As moonlight settles over a quiet port town, a bookstore awakens for night owls and wanderers, its shelves holding stories and the silent memory of a friend never forgotten.
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AKASHI
Akashi is a multigenerational love story told across parallel timelines. Kana, a struggling artist in Vancouver, returns to Tokyo for her grandmother’s funeral, feeling out of place after ten years abroad. As she reflects on a secret only she and her grandmother shared—that her grandfather had another lover she unexpectedly reconnects with an old love, Hiro. Intercut with the past, which traces her grandfather’s decades long affair, Kana confronts hidden family truths.
wolf blood: the threads that bind
This short film was created in collaboration with a family who reside on the home territory of Oneida Nation of the Thames, part of the Haudenosaunee or Six Nations Confederacy Wolf Clan. It is a portrayal of a lifelong friendship, with stories about Oneida family histories, while Métis filmmaker, Dianne learns to bead from the Wolf Clan women. The film’s title is in 3 languages: Othahyu:ni’kéha’ Kaniwʌhtaló:tʌ’ Ksliye:twánhaks (Oneida) Li sawn d’lo: lee fil kaw tuhkoupitamihk (Michif)
Pierced
Pierced. Pierced. Pierced. Pierced. Pierced.
But the moose keeps on…
The House of Tengiz
As villages around the world grow empty and families leave their homes behind, one house in Georgia remains. Through the memories of Tengiz’s close friend, who still lives in the village, the life that once filled this home returns, showing how absence can speak as strongly as presence.
Hiding in The Bubble
Seventeen-year-old Xiaokui has spent her entire life in a small seaside town. A top student with a quiet passion for girl idol groups, she is well known throughout the neighborhood — as is her closest friend, Qiangwei, a brilliant math prodigy who recently transferred back from the city.
At seventeen, Xiaokui’s world is one without romance, without a cellphone — just geography magazines and a giant television screen. In the stillness of her routine life, an unexpected “aurora” quietly descends u