Strength Program 4 - April 5 @ 2:30pm

Alireza Kazemipour & Panta Mosleh (Vancouver, BC) 10:57 minutes

A heart wrenching memory of a refugee boy losing his mother.

Strength Program 4 - April 5 @ 2:30pm

Emanuel Foucault (Victoria, BC) 20:12 minutes

Haunted by a melody and tormented by her peers, a tree-planter and aspiring folk singer seeks solace in the wilderness—only to find the land whispering her deepest desires, pulling her into something darker than she ever imagined.

Obscura / 옵스큐라

Strength Program 4 - April 5 @ 2:30pm

Arnold Lim (Victoria BC) 21:07 minutes

Sang-Ook, a Hikikomori (shut in) whose locked himself in his room for a year, builds a camera obscura from his room as a conduit to the outside world.

Strength Program 4 - April 5 @ 2:30pm

Pascal Chaumont (Quebec, Canada) 9:57 minutes

In the 1970s, Robert, Ghislaine, and their 7-year-old daughter Caroline live a most ordinary life in the heart of the Laurentians, enjoying the precious family happiness they have built together. One winter evening, a tragic event will change the course of their lives and jeopardize the happiness they thought they had secured, completely overturning the balance of their small family life.

Strength Progam 4 - April 5 @ 2:30pm

Andrew Jonathan Smith (United Kingdom) 12:08 minutes

Emma embarks on a bureaucratic odyssey to get her life back after an administrative error leaves her legally dead..

Strength Program 4 - April 5 @ 2:00pm

David Bercovici-Artieda (Victoria, BC) 15:00 minutes

The Fast Runner is a powerful tale of resilience and compassion during the Holocaust. Frida, a young Jewish girl, questions her Rabbi’s kindness, even toward Herr Muller, a German policeman. When their paths cross in a concentration camp, her act of compassion sparks an unexpected moment of humanity, changing everything.