜Canada's Top Ten Shorts Programme
Programmed by tiff, 2022 (https://www.tiff.net/films?series=canadas-top-ten&list)
Zacharias Kunuk boldly brings his unparalleled storytelling skills and cinematic prowess into a new medium with his first animated work, an astonishingly intricate and mesmerizing stop-motion marvel about a young shaman facing her most daunting test. JASON ANDERSON
A woman reeling from a breakup faces further disruptions when her mother makes an unexpected visit. Captured with great sensitivity and warmth by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers and Carmine Pierre-Dufour, these characters’ time together is a precious opportunity to truly connect. JA
As playful in its form and technique as it is thoughtful in its take on womanhood, this animated wonder by Quebec’s Marie Valade uses a woman’s surrealist journey to explore her love–hate relationship with her breasts, body, and femininity. JA
A queer Muslim woman adds another wild card to a gathering that’s already plenty unpredictable when she brings her new partner to her family’s holiday festivities, in director Fawzia Mirza’s buoyant and big-hearted comedy. JA
Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair
Alanis Obomsawin
CANADA | 2021 29 minutes
This film may contain scenes that are distressing to some viewers, especially those who have experienced harm, abuse, violence, and/or intergenerational trauma due to colonial practices. It may also include audio and/or video of persons who are deceased.
Support is available 24 hours a day for anyone affected by their experience at residential schools and for those who may be triggered by content dealing with residential schools, child abuse, emotional trauma, and racism. The national Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line is available.
Alanis Obomsawin shares a powerful 2016 speech by the Ojibway senator and former Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair, interspersing it with heartbreaking testimonies from residential school survivors. JASON RYLE
Starring in and directing their own razor-sharp script, the Toronto team of Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah and Araya Mengesha play twins trying to navigate their own, and each other’s, complex responses to both the lockdown and the fight for racial justice during the long hot summer of 2020. JASON ANDERSON
Filmed in a hair salon on the eve of Tunisia’s presidential election, Sarra El Abed’s perceptive documentary portrays the country’s wider shifts and changes as reflected in the lively exchanges between a group of very memorable women. JA
Filmmaker, artist, and animator Terril Calder’s latest short film may be her most powerful and intricately designed work to date: a stop-motion animation that charts a challenging journey for Baby Girl, a precocious Métis girl contemplating her path to Hell. JA
Content advisory: violence, child abuse
Tensions and awkwardness between their newly divorced parents at a family gathering makes for a less than joyful Christmas Eve for the kids in Annie St-Pierre’s wry yet warm-hearted holiday tale. JA
Albert Shin demonstrates all his directorial prowess and knack for creating stark yet vivid characters with this remarkable drama about two strangers who convene at a seaside motel in South Korea with very particular intentions in mind. JA
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Programmed by tiff, 2022 (https://www.tiff.net/films?series=canadas-top-ten&list)
