International Film Festival of Ottawa

Film festival

International Film Festival of Ottawa (IFFO)Location| Ottawa, Canada

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Founded| 2020
Website| https://www.iffo.ca/

The International Film Festival of Ottawa (IFFO) is an international film festival, staged in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, organized by the Canadian Film Institute that was to hold its inaugural edition from March 25 to March 29, 2020.[1] The festival, launched as a replacement for the defunct Ottawa International Film Festival, was to present 20 feature films and 20 short films and to be held at the Ottawa Art Gallery and other venues in downtown Ottawa.[2]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the 2020 festival was not staged as planned; however, over the next several months the Canadian Film Institute organized and hosted a number of online talks and workshops under the Screen Summit banner.[3] The festival was staged online in 2021, and launched its first in-person edition in March 2022.[4]

The festival principally screens recent Canadian and international feature films, although each year's program also includes one or two historically or artistically significant films from the history of Canadian cinema. Most films screen along with a thematically-related short film as an opener, although a few films screen alone and are instead followed by a talk with the filmmaker.

## Films[edit]

### 2021[edit]

#### Feature films[edit]

English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country  | Year

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Amanita Pestilens | René Bonnière | Canada | 1963
Andrey Tarkovsky, A Cinema Prayer | Andrey A. Tarkovsky | Italy, Russia, Sweden | 2019
Beans | Tracey Deer | Canada | 2020
Coalesce | Les Affluents | Jessé Miceli | Cambodia, France | 2020
Downstream to Kinshasa | En route pour le milliard | Dieudo Hamadi | Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Belgium | 2020
Golden Voices | Evgeny Ruman | Israel | 2019
It Must Be Heaven | Elia Suleiman | France, Canada, Palestine, Turkey | 2019
Last Days of Spring | La última primavera | Isabel Lamberti | Netherlands, Spain | 2020
Little Ballerinas | Petites danseuses | Anne-Claire Dolivet | France | 2020
Love Can't Wait | El Amor no puede esperar | Juan Carlos Carrasco | Mexico | 2019
Mouthpiece | Patricia Rozema | Canada | 2018
My Name Is Baghdad | Meu nome é Bagda | Caru Alves de Souza | Brazil | 2020
No Ordinary Man | Chase Joynt, Aisling Chin-Yee | Canada | 2020
Passage | Sarah Baril Gaudet | Canada | 2020
The Seeds We Sow | Les graines que l'on sème | Nathan Nicholovitch | France | 2020
Shiva Baby | Emma Seligman | Canada, United States | 2020
A State of Madness | Mis 500 Locos | Leticia Tonos | Dominican Republic | 2020
There Is No Evil | شیطان وجود ندارد | Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran | 2020
Welcome to the USA | Assel Aushakimova | Kazakhstan | 2019
Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine | Alex Piperno | Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Netherlands, Philippines | 2020
You Will Die at Twenty | ستموت في العشرين | Amjad Abu Alala | Sudan | 2019

#### Short films[edit]

English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country  | Year

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Ain't No Time for Women | Y'a pas d'heure pour les femmes) | Sarra El Abed | Canada | 2021
The Archivists | Igor Drljaca | 2020
Beehives | Luca Fiore | 2020
Body So Fluorescent | David Di Giovanni | 2020
Brave Little Army | Michelle D'Alessandro Hatt | 2020
Caribou in the Archive | Jennifer Dysart | 2019
Delphine | Chloé Robichaud | 2019
Every Day's Like This | Lev Lewis | 2020
Expo Film (This Film Is My Memory) | Penny McCann | 2019
Goodbye Papi | Jed Nabwangu | 2021
Healing Bells | Sokinaa' Passkaan Aassisstoi | Taylor Crowspreadshiswings | 2020
Hibiscus Season | La saison des hibiscus | Éléonore Goldberg | 2020
Highway to Heaven | Sandra Ignagni | 2019
Modern Whore | Nicole Bazuin | 2020
Now Is the Time | Christopher Auchter | 2019
Once the Dust Has Settled | Une fois la poussière retombée | Hervé Demers | 2020
Point and Line to Plane | Sofia Bohdanowicz | 2020
Regret | Santiago Menghini | 2020
The Shape I Think | Nik Sheehan | 1995
Shooting Star | Comme une comète | Ariane Louis-Seize | 2020
Still Processing | Sophy Romvari | 2020
Stump the Guesser | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | 2020

### 2022[edit]

#### Feature films[edit]

English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country  | Year

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Air Conditioner | Ar Condicionado | Fradique | Angola | 2020
All My Puny Sorrows | Michael McGowan | Canada | 2021
Aloners | Honja Saneun Salamdeul | Hong Sung-eun | South Korea | 2021
Ballad of a White Cow | Ghasideyeh gave sefid | Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moqadam | Iran | 2020
Bipolar | 只是一次偶然的旅行 | Queena Li | China | 2021
Bloody Oranges | Oranges sanguines | Jean-Christophe Meurisse | France | 2021
Le Cercle Rouge | Jean-Pierre Melville | France | 1972
Commitment Hasan | Bağlılık Hasan | Semih Kaplanoğlu | Turkey | 2021
Dream Life | La vie rêvée | Mireille Dansereau | Canada | 1972
Gagarine | Gagarin | Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh | France | 2020
The Hill Where Lionesses Roar | La colline où rugissent les lionnes | Luàna Bajrami | France, Kosovo | 2021
Kubrick by Kubrick | Gregory Monro | France | 2020
Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege | Abdallah Al-Khatib | France | 2021
Mariner of the Mountains | O marinheiro das montanhas | Karim Aïnouz | Brazil, France | 2021
Marvelous and the Black Hole | Kate Tsang | United States | 2021
Medusa | Anita Rocha da Silveira | Brazil | 2021
Murina | Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović | Croatia | 2021
Nouveau-Québec | Sarah Fortin | Canada | 2021
Nudo Mixteco | Ángeles Cruz | Mexico | 2021
Queendom | Marco Novoa, Simon Vivier | France | 2021
The Replacement | El sustituto | Óscar Aibar | Spain | 2021
Shortbus | John Cameron Mitchell | United States | 2006
Silent Land | Cicha Ziemia | Aga Woszczyńska | Poland | 2021
Social Hygiene | Hygiène sociale | Denis Côté | Canada | 2021
Souad | Ayten Amin | Egypt | 2021
The Twentieth Century | Matthew Rankin | Canada | 2019
Under the Weather | William D. MacGillivray | Canada | 2020
We're All in This Together | Katie Boland | Canada | 2021
The Whaler Boy | Kitoboy | Philipp Yuryev | Russia, Poland, Belgium | 2020
Wildhood | Bretten Hannam | Canada | 2021
Yuni | Kamila Andini | Indonesia | 2021

#### Short films[edit]

English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country  | Year

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Acting Out | Jean-Sébastien Beaudoin Gagnon | Canada | 2020
Amani | Alliah Fafin | Canada | 2020
Bleach | Mattias Graham | Canada | 2021
Bump | Maziyar Khatam | Canada | 2022
Each Other | L'un l'autre | Clara Prévost | Canada | 2021
Fanmi | Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Carmine Pierre-Dufour | Canada | 2021
The First Goodbye | Ali Mashayekhi | Canada | 2020
Flower Boy | Anya Chirkova | Canada | 2021
Girls Shouldn't Walk Alone at Night | Les filles ne marchent pas seules la nuit | Katerine Martineau | Canada | 2020
The Horses | Liz Cairns | Canada | 2020
Like the Ones I Used to Know | Les Grands claques | Annie St-Pierre | Canada | 2021
Little Bird | Tim Myles | Canada | 2021
A Man and His Murals | Adam Bowman | Canada | 2021
Nalujuk Night | Jennie Williams | Canada | 2021
Personals | Sasha Argirov | Canada | 2021
The Pond, at Night | L'Étang, la nuit | Olivia Boudreau | Canada | 2020
Preacher | Mark Corless | Canada | 2022
The Project | Tresor Lubamba | Canada | 2021
Sledgehammer | Kyle Marchen | Canada | 2021
The Southern Wind | Aucéane Roux | Canada | 2021
Telos or Bust | Brad Abrahams | United States | 2021
Together | Albert Shin | Canada, South Korea | 2021
Untitled (Moiroloi) | Guillaume Saindon | Canada | 2022
The Untouchable | Avazeh Shahnavaz | Canada | 2021
A Void | Dominique van Olm | Canada | 2021

### 2023[edit]

#### Feature films[edit]

English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country  | Year

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Balaban | Aysulu Onaran | Kazakhstan | 2022
Bones of Crows | Marie Clements | Canada | 2022
Carajita | Silvina Schnicer, Ulises Porra Guardiola | Dominican Republic, Argentina | 2021
The Christmas Setup | Pat Mills | Canada, United States | 2020
The Code of Silence | Una Femmina: The Code of Silence | Francesco Costabile | Italy | 2022
Coyote | Le Coyote | Katherine Jerkovic | Canada | 2022
The Flag | Alam | Firas Khoury | Palestine | 2022
Fogareu | Flávia Neves | Brazil, France | 2022
I Like Movies | Chandler Levack | Canada | 2022
Ice Under His Feet | Kirill Nenashev | Russia | 2022
The Maiden | Graham Foy | Canada | 2022
A Male | Un Varón | Fabian Hernández | Colombia | 2022
Mandabi | Le Mandat | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | 1968
Marcel! | Jasmine Trinca | Italy | 2022
Maya Nilo (Laura) | Lovisa Sirén | Sweden, Finland, Belgium | 2022
Meditation Park | Mina Shum | Canada | 2017
Ordinary Failures | Běžná selhání | Cristina Groşan | Czech Republic | 2022
Phi 1.618 | Theodore Ushev | Bulgaria, Canada | 2022
Plan 75 | Chie Hayakawa | Japan, Philippines, France, Qatar | 2022
Queens of the Qing Dynasty | Ashley McKenzie | Canada | 2022
R.M.N. | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France, Belgium | 2022
Return to Seoul | Retour à Seoul | Davy Chou | France, Germany, Belgium, Cambodia | 2022
Rush to Judgment | Emile de Antonio | United States | 1967
Shimoni | Angela Wanjiku Wamai | Kenya | 2022
Soft | Joseph Amenta | Canada | 2022
Sonne | Kurdwin Ayub | Austria | 2022
Tales from the Gimli Hospital | Guy Maddin | Canada | 1988
Under the Fig Trees | Taht alshajra | Erige Sehiri | Tunisia, France, Switzerland | 2021
Until Tomorrow | Ta farda | Ali Asgari | Iran, France, Qatar | 2022
Vicenta B. | Carlos Lechuga | Cuba, Colombia, France, Norway | 2022
We Are Still Here | Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis, Chantelle Burgoyne | Australia, New Zealand | 2022
We Might As Well Be Dead | Wir könnten genauso gut tot sein | Natalia Sinelnikova | Germany, Romania | 2022
We Will Never Belong | Nunca seremos parte | Amelia Eloisa | Mexico | 2022
We Won't Kill Each Other with Guns | Nosotros no nos mataremos con pistolas | María Ripoll | Spain | 2022
When Night Is Falling | Patricia Rozema | Canada | 1995
The Worst Ones | Les Pires | Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret | France | 2022

#### Short films[edit]

English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country  | Year

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Adore | Beth Warrian | Canada | 2022
Baba | Anya Chirkova, Meran Ismailsoy | Canada | 2022
Blaze | Brasier | Émilie Mannering | Canada | 2022
Brown Enough | Kent Donguines, Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto | Canada | 2021
Corners | James Brylowski | Canada | 2022
Desi Standard Time Travel | Kashif Pasta | Canada | 2022
Everything Will Be Alright | Farhad Pakdel | Canada | 2022
A Feller and the Tree | Kalainithan Kalaichelvan | Canada | 2022
The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg | Sidney Olcott | United States | 1910
Grown in Darkness | Devin Shears | Canada | 2022
Irninnu Unikaara | Ipeelie Ootoova | Canada | 2022
Likeness | Emily Diana Ruth | Canada | 2019
Meeting with Robert Dole | Rencontre avec Robert Dole | François Harvey | Canada | 2022
More Than Hair | Plus que des cheveux | Fitch Jean | Canada | 2021
Most of the Time We Are Just Waiting | Molly Shears | Canada | 2022
Municipal Relaxation Module | Matthew Rankin | Canada | 2022
The Night Rider | Jay Hunt | United States | 1920
No Ghost in the Morgue | Marilyn Cooke | Canada | 2022
N'xaxaitkw | Asia Youngman | Canada | 2022
Ori Mi Agbe | Ayunade Judah | Canada | 2021
Paco | Kent Donguines | Canada | 2022
The Passing | Jackson Harvey | Canada | 2022
Pro Pool | Piscine pro | Alec Pronovost | Canada | 2022
A Range Romance | [unknown] | United States | 1911
The Red Girl and the Child | James Young Deer | United States | 1910
Reply | Elle Mills | Canada | 2022
Rocket Fuel | Jessie Posthumus | Canada | 2022
Scaring Women at Night | Karimah Zakia Issa | Canada | 2022
Shallots and Garlic | Bawang Merah dan Bawang Putih | Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto | Canada | 2022
Simo | Aziz Zoromba | Canada | 2022
So I Married Myself | Amen Jafri | Canada | 2022
Song for the New World | Chanson pour le nouveau monde | Miryam Charles | Canada | 2022
Spirit Emulsion | Siku Allooloo | Canada | 2021
Tibi | Jarrett Twoyoungmen | Canada | 2022
Waiting for Lolo | En attendant Lolo | Jules Ronfard | Canada | 2022
What's the World Coming To? | Richard Wallace | United States | 1926

## References[edit]

1. ^ Saxberg, Lynn (January 28, 2020). "Ottawa to host new international film festival this March". Ottawa Citizen.
2. ^ Jean Baptiste, Christine. "Make way for the first International Film Festival of Ottawa". Capital Current. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
3. ^ Donato, Sofia (July 20, 2020). "Calling movie buffs — the IFFO Screen Summit starts today". Ottawa Life. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
4. ^ "Wildhood Opens IFFO". Northern Stars, February 11, 2022.

## External links[edit]

* Official website