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This programme is presented with open captions (all dialogue subtitled and sound cues indicated).
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Canada, France, Indonesia, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, USA2023–202481 MIN 31 SVarious languages with English subtitlesAvailable Online, Live ASL Interpretation, Open Captions
Perhaps it’s time to reconcile your version of reality with the world that's in front of you. It may be more distant than you’d care to admit.
For: miscommunicators, careful optimists, doubtful yearners
Canada202612 MIN 10 SEnglish, Urdu with English SubtitlesDrama, Family-friendly, Open Captions, Romance
Fatima gets invited to her first husband's chaliswa, the 40th-day-after-death commemoration. She comes face to face with his widow, Safeena, and the memories they have both carried for decades.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film is presented with open captions (all dialogue subtitled and sound cues indicated).
Haaris Qadri*
Haaris Qadri makes films that blend the authenticity of naturalism with the vividness of a painter’s realism. His works delve into the essence of everyday life, capturing moments that evoke deep emotions.
*In attendance
Indonesia202622 MIN 28 SPapuan, Indonesian, Javanese with English SubtitlesComedy, Docu-fiction, Experimental, Open Captions
Videographers Arief and Edi exchange memories and imaginations about Papua based on the footage they captured during their time there.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film is presented with open captions (all dialogue subtitled and sound cues indicated).
Arief Budiman
Arief Budiman is an artist-filmmaker based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, working with sonic traces, distorted histories, fabricated realities, desktop cinema, collage film, and media installations.
Canada20254 MIN 20 Sn/aAnimation, Disability, Experimental, Open Captions
Intuitively layered, textual animation is used as a tool to describe and come to terms with hallucinations as a part of sight.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film is presented with open captions (all dialogue subtitled and sound cues indicated).
Penakee Das
Penakee Das is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on the combination of animation and real-world materials. He is currently studying at OCAD University for an MDes in inclusive design.
France, Switzerland, Thailand202623 MIN 30 SThai with English SubtitlesDrama, Open Captions
Rusmee keeps interacting with her dead husband Chalerm, in the form of an AI chatbot. It is only with the arrival of Fa, Chalerm’s former caretaker, that the memories inhabiting the house are released.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film is presented with open captions (all dialogue subtitled and sound cues indicated).
Domenico Singha Pedroli
Domenico Singha Pedroli is a Swiss Thai filmmaker based between Paris and Bangkok. His works articulate complex narratives that explore memory, identity, and diaspora, in all their mutability.
USA20258 MIN 10 SChinese with English SubtitlesAnimation, Drama, Experimental, Open Captions
MiaoMiao receives a box of chocolate balls. As she clings to this small treasure, a mix of doubt and quiet rebellion begins to blur the boundaries between order and desire.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film is presented with open captions (all dialogue subtitled and sound cues indicated).
Yingdan Lai
Yingdan Lai is an animation director originally from China and currently based in Los Angeles. Working with hand-drawn 2D animation, she wraps discomfort, unease, and the unspeakable in deceptively childlike lines.
Canada202510 MIN 53 SKorean, Mandarin, English with English SubtitlesComedy, Drama, Family-friendly, Open Captions
Two lonely grandmas from different cultures connect through daily walks around the neighbourhood. Today is their last walk before one of them flies back home to South Korea.
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY: This film is presented with open captions (all dialogue subtitled and sound cues indicated).
Andrea Bang*, Diana Bang
Andrea Bang and Diana Bang are Korean Canadian actors, writers, directors, and sisters based out of Vancouver on the traditional unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
*In attendance
14 Nov, 2026 2:45 pm
TIFF Lightbox C4PG
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY
This programme is presented with open captions (all dialogue subtitled and sound cues indicated).
ASL interpretation will be provided for this session. Please click here to read about how we provide access.
Join us for a Q&A immediately after the theatrical presentation with attending guests from this shorts programme moderated by Kahn Tudo!
Filmmaker Ashley Duong had always wondered about her father’s story of escaping Vietnam and then the revolution in Iran, eventually finding his way to Canada. Unable to get answers, she made multiple trips to Vietnam, until to her surprise her father sent her an entire memoir of his experiences. Duong responded to the book with more questions — and this remarkable documentary, Ba’s Book.
11 Nov. 7:30 pm
One day, you choose to look beyond the stadium show and find yourself in the cracks of the stage. There, you encounter charm, playfulness, and invention beyond imagination. Do you venture in?
13 Nov. 6:00 pm
Win is a struggling gig worker whose mom is sick — and the hospital bills are about to force them out of their home. By chance, an old schoolmate gives Win the opportunity to make a quick buck by fighting in an underground MMA venue.
19 Nov. 7:00 pm
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