The Vancouver International Film Festival Program Guide 2021

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International

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Shorts Neko and Flies

Wake

Chants From a Holy Book

Al-Sit

Animation

Have We Ever Learned?

Life Labs

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 118 MIN.

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TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 112 MIN.

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TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 121 MIN.

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Anyhow, Anyway

The Black Disquisition

Apart, Together

Al-Sit

CATARINA ROMANO, PORTUGAL, 13 MIN.

QUINCY G. LEDBETTER, USA, 11 MIN.

OLIVIA HANG ZHOU, USA/CHINA, 19 MIN.

SUZANNAH MIRGHANI, SUDAN/QATAR, 20 MIN.

A lonely woman has a routine to her days, though she rarely leaves her apartment.

A traumatic event in a boy’s life underlies a surprising answer to a guidance counselor’s question.

A teen girl and her mother from China are in Los Angeles, searching for her older sister who was abandoned as a baby.

In a cotton-farming village, a girl’s arranged marriage to a businessman requires approval by the village matriarch.

ZACH DORN, USA, 2021, 13 MIN.

Chants From a Holy Book

Carrier

All Dogs Die

A 1970s folk singer’s life is transformed when a current pop star records one of her songs.

CASSIANA DER HAROUTIOUNIAN, CESAR GANANIAN, BRAZIL, 2021, 25 MIN.

MAX OVASKA, FINLAND, 2020, 23 MIN.

NINNA PÁLMADÓTTIR, ICELAND, 2020, 17 MIN.

A woman takes advantage of her pregnancy to smuggle drugs through customs for her brother.

On a foggy weekend in an isolated part of Iceland, an aged farmer and his dog confront mortality.

Goodbye Tornio

Charon

EMILIA HERNESNIEMI, FINLAND, 2021, 15 MIN.

YANNICK KARCHER, FRANCE, 2020, 15 MIN.

A girl who just graduated from high school is moving to the big city, leaving her family and her best friend behind.

A recently retired man is spurred into action by the fear of death and boredom, so he initiates a crazy project.

MeTube: August Sings ‘Una Furtiva Lagrima’

Don vs Lightning

Charlotte

FALL OF THE IBIS KING MIKAI GERONIMO, JOSH O’CAOIMH, IRELAND, 2021, 10 MIN.

The antagonist of a dark opera is unsettled following the return of the lead actor.

Flowing Home SANDRA DESMAZIÈRES, FRANCE/CANADA, 2021, 15 MIN.

Two sisters from Vietnam, separated by war, exchange letters and relive the tragedy for 20 years.

Granny’s Sexual Life URŠKA DJUKIC, ÉMILIE PIGEARD, SLOVENIA/FRANCE, 2021, 14 MIN.

Five women reflect on old times and how different sexual relations between men and women were.

In the film’s own words, “the objective is to recreate in five chants the synergy that generates revolutions.”

The Following Year MIGUEL CAMPAÑA, SPAIN, 2021, 22 MIN.

On his anniversary, a widowed farmer receives a clone of the woman he lost under tragic circumstances years ago.

The Night I Left America LAKI KARAVIAS, USA, 2020, 14 MIN.

A teen immigrant boy starts questioning the American Dream while his mother awaits the decision on her visa.

A Quiet Man NYIMA CARTIER, FRANCE, 2021, 15 MIN.

The Monkey

Looking out an office building window, voices speculate about a man sitting on a park bench down below.

LORENZO DEGL´INNOCENTI, XOSÉ ZAPATA, PORTUGAL/SPAIN, 2021, 17 MIN.

A Roll in the Hay

1588. A shipwrecked member of the Spanish Armada is found washed up on shore and alive.

GEOFFREY FIGHIERA, FRANCE, 2020, 19 MIN.

Nuevo Rico KRISTIAN MERCADO FIGUEROA, USA, 2021, 16 MIN.

Twin musicians on the run steal a magical contract that will make them reggaetón stars.

Unnecessary Things DMYTRO LISENBART, UKRAINE, 2020, 14 MIN.

Could intelligent robots grow as thinking entities with needs and desires?

Wake MARK BOSTON, UK, 2020, 6 MIN.

The creation of nine fantastical paintings is depicted as they evolve and transform.

A man takes his mistress to his country house for the weekend where a surprise awaits.

Your Street GÜZIN KAR, SWITZERLAND, 2020, 8 MIN.

A nondescript street in Bonn is linked to one of the most painful episodes in the history of reunified Germany.

BIG RED BUTTON, UK, 2021, 13 MIN.

A pair of intergalactic music nerds with telekinetic powers hijack an opera performance.

All Don wants is a quiet life in the Scottish Highlands. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans.

Neko and Flies

Dona

TSAO SHIH HAN, TAIWAN, 2020, 25 MIN.

MARGA MELIÀ, SPAIN, 2020, 20 MIN.

In the brutal summer heat, a security guard looks after boats tied up at a dock and a sex worker with an intellectual disability.

After a lifetime of silence, an elderly woman in a mental hospital decides to confess her family secrets to a doctor.

Quality Time

Roy

OMER BEN-DAVID, ISRAEL, 2020, 22 MIN.

TOM BERKELEY, ROSS WHITE, UK, 2021, 16 MIN.

When his mother goes away on vacation, a stoner teenager and his recently retired father are forced to spend time together.

Trapped in a lonely existence, a reclusive widower desperately seeks brief moments of companionship.

DANIEL MOSHEL, AUSTRIA, 2020, 8 MIN.

The Saverini Widow LOÏC GAILLARD, FRANCE, 2020, 20 MIN.

In the 1890s, an older widowed midwife lives a quiet life with her son and dog in a Corsican town until one eventful night.


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