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SHORT FILM PROGRAMME If you’d like to see some of the incredible short films produced in Canada, please check out our description of the Short Film Programme on page 43, and contact us for advice and assistance. IM Indigenous-made films (written, directed or produced by Indigenous artists) Films produced by the National Film Board of Canada NFB CLASSIC ANIMATIONS BEGONE DULL CARE LA FAIM / HUNGER THE STREET Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart Peter Foldès 1973 11 min. Caroline Leaf 1976 10 min. 1949 8 min. Rapidly dissolving images form a An award-winning adaptation of a An innovative experimental film satire of self-indulgence in a world story by Canadian author Mordecai consisting of abstract shapes and plagued by hunger and poverty. This Richler about how families deal with colours shifting in sync with jazz Oscar-nominated film was among older relatives, and the emotions COSMIC ZOOM music performed by the Oscar the first to incorporate computer- surrounding a grandmother’s death. Peterson Trio. animation technology. THE SWEATER THE BIG SNIT THE LOG DRIVER’S WALTZ Sheldon Cohen 1980 10 min. Richard Condie 1985 10 min. John Weldon 1979 3 min. Iconic author Roch Carrier narrates A wonderfully wacky look at two Kate and Anna McGarrigle sing a mortifying boyhood experience conflicts — global nuclear war and a along to the tale of a young girl who in this animated adaptation of his domestic quarrel — and how each is loves to dance and chooses to marry beloved book The Hockey Sweater. resolved. Nominated for an Oscar. a dancing log driver over her more well-to-do suitors. VILLAGE OF IDIOTS THE LOG DRIVER’S WALTZ THE CAT CAME BACK Eugene Fedorenko, Rose Newlove Cordell Barker 1988 7 min. NEIGHBOURS 1999 13 min. In this Oscar-nominated short, a Norman McLaren 1952 8 min. Based on a Jewish folk tale, this humorous song tells the silly tale of This satirical anti-war parable uses hilarious film provides a fresh and a man who just can’t get rid of an live actors as stop-motion subjects irreverent take on our tendency to unwanted cat. to tell the tale of a destructive feud romanticize what we don’t have. over a flower. A groundbreaking – COSMIC ZOOM and Oscar-winning – short. WALKING Eva Szasz 1968 8 min. Ryan Larkin 1968 5 min. A visually stunning journey from the THE SAND CASTLE An artist’s interpretation of the way farthest point of the universe to the Co Hoedeman 1977 13 min. people walk, using a variety THE SWEATER tiniest particle of matter. A man made out of sand makes of animation techniques. other sand creatures in this inventive, Oscar-winning stop- motion animation. CONTEMPORARYIM ANIMATION ᑐᒃᑐᒥᑦ / TUKTUMIT IM ÂME NOIRE / BLACK SOUL AWASKINAWASON / IM Ippiksaut Friesen (Inuk) 2014 4 min. Martine Chartrand 2000 10 min. CHILDREN OF EARTH ᑐᒃᑐᒥᑦ / TUKTUMIT This gorgeously rendered animation A young boy traces his roots through Antony Dubé (Atikamekw) 2015 explores the way traditional hunting the stories his grandmother shares 3 min. in Nunavut has evolved to maintain its with him in this exhilarating voyage An animated short calling on us vital role in contemporary Inuit culture. through the defining moments of to respect the great circle of life. IM black history. Awaskinawason is made up of the ABORIGINALITY Atikamekw words awacic (child), Dominique Keller, Tom Jackson (Cree) AND THAT’S REMARKABLE aski (earth) and takonawason 2007 5 min. Linnea Ritland 2013 1 min. (having the responsibility for). A young boy is transported “It’s remarkable how easily a human through his television set to the spirit can be broken,” this punchy THE BASKETBALL GAME scene of a traditional hoop dance, short about bullying laments. But, Hart Snider 2011 5 min. ABORIGINALITY encountering his family’s cultural as the animation assures, it’s just as When nine-year-old Hart attends heritage in a new way. remarkable how a human spirit can Jewish summer camp for the first IM be fixed. time, his group must compete in AMAQQUT NUNAAT / an epic basketball game against THE COUNTRY OF WOLVES AT THE QUINTE HOTEL the students of a notorious local Neil Christopher, Louise Flaherty Bruce Alcock 2005 4 min. Holocaust denier. What awaits Hart (Inuk) 2011 12 min. An animated version of Al Purdy’s on the basketball court? Two brothers are set adrift on ice floes poem about a man drinking in a while hunting for seal. They soon find basement pub. Narrated by The themselves in the country of wolves, Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie. THE BASKETBALL GAME where all is not as it appears. REEL CANADA SHORT FILMS 55 CONTEMPORARY ANIMATION continued BAM FLUX I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE Howie Shia 2015 6 min. Christopher Hinton 2002 7 min. Cam Christiansen 2007 6 min. In this modern adaptation of the story A whimsical piece that plays with An animated music video about a of Hercules, a young boxer struggles both the significant and mundane father-son tennis game set on a hot to negotiate between his shy, bookish events in the lives of a large family. summer day in the suburbs. BLIND VAYSHA nature and his divinely violent temper. FOUR FACES OF THE MOON IM I’M SCARED TOO BIRCHBARK IM Amanda Strong (Michif) Nadia Lakhdari, Caroline Lavergne John Hupfield (Anishinaabe) 2016 13 min. 2017 2 min 2008 4 min. In this intricate and stunning In the days following the attack on a Symbols of traditional knowledge stop-motion animation, a young Quebec City mosque, Lakhdari and come alive and find themselves filmmaker travels back through time, Lavergne sought out and animated inside the pages of a book. encountering pivotal moments in her stories from Quebecers of all walks family’s history and strengthening of life, revealing the same basic BLIND VAYSHA her connections to her Métis, Cree emotions that unite rather than FOUR FACES OF THE MOON Theodore Ushev 2016 8 min. and Anishinaabe ancestors. divide us. A young girl’s left eye sees only the past while her right sees only the THE GIFT IM I MET THE WALRUS future. Haunted by what was and Terril Calder (Métis) 2011 2 min. Josh Raskin 2007 5 min. threatened by what will be, Blind This stop-motion tale captures the In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatles fan Vaysha is cursed to be incapable of betrayal and deception of when sneaks into John Lennon’s Toronto living in the present. smallpox-infected blankets were given hotel room and convinces him to do by European settlers to Indigenous an interview for his school paper. DANCERS OF THE GRASS IM populations as a deadly “gift.” Melanie Jackson (Métis/ MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI THE GRANDFATHER DRUM Saulteaux) 2009 2 min. LE GOUFFRE / THE GULF Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski Spectacular stop-motion animation Carl Beauchemin, Thomas Chrétien, 2007 17 min. breathes life into a traditional dance. David Forest 2015 10 min. Madame Tutli-Putli boards a When two travellers undertake night train for a mysterious and THE DANISH POET to build a gigantic bridge that will suspenseful journey. Nominated for Torill Kove 2006 14 min. cross a gulf blocking their way, their an Oscar. In this Oscar-winning short, a young courage and determination inspire a woman tells the story of how the nearby rural community. McLAREN’S NEGATIVES Danish poet Kasper Jørgensen found Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre 2006 10 min. inspiration and ultimately caused THE GRANDFATHER DRUM IM her parents to find one another. Michelle Derosier (Anishinaabe) An animated documentary shares IF I WAS GOD 2016 12 min. the secrets of legendary Canadian DIMANCHE / SUNDAY In this stunning storybook animator Norman McLaren. Patrick Doyon 2011 10 min. animation, the forceful removal of A young boy is bored during a visit to Naamowin’s healing drum from an ME AND MY MOULTON his grandparents’ house in small-town Anishinabek community disrupts the Torill Kove 2014 14 min. Quebec after church one Sunday, delicate balance between the sky- In this Oscar-nominated short, a so he goes outside in search of world and the underworld. seven-year-old girl asks for a bicycle, adventure. Nominated for an Oscar. knowing full well that her loving yet THE GUEST IM unconventional parents likely have EMPTY IM Nick Rodgers (Anishinaabe) something else in mind. MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI Jackie Traverse (Anishinaabe) 2015 5 min. 2009 5 min. A trapper collects a mysterious MELTDOWN Set to a song by Little Hawk, this animal in the forest, but as he tries Carrie Mombourquette 2012 1 min. animated story is a daughter’s starkly to care for it, the beast quickly Because his icy arctic environment honest tribute to her estranged mother. becomes insatiable. is disappearing, a polar bear heads to the city to find a job. Fitting in THE END OF PINKY HOW TO BE ALONE with humans is not easy, so the bear Claire Blanchet 2013 8 min. Andrea Dorfman 2010 6 min. comes up with a fun solution to his Johnny is out to kill his best friend, Narrated by Tanya Davis to beautiful housing situation. Pinky, in this film noir adaptation of hand-drawn illustrations by a short story by acclaimed Canadian Dorfman, Davis’s eloquent poem is MIA’ IM ME AND MY MOULTON author Heather O’Neill. full of powerful truths. With over Amanda Strong (Michif), Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv-Klahoose) IM eight million views on YouTube, the FIGHTING CHANCE film is an online sensation. 2015 8 min. Alexandra Lazarowich (Cree) In this incredible stop-motion short, 2011 9 min. Mia is a young Indigenous street IF I WAS GOD… With a family history of residential Cordell Barker 2014 8 min.