We’re back with our second annual holiday haiku roundup. This time, in anticipation of our upcoming issue on the topic of CANCON, we’re focusing on our favourite Canadian films of the year — seventeen syllables at a time.
AVA (dir. Sadaf Foroughi)
Not to be tested
A teenager in Tehran
Defies her constraints
You may be confused
The first time you watch Fausto
Fear not, try again
Fraternal conflict
Haida legend now on film
The Wild Man lives on
VESLEMØY’S SONG (dir. Sofia Bohdanowicz)
A violinist
Found in grandmother’s storage
Long live the archive
Why freeze in Quebec?
Florida is always warm
Bring the tanning oil
Magda and Sara
Under the same roof for now
Quiet in their loss
WHAT WALAA WANTS (dir. Christy Garland)
A young woman joins
Palestinian forces
Still, she is growing
Suburban T.O.
The fantastical occurs
Within one’s own mind
I dare you to find
A woman who has never
Fought with her mother
BLACK COP (dir. Cory Bowles)
Racially profiled
A young cop decides to say:
You know what, fuck you
Rural Canada
Friends, together, plot escape
What’s next is less clear
