Sunset Kino is Canada‘s only outdoor, avant-garde film festival. Founded by Séamus Kealy in Austria in 2017, this festival continues now at Oakville Galleries, featuring four evenings of curated videos and films.

This year‘s theme, “Everything is a Lie", ventures into themes of truth and fiction; reality and virtuality; distortion and propaganda; disinformation and representation; as well as how art, film, ideas and politics all intersect in a rapidly changing world.

For Art Address the focus was more on looking at the theme from a political lens, mostly through artistic expressions exploring incidents and events in near and distant past which are very much connected to the present, and has a connection to Canada either directly or indirectly. All four of the film makers have a unique way to tell stories, they bring to light critical topics, and often not so pleasant narratives, yet each of them has a very poetic and subtle way of taking us through them, highlighting the very human aspect of their subjects.

Presenting on July 4,2024 Art Address curated three shorts and an award winning feature documentary.

1)The first film is a 2008 short film by Jayce Salloum , from a series of films shot in war torn, Afghanistan - This film is the ninth instalment of Salloum’s series, untitled video tapes. Children in a rural school in Afghanistan tell jokes featuring a man named Mullah Nasreddin. The film questions whether, like a joke, a documentary can be an ordinary gesture linked to everyday life. 2) The second film - Auxiliary Mirrors, by Sanaz Sohrabi 2016 - Is an experimental video-essay, set around the ‘status of image’, Analyzes four sets of archival videos and images in order to investigate the role of cameras in formation of historical narratives and collective memory. Structured as an essay, it looks at the frame of an image as a container of space, bodies, and stories, once taken out of its chronological order , it gets reframed into another narrative. 3) Vibrations from Gaza, Rehab Nazzal (PS/CA), Created before October 2023 - This film offers a glimpse into the experiences of deaf children in the colonised and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine. Highlighting the everyday reality of the people there 4) Continuous Journey, Ali Kazimi, 2004, 87 minutes- This film is an inquiry into the largely ignored history of Canada’s exclusion of the South Asians by the immigration policy called the Continuous Journey Regulation of 1908.  This film thus challenges us to reflect on contemporary events, and question how the past shapes the present.