The AIFF Online Field Guide: Sept 18-22
Eight days, and more than 100 films; there’s so much to fit into one festival week! Take it easy this weekend and catch up on screenings you might have missed—from the comfort of your home. Select Atlantic Canadian features and shorts are available until Sunday, September 22 via our virtual festival. AIFF Online can only be accessed from Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
AIFF Online is your chance to stream exciting new films before they’ve even finished their festival run. Access everything with a festival pass, or rent individual films. Here are a few recommendations to get you started.
Lakeview
Couldn’t get a ticket to the sold-out premiere of Tara Thorne’s instantly-iconic Lakeview?
Catch this vibrant queer ensemble comedy on AIFF Online. Lakeview spotlights the lives and loves of a close-knit group of friends, convened for a girls’ weekend to mark a transformative divorce. The film captures both the excitement of newfound freedom and the bittersweet nostalgia of letting go.
Reel East Coast Shorts
A much-anticipated part of the festival every year is the Reel East Coast Shorts Gala, which spotlights talent from the Atlantic region—from emerging voices to AIFF legends. Almost all of these diverse, compelling new short films are available to stream on AIFF Online.
Sweet Angel Baby
This year’s AIFF Atlantic Gala Film was Newfoundland filmmaker Melanie Oates’ Sweet Angel Baby.
Watch it on AIFF Online, straight from its screenings at AIFF and TIFF. Eliza is the local sweetheart of her seaside town, but her neighbours don’t know about the other side of herself she shares online. Centred around a vivid performance from Michaela Kurminsky (Firecrackers), Sweet Angel Baby reckons with small-town politics in an increasingly connected world.
Seguridad
This intensely intimate doc from Tamara Segura received the AIFF DGC Award for Best Documentary. Seguridad searches through family interviews, photos and archival footage to uncover a family secret. Through the story of her estranged father and his connection to the Cuban Revolution, Segura finds for herself a complicated path to healing.
These are just some of the films available on AIFF Online — the program also includes Pamela Gallant’s gripping narrative debut Monica’s News, Kevin Hartford’s heartfelt dramedy To The Moon, rousing short films from other Shorts Programmes, and more. See you online!