Some choose therapy to process grief; others make movies. In this collection of short films, four filmmakers take to the camera to explore, frame by frame, the loss of youth, of friends, of siblings and parents and, for one Italian village, of life as it once was.

Ben Donateo’s exquisite film is a slow portrait of Filippa di Mesoraca, a village in southern Italy’s Calabria region. Hit by the migration of its youth to the north, Burnt. Land of Fire captures what’s left of the village’s land, homes and residents. Community Partner<a href="https://www.eda.admin.ch/vancouver" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/f1cb897a0b8d1dbed915923a145f85c4.png" width="203"></a>

Burnt. Land of Fire

After 62 years of marriage, Yosef and Zilli decide to take their own lives together. Dean Gold’s gentle film brings to life the memories of their love and premeditated deaths through the videotapes of their youngest son, Doron.

The Love and Death of Yosef and Zilli

Cut entirely from an old feature film made by himself and his best friend at age 19, director Christer Wahlberg’s You are always 20 is a trip down memory lane as well as a personal reckoning with grief, loss and friendship.

You are always 20

At the centre of Sophy Romvari’s film is a box of family photos, stowed away and unseen for decades. As these photos come into view for the first time, so too do Sophy’s lost memories. “I’m still not sure if it’s finished,” Sophy silently narrates, indicating that when it comes to matters of loss and grief, no one ever truly stops processing.

Still Processing

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