2008 Program guide - Victoria Film Festival

LOVE BLOOMS
PALOMAS EN EL ATICO
ALEJANDRO VALBUENA
VICTORIA 5.5 MINUTES
An inner monologue between the dichotomy of self-love, guilt and
repression. A portrait of human sexual conditioning.
SATURDAY NIGHT
NEWTOWN SUNDAY
MORNING ENMORE
CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON
AUSTRALIA 8 MINUTES
A no-strings attached one night stand. With romance!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
JOE TUCKER
UK 12 MINUTES
Graham has developed a rather perverse
and unholy fantasy - a secret he keeps from
his only roommate: his Mother. The one soul who knows about Graham’s
strange desire is The Jackdaw, who stalks the Bookshop corridors...
SWAP
GARY HAWES
BC 12.5 MINUTES
Two reluctant participants, a couple swap an uncomfortable night
together. Starring Genie Award Winner Vincent Gale (Last Wedding) and
Victoria resident Thea Gill (Queer as Folk) and originally conceived on the
reality show “Making a Scene.”
CHILES
TYRONE HUFF
USA 14 MINUTES
A little bit of “Guess Who’s Coming to
Dinner”. A little bit of “Hell’s Kitchen”.
Who has the cajones to go “extra spicy”?
THORNDIKE
CHRIS TEAGUE
USA 14 MINUTES
Quiet and moody Todd upsets his girlfriend on their last day together
before she moves. He may never share her ray of sunshine but it is the
struggle to understand what he really needs to say to her that can bring
them closer together.
CURSING HANLEY
KELLY HARMS
ONTARIO 17 MINUTES
Hanley seemingly has it all: a beautiful fi ancé, a well-paying job, and
a large house with a picket fence. But with four weeks to go before
the big wedding, he hastily calls off the wedding. After bouncing the
engagement ring off of Hanley’s head, a stunned and broken-hearted
Margo leaves him with one lasting impression, ‘I curse you!’
TENUOUS TIES
PRAY-PLAY
RICK RAXLIN
VICTORIA 2.5 MINUTES
Scratch-on-fi lm exhorting one to
play-pray with an Albanian peasant
brass band leading the wing musically
KETTLE
KATHLEEN HEPBURN BC 11 MINUTES
When Kettle discovers she is moving
beyond her past, she is faced with the
challenge of accepting the uncertainty of
the future and letting go of that which
she already knows.
SOFT
SIMON ELLIS
UK 15 MINUTES
What makes a man? What makes him
tough? Is that something your Dad can
really teach you?
PISMO (THE LETTER)
MATVEI ZHIVOV
ONTARIO, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
15 MINUTES
It has been three long years since Stepan
last saw his family or heard from his wife.
Once in an army hospital and awaiting his leave after an injury, Stepan
decides to fi nd out just how much his wife loves him.
GOD’S BEACH
ABIGAIL CARPENTER
USA 16 MINUTES
A meditative look at a young girl’s life
over 48 hours, and how the cyclical forces
of life and death cause her to mature and grow.
RIVER CHILD
DAMIAN WOOD
UK 17 MINUTES
On a hot summer’s day, two
12-year-old girls head for a river. Bossy
Janice is almost a woman, the dreamy Katie, still a child. Janice’s plan for
the day involves two older boys playing football on the bank. When one
of the boys asks Janice to ‘go for a walk’, she reveals to Katie exactly
what that means but paths to adulthood don’t always come from the
path you thought you were walking.
Tuesday • February 5 • Plan B • 7:15 PM Tuesday • February 5 • Plan B • 9:30 PM
SHORT FILMS
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