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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 mother Lucy forces her to visit Lama. Jean only agrees to avoid a fight, but when Lama begins to touch her leg under the table, Jean spills the secret to her mother.

Jennifer Fan Jiang

Jennifer Fan Jiang is a Chinese writer and director based in Toronto. Her recent works have been selected by the Cannes Short Film Corner, NFFTY, and several other international film festivals. She often tells stories by observing individuals and society, as well as her past living experience.

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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The Little Shopping Trolley – Le Petit Panier à Roulettes

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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Surviving Silence

Surviving Silence is a short film that explores the link between depression and movement. It finds the interse...
7 min | Ian Simon | | Vancouver Premiere | 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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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
Ruisi Liu
Angel Lo, Shel Sun
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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