The International Film Festival of Ottawa (IFFO) is an international film festival, staged in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, organized by the Canadian Film Institute that was to hold its inaugural edition from March 25 to March 29, 2020. The festival, launched as a replacement for the defunct Ottawa International Film Festival, was to present 20 feature films and 20 short films and to be held at the Ottawa Art Gallery and other venues in downtown Ottawa.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the 2020 festival was not staged as planned; however, over the next several months the Canadian Film Institute organized and hosted a number of online talks and workshops under the Screen Summit banner. The festival was staged online in 2021, and launched its first in-person edition in March 2022."Wildhood Opens IFFO". Northern Stars, February 11, 2022.
The festival principally screens recent Canadian and international feature films, although each year's program also includes one or two historically or artistically significant films from the history of Canadian cinema. Most films screen along with a thematically related short film as an opener, although a few films screen alone and are instead followed by a talk with the filmmaker. The 2023 and 2024 editions of the festival both included a selection of early-cinema short films centred on women, under the "Cinema's First Nasty Women" banner.
Films
2021 Feature films English title Original title Director(s) Production country Year Amanita Pestilens René Bonnière Canada 1963 Andrey Tarkovsky, A Cinema Prayer Andrey A. Tarkovsky Italy, Russia, Sweden 2019 Beans Tracey Deer Canada 2020 Coalesce Les Affluents Jessé Miceli Cambodia, France 2020Downstream to Kinshasa En route pour le milliard Dieudo Hamadi Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Belgium 2020 Golden Voices Evgeny Ruman Israel 2019 It Must Be Heaven Elia Suleiman France, Canada, Palestine, Turkey 2019 Last Days of Spring La última primavera Isabel Lamberti Netherlands, Spain 2020Little Ballerinas Petites danseuses Anne-Claire Dolivet France 2020Love Can't Wait El Amor no puede esperar Juan Carlos Carrasco Mexico 2019 Mouthpiece Patricia Rozema Canada 2018 My Name Is Baghdad Meu nome é Bagda Caru Alves de Souza Brazil 2020 No Ordinary Man Chase Joynt, Aisling Chin-Yee Canada 2020 Passage Sarah Baril Gaudet Canada 2020The Seeds We Sow Les graines que l'on sème Nathan Nicholovitch France 2020 Shiva Baby Emma Seligman Canada, United States 2020A State of Madness Mis 500 Locos Leticia Tonos Dominican Republic 2020There Is No Evil شیطان وجود ندارد Mohammad Rasoulof Iran 2020 Welcome to the USA Assel Aushakimova Kazakhstan 2019 Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine Alex Piperno Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Netherlands, Philippines 2020You Will Die at Twenty ستموت في العشرين Amjad Abu Alala Sudan 2019
Short films English title Original title Director(s) Production country YearAin't No Time for Women Y'a pas d'heure pour les femmes) Sarra El Abed Canada 2021 The Archivists Igor Drljaca 2020 Beehives Luca Fiore 2020 Body So Fluorescent David Di Giovanni 2020 Brave Little Army Michelle D'Alessandro Hatt 2020 Caribou in the Archive Jennifer Dysart 2019 Delphine Chloé Robichaud 2019 Every Day's Like This Lev Lewis 2020 Expo Film (This Film Is My Memory) Penny McCann 2019 Goodbye Papi Jed Nabwangu 2021Healing Bells Sokinaa' Passkaan Aassisstoi Taylor Crowspreadshiswings 2020Hibiscus Season La saison des hibiscus Éléonore Goldberg 2020 Highway to Heaven Sandra Ignagni 2019 Modern Whore Nicole Bazuin 2020 Now Is the Time Christopher Auchter 2019Once the Dust Has Settled Une fois la poussière retombée Hervé Demers 2020 Point and Line to Plane Sofia Bohdanowicz 2020 Regret Santiago Menghini 2020 The Shape I Think Nik Sheehan 1995Shooting Star Comme une comète Ariane Louis-Seize 2020 Still Processing Sophy Romvari 2020 Stump the Guesser Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson 2020
2022 Feature films English title Original title Director(s) Production country YearAir Conditioner Ar Condicionado Fradique Angola 2020 All My Puny Sorrows Michael McGowan Canada 2021Aloners Honja Saneun Salamdeul Hong Sung-eun South Korea 2021Ballad of a White Cow Ghasideyeh gave sefid Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moqadam Iran 2020Bipolar 只是一次偶然的旅行 Queena Li China 2021Bloody Oranges Oranges sanguines Jean-Christophe Meurisse France 2021Le Cercle Rouge Jean-Pierre Melville France 1972Commitment Hasan Bağlılık Hasan Semih Kaplanoğlu Turkey 2021Dream Life La vie rêvée Mireille Dansereau Canada 1972Gagarine Gagarin Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh France 2020The Hill Where Lionesses Roar La colline où rugissent les lionnes Luàna Bajrami France, Kosovo 2021 Kubrick by Kubrick Gregory Monro France 2020 Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege Abdallah Al-Khatib France 2021Mariner of the Mountains O marinheiro das montanhas Karim Aïnouz Brazil, France 2021 Marvelous and the Black Hole Kate Tsang United States 2021 Medusa Anita Rocha da Silveira Brazil 2021 Murina Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović Croatia 2021 Nouveau-Québec Sarah Fortin Canada 2021 Nudo Mixteco Ángeles Cruz Mexico 2021 Queendom Marco Novoa, Simon Vivier France 2021The Replacement El sustituto Óscar Aibar Spain 2021 Shortbus John Cameron Mitchell United States 2006Silent Land Cicha Ziemia Aga Woszczyńska Poland 2021Social Hygiene Hygiène sociale Denis Côté Canada 2021 Souad Ayten Amin Egypt 2021 The Twentieth Century Matthew Rankin Canada 2019Under the Weather William D. MacGillivray Canada 2020We're All in This Together Katie Boland Canada 2021The Whaler Boy Kitoboy Philipp Yuryev Russia, Poland, Belgium 2020Wildhood Bretten Hannam Canada 2021 Yuni Kamila Andini Indonesia 2021
Short films English title Original title Director(s) Production country YearActing Out Jean-Sébastien Beaudoin Gagnon Canada 2020Amani Alliah Fafin Canada 2020Bleach Mattias Graham Canada 2021Bump Maziyar Khatam Canada 2022Each Other L'un l'autre Clara Prévost Canada 2021Fanmi Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Carmine Pierre-Dufour Canada 2021The First Goodbye Ali Mashayekhi Canada 2020Flower Boy Anya Chirkova Canada 2021Girls Shouldn't Walk Alone at Night Les filles ne marchent pas seules la nuit Katerine Martineau Canada 2020The Horses Liz Cairns Canada 2020Like the Ones I Used to Know Les Grands claques Annie St-Pierre Canada 2021Little Bird Tim Myles Canada 2021A Man and His Murals Adam Bowman Canada 2021Nalujuk Night Jennie Williams Canada 2021Personals Sasha Argirov Canada 2021The Pond, at Night L'Étang, la nuit Olivia Boudreau Canada 2020Preacher Mark Corless Canada 2022The Project Tresor Lubamba Canada 2021Sledgehammer Kyle Marchen Canada 2021The Southern Wind Aucéane Roux Canada 2021Telos or Bust Brad Abrahams United States 2021Together Albert Shin Canada, South Korea 2021Untitled (Moiroloi) Guillaume Saindon Canada 2022The Untouchable Avazeh Shahnavaz Canada 2021A Void Dominique van Olm Canada 2021
2023 Feature films English title Original title Director(s) Production country Year Balaban Aysulu Onaran Kazakhstan 2022 Bones of Crows Marie Clements Canada 2022 Carajita Silvina Schnicer, Ulises Porra Guardiola Dominican Republic, Argentina 2021 The Christmas Setup Pat Mills Canada, United States 2020 The Code of Silence Una Femmina: The Code of Silence Francesco Costabile Italy 2022 Coyote Le Coyote Katherine Jerkovic Canada 2022 The Flag Alam Firas Khoury Palestine 2022 Fogareu Flávia Neves Brazil, France 2022 I Like Movies Chandler Levack Canada 2022 Ice Under His Feet Kirill Nenashev Russia 2022 The Maiden Graham Foy Canada 2022 A Male Un Varón Fabian Hernández Colombia 2022 Mandabi Le Mandat Ousmane Sembène Senegal 1968 Marcel! Jasmine Trinca Italy 2022 Maya Nilo (Laura) Lovisa Sirén Sweden, Finland, Belgium 2022 Meditation Park Mina Shum Canada 2017 Ordinary Failures Běžná selhání Cristina Groşan Czech Republic 2022 Phi 1.618 Theodore Ushev Bulgaria, Canada 2022 Plan 75 Chie Hayakawa Japan, Philippines, France, Qatar 2022 Queens of the Qing Dynasty Ashley McKenzie Canada 2022 R.M.N. Cristian Mungiu Romania, France, Belgium 2022 Return to Seoul Retour à Seoul Davy Chou France, Germany, Belgium, Cambodia 2022 Rush to Judgment Emile de Antonio United States 1967 Shimoni Angela Wanjiku Wamai Kenya 2022 Soft Joseph Amenta Canada 2022 Sonne Kurdwin Ayub Austria 2022 Tales from the Gimli Hospital Guy Maddin Canada 1988 Under the Fig Trees Taht alshajra Erige Sehiri Tunisia, France, Switzerland 2021 Until Tomorrow Ta farda Ali Asgari Iran, France, Qatar 2022 Vicenta B. Carlos Lechuga Cuba, Colombia, France, Norway 2022 We Are Still Here Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis, Chantelle Burgoyne Australia, New Zealand 2022 We Might As Well Be Dead Wir könnten genauso gut tot sein Natalia Sinelnikova Germany, Romania 2022 We Will Never Belong Nunca seremos parte Amelia Eloisa Mexico 2022 We Won't Kill Each Other with Guns Nosotros no nos mataremos con pistolas María Ripoll Spain 2022 When Night Is Falling Patricia Rozema Canada 1995 The Worst Ones Les Pires Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret France 2022
Short films English title Original title Director(s) Production country Year Adore Beth Warrian Canada 2022 Baba Anya Chirkova, Meran Ismailsoy Canada 2022 Blaze Brasier Émilie Mannering Canada 2022 Brown Enough Kent Donguines, Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto Canada 2021 Corners James Brylowski Canada 2022 Desi Standard Time Travel Kashif Pasta Canada 2022 Everything Will Be Alright Farhad Pakdel Canada 2022 A Feller and the Tree Kalainithan Kalaichelvan Canada 2022 The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg Sidney Olcott United States 1910 Grown in Darkness Devin Shears Canada 2022 Irninnu Unikaara Ipeelie Ootoova Canada 2022 Likeness Emily Diana Ruth Canada 2019 Meeting with Robert Dole Rencontre avec Robert Dole François Harvey Canada 2022 More Than Hair Plus que des cheveux Fitch Jean Canada 2021 Most of the Time We Are Just Waiting Molly Shears Canada 2022 Municipal Relaxation Module Matthew Rankin Canada 2022 The Night Rider Jay Hunt United States 1920 No Ghost in the Morgue Marilyn Cooke Canada 2022 N'xaxaitkw Asia Youngman Canada 2022 Ori Mi Agbe Ayunade Judah Canada 2021 Paco Kent Donguines Canada 2022 The Passing Jackson Harvey Canada 2022 Pro Pool Piscine pro Alec Pronovost Canada 2022 A Range Romance [unknown] United States 1911 The Red Girl and the Child James Young Deer United States 1910 Reply Elle Mills Canada 2022 Rocket Fuel Jessie Posthumus Canada 2022 Scaring Women at Night Karimah Zakia Issa Canada 2022 Shallots and Garlic Bawang Merah dan Bawang Putih Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto Canada 2022 Simo Aziz Zoromba Canada 2022 So I Married Myself Amen Jafri Canada 2022 Song for the New World Chanson pour le nouveau monde Miryam Charles Canada 2022 Spirit Emulsion Siku Allooloo Canada 2021 Tibi Jarrett Twoyoungmen Canada 2022 Waiting for Lolo En attendant Lolo Jules Ronfard Canada 2022 What's the World Coming To? Richard Wallace United States 1926
2024 Feature films