VIWFF 2020 Shorts Official Selection
March 3-8, 2020
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- DirectorEva KaukaiEva Kaukai and Manon Chamberland practice the art of throat singing in the small village of Kangirsuk, in their native Canadian Arctic land. Interspliced with footage of the area throughout the four seasons of Kangirsuk by a cinematographer Johnny Nassak.Program: In Search of Self and Home
- DirectorDaria KashcheevaThe bond between a father and a daughter is imperiled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.Program: In Search of Self and Home
- DirectorSkirma JakaiteStarsPaulius MarkeviciusIeva JoniskyteSam HallWe live in the same house, but in different apartments, jobs, situations, believes, visions, each one in it's own compartment fooling ourselves that the world is one and that it exists.Program: In Search of Self and Home
- DirectorChristopher AuchterStarsVictor AdamsFlorence DavidsonReg DavidsonIn 1969, fifty years before this film is released, an indigenous community in Canada succeeds in constructing and erecting a totem pole, a practice which had been suppressed for decades by the local authorities.Program: Claiming A Natural Order
- DirectorOdessa ShuquayaA short, expressionist documentary, exploring the relationship between Cedar and three Indigenous women who work with it, weave with it, and live with it.Program: Claiming A Natural Order
- DirectorMeltse Van CoillieWe find ourselves aboard of a cargo ship, drifting in an endless sea. This vast emptiness in time and space is something the sailors cope with in their own ways. Imagination rises from beneath the surface and gradually takes the helm...Program: Claiming A Natural Order
- DirectorAnnette ReillyStarsMike KlemakAnnette ReillyBrendan TaylorThis film explores the gulf between parent and child and understanding the concept of what personal identity is. The narrative takes the familiar form of a fairy tale, expressing its ideas through rhyme, verse and whimsy.Program: Confusing Continuums
- DirectorGiulia GiapponesiStarsSofia AbbatiStefania Delia CarnevaliEmily Di RonzaDenatality is making one town disappear. The Government is set pressing measures, not just psychological ones. Females who don't contribute to the demographic future of the country are seen as a problem to resolve, thus every year they are called to declare to a Government Office the reason why they haven't had any babies in the last twelve months. In an out of time world, that reminds us more with every passing day, Bianca and Vittoria are at the opposite angles of their fertility time. Their acquaintance forces them to choose in an instant the direction of their future: any choice will result in a radical change of their destiny.Program: Confusing Continuums
- DirectorRami KahlonStarsJacq AinsworthMichael EdwardsTrevor HorneSet in a small suburban town, high school student Dylan becomes worried when his popular down-to-earth best friend starts getting followed incessantly by the odd girl out.Program: Confusing Continuums
- DirectorErica ScogginsStarsAmélie HoeferleKatherine MorganJohn Henry WardIn the fever of her first period, a curious teenager is drawn to her small town's local legend, only to find that the "Boogeywoman" is flesh and blood--the mother she never had.Program: Confusing Continuums
- DirectorOliwia TwardowskaStarsEmmanouela PitsikaMaria SkoulaEleni VergetiEva is a seven-year-old girl who accidentally sees her parents making love. This spectacle, unbearably mysterious and violent, causes fear and curiosity at the same time.Program: Confusing Continuums
- DirectorAli FroggattStarsAli FroggattJeff GladstoneCharlie KerrBy seducing her victims into sedation, a young woman attempts to take back what was once stolen from her.Program: Confusing Continuums
- DirectorKeren MarcianoStarsBlanca LiArnaud GagnoudAnne LoiretElena and Arturo are a couple fully in love, until a friend sows seeds of doubt in their minds.Program: Confusing Continuums
- DirectorNienke DeutzStarsEva SchramInseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses their bodies start to morph and shift and an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.Program: Confusing Continuums
- DirectorMagdalena ChmielewskaStarsMaria SpanringJulia JelinekJohanna Orsini-RosenbergMaya suddenly wakes up in the middle of the night and finds herself at "Am Himmel" in Vienna. She is not dead, she is in Vienna. It is night. She checks out her body. What is she missing?Program: Staring Down the Stillness
- DirectorAgnieszka ChmuraStarsPola Galica GalochAgnieszka KoscielniakAndrzej RozmusABOUT THE FILM Humming, sluggish summer of 1989. A car with a caravan reaches the Czechoslovakian-Polish border and joins a long queue. Bees are buzzing in the grass. Enclosed in a small space, a family bicker as the atmosphere thickens. On the back seat, a little girl is absorbed by the world of nature. With her, we wade into the incomprehensible world of the adults, glimpsing a fear that grows as they approach the border.Program: Staring Down the Stillness
- DirectorMichelle MuldoonStarsChelah HorsdalLuvia PetersenJohannah NewmarchThe Earp sisters and Doc Holliday resolve to eliminate the Clanton Gang problem in the only way they know how, at the end of a gun barrel, in this all-female re-imagining of the Gunfight at the OK Corral.Program: Staring Down the Stillness
- DirectorAlejandra WillsStarsJader Cuello De La CruzBerenice PiñerosAlcira and Henry are victims of the rural armed conflict in Colombia. With a deep sadness uniting them, spending time together is an irritating and painful struggle. Still, they do it to appease their grief. Alcira needs to forgive him. Henry needs her forgiveness.Program: Staring Down the Stillness
- DirectorOlga DelaneProgram: Staring Down the Stillness
- DirectorMartina ScarpelliStarsMaria Carmen LindegaardA woman is locked in her home with an egg, which she is both attracted to and scared of. She eats the egg, she repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger.