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Summer Shorts: Canada

English, French languages / russian subtitles

Woman Waiting

Canada 2011, 15 min.
Director Antoine Bourges

A middle-aged woman is faced with poverty. As she struggles to find help within the system, her only option is to wait.

Festivals and Awards:
Berlin International Film Festival – competition, Berlinale Shorts
SXSW – official selection

Negativepeg

Canada 2010? 15 min.
Director Matthew Rankin

Rory Lepine gives a personal account of his fateful and infamous encounter with The Guess Who's legendary lead singer, Burton Cummings, in a Winnipeg 7-Eleven in 1985.

Festivals and Awards:
Toronto International Film Festival – official selection

Block B

Canada 2008, 20 min.
Director Chris Chong Chan Fui

A building becomes a living painting. The concrete homes and contradicting soundscapes frame the lives of an expatriate Indian community in Malaysia.

Festivals and Awards:
Rotterdam International Film Festival – official selection

Green Crayons

Canada 2010, 10 min.
Dirctor Kazik Radwanski

The more they spit, the more they enjoy themselves. But when the teacher arrives, Xavier and Liam are moulded by their actions.

Festivals and Awards:
Berlin International Film Festival – competition – Berlinale Shorts

Interview with the Earth

Canada 2008, 18 min.
Director Nicolas Pereda

In “Interview with the Earth”, documentary and fiction seamlessly merge to create a hybrid poetic film. Through a series of interviews and enactments we learn the story of Nico and Amalio, two children who lost a friend while climbing a mountain.