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A 3 Minute Hug
As daylight breaks between the border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, undocumented migrants and their relatives, divided by a wall, prepare to participate in an activist event. For three minutes, they'll embrace in no man's land for the briefest and sweetest of reunions.
| | Runtime: | 28 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Mexico | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Everardo González | | Producer(s): | Daniela Alatorre | | Elena Fortes | | Executive Producer(s): | Gael García Bernal | | Editor(s): | Paloma López Carrillo | | Cinematography: | Emilio Valdés | | Composer: | Joe Rodríguez | | Javier Nuño | | Sound: | Alejandro De Icaza |
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Acadiana
Amusement park rides swing and swoop to the backdrop of giddy chatter. People wearing crawfish-printed outfits solemnly sway to country music. It's just another surreal day in America at the famed annual Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Samuel Matteau | | Yannick Nolin | | Guillaume Fournier | | Producer(s): | Jean-Pierre Vézina | | Editor(s): | Samuel Matteau | | Writer(s): | Guillaume Fournier | | Cinematography: | Yannick Nolin | | Composer: | Mathieu Robineau |
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Adjournment
Five strangers to the judicial process attend a murder trial, where they share their experiences of the courtroom as theatre and testimony as performance. A moving charge against the influence of sensationalism and spectatorship in criminal cases, Adjournment analyzes human motives and empathy by hearing, not seeing, the violence of crime.
| | Runtime: | 24 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.apach-helb.be/ffe/suspension-daudience | | | Director(s): | Nina Marissiaux | | Producer(s): | Sébastien Andres | | Editor(s): | Romain Dumont de Chassart | | Cinematography: | Irène Tobias | | Sound: | Sébastien Lheureux |
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ahkameyimo nitanis / Keep Going My Daughter
A young couple narrate a poetic and hopeful love letter to their young daughter, reflecting the dreams of a new generation of Indigenous parents still healing from the traumas of colonialism.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Candy Fox | | Producer(s): | Chris Ross | | Editor(s): | Jackie Dzuba | | Candy Fox | | Writer(s): | Candy Fox | | Cinematography: | Aaron Bernakevitch | | Composer: | David Roman | | Sound: | Muskwa Lerat | | Cory Rizos | | David Roman |
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America
Using surviving footage from Lime Kiln Field Day (1913), the earliest feature film to showcase a Black cast and integrated crew, this soaring visual recreation rescues from obscurity a radical history of social progress and artistic innovation in American cinema. Adding to the story by filling symbolic and material gaps, it repositions play and the pleasures of the senses as tools of resistance and reclamation.
| | Runtime: | 30 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Garrett Bradley | | Producer(s): | Catherine Gund | | Lauren Domino | | Executive Producer(s): | Agnes Gund | | Glenn Ligon | | Editor(s): | Garrett Bradley | | Cinematography: | Zac Manuel | | Brian Richard | | Composer: | Trevor Mathison | | Sound: | Udit Duseja |
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And That Is How the Rivers Came To Be
The enchanting Peruvian legend of a Kukama god comes alive in this animated film about the creation of the vast, winding rivers of the Amazon, reminding us of our sacred, unbreakable connection to water.
| | Runtime: | 3 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | USA | | Peru | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Kukama | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Miguel Araoz Cartagena | | Producer(s): | Stephanie Boyd | | Editor(s): | Fabricio Deza | | Sound: | Cesar Centeno |
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Animal Bridge U-3033
Observing the comings and goings on a highway overpass structure expressly built for the free and safe passage of wildlife, filmmaker Milja Viita has created an engaging exploration of the nexus at which people and animals intersect in this multi-format visual delight.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Milja Viita | | Producer(s): | Veli Granö | | Editor(s): | Milja Viita | | Writer(s): | Milja Viita | | Cinematography: | Milja Viita | | Composer: | Viljami Mehto | | Sound: | Viljami Mehto | | Veli Granö |
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Bliss
One of only 15 Syrian refugees living in Colombia, Rifat Algafari adjusts to his present surroundings by forgetting his past and indulging in every pleasure possible. From pork to lap dances, he adopts a new set of beliefs and begins a journey of self-actualization that involves living without regret, as far as possible from where and who he once was.
| | Runtime: | 7 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Colombia | | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Arabic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Frederik Jan Depickere | | Producer(s): | Alvaro Jose Grijalba Leal | | Editor(s): | Frederik Jan Depickere | | Cinematography: | Frederik Jan Depickere | | Composer: | Carlos Andres Lopez Pazmiño | | Sound: | Frederik Jan Depickere |
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Brick Maker
Toiling under the hot sun, Francisco and Gonzalo gather the raw materials to make sun-dried bricks. When the demand for their handmade product dries up, their business will cease to exist. This meditative and reflective doc is a powerful study of hard work and the realities of rapidly changing economics.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Argentina | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Gastón Calivari | | Producer(s): | Valentina Flynn | | Gastón Calivari | | Editor(s): | Gastón Calivari | | Cinematography: | Romina Ferreyra | | Horacio Correas | | Composer: | Bertina Ruffini | | Sound: | Agustín Tocalini |
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Call Confession
Near the village of Aspa in Catalonia, a hunter succumbs to his killer instinct and inexplicably shoots two wildlife rangers he happens upon in an olive grove. When he puts through a call to emergency services, he finds it nearly impossible to articulate why he pulled the trigger.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Spain | | Mexico | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Catalan | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Arturo Aguilar | | Producer(s): | Jimena Tormo | | Editor(s): | Arturo Aguilar | | Cinematography: | Luis Sisinno |
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Colors & Shadows
An 88-year-old man traces significant moments in his rich and eventful life, only to learn that the boundaries between his memories, dreams and imagination tend to blur when reflecting on so many turning points in a life well lived.
| | Runtime: | 10 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Greece | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Andreas Hadjipateras | | Producer(s): | Irene Thomas | | Executive Producer(s): | Christos V Konstantakopoulos | | Editor(s): | Chronis Theocharis | | Cinematography: | Andreas Hadjipateras | | Composer: | Teemu Takatalo | | Sebastian Boulter | | Sound: | Teemu Takatalo |
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Connected
Hitting the slopes for a day of skiing becomes an exercise in blind trust for this couple. Connected by Bluetooth headsets, Wiola navigates and directs the way for her husband, Krysztof, who is visually impaired. When the weather turns, the outlook for the afternoon quickly dampens, but there is still a mountain to descend.
| | Runtime: | 18 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Poland | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Polish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Aleksandra Maciejczyk | | Producer(s): | Agata Golanska | | Editor(s): | Sabina Filipowicz | | Kamil Grzybowski | | Writer(s): | Aleksandra Maciejczyk | | Cinematography: | Maciej Edelman | | Sound: | Pawel Idzikowski |
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The Day Don Died
When a condo community learns of a neighbour's death, the dramatic retelling of his disappearance and demise takes on a life of its own. Each version of the story sounds stranger than the last, until an Easter Monday revelation takes everyone by complete surprise.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.nootkastreet.co/the-day-don-died | | | Director(s): | Steve J. Adams | | Sean Horlor | | Producer(s): | Sean Horlor | | Steve J. Adams | | Ana Carrizales | | Editor(s): | Gregory J. Brown | | Writer(s): | Sean Horlor | | Steve J. Adams | | Cinematography: | Gregory J. Brown | | Composer: | Mark Dolmont | | Sound: | Mark Dolmont |
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Double Exposed
Upon her grandfather's death, filmmaker Julie Buck is entrusted with his precious archive of Super 8 footage. One double exposed reel of film serves as a jumping off point for an explosive survey of her past and her family's fractured relationships. Eileen Arandiga
| | Runtime: | 4 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Julie Buck | | Producer(s): | Julie Buck |
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Dust Devil
Marta Becket—dancer, theatre owner and octogenarian—takes us on an enchanting journey through her life, from dancing on Broadway to weaving her magic for audiences in the theatre she lovingly restored and performed in for over four decades. This portrait of an artist unforgettably captures Marta's passion and determination.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Poppy Walker | | Producer(s): | Poppy Walker | | Editor(s): | Danielle Boesenberg | | Cinematography: | Daniel Jarvis | | Composer: | Steve Nossiter |
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Egg
In this intricate and visually arresting animation, a woman locked in a room is at war with an egg. A mental battle between the two ensues. Who will win: the woman or the egg?
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | France | | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Martina Scarpelli | | Producer(s): | Emmanuel-Alain Raynal | | Lana Tankosa Nikolic | | Pierre Baussaron | | Editor(s): | Martina Scarpelli | | Albane Du Plessix | | Writer(s): | Martina Scarpelli | | Composer: | Amos Cappuccio | | Sofie Birch | | Sound: | Amos Cappuccio | | Sofie Birch |
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El Hor
The Saluki is a sighthound, one of the world's oldest dog breeds and the perfect guide to lead this monochromatic tribute to pedigree, cosmology, history and dynasty. El Hor takes the viewer on a strange trip through the ancient past and alien future, into life and death itself, where man and beast share an afterlife—a tomb that looks like a womb.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/films/el-hor | | | Director(s): | Dianne Lucille Campbell | | Producer(s): | Brian J. Falconer | | Executive Producer(s): | Noe Mendelle | | Sonja Henrici | | Sound: | DIE HEXEN |
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Excess Will Save Us
A tiny village in northern France—without a cinema, pharmacy or hairdresser—experiences a terrorist threat that sets off alarm bells of panic and reveals deep-rooted psychosis among its locals. A tragicomic look at how an epic misunderstanding, a cast of unreliable narrators, hype and hypocrisy combine in funny and frightening ways to reflect the far right.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.vildabomben.com/excess-will-save-us-2/ | | | Director(s): | Morgane Dziurla-Petit | | Producer(s): | Fredrik Lange | | Editor(s): | Patrik Forsell | | Writer(s): | Morgane Dziurla-Petit | | Cinematography: | Filip Lyman | | Sound: | Anders Kwarnmark | | Morgane Dziurla-Petit |
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Exiled
In 1998, Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo publicly accused her adoptive stepfather, Daniel Ortega, of rape. While Ortega, a leader of the Sandinista revolution and president of Nicaragua, remains in power, she lives in exile—isolated from family, estranged from her mother, and considered a traitor by her country. Exiled exposes the profound injustice of having a statute of limitations on reporting sexual assault, but none on political power and impunity.
| | Runtime: | 24 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Nicaragua | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Leonor Zuniga | | Producer(s): | Leonor Zuniga | | Chris Renteria | | Executive Producer(s): | Leonor Zuniga | | Editor(s): | Leonor Zuniga | | Jose Chisco" Arce" | | Writer(s): | Leonor Zuniga | | Cinematography: | Leonor Zuniga | | Composer: | Sabia Sabia |
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From the Dirt
In rural Manitoba, an elderly couple devote their time to the upkeep of their garden, which becomes a symbol of their loving, committed relationship during trying times of deteriorating health and lost loved ones.
| | Runtime: | 22 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Low German | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Carmen Ponto | | Tyler Funk | | Producer(s): | Carmen Ponto | | Tyler Funk | | Editor(s): | Tyler Funk | | Writer(s): | Carmen Ponto | | Tyler Funk | | Cinematography: | Tyler Funk | | Composer: | Natanielle Felicitas | | Sound: | Dmitri Belichenko |
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Gloria's Call
Blending animation, interviews and a trippy soundscape, this is a fitting look at the life of radical academic and writer Gloria Feman Orenstein's serendipitous life. She vividly conjures an alternative history of art, surrealism and eco-feminism in the 20th century, with lively anecdotes about Leonora Carrington, Méret Oppenheim and Jane Graverol, to name a few.
| | Runtime: | 17 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://gloriascall.com/ | | | Director(s): | Cheri Gaulke | | Producer(s): | Cheryl Bookout | | Sue Maberry | | Cheri Gaulke | | Anne Gauldin | | Christine Papalexis | | Editor(s): | Cheri Gaulke | | Writer(s): | Anne Gauldin | | Cheri Gaulke | | Cinematography: | Daniel V. Lynn | | Composer: | Miriam Cutler |
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Handout
In the midst of the Bosnian War in 1992, a woman and her child join the first international convoy headed for Belgrade. This wistful portrait of Zeljka Reljan-Music, lovingly crafted by her filmmaker daughter, explores the manner in which Zeljka comes to terms with the new reality of being a refugee.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Serbo-Croatian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Vedrana Music | | Producer(s): | Vedrana Music | | Sound: | Nicholas Redmond |
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Happy Android
Tubby the Robot delights audiences young and old at at festivals and events around the world, but the man inside the machine struggles to find joy within himself. Battling depression and anxiety, performer Paul Cooper often feels like an automaton when he's not playing his robotic alter ego in this poignant exploration of the transformative power of creativity.
| | Runtime: | 25 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Jaina Kalifa | | Producer(s): | Jaina Kalifa | | Editor(s): | Jaina Kalifa | | Writer(s): | Jaina Kalifa | | Cinematography: | Jaina Kalifa | | Composer: | Jacob de Weger | | Sound: | Peter Kurucz |
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Kora: A Circle Life
A Tibetan couple in Lhasa clings to their traditional way of life while watching the emergence of an unfamiliar social order through the eyes of their daughter. For her parents, she's a bridge between the past and present in this reflection on the loneliness of generational gaps.
| | Runtime: | 28 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | China | | Canada | | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Tibetan | | Chinese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Tenzin Sedon | | Producer(s): | Ming Liu | | Tenzin Sedon | | Editor(s): | Bryan Chang | | Tenzin Sedon | | Cinematography: | Phurbu Tsering | | Tenzin Sedon |
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La Bonita
The beauty treatments women endure to fit normative feminine standards are violent in ways rarely recorded. La Bonita is an essential allegory about aesthetics that asks the audience to sit through a series of procedures, from fake nail removal to permanent makeup application to bikini waxing, and to sit with the accompanying pain that goes far beyond the physical.
| | Runtime: | 18 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Cuba | | Puerto Rico | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.facebook.com/LaBonitaDoc | | | Director(s): | Maria del Mar Rosario | | Producer(s): | Julio Raul Vega Garces | | Executive Producer(s): | Maria del Mar Rosario | | Editor(s): | Elena Cedeño | | Writer(s): | Maria del Mar Rosario | | Cinematography: | Mathilde Le Masson | | Sound: | Angel Alonso Sarmiento | | Nathan Armstrong |
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Libre
"Call today and reunite your family tomorrow." Undocumented immigrants are given the opportunity to leave detention by agreeing to be shackled with an electronic anklet. Libre, the company that supplies this hardware, makes a mockery of freedom by imprisoning their clients economically with exorbitant monthly fees.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Anna Barsan | | Producer(s): | Anna Barsan | | Executive Producer(s): | Charlotte Cook | | Laura Poitras | | Editor(s): | Anna Barsan | | Mitra Bonshahi | | Cinematography: | Diana Diroy | | Brian Redondo | | Martyna Starosta | | Sound: | Gisella Fulla Silvestre |
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Life in Miniature
For Kath Holden, no detail is too small, as demonstrated by her whimsical miniatures of the paraphernalia of ordinary life. Hair dryers, ironing boards and cameras are amongst her meticulously crafted masterpieces. In eschewing the more genteel forms created by traditional miniaturists, Kath has carved a truly unique place for herself in this antiquated world.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.ellen-evans.com/life-in-miniature | | | Director(s): | Ellen Evans | | Producer(s): | Ellen Evans | | Editor(s): | Jon Crook | | Cinematography: | Thomas Doran | | Composer: | Danyal Dhondy |
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Life in the City of Dirty Water
Rooted in Indigenous storytelling, a series of vignettes chronicle the traumas and triumphs that have shaped the remarkable life and work of climate justice activist Clayton Thomas-Müller.
| | Runtime: | 20 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://lifeinthecityofdirtywater.com | | | Director(s): | Clayton Thomas-Müller | | Spencer Mann | | Producer(s): | Spencer Mann | | Executive Producer(s): | Clayton Thomas-Müller | | Editor(s): | Spencer Mann | | Writer(s): | Clayton Thomas-Müller | | Anna Lee-Popham | | Cinematography: | Spencer Mann | | Composer: | Flying Down Thunder | | Rise Ashen | | Fawn Wood | | Leonard Sumner | | Sound: | Spencer Mann |
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Love 404
Rena and her mom both try to find fulfilment in different ways online. Rena poses and posts on a multitude of social media channels, and her mother is on the hunt for a suitor. Instead of providing solutions to their problems, their fantasy lives drive a wedge between mother and daughter IRL.
| | Runtime: | 17 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Poland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Polish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Agata Baumgart | | Producer(s): | Ewa Jastrzebska | | Editor(s): | Svitlana Topor | | Writer(s): | Agata Baumgart | | Cinematography: | Piotr Pawlus | | Grzegorz Pacek | | Composer: | Damian Pielka | | Sound: | Olga Pietrzak |
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Mahogany Too
"Do you know where you're going to? Do you like the things that life is showin' you?" Diana Ross's lyrics bring the past into the present in this Nollywood-inspired sequel to her 1975 cult film Mahogany. A celebration of beauty, ambition and fashion, this reimagining blends vintage and visionary reflections of what the mirror sees.
| | Runtime: | 4 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Akosua Adoma Owusu | | Producer(s): | Akosua Adoma Owusu | | Executive Producer(s): | Akosua Adoma Owusu | | Editor(s): | Dylan Bowman | | Writer(s): | Akosua Adoma Owusu | | Cinematography: | Akosua Adoma Owusu | | Sound: | Kari Rae Seekins |
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Memory Video
Viva Video in Philadelphia is the passion of owner Miguel Gomez, inspired by nostalgic childhood memories of video stores. In a post-Blockbuster age, his store has realized modest success, but as streaming looks set to swallow his audience, he fears Viva Video might become a retro curiosity.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.memoryvideo.film | | | Director(s): | Roy Power | | Producer(s): | Wendy Raad | | Executive Producer(s): | Justin Andrews | | Arty Goldstein | | Scott Beer | | Editor(s): | Murphy McCann | | Cinematography: | Andrew Drachman | | Composer: | Esin Aydingoz | | Adam Traister | | Sound: | Joanna Katcher |
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Men Overboard
A fisherman reflects on the vastness and beauty of the sea that once used to move him but now only represents betrayal, reminding him of a horrible tragedy that changed his relationship to the waters forever.
| | Runtime: | 7 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Alexandre Rufin | | Producer(s): | Alexandre Rufin | | Editor(s): | Alexandre Rufin | | Léo Konnerth | | Writer(s): | Alexandre Rufin | | Laurance Ouellet-Tremblay | | Cinematography: | Alexandre Rufin | | Composer: | Pascal Beaulieu | | Sound: | Christian Rivest |
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Mothers Of
This is the unconscionable story of Teodora del Carmen Vasquez, who suffers a stillbirth at full term and is cruelly sentenced to an 11-year jail sentence in El Salvador under some of the harshest anti-abortion laws in the world.
| | Runtime: | 19 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Ross Lai | | Producer(s): | Nicolas Houghton | | Christian Tyler | | Tamara Sulliman | | Executive Producer(s): | Andrew Simon | | Editor(s): | Ashton Lewis | | Cinematography: | Diego Guijarro | | Composer: | Umber Hamid | | Christopher Stiliadis | | Sound: | Boombox Sound |
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My Father's Son
A shy man in his 30s shares an all-encompassing bond with his charismatic father—which doesn't bode well for his ability to attract a partner. Father and son are devoted soulmates who share a frugal and religious existence that leaves little room for love rooted in anything other than reflection.
| | Runtime: | 32 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Israel | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Hebrew | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.maale.co.il/node/20014 | | | Director(s): | Hillel Rate | | Producer(s): | Hillel Rate | | Executive Producer(s): | The Ma'aleh Film School | | Editor(s): | Sapir Rokach | | Writer(s): | Hillel Rate | | Cinematography: | Hillel Rate | | Composer: | Dor Madmon |
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Nyctophobia
Depersonalization is categorized as a mental illness where someone feels completely detached from their body. Chronicling a journey from diagnosis to treatment, we're thrust into a world of absorbing, hypnotic, spiralling visuals that pull you into the struggles of this rare affliction.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.ladistributrice.ca/catalogue-films/nyctophobie | | | Director(s): | Jean-François Boisvenue | | Producer(s): | Jean-François Boisvenue | | Editor(s): | Alexandre Leblanc | | Writer(s): | Jean-François Boisvenue | | Cinematography: | Alexandre Leblanc | | Composer: | Jean-François Boisvenue | | Sound: | Geoffrey Mitchell | | Jean-François Boisvenue |
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Pacific
Looming 25 storeys high, an apartment building in Brussels is known colloquially as the "Suicide Tower" after a rash of jumping deaths. With an elegant and subtle survey of her neighbours' reactions, filmmaker and resident Angie Obeid shows how a building can manifest its inhabitants' loneliness and fear of the other into something deadly.
| | Runtime: | 23 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Lebanon | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | English | | Arabic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Angie Obeid | | Producer(s): | Angie Obeid | | Editor(s): | Dani Abo Louh | | Cinematography: | Angie Obeid | | Sound: | Arne Thomas |
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The Pigeon Keeper
In this sweeping study of love and loyalty in old Havana, Yoandris, a pigeon keeper, takes us into the heart of his world. As we watch him care for and cosset his birds, we discover why the role they play in his life is vital to his sense of self.
| | Runtime: | 10 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | USA | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Miranda M. García | | Hannah Smith-Yen | | Olivia McAuliffe | | Miri de Villers | | Producer(s): | Alejandro Barceló | | Editor(s): | Vionicel Peña | | Cinematography: | Ernesto Aguilar | | Sound: | Cindy Triana |
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RIOT NOT DIET
Outdated patriarchal notions of beauty, size and conformity are overthrown by a group of women who present a new and inclusive paradigm, embodied by the rallying cry "RIOT NOT DIET." Shame is shunned, and instead, size, feminism and queer modalities are celebrated and unleashed. Coming soon to a public space near you!
| | Runtime: | 17 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | German | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://juliafuhrmann.com/portfolio_page/riotnotdiet/ | | | Director(s): | Julia Fuhr Mann | | Producer(s): | Andreas Günther | | Editor(s): | Andi Pek | | Writer(s): | Julia Fuhr Mann | | Anna Christ | | Cinematography: | Julia Swoboda | | Composer: | Zdrada Palki | | Sound: | Cornelia Böhm |
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Scenes from a Dry City
Cape Town is closing in on "Day Zero," when citizens' taps will run dry. It's a perfect storm of catastrophic drought, rapid population growth, political infighting, unchecked construction, racial and economic inequity—in all, a foreboding future shock. Part biblical disaster, part Thunderdome anarchy, this is what a world without water looks like.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | François Verster | | Simon Wood | | Producer(s): | François Verster | | Simon Wood | | Executive Producer(s): | Charlotte Cook | | Laura Poitras | | Editor(s): | Khalid Shamis | | Cinematography: | Simon Wood | | François Verster | | Composer: | Peter Coyte | | Cornell Boshoff | | Braam du Toit |
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St. Louis Superman
Bruce Franks Jr., a Ferguson activist and battle rapper who was elected to the overwhelmingly white and Republican Missouri House of Representatives, must overcome both personal trauma and political obstacles to pass a critical bill for his community.
| | Runtime: | 25 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Qatar | | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Smriti Mundhra | | Sami Khan | | Producer(s): | Smriti Mundhra | | Sami Khan | | Poh Si Teng | | Cheyenne Tan | | Executive Producer(s): | Fiona Lawson-Baker | | Editor(s): | Faisal Azam | | Cinematography: | Sami Khan | | Chris Renteria | | Jerry Henry | | Sound: | Michael Gassert |
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Star Shaped Scar
A young woman with a penchant for candy, sequined gowns and expensive shoes has a favourite pair of Louboutins that are impossible to walk in—which is the point, since they'll never touch the ground. She's a living doll whose passions serve fantasy, not reality, a rebel who embodies aspiration and the ultra-feminine as expressions of agency and identity.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Finnish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Vuokko Kunttu | | Virva Kunttu | | Producer(s): | Anna-Maija Heinonen | | Executive Producer(s): | Oskar Forstén | | Editor(s): | Teemu Soikkeli | | Writer(s): | Virva Kunttu | | Vuokko Kunttu | | Cinematography: | Virva Kunttu | | Vuokko Kunttu | | Teemu Soikkeli | | Sound: | Antti Haikonen |
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The Stroker
A fascinating and timely social experiment, The Stroker documents performance artist Pilvi Takala's two-week intervention at a trendy East London co-working space for young entrepreneurs and startups. Posing as the founder of Personnel Touch, a cutting-edge wellness company providing human contact in the workplace, Takala takes the temperature on western culture's tolerance of touch.
| | Runtime: | 15 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Pilvi Takala | | Producer(s): | Pilvi Takala | | Editor(s): | Elisa Purfürst | | Writer(s): | Iona Roisin | | Pilvi Takala | | Cinematography: | Katharina Dießner | | Sound: | Christian Obermaier |
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Summerloch
Friends Moris and Denis visit Tuscany to spend some time with Denis's parents at their idyllic summer home. But as Denis grapples with past addiction, what starts out as a straightforward vacation soon becomes a bewildering emotional journey and a true test of their friendship.
| | Runtime: | 25 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Switzerland | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Swiss German | | Italian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.facebook.com/summerlochfilm | | | Director(s): | Moris Freiburghaus | | Producer(s): | Kevin Rodriguez | | Moris Freiburghaus | | Executive Producer(s): | Kevin Rodriguez | | Editor(s): | Moris Freiburghaus | | Writer(s): | Moris Freiburghaus | | Dominik Wolfinger | | Cinematography: | Esther Mattei | | Moris Freiburghaus | | Michael Karrer | | Kevin Rodriguez | | Composer: | Nicola Misic | | Sound: | Michael Karrer |
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Swatted
Online gamers share their terrifying experiences with "swatting," a cyber-harassment phenomenon involving fake 911 calls that result in real—and sometimes fatal—SWAT team takedowns. Blending YouTube clips of actual incidents, wireframe animation and performance, Swatted is a meta-tation on the internet in oxymorons: as transparent mess of crossed lines, as web of connection and concoction, as virtual reality.
| | Runtime: | 21 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | France | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.facebook.com/SwattedTheMovie | | | Director(s): | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | | Producer(s): | Natalia Trebik | | Editor(s): | Maël Delorme | | Céline Perreard | | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | | Writer(s): | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | | Cinematography: | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | | Composer: | Disasterpeace | | Sound: | Alban Cayrol |
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Take Me To Prom
Dressed in their dream outfits, a group of people take us back to the night of their prom. Vivid memories of the music, dancing, outrageous stories and poignant moments make the event an unforgettable turning point in a journey of unapologetic queer identity and expression.
| | Runtime: | 20 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Andrew Moir | | Producer(s): | Andrew Moir | | Editor(s): | Graeme Ring | | Cinematography: | Andrew Jeffrey | | Composer: | Ben Fox | | Sound: | Andrew Chung |
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That's My Jazz
The son of famed Kansas City jazz musician Milton Abel, Sr. contrasts his father's musical genius to his own dexterity as a pastry chef. While relishing the art of the two professions to the beat of a mesmerizing soundtrack, we discover deeper truths about relationships between fathers and sons.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | USA | | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Ben Proudfoot | | Producer(s): | Jeremy Lambert | | Rich Graham | | Executive Producer(s): | Abby Davis | | Josh Rosenberg | | Editor(s): | Federico Conforti | | Cinematography: | David Bolen | | Composer: | Nicholas Jacobson-Larsen | | Sound: | Sean Higgins |
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Then Comes the Evening
This wonderfully lush portrait of pastoral life in the remote hills of Eastern Bosnia details the day-to-day life of two women who worship at nature's altar. Everything they do is infused with ceremony, understanding and tradition in this evocative comment on nature and how we interact with it.
| | Runtime: | 28 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Serbia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Serbian | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Maja Novakovic | | Producer(s): | Milan Milosavljevic | | Maja Novakovic | | Editor(s): | Marija Kovacina | | Writer(s): | Maja Novakovic | | Cinematography: | Jasna Prolic | | Sound: | Luka Barajevic |
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Uncaged: A Stand-In Story
Uncaged tells the quirky tale of Marco Kyris, an aspiring actor whose only claim to Hollywood fame is working as a stand-in for Nicolas Cage—and living in the shadow of the electric, enigmatic star.
| | Runtime: | 10 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Blake Johnston | | Kelso Steinhoff | | Producer(s): | Walter Woodman | | Executive Producer(s): | Marco Kyris | | Editor(s): | Daniel Haack | | Luca Tarantini | | Spencer Shiffman | | Writer(s): | Blake Johnston | | Kelso Steinhoff | | Cinematography: | Greg Francis | | Sound: | Adrian Pop |
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Untitled (Burned Rubber on Asphalt, 2018)
Curiosity and controversy collide on the winding roads of a remote Norwegian village when mysterious skid marks appear out of nowhere. Are the burnouts an act of creativity or criminality? This is a quirky and hilarious detective story that investigates human nature, random patterns and the elusive willow grouse population with pitch-perfect absurdity.
| | Runtime: | 20 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Norwegian | | Finnish | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Tinja Ruusuvuori | | Producer(s): | Marja Pihlaja | | Editor(s): | Inka Lahti | | Cinematography: | Pietari Peltola | | Sound: | Juuso Oksala |
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Waiting for a Miracle
Filmmaker Aljona Surzikova unflinchingly turns the camera upon herself and her family to capture the excitement and mayhem of the arrival of a new baby, whose kitten-like mewling is welcomed by all. When events take an unexpected turn, the viewer is irrevocably drawn into the turmoil.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Estonia | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Russian | | Estonian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Aljona Surzikova | | Producer(s): | Ylo Pikkov | | Writer(s): | Aljona Surzikova | | Cinematography: | Sergei Trofimov |
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When Women Sing
A music therapy program called Voz Propria in a São Paulo women's prison gives inmates a space in which to articulate their feelings and express themselves in sisterhood. For a few hours a week, they transcend the confines of the institution.
| | Runtime: | 28 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Brazil | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Portuguese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Maria Fanchin | | Producer(s): | Maíra Bühler | | Beatriz Carvalho | | Rafael Sampaio | | Maria Fanchin | | Executive Producer(s): | Beatriz Carvalho | | Karina Lima | | Editor(s): | Manoela Ziggiati | | Writer(s): | Julia Rufino | | Maria Fanchin | | Cinematography: | Cris Lyra | | André Tashiro | | Sound: | Gustavo Brandão |
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Where Did Your Bride Go?
In Vladikavkaz, a town nestled in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, an Ossetian women's football team tackles traditional gender stereotypes by challenging a group of guys to a game. They'll prove once and for all that strength and hot tempers run through both the men and women of their culture.
| | Runtime: | 35 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Russia | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Russian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Tair Polad-zade | | Philipp Zadorojny | | Producer(s): | Alexey Shevchenko | | Executive Producer(s): | Pavel Karykhalin | | Editor(s): | Tair Polad-zade | | Philipp Zadorojny | | Cinematography: | Philipp Zadorojny | | Composer: | Sasha Kholenko | | Ivan Merkulov | | Sound: | Stas Paushev |
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The Woman, The Man and a Dog
Filmmaker Andrés Navarrete's mother describes her feelings towards her estranged spouse, a beekeeper who left years before, as a positive presence that lingers in her dreams and memories. She sees love as a form of generosity, something sticky and delicious like honey, a free-flowing gift that is given, not taken, with no expectation of reciprocity.
| | Runtime: | 19 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Ecuador | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Andrés Navarrete | | Producer(s): | Andrés Navarrete | | Editor(s): | Federico Garcés | | Writer(s): | Andrés Navarrete | | Cinematography: | Esteban Cedeño | | Composer: | Isaac Albéniz | | Luis Aguayo | | Nicolás Navarrete | | Sound: | Carlos Palacios |
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