Opening Night Feature Screening:

Rosie

92 Mins | Dir. Gail Maurice | 2022 | Canada

An orphaned Indigenous girl is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart, francophone aunty and her two gender-bending best friends in 80’s Montreal. Gail Maurice’s feature directorial debut, the film centres on Rosie (Keris Hope Hill), a young First Nations girl who is sent to live with her aunt Frédérique (Melanie Bray) in Montreal after her mother’s death, and learns the value of rebuilding chosen family.

Screening with: Andre and The Kid
NBFF Student Showcase
10 Mins 30s | Dir. by Austin Lindsay

Feature Screening:

SLASH/BACK

86 Mins | Nyla Innuksuk | 2022 | Canada

When Maika and her ragtag friends discover an alien invasion in their tiny arctic hamlet, it’s up to them to save the day. Utilizing their makeshift weapons and horror movie knowledge, the aliens realize you don’t mess with girls from Pang. This directorial debut was filmed in Pangnirtung, Nunavut.

Screening with: Closed System: A Short Science Fiction Film
NBFF Student Showcase
13 Mins 37s | Produced / Written / Directed / Score
Bawaadan Collective / Marjan Verstappen / Stephen Neufeld

Feature Documentary Screening:

Cow

94 Mins | Andrea Arnold | 2020 | United Kingdom

A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows, from acclaimed director Andrea Arnold.

Screening with: Omukuma
NBFF Student Showcase
10 Mins 24s | Dir. by Zane Klassen

Feature Screening:

Girl Picture

100 Mins | Allie Haapasalo | 2022 | Finland

Three young women try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland. In the process, they move between dreams, reality, friendship and relationships, and try to make sense of the whole mess. 

Screening with: Benevolent
NBFF Student Showcase
19 Mins 15s | Dir. by Jared Marino

Feature Screening:

Happening

100 Mins | Audrey Diwan | 2021 | France

In 1963, student Anne has a bright future ahead of her, but her dreams of finishing her studies is shattered when she becomes pregnant. As her final exams approach, Anne decides to take matters into her own hands. Based on the acclaimed novel by Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Screening with: Therefore, Socrates Is Mortal (Donc, Socrate est mortel)
NBFF Canadian Showcase
12 Mins 34s | Dir. by Alexandre Isabelle

Feature Screening:

Triangle of Sadness

143 Mins | Ruben Östlund | 2022 | Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America, France, Greece

Celebrity model couple Carl and Yaya are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival. Winner of the Palme D’Or (Best Film) at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Screening with: The Talking Stage
NBFF Student Showcase
2 Mins 4s | Dir. by Lily Dot Paris

A Labour of Love: Curated Short Film Program:

Curated by Jung-Ah Kim

A Labour of Love is a collection of films that has an emphasis on the artist’s intensive labour and care in the filmmaking process that challenges our familiar notion of filmmaking with digital cameras and editing on computer software. Filmmaking has become increasingly easy and accessible; nowadays, technology has even developed enough for anyone to use their phone to quickly make a short and sweet video and share it on social media platforms. Inversely, this program surveys films that have extra layers of labour by selecting artists who are experimenting with different techniques and approaches to moving image production. The significant role of the artist’s perspective and the effort in devising and constructing their own methods of filmmaking let us meditate on the material-driven processes and investigations involved in time-based image production. 

Feature Screening:

Falcon Lake

100 Mins | Dir. Charlotte Le Bon | 2022 | Canada

Bastien and Chloé spend summer vacation with their families at a lake cabin in Quebec that is haunted by a ghost legend. Based on the graphic novel by Bastien Vivè.

Screening with: Beyond the Void (Au-delà du vide)
NBFF Canadian Showcase
10 Mins 18s | Dir. by Rafaël Beauchamp

Feature Screening:

Moonage Daydream

134 Mins | Dir. Brett Morgen | 2022 | United States

A cinematic odyssey! Featuring never-before-seen footage and performances, filmmaker Brett Morgen explores David Bowie’s creative, spiritual and musical journey.

Screening with: A Separate Peace
NBFF Canadian Showcase
19 Mins 35s | Dir. by Kegan McFadden

Feature Screening:

Decision to Leave

138 Mins | Dir. Park Chan-wook | 2022 | South Korea

One of the year’s best films, from legendary director Park Chan-wook! A detective investigating a man’s death in the mountains ends up meeting and developing feelings for the dead man’s mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.

Screening with: OrHoDa
NBFF Canadian Showcase
11 Mins 14s | Dir. by tigris alt sakda