A celebration and forum of diverse filmmaking and storytelling from around the world. The 2021 Mosaic Film Festival received 30+ film sbmissions from more than 15 countries around the world!
The festival was fully virtual which means viewers enjoyed all the films from the comfort of their own home.
Kevin Smokler & Christopher Boone
Country: United States
Synopsis: A documentary dig into the resurgence of vinyl records, the diversification of vinyl fans, and the connective power of music.
Salar Pashtoonyar
Country: Canada
Synopsis: Shot on location in Kabul, Afghanistan. Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses in order to save her job.
Julian Filigno
Country: Canada
Synopsis: A sensational crime story is at the center of three disconnected narratives: a self-destructive driver, a violent family of three, and the relationship between a quiet warehouse worker and her boss.
Evgeny Gavrilov
Country: Canada
Synopsis: Modernism negates concepts of the past. It crushes traditions. It searches for new forms and ways to reflect the present, to restructure the world we know, and to cut off everything that is unnecessary and leads to simplicity and functionality.
More than a hundred years ago, Aleksey Gastev envisioned utopia in his book Express. A Siberian Phantasy, which portrayed the great cities of the future. In it, Novosibirsk is presented as a city of steel, Stal-Gorod, a high-tech and perfect urban space. The whole of Siberia could become such a space. However, only a few artefacts of this legacy remain today.
Joe Chang
Country: Canada
Synopsis: A young Nurse Amy, unaware of the severity of the virus, going to work alone, while millions of people don masks as the infection travels through the population. The nurse comes to realize the patient she is tasked with taking care of, is not a run-of-the-mill case, but is a matter of life and death.
I want to make this film as a tribute to the sacrifices health care workers make for us. They are ordinary people, but they are extra-ordinary, too modest to call themselves heroes, not seeing themselves as life-saving angels. Completely altruistic, they put themselves in danger to take to care for us. They are in my eyes – Angels.
The nightmare of the pandemic continues, leaving a mark that will never be erased from our collective memory.
