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SEPT 21-22 AT ACADEMIC HALL

ottawa
film
festival 

Screenings 1-9

2024 SCREENINGSE

SCREENING 1

September 21, 2024

12pm EDT

Academic Hall, 135 Séraphin-Marion Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 1A2

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Screening 1

Title: I Promise You Paradise

Country: Egypt

Director: Morad Mostafa

Runtime: 25:00

Synopsis: Following a violent incident; Eissa a 17 years old African migrant in Egypt is in a quest against time to save his loved ones whatever it takes.

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Title: BUS

Country: Canada

Director: Julia Hogg

Runtime: 10:49

Synopsis: Jackie, an anxious people-pleaser, attempts to tell her eager date that she's not interested, but after witnessing him getting hit by a bus, her guilt takes over and now she's stuck to take care of him.

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Title: As Easy As Closing Your Eyes

Country: United States

Director: Parker Croft

Runtime: 21:43

Synopsis: The story of a grieving mother who battles her addiction to a black-market drug that gives her life-like dreams about the son she lost.

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Title: Un(Sub)titled

Country: Canada

Director: Andrew Brannen

Runtime: 6:20

Synopsis: An irate Frenchman gets his revenge when his subtitles betray him.

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Title: Bottles

Country: Morocco

Director: Yassine EL Idrissi

Runtime: 18:00

Synopsis: Said, a 13 year old boy 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.

Screening 2

Screening 2

September 21, 2024

2:20pm EDT

Academic Hall, 135 Séraphin-Marion Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 1A2

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Title: Kipkemboi

Country: Canada

Director: Charles Uwagbai

Runtime: 1:25:00

Synopsis: The story of a teenaged African math genius who brings the world financial markets to its knees.

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Screening 3

Screening 3

September 21, 2024

4:15pm EDT

Academic Hall, 135 Séraphin-Marion Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 1A2

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Title: Snack Sakura

Country: United States

Directors: Jia Li, Josua Frank

Runtime: 24:18

Synopsis: Canadian photographer Greg Girard journeys from one bar to another, looking for the Japan he once knew, reflecting on memory, life between cultures, and what it means to make a picture.

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Title: Watch What You Have

Country: Canada

Director: Hussain Dawwas

Runtime: 5:04

Synopsis: Ali's pawnshop visit for a loan turns ominous, unveiling a web of debt, confrontation, and uncertainty.

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Title: Torn

Country: Denmark

Director: Jahfar Muataz

Runtime: 28:06

Synopsis: A young child, Malik (14), feels like a foreigner in Sweden after their family has fled there from Iraq. In Sweden, Malik gets bullied in school and he gets into fights and gets misunderstood by his principal. 

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Title: Motherless Child

Country: Belgium

Director: Sophie Maréchal

Runtime: 19:26

Synopsis: Barbara, 30 years old single female, is the typical exemple of a modern woman, a "working girl", living in a fast lane. Barbara is completly hooked on her smartphone, but her routine is about to change when a mysterious balloon seemingly sent from the sky, floats into her life.

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Screening 4

Screening 4

September 21, 2024

6:30pm EDT

Academic Hall, 135 Séraphin-Marion Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 1A2

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Title: Wife Carrying

Country: France

Directors: Mathias Rifkiss, Colas Rifkiss

Runtime: 24:40

Synopsis: In the village, they say that Denis and Céline have a little
problem with their relationship. His manhood is affected and Denis decides to enter a wife-carrying race in the hope of regaining esteem and respect.

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Title: Tako Tsubo

Country: Germany

Directors: Fanny Sorgo, Eva Pedroza

Runtime: 6:04

Synopsis: Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed in order to be relieved of his complicated feelings. The doctor assures him that this is no problem at all in this day and age. Thoughtfully inclined, however, Ham keeps his heart for a while after the removal, perhaps to understand it better after all.

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Title: Makan

Country: France

Director: Ghanwa Rana

Runtime: 11:00

Synopsis: This is the story of many of us. Those who have left their country, their families, their languages. For a new, perhaps better life. It is the story of my mother, who left everything to join her husband in France. To (re)build a family life, without knowing what awaited her: loneliness, a feeling of strangeness and the difficulty of expressing herself in a language she does not speak. I, Ghanwa, her daughter, slipped into my mother's skin to tell her story.

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Title: I Just Can't

Country: Canada

Director: Lisa Rideout

Runtime: 13:58

Synopsis: Aaron, a struggling actor, is deeply committed to his craft. However, when he's asked to play a patient at the nearby hospital, his “big moment” is threatened by the person he least expects; himself.

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Title: A Crab in the Pool

Country: Canada

Directors: Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel

Runtime: 11:11

Synopsis: In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.

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Title: Heap

Country: Canada

Director: Kyle Marchen

Runtime: 12:13

Synopsis: Caught in a lie, Isha is forced to live a double life after discovering a “utopian” society in the building next door to her dilapidated apartment.

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Title: The Masterpiece

Country: Spain

Director: Alex Lora Cercos

Runtime: 20:00

Synopsis: Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects. Once there, Leo looks at them collecting objects with mistrust, until they see the scrap dealers have an expensive painting.

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Screening 5

Screening 5

September 21, 2024

8:45pm EDT

Academic Hall, 135 Séraphin-Marion Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 1A2

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Title: Invincible

Country: Canada

Director: Vincent René-Lortie

Runtime: 29:43

Synopsis: July 5, 2008. Marc, a 14 year old boy, plunges into the waters of the Rivière-des-Prairies while driving a stolen car. Invincible traces the 48 hours leading up to this incident as Marc confronts his desperate need for freedom.

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Screening 6

Screening 6

September 22, 2024

12pm EDT

Academic Hall, 135 Séraphin-Marion Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 1A2

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Title: HAV (The Sea)

Country: Denmark

Director: Claes Cem Constantine

Runtime: 26:10

Synopsis: "A Danish fisherman battles to keep his boat—and his life—afloat."

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Title: Palestine Islands

Country: Palestine, State of

Directors: Nour Ben Salem, Julien Menanteau

Runtime: 22:29

Synopsis: Maha, 12, is part of the last generation of Palestinian refugees from the Balata camp. Following a faintness from her blind grandfather, she imagines a crazy project: to make him believe that the wall of separation has fallen and that a return to his native land is possible. With the help of her friends from the camp, the young girl imagines a funny trip for him...

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Title: Monochrome

Country: France

Director: Cédric Prévost

Runtime: 14:05

Synopsis: After months of a long-distance relationship via a dating site, Thomas asks Marie, who lives on the other side of the country, to finally meet in person. But before that, she will make a shocking revelation for the young

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Title: Même pas mal

Country: France

Director: Sarah Stern

Runtime: 18:27

Synopsis: Mila, who gave birth a week ago, is preparing with her partner Joaquim for a fateful moment : today is their son's circumcision. Although she had never questioned the practice, the arrival of her baby and the imminence of the ceremony shatters her certainties.

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Title: Pasture Prime

Country: United States

Director: Diffan Sina Norman

Runtime: 9:55

Synopsis: A widow falls for a younger man she meets at the Cowboy Church.

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Screening 7

Screening 7

September 22, 2024

2:15pm EDT

Academic Hall, 135 Séraphin-Marion Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 1A2

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Title: Gaby's Hills

Country: Canada

Director: Zoé Pelchat

Runtime: 20:38

Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Gaby arrives in the Magdalen Islands to spend the summer with her father, as she does every year. She is thrilled to find the sea she loves so much, the childhood friends, the winding hills on the horizon, and the warm joy of her dad's home. But this time something is different: she hit puberty, and her life will never be the same.

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Title: L'âge acrobatique

Country: France

Director: Mathieu Barbet

Runtime: 15:00

Synopsis: Lucas, thirteen, takes part in an acrobatic rock workshop for the first time. In the gymnasium, bodies fly away, the
risk of falling is permanent and the heart races. A big jump into adolescence.

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Title: Pisko the Crab Child is in Love

Country: Japan

Director: Makoto Nagahisa

Runtime: 17:36

Synopsis: Pisko's father is a crab while her mother is human. Pisko falls in love with her teacher, but gets her heart broken when he leaves her because she is a crab child. Her friend Kubokayo encourages Pisko to go on a trip, where she then confesses her feelings. This is a love story about Pisko.

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Title: Virga

Country: Canada

Director: Jean-François Leblanc

Runtime: 19:30

Synopsis: Pascal suspects the worst when he reads the post of Jérémy, a former classmate. He immediately alerts the police, convinced that Jérémy is on the verge of attacking his ex-colleagues. Feeling that the police won’t do anything, Pascal decides to go help the young man himself.

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Title: Heat Spell

Country: Canada

Director: Marie-Pier Dupuis

Runtime: 13:49

Synopsis: As the afternoon heat sets in, Maxime feels the weight of each passing moment.

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Title: The Steak

Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of

Director: Kiarash Dadgar

Runtime: 8:13

Synopsis: A birthday party preparation is thrown into chaos by an awful event.

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Screening 8

Screening 8

September 22, 2024

4:30pm EDT

Academic Hall, 135 Séraphin-Marion Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 1A2

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Title: Unicorns

Country: Spain

Director: Alex Lora Cercos

Runtime: 01:34:00

Synopsis: Isa is a Feminist and polyamorous posh girl, she passionately defends her life. When Guillem proposes to be a monogamous couple, Isa is not sure if he wants to change her life and, given her lack of decision, Guillem decides to break the relationship. Living in a world of appearances and comforts, her contradictions come to light and her universe is crumbling at the blow of likes and moral judgments in this web that social networks have become.

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Screening 9

Screening 9

September 22, 2024

7pm EDT

Academic Hall, 135 Séraphin-Marion Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 1A2

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Title: SANTA MARIA 京子

Country: France

Directors: Guil Sela, Félix Loizillon

Runtime: 26:45

Synopsis: "In the village of Santa Maria Poggio, Corsica, far from their japanese homeland, Kyoko and Yutaro, two lovers, are hitting
a rough patch in their relationship. They decide to split for the day."

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Title: Girlfish

Country: Turkey

Director: Nezam Haghiabi

Runtime: 9:09

Synopsis: A girl in Iran is disgraced for having a relationship with a boy and the punishment is death. There is a legend in the Zagros region in Iran that disgraced girls flee to the depths of the sea to escape the death penalty.

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Title: Just the two of us

Country: France

Director: Clara Lemaire Anspach

Runtime: 19:57

Synopsis: Alma knows it. If her mother persists in not taking the new treatment offered to her, she will die. She therefore has only one idea in mind: to make her change her mind as they both drive towards the south of France.
Once last mother-daughter journey in which Alma will have to find the strength to let her mother go...

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Title: Sentimental Stories

Country: Germany

Director: Xandra Popescu

Runtime: 15:48

Synopsis: An almost deserted diner in the middle of the port. The owner, Violeta, dreams of a life that could have been different. She employs her niece, Maria, a radical passivist who steers away from any drive or ambition. Between chores and cigarette breaks they fantasise about the future. As the day unfolds they are the witnesses of one love story dying out while another is trying to be born.

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Title: Confessions

Country: United States

Director: Stephanie Kaznocha

Runtime: 11:07

Synopsis: After the death of a friend, two nuns in their golden years contemplate what their future holds. One confession leads to another and before they know it, they're embarking on an adventure.

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Title: Jester's Flamin Hot Mac'N Cheese

Country: Canada

Director: Victor Saucier-Magistry

Runtime: 13:53

Synopsis: Léandre, a lazy young adult without much ambition decides one night to break the monotony of its daily life to help Greg, the neighbourhood pusher to... do something, he doesn't quite remember. This decision will plunge him amidst bloody settling of scores which he will desperately try to escape from, motivated by his hatred of Jester's Flamin Hot Mac n Cheese!

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