KINGSTON CANADIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2024, LOCAL SHORTS
LOCAL SHORTS: LET’S GET LOCAL
Friday, March 1
Baby Grand
9:30 pm
LET’S GET LOCAL embraces filmmakers who all share a deep, personal connection to our beautiful city. Several of the films feature local crew and creatives (actors, musicians and artists) and many films are shot in Kingston or the surrounding area. In short, they are all seriously local.
EMPTY NEST
DIRECTOR: CHRIS DEACON
After dropping their kids off at camp, a married couple tries to rekindle their romance
AGE OF CONSENT
DIRECTORS:KATHERINE GAUTHIER AND BEN SANDERS
When Héloise, an elderly woman in the early stages of Alzheimers, is the victim of a shocking intrusion, her grown daughter is left with the impossible task of distinguishing true events from the confusion of her illness.
WINSOM
DIRECTOR: BRADEN DRAGOMIR
Winsom Winsom’s work exists at the confluence of spirituality and creativity. This film traces Winsom’s journey as a multidisciplinary artist, mentor and spiritualist.
BIRD HOSTAGE
DIRECTOR: LAUREN ANDREWS
A petsitting job goes awry when Lauren discovers that the bird she is watching can speak, and tells her that he is being held hostage.
THE SCRAPPED
DIRECTOR: SUZANNE LACEY
A university student rethinks a social media post after falling asleep beside a prison wall.
A SONG FOR WILLIAM BIRD
DIRECTOR: JACOB WIEBE
At the end of the 19th century a hunted killer on an errand of revenge is forced to reconcile with the truth of his nature.
LOCAL SHORTS: THE LOCAL MOTION
Sunday, March 3
Baby Grand
10:00 am
For the past 24 years, the Kingston Canadian Film Festival has featured standalone programs for local filmmakers, highlighting the various communities and individuals from our community. The local shorts program, THE LOCAL MOTION, continues to acknowledge, celebrate, and highlight our talented locals in motion.
UNDYING
DIRECTOR: ALAIN ROSS
Jen, in her fifties, retreats to her cabin by the lake where she writes to her daughter Ella. As she thinks about her husband Jack, the past and present seem to blend together. She becomes more and more aware of the thin line between life and death, and wonders whether their love is eternal.
MY CONVERSATION WITH ELLE
DIRECTOR: NICHOLAS PATRICK AFCHAIN
Kay, a disenchanted zilennial seeks the meaning of a recurring dream through its retelling to best friend Elle.
CITY THOTS
DIRECTOR: CARLY WILLIAMS
Laura and Marika are a pair of hot messes trying to make it in Toronto where rent is high, but their morale is higher.
LONELY COUNTRY
DIRECTOR: JAMES PERRY
In 1950’s rural Ontario, a closeted gay man is forced to confront his loneliness and desire when he picks up a handsome young hitchhiker.
HEALER
DIRECTOR: MACKENZIE LEIGH
A young woman grapples with the untimely death of her sister, seeking solace in an imagined reality where they grew up together.
I KEEP BUMPING INTO CANDY MALDONADO
DIRECTOR: LUKE BLACK
After a chance meeting with his childhood hero, a man’s euphoria over the encounter turns into an existential crisis as he continues bumping into the former major league baseball player everywhere he goes.