Program #5 – WESTCOAST TALES – SHORTS
Presented in Multiple Parts
Chappal
Frustrated with Max''s sluggishness, his mother asks Max to complete the household chores. However, Max resp...
1 min | Yash Ahuja | English
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Roots
In 1940s Vancouver, Gurdeep, a South Asian widow, risks public hostility to secure a home for her young son ...
11 min | Jasleen Kaur | Vancouver Premiere | English, Punjabi
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Prisoner
Prisoner follows Adam, a 12-year-old refugee, confronting the unsettling reality of his father Saeed’s pas...
14 min | Rame Ibrahim | Western Canada Premiere | Arabic, English
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Soon
After visiting her mom in the hospital, Soojin ends up tasked with recreating her late grandmother’s sundu...
22 min | Jonah Lee-McNamee | World Premiere | English, Korean
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Pardesi
Kirpa comes to Canada for her dancing dream from India. Rejections from dancing schools here almost wipes ou...
10 min | Mannat Dhillon | Vancouver Premiere | Punjabi & English
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MY FAT CAME ALIVE
After a woman is fat-shamed in front of her crush, she tears the fat off her body… but the fat comes alive...
14 min | Jaymee Mak and Kevin Ang | Canadian Premiere | English
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No Barriers
A biographical short film about a Deaf woman finds herself struggling in the world that does not always acco...
12 min | Anh (Autumn) Pham | BC Premiere | American Sign Language, Vietnamese, English
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