Fiction

MARGOT AND BASTIEN

7 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

A summer day in the countryside. Margot follows her cousin wherever he goes. Looking for his attention, she chases him across the field. Bastien keeps going, leaving Margot behind. However, something will push him to take her hand and to never let it go.

USELESS THINGS

16 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

A dreamily crafted short about a second-generation immigrant who
contemplates his unfamiliarity with his South Asian heritage and his disconnection with
his parent’s experience while he empties the family home.

SNOW HIDES THE SHADE OF FIG TREES

21 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

Framed in poetic realism, Snow hides the shade of fig trees tells the story of a handful of immigrants experiencing the first snowfall of the season.

THREE MOTHERS

16 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

Barbara hasn’t been sleeping well. Not since her pregnant daughter Rebecca was due nine days ago. Barbara wants to go to London to be with her, but Rebecca has forbidden it. Distressed and impatient, Barbara decides to go to London anyways, with her elderly mother Hannah in tow.

A WHITE DRESS

11 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

A young man visits his mother to introduce him his wife. But in this cloudy world that is the family, are we always those whom we pretend to be?

FACING EMPTINESS

28 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

On her way to see a show outside of Montreal, a young woman suddenly changes direction. A man is getting ready to commit a radical act. What brings them together is a large colorful tropical motel, ancient and empty. Only time separates them.