Canadian Short Film Screening + Canadian Filmmakers Roundtable
Paradise Theatre, Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada
Join us for a screening of Canadian short films followed by a panel discussion around opportunities and challenges making films in Canada and beyond.
FILMS:
Festina Lente
2021 | 21mins | Canada | Arabic, English, French
Combining two contradictory terms in a single phrase is called an oxymoron. Circumventing the obvious, shaking up the logic, proceeding […]
Visions of Basra
2021 | 5mins | Canada | Arabic
Visions of Basra explores my mother’s fragmented memories of her homeland by exploring her photographs, colours and words. Each moving […]
Brown Bread & Apricots
2020 | 8mins | Canada, Jordan | Arabic
In the absence of his parents, an unruly teenager is presented with a crucial test of character devised by his […]
Nur El Qulub
2021 | 8mins | Canada | Arabic
Nur Al Qulub is an exploration of the spiritual dimension of shadow and light. Drawing from the director’s experiences as […]
Don’t Forget The Water
2021 | 5mins | Canada | Arabic
A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions […]