Luz Diabla
Synopsis
On his way to a rave in the Argentine Pampas, a young queer man gets into an accident. Taking refuge in a mysterious rural tavern where he is conspicuously out of place, his paranoia begins to mount and he worries he might never escape.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 10: Outré.
Media
Film Credits
- Gervasio Canda, Paula Poffo, Patricio Plaza, Courtney Wolfson
- Gervasio Ganda, Paula Boffo, Patricio Plaza
- Patricio Plaza
- Gianluca Zonzini, Gulliver Markert, Mario Alarcón, Emanuel Gabotto, David Tokar
- Emanuel Gabotto, David Tokar, Antu La Banca
- Ojo Raro, Lakeside Animation
- https://www.miyu.fr/distribution/luz-diabla/
Shorts 10: Outré
Synopsis
The creators of these shorts unabashedly follow their own singular visions into wildly new and weird territories. Filled with fantastic imagery, oddball production design, and both animated and live-action storytelling, this program showcases the boundless possibilities of short film as a uniquely innovative art form.
Water Sports transports us to a hyper-stylized world ravaged by climate change where two students discover that emotional rather than physical strength offers their best chance of survival. In Arguments in Favor of Love, two animated ghosts revisit the conflicts and emotions that populated the landscapes of their previous shared life. A filmmaker narrates the events surrounding her abortion with poignance and irreverence while MS-paint style animation depicts the titular Abortion Party. A single woman navigates the difficult world of contemporary dating in Manakin by building a life-sized stuffed companion onto which she projects the images and words of a litany of single men. A young queer man on his way to a rave in the Argentine Pampas finds himself stranded in a rural tavern with a secret in the strikingly animated Luz Diabla. In a fantastical world suffused with eroticism, Once in a Full Moon follows a young vampire as he embarks on a quest that promises to grant him his heart’s truest desire: to consummate his love for the moon.
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Paradaïz
Synopsis
In her first film, Canadian artist and animator Matea Radic imagines an impossible return. Paradaïz follows a young woman as she travels back to a city still unstable with the conflict she fled. Blending her own memories of leaving Sarajevo as a child in the early 1990s with a droll sense of humor and a quirky animation style peppered with archival photos, Radic offers an atypical portrait of displacement.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 2: Animation.
Film Credits
- Jelena Popovic
- Matea Radic
- Xi Feng
- Tyler Fitzmaurice
- Robert McLaughlin, Christine Noël
- National Film Board of Canada
- https://collection.onf.ca/film/paradaiz?_gl=1*byiwvu*_gcl_au*MTk4NDcwODI2LjE3NTA4NzY3Nzg.*_ga*MzEwNDExNzg1LjE3NTA4NzY3Nzg.*_ga_EP6WV87GNV*czE3NTYzNzMyMTIkbzkkZzAkdDE3NTYzNzMyMTIkajYwJGwwJGgw*_ga_0CLQ31X8KS*czE3NTYzNzMyMTIkbzkkZzAkdDE3NTYzNzMyMTIkajYwJGwwJGgw
Shorts 2: Animation
Synopsis
Some worlds can only truly be conjured outside of physical reality. These eight thrilling shorts unfold in an inventive array of visual and narrative styles that come together to form a vibrant snapshot of contemporary animation. May not be suitable for all ages.
Paradaïz, an abstracted depiction of returning to Sarajevo, hums with absurdist humor and a real longing for home. This is not your Garden uses 3D scan data to capture a ghostly portrait of Bogota’s highland cloud forests, which are currently threatened by climate change and human development. One man’s plans for the future are laid out in Retirement Plan. Every resident chases their own version of happiness in the colorful apartment building at the center of Dollhouse Elephant. In the quiet sepia-toned countryside of Dog Alone, a young woman, her grandfather, and a nearby dog all confront loneliness. In dipolar bipolar, the internal life of a person managing bipolar disorder appears as pulsing, maximalist visions. As eight-year-old Agata boards a full bus from Poland to Belgium by herself in Autokar; she notices that those around her seem different. The present moment sits perfectly still in Ordinary Life.
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True North
Synopsis
This captivating documentary directed by visionary filmmaker Michèle Stephenson (co-director of Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project), is a provocative confrontation of Canada’s historical and ongoing anti-Black racism. Through a masterful blend of insightful interviews and evocative archival footage, the film traces the height of the nation’s civil rights movement of the ‘60s in the unlikely hotbed of Montreal, revealing how the nation’s myth of tolerance masks a legacy of slavery, systemic exclusion, and generational trauma.
Haunting soundscapes, layered visuals, and non-linear storytelling combine to create a visceral atmosphere that echoes the emotional weight of displacement and erasure. The film not only excavates buried truths about Canada’s complicity in the transatlantic slave trade and xenophobic immigration policies but also challenges viewers to question national narratives that sanitize oppression. With both personal tenderness and historical rigor, True North shatters illusions of Canadian innocence, demanding accountability and reckoning with the untold stories of resistance, survival, and Black resilience on northern soil.
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Film Credits
- Leslie Norville
- Shannon Kennedy, Sarah Enid Hagey
- Stephen Chung
- Andy Milne
- Miranda de Pencier, Nelson George
- Studio 112, ITVS
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