Migrant Birds Fly is a multilingual and poetic film based on the poems of three legendary female poets, Anna Akhmatova, Forough Farokhzad, and Li Qinzhao. The film is a tale of exile, language barrier, love and identity. The Canadian feature consists of three chapters called "Migrant", "Birds" and "Fly" which will finally turn into "Migrant Birds Fly" when three women from Asia, Middle East and East Europe, end up together in a language classroom in Toronto.
Drama
Ahu
Ahu is a short narrative film about Ahu – a studious international university student and a part-time bartender in Toronto – who must get the agreement of all the tenants to spray their bedbug-infested building while aching to help her neighbour trapped in an abusive relationship.
Dear Immigrant
The love story of two immigrants is put to a test when one of them could get deported if their secret is revealed. Berko an international student is unable to pay his tuition fees , he gets an under the table job with the help of Lisa at her father’s restaurant. He meets Amani an immigrant working without without legal documentation and the two fall in-love. This gets Lisa jealous and upset at Amani for stealing Berko from her.
Nai Nai
Nai Nai means Grandma in Mandarin. Our film is about a Chinese grandmother who, after surviving the Nanking Massacre in 1938, develops a deep-seated grudge towards the Japanese. More than half a century later, as the wounds of the past continue to fester, Nai Nai is forced to confront this hatred when her granddaughter, Mei, brings home her Japanese fiancé, Ken. Will Nai Nai learn to accept her granddaughter's love? Or will she be forever stuck in the past?
Malos Aires
The reunion of an Argentinean ex-couple during the lockdown of Madrid, 2020. In a single night re-emerge the complexity and instability of the human emotions.
The Errand
When a young girl hitchhiking is picked up by a stranger, who ends up taking whom for a ride?