Short Forum 5: Somewhere Else VIFF Short Forum Image: Acid City

If space and time are pure perception, let’s build them differently.

This short film program includes the following films:

Invisible Harvests

Stephanie Dudley, Canada (7 min)

Animation itself becomes a ritual process of fermentation that activates a recipe.

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Lippenstift

Elsa Diringer, France (19 min)

Benedicte’s patience is tested on the eve of her stepfather’s funeral.

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Going Home

Kamal Aljafari, Germany/Palestine/France (21 min)

Filming the TV in his parents’ home, Aljafari zooms in on what approaches the quotidian amidst Gaza’s ruins.

Content Considerations: Genocide in Palestine

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Materia

Alisi Telengut, Canada (7 min)

Through macro- and microscopic imaging, Telengut reveals the hidden kinship between the human body and the mineral world.

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Acid City

Jack Wedge, Will Freudenheim, USA (13 min)

In the middle of a toxic sea, a city and its inhabitants have adapted to a scorched and submerged earth.

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Saint & the Sea

Abdullah Khan, Canada/Kuwait/Pakistan (16 min)

As a storm approaches their coastal village, a fisherman’s family prepares for the departure of their 14-year-old daughter.

Content Considerations: Mature themes, blood, reference to animal death

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“Vaterland” or a Bule Named Yanto

Berthold Wahjudi, Germany/Indonesia (25 min)

When the Germany-raised Yanto travels to Yogyakarta to visit his younger sister, feelings of alienation and envy arise.

Content Considerations: Racism

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