Short and Medium-Length National Competition
The filmmaker Natalie Murao questions her grandfather on his experience in an internment camp for Japanese citizens in Canada during the Second World War.
BLUE GARDEN
- Natalie Murao
- 2022
- Canada
- s.t. English
- 6 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
Under the pretext of a police interrogation, this film shows the politically charged history of Shaho mountain of the Zagros Mountains range in Iran.
LANDSCAPE SUSPENDED
- Naghmeh Abbasi
- 2022
- Canada, Iran
- s.t. English
- 27 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
It’s summer in the suburbs, and the days go on and on. The season bears the curious melancholy of distance between self, other, and passing time.
THE LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR
- Frank Varga Jr.
- 2021
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 11 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
High in a glass tower, a solitary woman’s imagination can’t be contained within the confined yet apparently limitless space of her hotel room.
ODE TO LONELINESS
- Rawane Nassif
- 2022
- Canada, Lebanon, Qatar
- 17 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
Home videos and present-day images are enhanced by an expressive score and editing, sparking a conversation between the past and the present.
ONE HOME TO ANOTHER
- Dominique Van Olm
- 2022
- Netherlands, Canada
- s.t. English
- 10 min