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Official Selection 9: BAD HABITS
Every day, we perform routine actions that become involuntary habits. From shoddy grammar to compulsive quilting, suicidal birds to homicidal impulses, drug dependency to a new brand of talk therapy, breaking a bad habit is hard work.
| Fear of Snakes |
| Lorna Crozier's elegant poem comes to life on a summer's day as a young girl remembers the horror of seeing a snake killed and loses her fear of serpents. |
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| Herbert White |
| Award winning actor James Franco (MILK, SPIDERMAN) makes his directorial debut with his screenplay adaption of a Frank Bidart poem. Herb (Michael Shannon, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD) is a quiet family man who works at a logging company. The ominous monotony of his life keeps you on the edge of your seat, waiting for the other shoe to drop. |
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| Missed Aches |
| Written and narrated by Taylor Mali, four time winner of the National Poetry Slam championships, this dirty ditty animates text and plays up phonetics with hilarious results. A witty commentary on ignorance, idiocy and our overreliance on spell check. |
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| Redemption |
| Jaffa and Zig are two Maori teens who spend their time in a drugged-out oblivion. The reasons behind their drug use become obvious in the bedroom where they try to heal each other's wounds. A visceral drama that is as sexy as it is tragic. |
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| Patchwork |
| The Quilting Guild of Saguenay Quebec has a new president: a force of nature determined to use the guild and its members for nefarious branding purposes. A humorous moc-doc that captures capitalistic and corporate interests infiltrating the sacred domain of granny's quilting circle. |
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| The Lighthouse |
| A flock of gulls swarms a lighthouse forcing its keeper to make decisions that do more harm than good. A dark animation about life's absurdity, futility, and disconnect between the best of intentions and the cruel outcome of destiny. |
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| Happiness is Hate Therapy |
| Joe attends hate therapy twice a week. The group is small, but they have a lot of hate to spew. A comedy that gets funnier as the complaints get crustier. One person's hate is another person's happiness! |
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| 59/184/84 |
| A perpetually miserable academic has fixed ideas about everything: the ideal woman, love, suicide, and internet etiquette. He decides he would rather be with someone than be alone - if anyone will have him, that is. A personal ad full of venom, honesty and dark humour. |
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