Toronto Arthouse Film Festival
The Toronto Arthouse Film Festival welcomes filmmakers who explore and develop new filmmaking conventions in their quest to realise their visions effectively on a limited budget. The festival is dedicated to showcasing innovative and exciting work by risk-taking filmmakers from around the world.
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Coexistence (Dominican Republic) by José Gómez De Vargas
After the assassination of a resident of an old condo, an extensive investigation holds a group of seven tenants in a interrogation room, all of them suspects of committing the crime.
Running time: 01:36:00 -
The "Madman" and His Ruins (China) by Xiaolong Zhu
A middle-aged man lives in ruins, and his home has been burned down twice. After suffering from a stroke, he even refused government relief, and his neighbors called him a madman and did not want to interact with him. He lives alone, cultivates alone, eats alone, walks around alone... everything ...
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History, Mystery & Odyssey (United Kingdom) by Martin Cooper
An exploration of the lives and work of 6 extraordinary and world-renowned animators.
Running time: 01:31:00 -
Descension (United States) by Sean Ryan
In an adaptation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno, when an ex-soldier goes rogue, he is killed and descends into Hell. Will he seek vengeance against his betrayers or atone for his sins to reach the shores of Purgatory?
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Higher Grounds (United States) by Joe Kramer
On the fateful day intelligent life arrives to destroy Earth, one slacker alien gets sidetracked when he’s smitten with a bitter barista. Suddenly, our survival depends on whether this space-schmuck can get her number, before his plucky partner blows us sky high.
Running time: 00:16:59 -
Knife, Chocolate (Iran) by Hooshmand Varaei
The son of the family is antisocial, psychotic, skeptic and sexist who judges women by the smell of their cosmetics! He believes that the smell of a decent woman’s cosmetics is different from an indecent one! He even classifies bees.
Running time: 00:15:00 -
Mycelia (United States) by Gavin DuBois
A woman reexamines her relationship with an old friend after experiencing visions of a past life.
Running time: 00:14:31 -
The Loop (Poland) by Antoni Ferency
A young man takes a night bus to meet a girl. He falls asleep. He wakes up in the company of a strange man who turns out to be somewhat similar to him. The sequence of events makes the young man miss his stop and return to the same place from which he set out. He fails to meet the girl, but it's ...
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Water Flows Downhill (China) by Kyrin Chen
“Water Flows Downhill” mixes fictional dialogues with found footage from Xu Xiangyang Training Studio, Jiangsu, China. The 'studio' is an alternative targeted towards students who are suspended or expelled from school for reasons ranging from “video-game addiction” to juvenile delinquency. The fo...
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Aka 赤 (United States) by Abinadi Meza
Aka 赤 (Japanese for "red") is made from 33 meters of handmade 16mm film and shinkansen (bullet train) recordings. The intention is to construct a film as a space for primordial feeling, complex time, immersion, and one's own living body.
Running time: 00:06:00 -
Chain (United States) by Ling Han
The story of the mantis catching the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
Running time: 00:04:49 -
Day of the Dead (Belgium) by Kris Curtiz De Meester, Peter Bracke
"Day of the Dead" is a short film that delves into the unique blend of life, death, and celebration during Mexico's Day of the Dead. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the mesmerizing migration of millions of Monarch butterflies to Mexico, believed to embody the souls of the departed. The...
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The melody of ashes (Switzerland) by Jonathan Moratal
Being haunted by the past can lead to an inferno.
Running Time: 00:02:20