Snip (2016)

Original title

SNIP

Directed by

Terril Calder

Country

Canada

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like this

How it feels

Two Indigenous children from the present day travel back in time to try to rescue a pair of siblings from a residential school. The story uses animation to show a journey across time that confronts historical trauma.

poignanthopefulurgentsomberdreamliketemporalreflectiveserious

What happens

Snip is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Terril Calder and released in 2016. Released as a tie-in to Joseph Boyden's novella Wenjack, the film centres on two contemporary indigenous children, Annie and Gordon, who travel back in time in an effort to save two other children, Charlie and Niska, from the Indian residential school system. The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2016. It was subsequently screened at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in 2017, where it received an honorable mention from the short film jury in the Generation 14Plus program of youth films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• WaaPaKe (2024)
• Harvey (2023)
• The Book of Distance (2020)
• The Brother
• The Little Ancestor (2024)
• The Second Mother (2015)
• Entropic Memory
• Madeleine (2023)
• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.