Boxcutter preceded by Bonnarien

BOXCUTTER 

2024 | Drama |  Canada | In English with Subtitles | 88 min

After his laptop is stolen, an aspiring rapper goes on a quest across the gentrifying streets of Toronto to recover his music in time for a potentially life-changing meeting with a Grammy Award-winning producer.

Content Advisory: Violence, coarse language

Stay after the screening for a special talkback with Reza Dahya, Soko Negash, Ashton James, ZOE, and Viphusan Vani.

DIRECTOR

Reza Dahya is known for his work as a host and producer of OTA Live on FLOW 93.5 FM in Toronto. He transitioned into filmmaking with his short films, ESHA, FIVE DOLLARS and THE WORST PART and recently completed his debut feature, BOXCUTTER.

BONNARIEN

Canadian Premiere

2023 | Drama | French Guiana | In French with English subtitles | 21 min

Mauricette Bonnarien, a dock worker at the French Guiana port of Dégrad-des-Cannes, is a slam poet who is determined to change her last name from the colonial name that was imposed onto her ancestors. Struggling against the inefficiency of French bureaucracy, Mauricette instead uses her craft of slam poetry to begin the process of healing this long-standing generational trauma.

DIRECTOR

Adiel Goliot is a French screenwriter, filmmaker and slam poetry artist. Goliot was the French slam-poet winner in 2020 and a semi-finalist in the 2021 Slam World competition. He also gives writing and slam workshops in prisons and schools and is currently developing a new short film about the world of incarceration. BONNARIEN is his first short film.

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