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Tamagoyaki

Tamagoyaki is a short film about Aya, a young British-Japanese girl adjusting to life in the UK. As she starts to experience cultural differences in love and affection, she begins to question her mother Kumi’s love, expressed in the way she knows how to love best: through food.

Meg Igarashi

Meg Igarashi is a Japanese-American filmmaker who loves working on multicultural stories rooted in complex human relationships. In 2022, Meg created her first short film, Kid Heart, a musical short film set in Japan. She hopes you enjoy her new film, Tamagoyaki, about love and food.

Presented as Part Of A Buffet of Global Storytelling International Narrative Shorts

Love’s Greeting

One day, a woman shows up at the police station claiming to have trespassed. However, there is no report of he...
27 min | Akira Iwamatsu | | World Premiere | Japanese | English
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Birthday Blowout

On her son’s 21st birthday, a mother sets up his birthday table and persuades him to leave the room. However...
18 min | Jaehoon Chung | | North American Premiere | Korean | English
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Juk

As her grandmother returns home, nine-year-old Kaya struggles with deepening resentment toward her grandmother...
15 min | Nadine Jin | | North American Premiere | Korean, English | English
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Morlam

A blind child singer, thrust onto the streets of Bangkok, must sing to liberate himself from the gang that con...
15 min | Tanaseth Tulyathan | | Canadian Premiere | Thai | English
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The Light That Painted You

Chau, a journalist who recently moved to Berlin, visits a photo studio to shed light on his past. Samuel, who ...
13 min | Jonathan Berlin | | North American Premiere | English, Mandarin | English
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Justice Bao 青天白日

A performance of the traditional Chinese opera The Execution of Chen Shimei unveils a murder case, with the ch...
13 min | Chang Xuefei | | World Premiere | Chinese | English, Chinese
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Credits
Emma Kyung Mi Sheldrick, Anna de Escobar
Haruka Kuroda, Jennifer Cornish
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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