Dominique Keller
SEND AND RECEIVE
A documentary about the relationship between international postal workers and their clients.
Dominique Keller is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and show runner whose work has been recognized on international stages. Her films have premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Documentary Edge Festival (New Zealand), and DOXA (Vancouver). Her work has also represented Canada at the Beijing Imperial Museum and the Shanghai World Expo. Dominique’s recent feature documentary Love: The Last Chapter (NFB co-production) earned her an AMPIA award for both writing and directing, while her APTN series Rodeo Nation won Best Documentary Series. She is currently working as the writer, executive producer, and showrunner on Season Two of the hit APTN series Horse Warriors.
Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein
WORLD AT STAKE
A golfer fails to strike, a soccer team plays against itself and a rally co-driver experiences an identity crisis – all while an audience looks on, unable to intervene. Shot within sports video games, WORLD AT STAKE inverts the usual logic of victory and defeat, exploring the tension between individual agency and collective passivity. In the shadow of catastrophe, a pervasive sense of political powerlessness lingers. Nothing less than the world is at stake.
Susanna Flock (AT) explores body-tech relations and internet culture via video. She shows internationally, has won multiple awards, and is part of the collective Total Refusal since 2020. Jona Manuel Kleinlein (AT), born in 1993 in Stuttgart, films, edits, and creates in digital and analog worlds and lives and works in Northern Norway. Adrian Jonas Haim (AT), born in 1991 in Vienna, studied Political Science & Experimental Game Cultures and makes film, music, and politics in Vienna; programs for film festivals.
Daniel Evan Ta
SKYFALL
This animated short follows a lone traveler's surreal voyage across an empty expanse of water towards self-discovery. As he drifts through this mysterious world, he encounters fantastical structures and beings that reflect the emotional and personal challenges of his life.
Daniel Ta is an animator and artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. Growing up with a strong interest in drawing and visual storytelling, he spent years experimenting with illustration and motion before deciding to pursue animation more seriously. SKYFALL is his first completed short film and marks his debut. The project began as a school assignment in the exploration of surreality and motion, eventually developing into a fully realized animated short. Daniel is currently continuing to expand his skills in animation and hopes to create future projects that further explore the connection between art, storytelling, and emotion.
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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