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Mini Film Fest Day 1 – Nov. 15
Friday, Nov 15, 2024, 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
tickets
- Single: $60 – $140
About the Event
This two-day mini film festival features a curated selection of films tied to the 2024 Canal Convergence theme: “Reflections.” The mini-series will screen short films that explore the concept of physical and psychological reflections and address Canal Convergence’s annual themes, including the perennial themes of water + art + light, sustainability, and interactivity. We hope this experience will inspire self-reflection and dialogue within our audience.
Slow Dating
Comedy/drama | PG | 7 minutes and 51 secondsDirector: Adam Szudrich (Australia)
Description:
When an elderly lady tries speed dating, it leads to a night with a charming stranger and a heartbreaking revelation.
Director’s Note:
Caught between the realms of past and present, Ester grapples with the weight of unresolved emotions and regrets. Through this journey of reflection, she begins to unravel the complexities of her own identity, finding strength and resilience in the face of uncertainty.
Boxes
Comedy | PG-13 | 10 minutesDirector: Lucas Gingles (Argentina)
Description
Alicia is summoned to act in an institutional video for an important box company. Upon reading the script, she discovers that these boxes are not typical cardboard boxes. They are made of something special.
Bears Ears
Animated | PG | 2 minutes and 23 secondsDirector: Mark Franz (United States)
Description:
Bears Ears is an experimental animated short film that weaves together imagery from Bears Ears National Monument. Through a fictional documentary structure, it blends interpretive visual poetry with messages of public awareness.
Director’s Note:
Bears Ears encourages audiences to think about the relationship between themselves and their surroundings. Particularly, it draws attention to protecting public lands.
Suitcase
Drama | G | 14 minutesDirector: Saman Hosseinpuor and Ako Zandkarimi (Iran)
Description:
Far from his own homeland, a Kurdish refugee lives in his suitcase. In it he carries memories of his family. When someone steals the suitcase in the tumult of the foreign city center, he loses his home a second time.
Watch, for Ye Know Not the Hour
Documentary | PG | 5 minutes and 18 secondsDirector: Gerard Walsh (Ireland)
Description:
An Irish sea rescue volunteer reflects on his life as he peers out into the ocean.
Rabies
Experimental | PG-13 |16 minutesDirector: Alberto Díaz (Spain)
Description:
Filomena’s life is struck by poverty and the sad obscurity of hardship and torment. Terrible occurrences will mark her character during her childhood, growing up in a Galician hamlet toward the end of the 19th century. Might she have the opportunity to change her fate?
In This Together
Animated sci-fi | PG | 48 secondsDirector: Jiamu Tao (United States)
Description:
A scientist looks into her microscope and finds a mini dimension on the other side that looks just like our own. After all, we’re all in this great universe together.
Blue
Experimental | PG-13 | 3 minutes and 30 secondsDirector: Bongani Ndaba and Ndivhu Mushanganyisi (South Africa)
Description:
Blue explores a young man’s dissociative outlook on the world and himself. Stepping away from his traditions, he finds it hard to come to terms with himself. The symbolism of color is important as it represents his dream state and his longing for freedom. Themes of water are also important as they speak to a baptism and rebirth of new ideas.
The Lovely Sky
Animated drama | PG-13 |11 minutesDirector: Amir Mehran (Iran)
Description:
An impatient fighter pilot bombs cities every day. He returns to his little girl every night after completing his mission. The girl loves to fly, but the father doesn’t fulfill his daughter’s dream because of the bitter memory of his wife’s death. War is getting closer every day. One day, an incident changes their life forever.
Entropy
Comedy | PG |14 minutes and 18 secondsDirector: Bamdad Aghajani and Arian Navabi (Iran)
Description:
A physics professor tries to teach the concept of Entropy in his class, but unusual things start to happen. However, these unusual events gradually become more and more familiar to us.
Estela, Is It You?
Drama | PG | 21 minutes and 41 secondsDirector: Victor and Fabian Martin (United States)
Description:
A grieving woman communicates with her dead husband through her car radio.
Director’s Note:
Reflecting on the loss of a loved one can evoke strong emotions, deepened by the depth of that love. Estela, Is It You? is a story that examines that theme beautifully, forcing us to reflect on our relationships, past and present.
New Neighbour
Comedy | G | 4 minutes and 47 secondsDirector: Vincent Hazard (France)
Description:
Ben is moving into a new flat and is trying to make a good impression on his new neighbors, which is important when you’re visually impaired. However, Ben doesn’t seem to be able to connect with his next-door neighbor.
MADULU, The Sea Man
Documentary | PG | 22 minutes and 4 secondsDirector: Akley Olton (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
Description:
MADULU, The Sea Man is a lyrical documentary that attempts to preserve the rich history of a dying tradition in the wake of the economic struggle at the hands of the tourism industry. Interweaving documentary footage with animated sequences of young Amari’s drawings, the film uses a touch of magical realism to explore the divide between past and present and new interpretations of old traditions.
Wander of Light
Animated | G | 7 minutes and 15 secondsDirector: Agata Zych (United States)
Description:
Wander of Light pays tribute to authentic childhood vision, reminding us of the simplicity often lost in adulthood. It shows the beauty of our differences, highlighting how unique each of us is.
Director’s Note:
Wander of Light reflects the diverse ways individuals perceive and interpret the world. It emphasizes that everyone brings their own light to the world, offering new reflections, just like light refracted into a spectrum of different colors.
The Mall Man
Comedy | PG | 7 minutes and 48 secondsDirector: Dustin Morrow (United States)
Description:
Death of a Salesman goes to the mall in this darkly comic satire of American consumerism and the fading status of shopping malls in contemporary society. In The Mall Man, a shopping mall manager undertakes a marathon session of wheeling and dealing in a last-ditch effort to bring life back to his failing mall.
Director’s Note:
This film is a reflection on what’s being lost—namely, communal spaces—as shopping malls close in the United States due to declining sales, competitive online retailers, and changing consumer habits. To address challenges, some malls are repositioning their usage. Despite efforts, the future of struggling shopping malls is uncertain.
Bottles
Drama | G | 18 minutesDirector: Yassine el Idrissi (Morocco)
Description:
Said is a 13-year-old boy who lives in the old Medina of Rabat. In the summer he has a side job, collecting empty beer bottles and selling them to a shop. With the money, he wants to buy food for a dog he is hiding. One time his closest friend tells him that it is “haram” to do that.
THE NICE GUY WHO WENT BAD BUT WHO USED TO BE NICE
Social comedy | PG-13 | 15 minutes and 22 seconds
Director: Jauffrey Gallé (France)
Description: Frederic Everyman is what people call a nice guy. Unemployed and penniless, he relies on benefits from his providential benefactors: the employees of the Center for Financial Assistance. But unfortunately, one sad day, a terrible disaster befalls Frederic’s file: a computer bug!
Director’s Note: This film delves into the theme of “Reflections” in regards to society’s gaze upon those whom the system leaves by the wayside—those who are forgotten, the kind souls left behind. Inspired by a tragic event that occurred in France in 2012, the film tells the story of a man who, cornered by a cold and dehumanized system, immolated himself as a form of protest. It’s a contemplation on our system and the role we play in it as citizens.