17th Annual Hamilton Film Festival 

Around The World, 103m
International Short Films

Sunday November 6th, 9pm, $10

Last Frame of Sand, 13m, Brazil, Kaya Verruno
One man’s journey to fulfill a promise to his late father.

An Encounter, 20m, Ireland, Dir. Kelly, Wr. Mark O’Halloran
Freely adapted from the James Joyce short story, An Encounter, follows Stephen and Jay, (13), as they take a day mitching from School. Jay is a boy Stephen considers to be beneath him. Nervous of being detected, the pair stick to the margins, along the royal canal and through the anonymous docklands until the afternoon finds them on the grassy banks of the Irishtown shore. As they lay hidden in the grass, a strange man approaches. What unfolds with this man terrifies Stephen and will never be erased from his memory.

The Owl, 24m, Hong Kong, Sam Wong (Wong Man Tat)
Understanding life, but resist the fate.
A solitary fortune teller in the jade market, cross path with an ordinary girl who wants to escape from the fetters of life.
Cheung Chi Sun is a fortune teller at the Jade Market. Sun lives a day to day life and on his own as he believes that is his fates. He hides nothing from his customers since everything is fixed by fate. From another side of the town, an ordinary girl crossed path with Sun’s lonely life. Gigi works along with her mother at the fruits market and although life kept beating her down, she never gives up. Gigi is fascinated by fortune telling and asked Sun to teach her, trying to get out from her fate, Sun agreed but only offered Gigi some lessons. After the 3 days, Sun pushed Gigi away from his life. The story follows Gigi’s journey to unravel Sun’s secret…

Pataal-Tee (Holy-water), 24m, India, Mukund Narayan / Santosh Singh
Thirteen year old Fagnu cannot imagine a world without his grandfather. After his grandfather falls ill, in spite of his grandmother’s warnings, Fagnu embarks on an arduous quest in search of so called ‘holy water’ which is said to be in a land amidst myth and material, guarded by Himalayan spirits.

Split Ends, 14m, Iran, Dir. Alireza Kazemipour, Wr. Solmaz Mortezavand
A bald girl and a young boy with long hair whose car has been confiscated due to lack of proper hijab are trying to solve their problem with the Tehran Morality Police without having to pay a fine. Police surveillance cameras have mistaken the boy for a woman because of his long hair, and the young girl, despite her shaved head, has to pay the fine simply because she’s a woman and that the hijab law only applies to females. The two of them are hence resisting the police. Being humiliated by a police officer, they decide to punish the officer in their own way.

Lost Footage, 666sec, Romania, Adrian Țofei 
How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while serving as an ironic tribute to the found footage horror pop culture. The found footage format provides the narrative justification for such a film to exist: the non-existence exists because the footage existed yet it was lost and never found.
Inspired by John Cage’s 4’33”, Andy Warhol’s Empire and Shirley Clarke’s The Connection.

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