WITNESS: AN ORGANIMA FILM
Nik Arthur
05:30 | Canada | English
WITNESS: AN ORGANIMA FILM is an experimental animated short film that captures the sentience in small life-forms. Crafted with a novel animation approach that allows natural materials to guide their own story, the film urges the viewer to question the nature of human purpose and renew their childlike vision.
BREAKTHROUGH
Mide Kadiri
03:23 | Canada | English
BREAKTHROUGH follows the creation of our reality, the universe. It is a journey of change and presents a new understanding of the story of life on Earth from inception to the beyond.
IMPRINT
Duncan Major
04:00 | Canada | No Dialogue
At 13, Duncan Major met artist Tara Bryan, sparking a shared love of letterpress printing. Years later, he created IMPRINT – a poetic animated tribute using her tools and materials. Through vivid visuals and sound, the film celebrates how meaningful relationships leave lasting marks, like ink on paper.
PIDIKWE (RUMBLE)
Caroline Monnet
10:00 | Canada | No Dialogue
Featuring Indigenous women of various generations, PIDIKWE (RUMBLE) integrates traditional and contemporary dance that straddles the border between film and performance, somewhere between the past and the future.
About CIFF
The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is honored to celebrate the moving image and the powerful stories told around the world, most importantly, in this land traditionally known as Moh’kins’tsis, the territory of the Treaty 7 peoples: the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprising the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations; the Iyarhe Nakoda, which includes the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations; and the Tsuut’ina Nation. This territory is also the homeland of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Districts 5 and 6.
CIFF is the largest film festival in Alberta and among the largest in Canada. CIFF is an Academy Awards-qualifying festival, a Canadian Screen Awards-qualifying festival, and has consistently been named one of “50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee” by MovieMaker Magazine, most recently in 2025.
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