Nora Rosenthal
Nora Rosenthal is a writer, filmmaker, and artist whose work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the NFB, and the Ontario Council for the Arts. She has participated in residencies through the Banff Centre, the RIDM, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, and UnionDocs in Brooklyn, NY. Formerly the Arts and Culture Editor at Cult MTL, her writing has appeared in Momus, MUBI’s Notebook, The Editorial Magazine and Documentary Magazine. Her short film Nine Easy Dances, nominated for Best Short Documentary by the International Documentary Association in 2024, has played at Visions du Réel, Dokufest Kosovo, and DOK Leipzig, among others, and screened at the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. Since graduating with her MFA in Film Production from York University, she continues to work with researchers at York, and as a filmmaker-mentor with Wapikoni mobile. Her first solo gallery show, Household Portrait, opened at OBORO in Montreal in 2026.
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Nine Easy Dances
Duration: 40 minutes
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A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
Nine Easy Dances
Duration: 40 minutes
Subscription access
A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
