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KALIL HADDAD is an experimental filmmaker based in Toronto. He has written, directed, and edited over a dozen short films including: Tiger Eats a Baby (20), The Beautiful Room is Empty (20), The Taking of Jordan (22), and His Smell (23). His films have played at Indie Memphis, Kasseler Dokfest, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, London Short Film Festival, Images Festival, Onion City Experimental, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.



MUSCLE MONSTERS

2023  |  4:39  |  English

Advice, man to man.

Screenings:
  • Cinema Variety Hour (Toronto, 2023)
  • Millennium Film Workshop (Brooklyn, 2023)
  • Sun Pass Film Festival (Miami, 2024)
  • Kasseler Dokfest (Kassel, 2024)

[Currently playing festivals]




PAUL AND EILEEN HAD FOUR CHILDREN

2023  |  11:51  |  English

A remembrance of things past.


Screenings:
  • WNDX (Winnipeg, 2023)
  • Film Diary (NYC, 2024)
  • Fleapit (Halifax, 2024)
  • New Year/New Work FF (NYC, 2024)
  • Pebbles Underground (Digital, 2024)
  • Insomniac Film Festival (Toronto, 2024)

[Currently playing festivals]




HIS SMELL

2023  |  13:54  |  English

Starring Sebastian Neme

Sebastian’s roommate is away for the weekend...


Screenings:
  • Fringe! (London, 2023)
  • Indie Memphis (Digital, 2023)
  • Festival CinemaZERO (Trento, 2023)
  • Saint Bimbo (Brooklyn, 2023)
  • Wicked Queer (Boston, 2024)
  • Millennium Film Workshop (Brooklyn, 2024)
  • Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal, 2024)

[Currently playing festivals]




THE TAKING OF JORDAN (ALL AMERICAN BOY)

2022  |  7:39  |  English

Jordan, an amateur adult performer, recalls the horror of his many former lives.


Screenings:
  • Cinema Variety Hour (Toronto, 2022)
  • Flickers (Brooklyn, 2022)
  • WNDX (Winnipeg, 2022)
  • EUREKA (Bogotá, 2022)
  • Millennium Film Workshop (Brooklyn, 2022)
  • Onion City Experimental Film Festival (Chicago, 2023)
  • Wicked Queer (Boston, 2023)
  • Saint Bimbo (Brooklyn, 2023)
  • Images Festival (Toronto, 2023)
  • Sohome Horror Pride (London, 2023)
  • Festival du Film de Fesses (Paris, 2023)
  • IFC Centre (NYC, 2023)
  • LesGaiCineMad (Madrid, 2023)
  • London Short Film Festival (London, 2024)
  • Spectacle (Brooklyn, 2024)
  • Le Sigh (Toronto/Digital, 2024)
  • Double Wonderful @ ICA (London, 2024)
  • The Film-Makers’ Cooperative (NYC, 2024)
  • Queer City Cinema Film Festival (Regina, 2024)

Exhibitions:
  • “Going Nowhere: Three Velocities” (Mexico City, 2022)
  • “Indexing Resistance: The Blood & Guts of Queer Protest in Canada” (Toronto, 2022)

Awards:
  • Jury Prize, Best of the Festival - Onion City Experimental Film Festival





VAMPIRES DRINK BLOOD... I DRINK SORROW

2021  |  5:43  |  English

Starring Kalil Haddad and Josiah Dyck

A love story at the end of time.


Screenings:
  • Eyesore Cinema (Toronto, 2021) 
  • Bleeding Edge (Toronto,  2022)
  • Fleapit (Halifax,  2023)
  • Pratt Institute (NYC, 2023)





THE BOYS OF SUMMER

2021  |  5:22  |  English

Some fun in the sun.


Screenings:
  • Volvox Vault (Digital, 2021)
  • Fleapit (Halifax,  2023)
  • Millennium Film Workshop (Brooklyn, 2023)




HONEYPOT

2021  |  3:42  |  English

Boys will be boys.

Screenings:
  • Volvox Vault (Digital, 2021)
  • Millennium Film Workshop (Brooklyn, 2023)




THE BEAUTIFUL ROOM IS EMPTY

2020  |  19:45  |  English

Marie, a retired elementary school principle, must confront spaces both concrete and virtual, as she attempts to navigate the ghosts of her childhood.


Screenings:
  • Toronto Palestine Film Festival (Toronto, 2020)
  • DARC (Ottawa, 2022) 
  • Kasseler Dokfest (Kassel, 2022)
  • Reelout (Kingston, 2023)
  • VIVO (Vancouver, 2023)

Exhibitions:
  • “Four Works” (Toronto, 2020)






TIGER EATS A BABY

2020  |  23:01  |  English

Starring Cairns Nolan, Everett Major, and Sophy Romvari

Accompanied by his young cub, an orphaned stray roams industrial landscapes, longing for the return of his one true companion.

Screenings:
  • QFest Houston (Houston, 2020) 
  • New Year/New Work FF (NYC, 2023)
  • Cinema Variety Hour (Toronto, 2023)




Other works include: Farm Boy (2019), As I Sat in His Car... (2018), Liam & Kiki (2017), and Late Night Delight (2017).

Kalil Haddad, 2024