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ALFF Shorts: The Wild North

This screening took place on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:00 pmYukon Arts Centre

This program is not really appropriate for children under 12.

Credit to the Crow

DIR. EILA VALLEVAND, 2024, YUKON, 1 MIN 11 SEC

My Great Grandfathers Drum
Music : Jeremy Parkin

Genre: Animation, Short

Inkwo For When the Starving Return

DIR. AMANDA STRONG, 2024, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 18 MIN 

Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting warrior, discovers the gifts and burdens of their Inkwo (medicine) to defend against an army of hungry, ferocious monsters. Dove’s courage, resilience and alliance with the Earth culminates in a battle against these flesh-consuming creatures, who become stronger with each body and soul they devour. Inkwo for When the Starving Return is a call to action to fight and protect against the forces of greed around us.

Genre: Animation, Short

Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake

DIR. JAVIER BADILLO, 2024, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 4 MIN 30 SEC

Lupe doesn’t care about her abuela’s cooking lessons, she just wants to rock with her badass punk band. But when Lupe finds herself battling an alien monster with her band, her abuela's lessons will remind her that punk rock is more than just loud music, and connecting with her Latin roots may just save their lives.

Logline:
Aliens. Punk Rock. Corn Cakes. In space, only grandma's latin cooking will save you.

The Internet of Everything

DIR. YUSUF BEGG, 2024, ONTARIO, 8 MIN 25 SEC

In a world where every click, swipe, and search is harvested, Bill, a paranoid middle-aged man, becomes increasingly alarmed by the intrusive reach of technology. As devices seem to predict his every move, Bill's paranoia grows, and he devises a plan to disconnect from the digital grid entirely.

In his disconnected silence, he finds fleeting peace, but the outside world still hums with data and surveillance, raising unsettling questions about the price of convenience in the age of connectivity.

Genre: Fiction

Fistful of Vodka

DIR. ROBERT JOE, 2025, YUKON | 15 MIN

This ‘Bannock Western’ takes First Nation characters, stories, and settings and gives it a spaghetti western twist. In a rural town, a young, deadly hunter confronts a world-weary bootlegger. A story that could only be born from the dirt-rock roads of a Northern community. One of a kind, first of its kind. Winner of the 2023 ALFF Pitch Prize.

Genre: Western

Organza’s Revenge

DIR. WALTER SCOTT, 2024, QUEBEC, 20 MIN 25 SEC

Organza, a broke artist in a distant galaxy, travels across the stars to seek revenge on her ex-lover in an attempt to cure her mysterious illness. As she meets strange creatures such as museum curators and cyborg pop stars, she learns that perhaps vulnerability is more important than revenge, after all.

Genre: Animation

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