Nostalgia and Loss

Name: Nostalgia and Loss
Start: 2025-11-09
End: 2025-11-09
Location: Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas - Aud 10

After the COVID lockdowns, a Chinese businessman living in Canada returns home, only to confront the painful truth of infidelity, alienation, and emotional separation.

Yilin Evan ZHU

Yilin Zhu is a Chinese filmmaker and media artist with an MFA from the University of Windsor. His work explores themes of intimate relationships, politics, disaster, and human-machine ethics, blending experimental cinema with philosophical inquiry to address the emotional and political dimensions of human existence.

Presented as Part Of PROGRAM #11 – BE HEARD (NOV. 9)

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Credits

Shean Chow/Rawad Kansoun

Grayson Xuan, Heyang Liu, Yanran Sun, Elena Zhang

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This year, VAFF FESTIVAL, screening programs in person and virtual will be organized into various series in order to better highlight the diverse content in our festival. These Series include Spotlight Series, Documentary Features Series, Narrative Features Series, Westcoast Shorts Series, Canadian Shorts Series, International Short Series, Animation Series, VAFF Industry Insight Series and Special Events.

Nostalgia and Loss

Presented as Part Of PROGRAM #11 – BE HEARD (NOV. 9)

Haru-tsuge Fish and Fu-rai Boy

Year of the Dragon

In the Room

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