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English
As thunder cracks and the tea kettle hisses, Ajmer prepares a special order to support his ailing mother, remembering the fateful night his saint-like father passed away. Now, standing at Baba''s shrine, clutching a broken prayer bell, Ajmer deals with the grief born of the bitter conflict between his pragmatism and Baba''s unwavering faith in God.
Presented as Part Of Program #11 – ANIMATION BLOCK 2
Flamingo in the Garden
Inspired by director Xinhui Ma’s own experience, this animated short follows a young Chinese woman recover...
13 min | Xinhui Ma | Western Canada Premiere | English/Arabic/Chinese
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PEARL
In Joseon-era Korea, a jeweller who has lost his precious pearl spends his days searching by a stream. When ...
14 min | Alice Il Shin | Vancouver Premiere | Korean
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Come Home
While fighting on the phone with her dad, Della, a Korean-American daughter, gets sucked into an ocean of me...
5 min | Katelyn Park (Writer and Director), Elle Shenkin (Creative Director and Producer) | Western Canada Premiere | English and Korean
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Our Body Ours
Our Body Ours leans on the music of lyric, it reframes gender affirming care as intricate, intimate, and mea...
8 min | Sanam Sheriff and Sonali Gulati | Canadian Premiere | English
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After Us
Amid the silence of human ruin, a wolf and a wolverine learn to trust, searching for a new possible world....
5 min | Wahid Ibn Reza | no dialogue
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Ocher
Within every tribe there is an outsider... but destiny has plans for one such outsider, as we discover on an...
8 min | Chee Ho | Western Canada Premiere | Non-dialogue
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