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Solitudes (2025)

Solitudes poster
Directed by
Ryan McKenna
Genre
documentary
Country
Canada
Runtime
38 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A short film blending documentary and fiction. It follows two people as they form a new friendship while their personal family stories and larger official histories overlap.

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What happens

Solitudes is a 2025 Canadian short drama film, written edited and directed by Ryan McKenna. This film starring Erin Margurite Carter and Pirouz Nemati is a hybrid film between documentary and fiction, which explores a budding friendship and interweaves family history and official history. The film had its world premiere in the Concorso Corti d'Autore portion of the Pardi di Domani competition of the 78th Locarno Film Festival on 12 August 2025, where it was nominated for the Pardino d’Oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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