Experiencing their son’s life after his unnatural death while navigating their failing marriage; mourning parents Mira and Pradeep cannot overcome their grief but start to build their lives around it.
Nominee
Pierogi stories with stuffing
A film made with everyday life. “Pierogi — stories with stuffing” are short glances towards four different worlds. The characters of the film will let you into their lives for a moment, but they don’t promise to reckon how their stories will end. In fact, you can be sure they left the endings for themselves. Stuffed stories are a search for the unusual in the ordinary. It is worth absorbing this uniqueness. Remember, the door will only be ajar for a moment.
Father
This film captures the fraught relationship between the director's father, a property developer, and his grand-father, a blind fortune teller, as they negotiate past resentments and an uncertain future.
Midnight Sun
While visiting an erotic massage salon for the first time, Felix meets Emma. Together, they dive into their respective thoughts and memories, confronting their inner demons.
Fireflies
The night side of a modernist icon. The fauna and flora of Roberto Burle Marx's gardens inhabited by visitors to Flamengo's Park while the city of Rio de Janeiro falls asleep.
"Fireflies" is a fabulated ethnography of the night at Flamengo's Park.
aen loo pawatamihk
As I walk the land with Wolves and Buffalo I reflect on my murdered Cree grandmother, and my colonized ancestors, both human and nonhuman, while honouring their memory. I also consider the historical near extinction of Wolves and Buffalo and reflect on the present-day environmental sustainability of these more-than-human beings. or in short: I honour the memory of what has been lost – both human and nonhuman.