Sun Oct 5 | 1 PM
Rachel Browne Theatre
211 Bannatyne Ave, 2nd floor
In the same building as the Across the Board Game Cafe
★ wndrlnd is a family-friendly screening
Program duration: 58 mins
Followed by a filmmaker Q&A
Open Call 5: wndrlnd
wndrlnd is a sensorial experience, mapping a journey through space and time, across nature pathways, city streets and mindscapes, offering an easy entry into a place where the senses have come to play.
Pidikwe
Caroline Monnet | Quebec
10:00 mins, digital file, 2025
Featuring indigenous women of various generations, Pidikwe integrates traditional and contemporary dance in an audiovisual whirlwind that straddles the border between film and performance, somewhere between the past and the future.
Fusion
Richard Reeves | BC
3:18 mins, digital file, 2024
⇥ CANADIAN PREMIERE
Fusion investigates the interplay and love affair between sound and image. This work is an abstract experimental animation produced by drawing both sounds and pictures directly onto 35mm film.
Different/Same/Both/Neither
Çağla Gillis | Türkiye
4:25 mins, digital file, 2024
⇥ CANADIAN PREMIERE
Different/Same/Both/Neither explores the connection between the human body and the filmic body, using cyanotype animation to investigate embodiment, light, and materiality.
Clouds
Anna Woch | Quebec
2:00 mins, digital file, 2024
⇥ CANADIAN PREMIERE
Clouds is a short experiment about time and the permanency of change, inspired by a poem by Wislawa Szymborska. Created with the slit-scan technique.
a beaten path
Toby Gillies, Natalie Baird | Manitoba
3:00 mins, digital file, 2025
a beaten path is a study of urban prairie plant-life – thistles, burdock, plantain, etc. – that spent the summer flourishing in surface parking lots and burned-out demolition sites, living between the cracks. A looping forward interconnects cycles of growth and death of these creatures and spaces
diario de verano
Franci Duran, Cristal Buemi | Ontario
3:39 mins, digital file, 2024
⇥ REGIONAL PREMIERE
diario de verano is an exploration of neighborhood flora in the Tkaronto neighbourhoods where the filmmakers live and move through. Artistic practices were explored and shared through gathering rituals, stop motion animation and phytograms, creating complex layers of the filmmakers intertwined through their Latinx identities.
[sun]film
Derek Taylor | USA
3:10 mins, digital file, 2025
⇥ REGIONAL PREMIERE
An arrangement of found image sources from the 16th century onward, [sun]film looks at the changing representations of the giant star at the center of the solar system. From celestial maps to telescopic photos, the film traces the sun as a natural constant, a mirror of human curiosity, and a radiant symbol of mystery.
Serene Hues
Rita Tse | Ontario
4:24 mins, digital file, 2024
⇥ REGIONAL PREMIERE
Hand-processed, solarized, tinted and toned, Serene Hues is a meditative journey into the tranquility and beauty of nature. The images created through a process-driven filmmaking approach embody the wabi-sabi aesthetic of impermanence, incompleteness and imperfection.
Sous le soleil exactement
Noa Blanche Beschorner | Quebec
14:28 mins, digital file, 2024
⇥ REGIONAL PREMIERE
Taking the form of language exercises, Sous le soleil exactement is a tribute to the city symphonies of Berlin – a city whose inhabitants, streets and movements inspire the traveler’s observations. The filmmaker creates a dialogue between spaces – sometimes populated, then deserted.
Panoramic Communion
Théo Zesiger | France
9:10 mins, digital file, 2025
⇥ CANADIAN PREMIERE
From the big wheel in the seaside district, a number of axes come forth. A succession of buildings compose the backdrop. The silhouettes and shadows wander and sway: strangely enough, they seem to stand alongside the same horizon.