The International Film Festival of Ottawa announces its programming and schedule with Ann Marie Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness? opening the Festival on March 12, 2025, at the Ottawa Art Gallery with Fleming in attendance for a Q&A session about the film.
OTTAWA, 12 February 2025 - The International Film Festival of Ottawa (IFFO) unveils its film programming and schedule with Ann Marie Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness? set to open the Festival on March 12 at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Fleming will attend opening night to introduce the 2024 Canadian science fiction film that stars Keira Jang, Joel Oulette, and Ottawa’s very own Sandra Oh. Following the screening, Fleming will participate in a short Q&A session. The Canadian short film perfectly a strangeness, directed by filmmaker Alison McAlpine, will screen before Fleming’s feature at the Festival.
“Ann Marie Fleming is one of Canada’s most inventive, versatile, and original moving image storytellers,” says Tom McSorley, Executive Director of IFFO. “Her intelligence and independent spirit are beautifully captured in Can I Get A Witness?, a timely tale about where humanity may be heading.”
An award-winning independent filmmaker, writer and visual artist, Fleming has explored a wide range of formats and genres including documentary, animation, experimental film, and fiction. Her latest feature Can I Get a Witness? revolves around a mother (Oh) and daughter (Jang) living in a society that has agreed to preserve the planet, rejecting technological devices and ensuring that nobody is allowed to live past the age of 50. The film blends live-action footage and animation techniques to tell an imaginative tale of love and mortality.
Paired with Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness, the short film perfectly a strangeness explores what a story can be by following three donkeys as they discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. Both films were recently included in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Canada Top Ten lists for Canadian feature and short films.
IFFO 2025 runs from March 12 to March 23 and includes 25 feature films from 23 countries and 22 Canadian short films. IFFO passes and screening tickets are available to order in advance through the Festival’s box office.
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