HIGHLIGHTS: February 2023 FAMILY DRAMA Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: QUICHE
Best Direction: IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

QUICHE, 11min., Canada, Drama


Directed by Suzannah Moore
A nosy neighbor presses her way into the kitchen of a young mother, who ends up needing her.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


ZARDA, 17min., Pakistan, Drama


Directed by Zainab Hassan
In this slice of life/drama we peek into the life of a young Pakistani teenage girl Shella who comes from a conservative, lower middle-class family but dreams with an open heart. As she is slowly stepping out in the real world, she is fascinated by the ever-changing aesthetic of the modern life. One such occurrence accounts to her looking at a girl getting hair dyed pink, leaving her utterly mesmerized and longing for something like that for herself. Unfortunately, her cultural norms and lack of bodily autonomy renders it impossible until she is forced to realize and challenge these norms and find her own way out.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, 14min., UK, Drama


Directed by Billy Klotsa
A father and son spend a day at the beach. Bobby’s father wants to share some of his wisdom with his son by taking him away from the city, to reconnect with nature. The two engage in a meaningful conversation that illustrates their strong bond but also the difference of generations and personal experiences as Bobby is a trans ‘millennial’ man and his father a typical ‘baby boomer’. Bobby’s father tragically drowns as the two swim in the ocean. Bobby is left paralysed and disorientated without his validating figure and enters a surreal journey to find his father in the afterlife composed of an intimate childhood flashback, and facilitated by a trio of angels.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


DOUBLE PEINE, 11min,. France, Drama


Directed by Florian Le Tavernier
A birthday turns tragic when Charles, a young law student, accepts his friends’ challenge. He is far from suspecting that his act will have serious consequences.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


KEEPER, 3min., Finland, Drama


Directed by Dave Lojek
A woman takes time in private to contemplate amongst nature on sudden changes in her life that have forced her to see the world in a different light.

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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


THROUGH THE EYES OF THE WOLF, 10min., Brazil, Experimental Drama


Directed by Fabricio Estevam Mira
The last days of Mary Magdalene before her violent end at the hands of the righteous children of God.

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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


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NEVER GIVE UP: AKINORI IN MOORESVILLE, 13min, USA, Documentary
Directed by Royce Akifumi Wilmot
24 years since first attending a NASCAR race, Akinori Ogata chases his dream of one day racing in the Daytona 500. Moving his family halfway across the world in the process, he races locally in the lower series of NASCAR, working for his big break. His sons have graduated high school, and they and his wife have moved back to Japan. Alone in his small race shop, he prepares his limited late model stock car for the biggest local race of the year.

BEYOND THE ROPES, 38min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Jalen Robinson
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Watch Today’s Film: THE ORIGINAL Richard McMahan short film, 21min., USA, Documentary

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The multi-talented outsider artist Richard McMahan is on a quest to painstakingly re-create thousands of famous and not-so-famous paintings and artifacts– in miniature. From well-loved Picasso and Frida Kahlo paintings to more obscure intricate Maori canoes, McMahan has mastered dozens of genres over 30 years of creating, and he’s made most of it on a cluttered kitchen counter using recycled materials. McMahan is also the curator of a mini-museum with a collection that surveys the scope of humanity’s visual record. Olympia Stone directs this surprising portrait of a most unusual artist.

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Cast: Richard McMahan

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CLIMATE DIARIES: HEATHER’S STORY, 8min., USA, Documentary
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Go underwater with one of the only female geoduck divers in the Suquamish tribe as she explores the personal, spiritual and economic impacts of the climate emergency on the Salish Sea.

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CLEANING SHIPWRECKS, 5min., Netherlands, Documentary/Environment
Directed by Maarten Slooves
In the night of 1st and 2nd of January 2019, the ship MSCZoe lost 342 cargo containers in the North Sea. Plastics in the sea accumulates around shipwrecks and threatens the water quality of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. A team of experienced North Sea wreck divers voluntarily heads out to salvage the waste around wreck sites.

SUNNYSIDE, 23min., Japan, Skiing
Directed by Daisuke Kurata

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Deadline Today: Toronto COMEDY Film Festival

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