Saturday September 6, 5pm
ODD Box, 2 Daly Ave. (2nd floor)
Pay-what-you-can
Suggested admission $10
Open the doors of imagination with this medley of colourful animated short films.
THE GARDEN OF HEART
Olivér Hegyi, Hungary, 2022, 10.5 min.
Ottawa festival premiere
A young aspiring painter with low self-esteem is in his last round of interviews at the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. While waiting for his interview, his demons appear to him in the form of garden pests.
DETOURS AHEAD
Esther Cheung, Canada, 2024, 8 min.
A road trip traces a transition of grief to acceptance through valleys, junctions, and detours. It is a meditation on solitude, and articulates my shifting relationship with place.
ALGO QUE EU DISSE (SOMETHING I SAID)
Sara Barbas, Portugal, 2022, 10 min.
Ottawa festival premiere
Departing from Belém, in Lisbon, three women travel to a city in the south of Portugal to meet the newest member of the family who is about to be born. During the road trip, we learn about their different characters, points-of-view and life choices. As they arrive at the destination, it becomes clear that the three characters are more alike than we first thought.
TIGER LILY MOUNTAIN PASS
Nate King, USA, 2024, 5 min.
Canadian festival premiere
TIGER LILY MOUNTAIN PASS is a hand-drawn animation inspired by Nate King’s time spent in the forests of Appalachia. In a region where queerness is often hidden or disguised, the work explores nature as a space of queer erotic encounter. King animates with a combination of pencil, paper and digital processes, weaving together a dreamlike poem that tells a story of ecstasy, meditation, and heartache.
SWEET LIKE LEMONS
Jenny Jokela, UK, 2023, 5.5 min.
SWEET LIKE LEMONS takes the viewer on an emotional journey about leaving a harmful relationship behind. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade,” only in this case there is no lemonade to be made, but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you had before.
DIPOLAR BIPOLAR
Quankai Li, Japan / China, 2025, 9 min.
North American festival premiere
Inside my head, there’s a cat, a dog, and a pile of rocks. The title of this film is DIPOLAR BIPOLAR, which means “two extremes.” It symbolizes the two extremes of bipolar disorder.
GARDENING
Sarah Beeby, UK, 2024, 14 min.
Canadian festival premiere
In the aftermath of sexual assault, a woman retreats into the garden of her mind. Searching for answers and struggling to do “the right thing,” she realizes that she must regain her voice and find new paths to healing, before she and her garden are destroyed completely.