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Surviving Silence

Surviving Silence is a short film that explores the link between depression and movement. It finds the intersection of one’s own painful hope – a journey into joyful thriving – and an invaluable tool of perseverance: dance.

Ian Simon

Ian Simon is a Filipino, Toronto-based director and editor. His passion for curating films is visceral and visually poetic, often rooted in meaningful intention. His playful and poised approach to directing tends to be highly art-directed, involving dynamic camera movements, strategic blocking, and choreography.

Presented as Part Of The Mess We Call Family – Canadian Shorts Narrative

Desync

Ana, a young Filipina filmmaker, shoots a reenactment of a fight she once had with her mother. Embodying cultu...
12 min | Minerva Navasca | | BC Premiere | English, Tagalog | English
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Le Petit Panier à Roulettes (The Little Shopping Trolley)

Living on a shoestring in Montreal, a Vietnamese mother must act in bad faith to assert her right to buy 12 di...
18 min | Laurence Ly | | Western Canadian Premiere | French, Vietnamese | English
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Congratulations It’s a Girl

China in the 1990s. After giving birth to a girl, Hong’s mother decides to swap her newborn daughter for a b...
8 min | Han Liu | | Western Canadian Premiere | Mandarin | English
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Deadpan

A veterinarian named Alison arrives at her client’s house to euthanize their family dog, but an unexpected g...
4 min | Aidan Cheeatow | | Western Canadian Premiere | English
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Finding Nathan Fielder (With Jen Zhao)

Jen Zhao is a Canadian filmmaker in LA with a visa that’s about to expire. She lost her brother to depressio...
27 min | Jen Zhao | | BC Premiere | English
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Under the Kasaya

Jean’s world has never been the same after things happen with Lama. On her father’s death anniversary, her...
16 min | Jennifer Fan Jiang | | Canadian Premiere | English, Mandarin | English
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Breathe

Angela and her father flee through dangerous grounds amidst an armed conflict. Myla, a defecting soldier, has ...
12 min | Andrew Chiu | | Western Canadian Premiere | English
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Credits
Safa Ali Mudei
Josh Cezar, Nadia Ruffieux, Praveeni Rasiah, Tariq Chin
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Festival passes

This year, VAFF FESTIVAL, screening programs in person and virtual will be organized into various series in order to better highlight the diverse content in our festival. These Series include Spotlight Series, Documentary Features Series, Narrative Features Series, Westcoast Shorts Series, Canadian Shorts Series, International Short Series, Animation Series, VAFF Industry Insight Series and Special Events.

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Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas

88 W Pender St 3rd floor, Vancouver, BC V6B 6N9

Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas

88 W Pender St 3rd floor, Vancouver, BC V6B 6N9