9.11.2023, 16:30, Maxx 4
EN UT + Q&A
10.11.2023, 20:00, Maxx 4
EN UT + Q&A
The title of this programme is borrowed from Leonard Cohen’s Song «Anthem». The films deal with serious themes: death, grief, despair, and loneliness. But light and hope, solidarity and healing are also part of these works laced with fantastical elements. A journey between anguish and solace, the programme is simultaneously an aesthetic, visually beguiling foray into the Canadian psyche.
![August 22, This Year](https://formulare.kurzfilmtage.ch/uploads/1000/p1ea2jrrf7uh81pus1jpau0614bd.jpg)
August 22, This Year
Graham Foy / Canada 2019 / 15' / DCP / colour / English / Fic
«August 22, This Year» is a meditation on death, a collective acceptance of mortality, and a warm embrace of the present.
![A Bear Named Jesus](https://formulare.kurzfilmtage.ch/uploads/1000/p1h1r4cmfu1n8mnc2hoj1s68ll3a.jpg)
A Bear Named Jesus
Terril Calder / Canada 2023 / 5'31" / DCP / colour / English / Ani/Doc
At Aunty Gladys’s funeral, Archer Pechawis heard a tap on the window – it was a bear named Jesus... an allegory of religious interference, with an aching yet humorous look at estrangement and mourning for the loss of someone still living.
![Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area](https://formulare.kurzfilmtage.ch/uploads/1000/p1h3ssf0sp111l198ichlhjt1tvda.png)
Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area
Solmund MacPherson / Canada 2023 / 12'12" / DCP / colour / English / Fic
Fed up with the cost of living in Canada's most populous city, the citizens of Toronto begin renouncing their personhood to legally become animals, forming a society of wildmen in the city's vast ravine network.
![Möbius](https://formulare.kurzfilmtage.ch/uploads/1000/p1bkun119i1qg21umv1khq9fjra9a.png)
Möbius
Sam Kuhn / Canada 2017 / 15'1" / DCP / colour / English / Fic/Exp
The film follows Stella, a high school student and poet who is coping with the sudden passing of her true love, Sebastian. A hyper-hallucinatory teen drama of surreal eeriness.
![Nevermind.](https://formulare.kurzfilmtage.ch/uploads/1000/00c47110607d47fcaad63802a34cc4af.jpg)
Nevermind.
Jean-Marc E. Roy / Canada 2013 / 4'50" / DCP / colour / French / Fic
1994. A motel. An event. Kurt Cobain.
![Healer](https://formulare.kurzfilmtage.ch/uploads/1000/p1h2jrqf2s1v5i1ecc76evhb19lo3b.jpg)
Healer
Mackenzie Leigh / Canada 2023 / 15'49" / DCP / colour / English / Fic
A young woman grapples with the untimely death of her sister, seeking solace in an imagined reality where they grew up together.
![Oh What a Wonderful Feeling](https://formulare.kurzfilmtage.ch/uploads/1000/p1asng7d5c3mc18pn16t759iihbd.jpg)
Oh What a Wonderful Feeling
François Jaros / Canada 2016 / 14'47" / DCP / colour / English / Fic
Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires. Nor a truck.