29 Canadian short films, including 11 titles directed by women and three films by Indigenous filmmakers, will light up the screens this September at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
Highlights include: Michelle Latimer’s Nuuca, executive produced by Oscar winner Laura Poitras, and the latest by Latimer, who was part of Sundance’s The New Climate program earlier this year; Sol Friedman’s An Imagined Conversation: Kanye West & Stephen Hawking, a hilarious black-and-white animation right out of a parallel universe; Caroline Monnet’s Creatura Dada, which stars Alanis Obomsawin and is Monnet’s first project since becoming the first Canadian filmmaker to be selected for the prestigious Cannes Cinéfondation Residence program; and Naledi Jackson’s The Drop In, at Toronto-set sci-fi immigration thriller that takes place entirely in a hair salon.
The Festival’s Canadian short film slate also includes: Molly Parker’s Bird, the compelling directorial debut of the B.C. actor known for her roles in Deadwood, House of Cards and other TV hits; TIFF Rising Star alumnus Connor Jessup’s Lira’s Forest, the actor-turneddirector’s second short at the Festival; Matthew Rankin’s Cannes selection The Tesla World Light (Tesla : Lumière Mondiale), a luminescent black-and-white animation and live-action mix centred around the famous inventor; and Gabriel Savignac’s Stay, I Don’t Want to Be Alone (Reste, je ne veux pas être toute seule), a touching, beautifully crafted portrait of a pastry factory worker with an intellectual disability at a difficult moment in her life.
All 24 Canadian Short Cuts titles are eligible for the IWC Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film. All films in the Short Cuts programme are eligible for the IWC Short Cuts Award for Best Film. This year’s jury includes Marit van den Elshout, Head of CineMart at the International Film Festival Rotterdam; award-winning filmmaker Johnny Ma (Old Stone); and Cannes 2017 Art Cinema Award winner Chloé Zhao (The Rider).
The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7 to 17, 2017.
SHORT CUTS
The Argument (with annotations)
Daniel Cockburn, Canada/UK
World Premiere
Bickford Park
Linsey Stewart, Dane Clark, Canada
World Premiere
Bird
Molly Parker, Canada
World Premiere
Charles
Dominic Etienne Simard, Canada/France
World Premiere
Creatura Dada
Caroline Monnet, Canada
Toronto Premiere
Crème de menthe
Philippe David Gagné, Jean-Marc E. Roy, Canada
North American Premiere
The Crying Conch (Le cri du lambi)
Vincent Toi, Canada
North American Premiere
The Drop In
Naledi Jackson, Canada
World Premiere
For Nonna Anna
Luis De Filippis, Canada
World Premiere
Grandmother (ʔEtsu)
Trevor Mack, Canada
World Premiere
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Milos Mitrovic, Conor Sweeney, Canada
World Premiere
An Imagined Conversation: Kanye West & Stephen Hawking
Sol Friedman, Canada
World Premiere
Latched
Justin Harding, Rob Brunner, Canada
World Premiere
Lira’s Forest
Connor Jessup, Canada
World Premiere
Midnight Confession
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Canada/USA
World Premiere
Milk
Heather Young, Canada
World Premiere
Nuuca
Michelle Latimer, Canada
World Premiere
Pre-Drink
Marc-Antoine Lemire, Canada
World Premiere
Rupture
Yassmina Karajah, Jordan/Canada
World Premiere
Shadow Nettes
Phillip Barker, Canada
World Premiere
Stay, I Don’t Want to Be Alone (Reste, je ne veux pas être toute seule)
Gabriel Savignac, Canada
World Premiere
The Tesla World Light (Tesla : Lumière Mondiale)
Matthew Rankin, Canada
North American Premiere
Threads
Torill Kove, Canada/Norway
North American Premiere
We Forgot to Break Up
Chandler Levack, Canada
World Premiere
WAVELENGTHS
Heart of a Mountain
Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour, Taiwan/Canada
World Premiere
Palmerston Blvd.
Dan Browne, Canada
World Premiere
Scaffold
Kazik Radwanski, Canada
North American Premiere
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Francesco Gagliardi, Canada
World Premiere
Turtles Are Always Home (Sokun Al Sulhufat)
Rawane Nassif, Canada/Lebanon/Qatar
Toronto Premiere
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