Drive Back Home

Drive Back Home

In the winter of 1970, a cantankerous, small town plumber from rural New Brunswick, must drive his beat-up work truck 1000 miles to Toronto to get his estranged, gay brother out of jail after being arrested for having sex in a public park. The two men are then forced to drive back home together at the behest of their hard-nosed mother before they kill each other. Inspired by a true story.

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First Snow

Canadian Showcase

A boy’s journey from desert sands to the land of ice and snow.

FIRST SNOW is a short animated film based on the true story of director Kirsten Kosloski’s family. The film chronicles her father’s childhood immigration to Canada from Iraq and the experience of witnessing his first Canadian snowfall. In 1953, her Kirsten’s father arrived in Thunder Bay, Ontario with his family. Growing up in the desert, the boy had never seen snow, experienced cold or the changing of the seasons. Upon arrival, during an unseasonably cold Autumn, to the boy’s surprise, the sky “started to fall.” This animated film looks at immigration from the perspective of a child and how the idea of foreignness can manifest itself in surprising ways.

5 Mins 14s
Canada, 2024
Dir. Kirsten Kosloski
Language: English

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