Curated based on the quality of submissions, the shorts are wonderfully varied in style and technique. Advanced Cybernetics (Steven Day,…
Inspired by Ronald Wright’s book A Short History of Progress, which explores the collapse of ancient civilizations and draws similarities…
Mr. Tree is a quasi-dark comedy about a “village idiot” who haphazardly manages to get through life. After getting injured…
A single blob floats in darkness, multiplying and recombining with others. The luminous lumps grow and grow until they form…
During the harsh winter in a mountain village of old Japan, Kayu is carried off to die. The old must…
Lost in Paradise is a typical love story with a contemporary twist. The two main characters meet. They fall in…
Meet Jay, a family man with a seven year old son and a beautiful wife, house in the English suburbs,…
Imagine you are a fourteen year old boy in Czechoslovakia in 1987. You wake up with a panicky feeling and…
The famous Crazy Horse in Paris is billed as the best nude act in the world. A combination of Vegas…
by Athena Wong Using slides and video projections to present political and social issues, multi-artist Krzysztof Wodiczko gives voice to…
by Morgan O’Reilly ‘Adaptation’ is a film about the writing of its own screenplay, which was meant to be an…
I strongly agree with many of the perceptions towards both the global art market and the political economy discussed in…
by Leonardo Tenan Tatiana Issa, along with Raphael Alvarez, directed Dzi Croquettes (2010), a documentary that illuminates the story of…
by Mike Peredo Soon-Young, a pregnant teenager, is traveling home to her mother when there’s a blinding flash in the…
Strange things are happening at Uncle Boonmee’s farm in the lush greenery of Thailand’s countryside. The ghost of his dead…
In what is amongst the best collections of short films at VIFF 2010, ‘Acquired Trait’ deals with memories. Like ripples…
Quick—who is the greatest inventor who ever lived? Edison? Tesla? Frink? How about Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu? Never heard of him?…
“If the work of an isolated little old woman on the edge of nowhere is too modern for the Canadian…
A shotgun shatters the silence of the countryside in China, forcing European artist Thomas to dive for cover. This begins…
It is 2009 in Southern Afghanistan and fresh recruits are flown into forwarding base Armadillo as missiles fire periodically at…
by Athena Wong Jia Zhangke has been acclaimed internationally in many important film festivals such as those of Cannes, Venice,…