TORONTO REEL ASIAN: A STARTING POINT
[MFW8 GUEST PROGRAM]
Day 4. Slot 2.
Monday, 5 September 2022
8.15 pm
at Uma Seminyak
Free Entry
TORONTO REEL ASIAN: A STARTING POINT
Where does a filmmaker’s journey begin? And, can we revisit this moment? A Starting Point recognizes the value of beginnings and wonders how we might return to “first films” as
a place for regrowth.
Programmer: Kelly Lui
The Orchid And The Tree / Ganesh Thava / Canada / 2021 / Fiction
Wave Hands Like Clouds / Jennifer Su / Canada / 2018 / Fiction
Express Lane / Aram Siu Wai Collier, Rudy Chong / Canada / 1997 / Fiction
Ahu’s Journal / Weeda Azim / Canada / 2021 / Fiction
01
THE ORCHID AND THE TREE
Dir. Ganesh Thava, Canada, 2021
The echoes of grief linger decades after in a South Asian family
that did not, could not, get around to talking about it
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02
WAVE HANDS LIKE CLOUDS
Dir. Jennifer Su, Canada, 2018
Tai Chi practitioners explore their connection to the martial art in this hybrid documentary music video set in Toronto’s Grange Park and Scarborough
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03
CHAKAR
Dir. Harman Kang Canada, 2021
A young woman is stopped by a middle-aged Punjabi man. Things take a turn for the uncanny, as the young woman is presented with a choice that will change the course of her life
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04
GOREE
Dir. Haaris Qadri, Canada, 2016
A 9-year-old Pakistani-Canadian girl struggles to understand her mother’s cultural expectations of beauty.
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05
WATERING
Dir. James Legaspi, Canada, 2021
Watering is a semi-autobiographical short film through which the filmmaker reflects on the passing of their childhood dog, and how it continues to inform their navigation of daily life
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06
EXPRESS LANE
Dir. Aram Siu Wai Collier, Rudy Chong, Canada, 1997
Express Lane is an adrenaline-laced, technically virtuosic thrilling chase throughout urban San Francisco, somewhere between a pedestrian Bullitt and an under-21 Pulp Fiction.
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07
AHU’S JOURNAL
Dir. Weeda Azim, Canada, 2021
Eager for an escape from her family, Safiya moves out to a sublet of an acquaintance, Ahu. She soon comes across a journal with entries that take her on a reflective journey—Ahu’s journal.
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