Elizabeth Lazebnik

Safe Room

Elizabeth Lazebnik

Dasha Bosaya, Henry Gotfryd

A semi-autobiographical film about a child’s experience in a safe room during the Gulf War.

Be Still

Elizabeth Lazebnik

Piercey Dalton, Daniel Arnold

Already a successful portrait photographer, Hannah sets to reinvent this art form. Abandoning herself to a creative process that might easily be mistaken for madness, she's soon visited by mirror images of herself, as well as her daughter's ghost. Inspired by the life of photographer Hannah Maynard (1834-1918).

Liompa

Elizabeth Lazebnik

Aleksey Serebryakov, Stepan Serebryakov

"Almost everything disappeared. How did it happen?" a man wonders on his deathbed. Elizabeth Lazebnik’s patient, poetic and supremely controlled film sensitively addresses the terrible thought that our pasts, our accomplishments, our families, and friends can be effaced by encroaching sickness and impending death.

Belonging

Elizabeth Lazebnik

Toronto's diverse culture and heritage are explored through a couple's belongings, juxtaposed with the neighborhood in which they live.