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Hairless ~ Dir Madyha Jan Leghari ~ Lahore, Pakistan ~ 5:00
A fictional city grapples with an inexplicable, complete loss of hair. Posited both as an extension and the boundary of a body, hair occupies a liminal position between the animate and inanimate “dead” matter. Since the influence of evolutionary thought in the nineteenth century, comparative hairlessness in humans has been the subject of extensive cultural debate and resultant shift in its value. “Excessive” human hair is variously associated with sexual inversion, the primitive, the criminal, the pathological, the diseased, the beast or even the lunatic. The film satirizes these accounts by removing the supposed evolutionary obstacle posed by hair. However, the resultant world is that of tactile longing, sensory deprivation, and eco-anxiety. Site. 
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Crescendo ~ Dir. Stephen Papadimitriou ~ Toronto, Canada ~ 14:00
Violinist Claudia starts to buckle under the pressure of her upcoming first chair audition. The stress is manifested into a dark figure that she can’t seem to shake. |
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The First Step ~ Dir. Aaron Rothermund ~ Toronto, Canada ~ 3:05
Red wakes up after a night of drinking, and decides to change his life. His journey takes him through his favourite places in Toronto, but each spot is haunted by the past. 
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Death Offers Life ~ Dir. Saheer Abbas ~ Trivandrum, India ~ 8:00
The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to take him makes an offer which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully. Site. |
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Kiko ~ Dir. Jamil Munoz ~ USA ~ 10:00
Kiko, a lonely retail service android, longs for the world beyond her store. 
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PTSD Generation ~ Dir. James Greatrex ~ Canada ~ 5:00
In 1967, Willow Baker survived a plane crash. She was 8 months pregnant at the time. 
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Old Flame A super 8 story ~ Dir. Spencer Hetherington & Jesse Ricottone ~ Saint John, Canada ~ 5:45
A young man learns the hard truth that holding onto an old flame hurts more than letting go. Site. |
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Say No More ~ Dir. Ryan Orizabal ~ Toronto, Canada ~ 13:41
Jamie and Arthur are a troubled couple who are tied due to their shared losses. When pressured into breaking up by both their relatives, they instead make their bond even stronger. But that bond could lead to consequences that could destroy them and their families. Site. 
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The Jackpot ~ Dir. Alice von Gwinner ~ Leipzig, Germany ~ 22:40
Thanks to his best friend Eugenie the chicken, the reclusive Albert finds himself involved in a fateful game of chance that leads him to his true love. But is it really all just a coincidence? Site. |