Canada’s Top Ten features and shorts of 2024, selected by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and film programmers from across Canada, celebrates a diverse range of voices, perspectives, and insights. The list showcases the work of both established filmmakers and emerging directorial talent from coast to coast.
This year, four productions by B.C. directors are featured on the list:
ONE DAY THIS KID
Directed by Vancouver-based Alexander Farah
One day this kid will feel something stir in his heart and throat and mouth. One day this kid will reach a point where he senses a division that isn’t mathematical. One day this kid will talk.
(From the description of ONE DAY THIS KID)
ONE DAY THIS KID
CAN I GET A WITNESS?
Directed by Vancouver-based Ann Marie Fleming
In a not so distant future, there is a reality where in order to save the planet, “death is everyone’s job”, with 50-year-olds taking the sacrifice, while teenage artists need to document it.
CAN I GET A WITNESS?
INKWO FOR WHEN THE STARVING RETURN
Directed by Vancouver-based Amanda Strong
Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unburied swarm of terrifying creatures.
INKWO FOR WHEN THE STARVING RETURN
PAYING FOR IT
Directed by Vancouver-born Sook-Yin Lee
When an introverted cartoonist’s girlfriend wants to redefine their relationship, he begins sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process. An adaptation of the graphic novel by Chester Brown.
PAYING FOR IT
For details, visit TIFF’s official website.
