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Pendance is an independent film festival supported by a bevy of great sponsors and key artists in the Canadian film community. We exist to give a serious platform to innovative storytellers and to spark a new love affair with cinema among modern audiences starving for truth and meaning on the big screen. Our slogan ‘Story Over Everything’ effectively sums up our event in eight syllables.The festival was founded by composer Andjelika Javorina & director Robert Misovic in 2017. The festival has seen a rapid rise as one of the world's most tightly-curated film festivals, home to 37 Canadian premieres in 2019.

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<DIV>A short block of a horrific, disturbing, thoughtful shorts from around the world. This is our most Canadian short block ever, featuring four young Canadian talents. <BR><BR>BEFORE MIDNIGHT | 8:00PM | JACKMAN HALL AGO | FEB 20</DIV>
<DIV>IT’S NOTHING – ANNA MAGUIRE / 16’</DIV>
<DIV>SUNSET CHANNEL – MATTHEW KINAHAN/ 17’</DIV>
<DIV>OSLO – SHADY SROUR/ 15’</DIV>
<DIV>NEW WOMAN- BENJAMIN NOAH/ 19’</DIV>
<DIV>DREAMCATCHER – MICHAEL ALEXANDER UCCELLO/ 7’</DIV>
<DIV>NIMIC – JORGOS LANTHIMOS / 13’</DIV>
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<H3>It’s Nothing<BR><SPAN>ANNA MAGUIRE | CANADA/UK | 16′<BR></SPAN><SPAN>Recent graduate, Robin, returns to her parents’ house and obsessively starts to dig a hole, encouraged by an impossibly perfect girl; but as she digs, she heads further down a path of self-destruction.</SPAN></H3>
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<H3>The Sunset Channel<BR><SPAN>MATTHEW KINAHAN | CANADA | 17′<BR></SPAN><SPAN>A housebound man thinks he might be the only witness of a disturbing event on his television.</SPAN></H3>
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<H3><BR>Oslo<BR><SPAN>SHADY SROUR | ISRAEL | 15′<BR></SPAN><SPAN>Ziad, a Palestinian day laborer, is denied entry into Israel for work that day. Not wanting to return home empty-handed after promising his daughter meat for dinner, he needs to get creative. A poetic and tragic reflection on the everyday struggle of Palestinian breadwinners.</SPAN></H3>
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<H3>New Woman<BR><SPAN>BENJAMIN NOAH | CANADA | 19′<BR></SPAN><SPAN>A gothic tale concerning a male pickpocket and a wealthy woman descending into a labyrinth of terror in 1888.</SPAN></H3>
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<H3>Dreamcatcher<BR><SPAN>MICHAEL ALEXANDER UCCELLO | CANADA | 7′<BR></SPAN><SPAN>Julia, victim to multiple psychological disorders, must survive the night without her prescribed sedatives. In and out of sleep, the only thing protecting her sanity is the Dreamcatcher.</SPAN></H3>
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<H3>Nimic<BR><SPAN>YORGOS LANTHIMOS | USA, GERMANY | 12′<BR></SPAN><SPAN>Festival favourite Yorgos Lanthimos returns to short film with this portrait of a professional cellist. An encounter with a stranger on the subway has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.</SPAN></H3>
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