This year at HIFF, we’re proud to present a selection of new short films from across Canada that examine loss — losses of loved ones and of former selves. Point and Line to Plane (Sophia Bohdanowicz) is an intimate meditation on the physical senses during a period of mourning. In The Long Wail of a Passing Train Slips into the Heart of the Ghosts and Everything Explodes in Silence (Anne-Marie Bouchard), tactile animated forms haunt live-action landscapes. Landscape also looms large in Marie-Ève Juste’s As Spring Comes, an elliptical, fantastical narrative of metamorphosis; and another young woman’s life is transformed in Aniksha (Vincent Toi) by her arranged marriage and excitement in a new job. In exquisite black and white, Isabelle Kanapé’s Ka tatishtipatakanit (Ethereal) tells a compact tale of regret. The program culminates in a collage of old family photos, home movies, and healing acts of commemoration in Sophy Romvari’s powerful, deeply personal essay film, Still Processing. —Dr. Shannon Brownlee

Point and Line to Plane

An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.&nbsp;

The Long Wail Of A Passing Train Slips Into The Heart Of The Ghosts And Everything Explodes In Silence

Suffering from a strange disease that transforms her into plants, a woman inhabit her lover's ice fishing cabin.

Comme la neige au printemps (As Spring Comes)

Aniksha, a young Mauritian woman, finds her first job at a call centre in the wake of her arranged marriage. As she discovers a new world of possibilities, she has to decide whether to stay in a familiar way of life or break with traditions.

Aniksha

A man spreads rumours about a local elder. To be forgiven, he will be put to the test. Ka tatishtipatakanit (Ethereal) is a poetic lesson about respect.

Ka tatishtipatakanit (Ethereal)

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera. Filmmaker Sophy Romvari documents her first-hand experience as an exploration into cinema as therapy in this nonfiction short.

Still Processing

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