Start: 10:00
Directed by: Daniel Oron
Canada, 2006, 11 min
Tommy and Joey furiously pound on their game controllers as their galactic space battle intensifies. Susie and Jimmy feverishly rock up a storm as they brave level 10 of a dance game. Lori and Bobby are caught up in a star-crossed lovers web chat. Suddenly the power goes out. Against their will, the terrified kids are sent outside. On a seemingly splendid suburban summer day the real battle for survival is about to begin.
Start: 10:00
Director: Catherine Arcand
Canada, 2007, 9 min
Start: 10:00
End: 11:30
Waar is het paard Van Sinterklass?
Director: Mischa Kamp
Netherlands, 2007, 90 min
In Dutch with English subtitles, Recommended for grades 4 and up
Themes: Immigration, Facing Challenges, Responsibility
Start: 10:00
Director: Anthony Couture
Canada, 2006, 19 min
This powerful drama takes us inside the intricate web of relationships experienced by a group of grade seven students during the normal course of a school day.
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Start: 10:00
Director: Susanne Horizon-Fränzel
Germany, 1999, 15 min
This action-packed, witty, thought-provoking, and wordless film has a lot to say about violence and about humanity.
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Start: 10:00
Director: Phil Caron
Canada, 2006, 5 min
Innocent words, beautiful children, and transparent direction, create unexpected results. This award-winning film cleverly explores how harmless raw footage can be seamlessly crafted into cruel and hateful messages.
Start: 11:45
Director: Jeff Chiba Stearns
Canada, 2005, 11 min
This animated film takes a humourous look at being half a minority. Winner of the Edith Lando Peace Prize 2006
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Start: 11:45
Director: Jason DaSilva
Canada, 2001, 12 min
Two seven-year-olds lead distinctly separate lives. Reshma was born and raised in Goa, India. Olivia was born and raised in British Columbia. The two girls talk about their life, their hopes, dreams and aspirations and what kind of opportunities may lie ahead. Olivia's Puzzle creates a cross-cultural bridge between two young children, who, in spite of living thousands of miles apart, have many things in common. In English and Konkani. Winner of Best documentary, Reel 2 Real 2002
Start: 11:45
Director: Lucy Kostelanetz
USA, 1992, 28 min
A nine-year-old American girl recounts the year she spent living and going to school in southern China. This film shows Rebeka attending an all-Chinese school, learning to read, write, and speak Mandarin, and making friends with her classmates.
Winner of several prizes at the 1993 Chicago International Film Festival for Children: Best Educational Program, Prize for Enhancing Global Awareness, and the USC/UNICEF Rights of the Child Nomination.
Start: 12:30
Directors: Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
Canada, 1999, 10 min
Ruby is a pig, whose life takes an unexpected turn after she witnesses the accidental death of a stranger. Oscar nominee
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Start: 12:30
End: 14:00
Curated by Gail Noonan
Recommended for grades 7 and up
Start: 12:30
Director: Claude Cloutier
Canada, 2007, 10 min
Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king appeals to his subjects to wake the princess, and a number of them rise to the challenge, including a handsome prince. But can Betty be wakened with just a kiss? Sleeping Betty is the Perreault classic revisited by the sharp pen of Claude Cloutier. His ornate, India-ink animation sweeps us away to a disjointed, anachronistic and playful world inspired by Victorian engravings.
Start: 12:30
Directors: Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
Canada, 2007, 17 min
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure. Adrift between real and imagined worlds, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons and is drawn into an undertow of mystery and suspense.
Start: 12:30
Director: Masoud Raouf
Canada, 2003, 6 min
This visual poem sees the absurd vanity of war in contrast to the harmony and perpetuity of nature.
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Start: 12:30
Director: Nick Hilligoss
Australia, 1998, 5 min
A free-spirited, artistic soul gets thrown in jail for drawing outside the lines. With the use of his imagination and a box of crayons he is able to create his own wilderness, and escapes.
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Start: 12:30
Director: Kevin Langdale
Canada, 2001, 6 min
The seemingly nonsensical is juxtaposed with the precision of science to illustrate how our belief in the order of language does not guarantee communication.
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Start: 12:30
Director: Michael Dudok de Wit
Netherlands, 2000, 9 min
A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide Dutch landscapes live through their seasons, so the girl lives through hers. She becomes a young woman, has a family, and in time she becomes old, yet within her there is always a deep longing for her father. Oscar Winner
Start: 12:30
Director: George Schwizgebel
Canada/Switzerland, 2004, 10 min
A man agrees to a pact with a magician and swaps his shadow for riches. He soon discovers that the absence of a shadow can be a humiliating handicap.
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