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Event in Room: Studio (upstairs)

Eight of the best short films from the latest Toronto International Film Festival. 2 nights x 4 shorts!
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FESTIVAL OF SHORT FILMS
December 3 & 17, 7:00pm
Upstairs at ARTSPLACE
396 St. George St., Annapolis Royal
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PART 1 - Tue. Dec. 3, 7pm
Entry by donation: $10
Follow up discussion

MOTHERLAND (Jasmin Mozaffari)
The story of a man whose personal crises are compounded by the tensions that surround him as an Iranian in America circa 1979.
Canada | 2023 | 24 min. | English, Persian (subtitled)

GABY'S HILLS (Zoé Pelchat)
For the 13-year-old heroine of this astutely observed and wonderfully performed drama, the changes wrought by puberty prompt wider realizations about how she is seen and what that may mean.
Canada | 2023 | 21 min. | French (subtitled)

MOTHERS AND MONSTERS (Edith Jorisch)
For a very special celebration, a host-mother has gathered mothers and their perfect children for a great banquet that is suddenly disrupted by strange disturbances. What is hiding behind the scenes of this perfect ideal world?
Canada | 2023 | 15 min.

BAIKAL NUUR - LAKE BAIKAL (Alisi Telengut)
This remarkably tactile animation reimagines the formation of a sacred lake in Siberia, drawing connections between endangered Indigenous language and matters of history, ecology and humanity.
Canada, Germany | 2023 | 9 min. | Mongolian (subtitled)

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PART 2 - Tue. Dec. 17, 7:00pm
Entry by donation: $10
Follow up discussion

MADELEINE (Raquel Sancinetti)
A delightful merger of animation, documentary and road trip movie. Two friends born 67 years apart reach a new level of closeness thanks to a decidedly fanciful beach excursion.
Canada | 2023 | 14 min. | French (subtitled)

I USED TO LIVE THERE (Ryan McKenna)
A photographer losing his vision and a woman seeking a new start have a fateful encounter in this stylistically bold yet emotionally rich merger of fiction and documentary.
Canada | 2023 | 13 min. | English

KATSHINAU (Julien G. Marcotte, Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush)
In this quietly shattering drama, an Indigenous slave experiences a life of toil and drudgery in a surgeon’s household in 18th-century New France, until a chance discovery upends everything.
Canada | 2023 | 16 min. | French (subtitled)

MAKING BABIES (Eric K. Boulianne)
Two halves of a couple whose fertility struggle plays havoc with their lives together in this empathetic and eminently relatable relationship story.
Canada | 2023 | 19 min. | French (subtitled)

KATSHINAU (Julien G. Marcotte, Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush)
In this quietly shattering drama, an Indigenous slave experiences a life of toil and drudgery in a surgeon’s household in 18th-century New France, until a chance discovery upends everything.
Canada | 2023 | 16 min. | French (subtitled)

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396 St. George Street
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

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