BFF 2024: The Uncomfort Zone + Q&A

When change is thrust upon us, it can be terrifying. When the world around us demands transformation, will we conform to outdated expectations or embrace the challenge and forge a new path?

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ABOUT THE FILMS

SWEET LIME Dir. Fatema Abdoolcarim

After eavesdropping on an intimate conversation, Amra is catapulted into a space between childhood innocence and adult reality, and must choose whether to reveal a tragedy she has discovered.

THE FUTURE ABOVE US Dir. Vanessa Magic

After a cosmic disaster leaves earth virtually empty, a hopeful yet sombre woman experiencing pareidolia who yearns to find connection must decide what lengths she will go to for companionship.

REMEMBERING ME Dir. Abigail Whitney

Twenty years ago, a mother bought a camcorder and began filming her family's life. Now, two decades later, her daughter digitizes these tapes for the first time. Through never-before-seen family footage, mother and daughter trace their forgotten memories, continuing the legacy started all those years ago.

BECOMING Dir. McKenna Pipher

Becoming is a playful frame-by-frame 2D digital animation with analog watercolour backgrounds that explores the way Trans people come to be in our bodies more fully through transition.

GOOD BOY Dir. Nikita Zhang, Yvette Sin

乖仔

When a troubled boy is suspended from school, he spends the week with his oddball immigrant grandma who teaches him how to collect cans - and how to cry.

NINTH STEP Dir. Nelie Diverlus

When the ninth step of his “second chance” program involves reconciling with the same friend that sold him out, a recently incarcerated man is forced to discover the bounds of love and forgiveness.

BASIC TRAINING Dir. Lucy Cameron

A shy, idealistic teenager enlists in the Canadian Armed Forces, but soon after arriving at basic training he begins to lose his grip on reality.

MY INDEPENDENCE DAY Dir. Constanza Majluf

Seven-year-old Manuela dreams of winning the "best folkloric dress" contest in the commemoration of Independence Day at her school. Meanwhile, her brother Gabo (16) takes the risk of protesting in the streets for the plebiscite that will put end to the dictatorship of Chile in 1988.

LEVELED Dir. Sara Rangooni

On a day like no other, Safa embarks on a journey to not only help her mother who is sick with cancer but races against time in pursuit of her dreams, despite the levels of cultural stigma and islamophobia from her family and community.

THE SKATES Dir. Halima Ouardiri

Les patins

Mina loves to skate. Today, her father, recently divorced from her mother, accompanies her to her first figure skating lesson. An ordinary day if something hadn't happened to the skates.