Theodore Ushev Movies
- 2024

Universal Language
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Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get...
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- 2016

Blind Vaysha
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From the moment she was born, Vaysha was a very special girl. With her left eye she can only see into the past, and with her right she can only see...
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- 2019

The Physics of Sorrow
The Physics of Sorrow7.62019HD
Tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic...
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- 2019

The Twentieth Century
The Twentieth Century6.22019HD
Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will...
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- 2017

四季
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A Japanese-produced animated film using Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons as its soundtrack. The four seasons all have separate animation directors. Its...
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- 2023

Phi 1.618
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In a dystopian future, a nation of bio-titans has been created and the female sex and procreation have become obsolete. As the Earth turns toxic, the...
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- 2007

Tzaritza
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This animated short by Theodore Ushev combines warmth, humour and magic in a story about a young girl who misses her grandmother. When Lili finds a...
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- 2018

8' 19"
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8 minutes and 19 seconds – that’s all the time we have until the news about the death of the sun reaches us. That's what it takes for the...
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- 2013

Reflection
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Reflection is an exploration of Montreal through an abstract lens. Director Sylvie Trouvé examines how reflected images pervade our...
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- 2020

The One-Minute Memoir
The One-Minute Memoir02020HD
When Academy Award®–winning animator and painter Joan Gratz asked eleven filmmakers if they would contribute to an omnibus film, she...
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- 2012

Apart
Apart72012HD
A woman writes a letter that will be read by a man in prison. A letter full of love, worry, compassion, suffering and hope. Freedom for Jafar Panahi,...
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- 2013

Gloria Victoria
Gloria Victoria5.72013HD
Theodore Ushev’s acclaimed 20th century trilogy concludes with this brilliant fusion of 3D and Russian constructivist-styled animation....
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- 2006

The Man Who Waited
The Man Who Waited5.22006HD
For his entire life, a man has waited outside a closed door. What lies behind? The truth he seeks or another door?
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- 2012

Nightingales in December
Nightingales in December6.32012HD
This metaphorical surrealist tale is an allusion. NIGHTINGALES IN DECEMBER is a trip into the memories, and the fields of the current realities. What...
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- 2010

Lipsett Diaries
Lipsett Diaries62010HD
A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted...
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- 2023

The Wolf
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An old man is chasing a wolf pack. A little wolf survives, but eventually will return. Who will win - the wolf or the man?
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- 2025

Life with an Idiot
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As a punishment for not working hard enough, “I” is forced by the authorities to live with an idiot. He chooses Vova from a lunatic...
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- 2006

Tower Bawher
Tower Bawher5.82006HD
This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the...
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- 2018

The Subject
The Subject5.42018HD
An animator dissects his own body, extracting memories, emotions and fears that will nurture his work. As he cuts into his skin, various symbolic...
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- 2010

Yannick Nézet Séguin: No Intermission
Yannick Nézet Séguin: No Intermission02010HD
From the NFB: He is a young man; an optimist drawn to dark music and the themes of death and suffering. Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin...
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