Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
BEST FILM: Unborn
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Anima & Animus
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Pity, A Film Poem
BEST SOUND & MUSIC: Tshishikushkueu
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
THE OPEN, 3min., Canada, Fashion
Directed by Kit Pilosof
The Open is about learning to embrace your anxiety through the notion of childlike play, instead of battling it. The film features a creative woman, a dancer, suffering from anxiety disorder. She battles her own anxiety on a tennis court in a match against herself. One side of the court represents her anxious state – she is trapped and not in control. The other side shows her in a state of childlike play – fearless, unafraid, joyful and free. She gradually learns to embrace her anxiety instead of battling it and it helps her to achieve. At the end of the film she is whole.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
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L’HESITANCE, 5min., USA, Animation
Directed by John Jota Leaños, Sean Levon Nash
A post-real PSA about life during quarantine, vaccine hesitancy, social media algorithmic rabbit holes and conspiracy theories through the lens of a people experiencing Colony Collapse Disorder.
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ANIMA & ANIMUS, 13min., Germany, Experimental
Directed by Lauren Pringle
An exploration of the collective subconsciousness of mankind.
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HERE IS WHERE THE MONSTERS LIVE, USA, 18min., Drama
Directed by Chance Fuerstinger, April Matson
Oliver tries to live through a dark episode of depression; however, memories – both joyful and sorrowful – keep pushing their way to the forefront of his mind.
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Tshishikushkueu (WOMAN OF SPACE), 7mim., Canada, Dance
Directed by Ben Shirinian
Inspired by the experience gained in 2020 with the realization of the digital project A Shared Solitude, Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur continues to support creation in all its shapes and gives you, in 2021, the new digital project In Tandem.
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UNBORN, 5min., USA, Poem
Directed by Sasha Marie Speer
Shot entirely underwater, Unborn is a poetic journey about becoming a mother. About grief and loss. Hope and wonder. What if a woman cannot conceive? What if she loses a pregnancy? Can she still fulfill her dream?
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PITY, A FILM POEM, 24min., Sweden, Poem
Directed by Anmar Taha, Josephine Gray
Pity, a film poem is an ode to image-making.
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Experimental Film & Music Video Festival 