Program 25
TUESDAY
OCTOBER 13, 1:00PM

The Muse
Canada / Documentary / 17 mins
Director/Writer: Wanda Nolan
Producer: Liz Cowie (NFB), Rohan Fernando (NFB)
The Muse is a cross-cultural, cross-generational story about an unlikely relationship between a young Chinese fine-art photographer, Ting Ting Chen, and her muse and best friend, 74-year-old Robert Tilley. This short film celebrates art while challenging the preconceptions we bring to relationships between older men and younger women, to the immigrant contribution to our culture, and to the nature of memory.

Boys of Summer
United States / Documentary / 25 mins
Director: Annabel Edwards, Mito Habe-Evans
Producer: Tsering Bista, Razi Jafri
Boys of Summer is an NPR original documentary. The film follows two boys at a remote summer camp in the Vermont woods. Free from screens and societal expectations, they learn to open up, support one another, and redefine what it means to be a boy. Boys of Summer is a tender vérité portrait of vulnerability, friendship, and the quiet rebellion of feeling deeply in a world that often tells boys not to.

What Remains
France, United States / Documentary, Experimental / 13 mins
Director: Anne Juliette Checler
Writer: Anne Juliette Checler
Producers: Anne Juliette Checler
"What Remains" explores a daughter’s relationship with her mother as Alzheimer’s takes hold. Using her childhood dollhouse, home movies, audio recordings and the letters they exchanged over decades, the film uncovers what persists in the face of memory loss: love, music, connection and resilience.
