Mulan Film Festival presents: Fountainhead programme
Fountainhead Shorts Screening – 7:30 PM, WED, AUG 15 @ Innis Town Hall See all the following short films in our 2024 Fountainhead Programme Official Selection and vote on your favorites! May the Lord Protect Us 天书 JIANG Geng World Premiere Details A Year Apart 新年舊日 新年旧日 Ocean CHIN North American Premiere Details Chan Is Fishing 尋魚 寻鱼… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Fountainhead programme
Mulan Film Festival presents: Borrowed Time
Borrowed Time 人海同游 CHOY Ji 95 minutes | 2023 | Fiction | Cantonese | English and Chinese Subtitles North American Premiere Lychees, a typhoon and a bootleg CD evoke dreams and regrets between Hong Kong and Guangzhou. For her mother Chau-Kuen (PAN Jie), Hong Kong means an unfulfilled quest for love; for Ting (LIN Dongping),… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Borrowed Time
Mulan Film Festival presents: Another Day of Hope
Another Day of Hope 又是充满希望的一天 LIU Taifeng 138 minutes | 2023 | Fiction | Mandarin | English Subtitles 16mm to Digital North American Premiere Content Advisory: This film contains scenes of tobacco use. WEI Li (SONG Ningfeng), a product executive at an online food delivery company, navigates a routine filled with relentless overtime and sleepless… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Another Day of Hope
Mulan Film Festival presents: Dreaming & Dying
Dreaming & Dying 好久不见 Nelson YEO 77 minutes | 2023 | Fiction | Mandarin, English, Singlish | English Subtitles Canadian Premiere The 76th Locarno Film Festival — Pardo d’oro for Best Feature Film (Cineasti del Presente Competition), Swatch First Feature Award Content Advisory: This film contains scenes of tobacco use. Three high school friends reunite for… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Dreaming & Dying
Mulan Film Festival presents: Guián
Guián 奶奶 Nicole Chi Amén 76 minutes | 2023 | Documentary | Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin | English & Chinese Subtitles Born into the Chinese community in Costa Rica, filmmaker Nicole Chi Amén decided to go to China for the first time after her grandmother Guián’s death, in an attempt to rediscover her roots and come… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Guián
Mulan Film Festival presents: A Journey In Spring
A Journey in Spring 春行 WANG Ping-Wen, PENG Tzu-Hui 90 minutes | 2023 | Fiction | Taiwanese Hokkien, Mandarin | English Subtitles S16mm to Digital Canadian Premiere The 71st San Sebastian Film Festival — Silver Shell Award for Best Director The 48th Hong Kong International Film Festival — FIPRESCI Prize, Best Actor (King) The 34th Singapore International… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: A Journey In Spring
Masked At The Movies presents: Defending Your Life
Ad Hoc presents: Visions
Gariné Torossian’s films have often been framed around diaspora, memory, and the search for identity, articulating these themes through found and heavily distressed footage, direct-to-the-film-strip lacerated collage, interruptions of photographic negative, and the reworking of rhythms through an optical printer. Born in Beirut in 1970 to an Armenian family, Torossian moved to Canada in 1979.… Continue Reading Ad Hoc presents: Visions
CSI presents: Fluid Medium: An Evening with Jacquelyn Mills
On Thursday October 3rd at 7pm, “Fluid Medium: An Evening with Jacquelyn Mills” will feature documentarian Jackie Mills’s film Geographies of Solitude. The filmmaker will be in attendance to engage in a moderated conversation and Q&A afterwards. This event is funded by a Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts grant.
Mulan Film Festival presents: Love Is A Gun – OPENING NIGHT
Love Is a Gun 愛是一把槍 爱是一把枪 LEE Hong-Chi 81 minutes | 2023 | Fiction | Minnan, Mandarin | English Subtitles Canadian Premiere The 80th Venice International Film Festival — Lion of the Future Luigi de Laurentis Award for a Debut Film Content Advisory: This film contains scenes of coarse language, tobacco use, and violence. After being released… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Love Is A Gun – OPENING NIGHT