Joaquin Cardoner

Featured projects produced by Joaquin Cardoner

“A Parkdale apartment complex becomes a place of intrigue, desire, and deceit in this stunning mystery drama...Kyirong establishes herself as one of Canadian cinema’s most exciting new filmmakers.”
TIFF.net

100 Sunset

Kunsel is an introverted young woman living in the Tibetan immigrant community of west Toronto, where she commits petty theft and spies on her neighbours through a camcorder. When newcomer Passang moves into the neighbourhood with her much older husband, Kunsel is gradually drawn out of her solitary, watchful existence. 

Feature Film | 99 min | Digital | 2025 | Canada

Writer,Director Cinematographer Production design Costume designer Editor Composer Sound
Kunsang Kyirong Nikolay Michaylov Dialla Kawar Maria Katarina Brendan Mills Tashi Dorji Ian Reynolds, Mitch Allen

Awards & Festival Selections
2025 Toronto International Film Festival, Honorary Mention for Best Canadian Discovery Award
2025 Vancouver International Film Festival
2025 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montreal
2025 São Paulo International Film Festival
2025 Tokyo International Film Festival
2025 Dharamshala International Film Festival, DIFF on the road - Kochi-Muziris Biennale
2025 Yellowstone International Film Festival (Mumbai)
2025 Jean-Marc Vallée Director’s Guild of Canada Discovery Award - Longlist
2025 Hainan Island International Film Festival
2026 Dhaka International Film Festival
2026 Victoria Film Festival
2026 First Look Festival at the Museum of the Moving Image
2026 UK Asian Film Festival
2026 Seattle International Film Festival
2026 Bildrausch Filmfest Basel
2026 Diaspora Film Festival
2026 Sydney Film Festival

Production Company Canadian Distribution International Sales
Migmar Pictures MDFF - dan@mdff.ca Parallax Films - info@parallaxchina.com

Titled after the apartment complex address around which the film is set, Kunsang Kyirong’s auspicious debut feature is a richly detailed portrait of Toronto’s Tibetan Canadian community, as well as a fascinating character study of two women alienated in more ways than one. Reminiscent of the icy post-Hitchcockian thrillers of Claude Chabrol, this is the rare film whose enigmas only deepen as it unfolds.
VIFF.org

@one_day_this_kid_film

Spanning more than ten years, this stirring, deeply felt short alights on the seemingly small yet formative moments that shape Hamed, a young Afghan Canadian man, as he navigates both his queer and Muslim identities, conscious always of the shadow his father casts over his life. Taking its title from an artwork by David Wojnarowicz, ONE DAY THIS KID poignantly captures the silent struggle and unspoken tensions that define the queer coming-of-age experience.

- Criterion Channel

One Day This Kid

Under the weight of his father's expectations, Hamed contends with fear, desire and shame, in search of a self unknown.

Short film | 17 min | 35mm | 2024 | Canada

Writer,Director, Editor Cinematographer Production design Costume designer Inspired by
Alexander Farah Farhad Ghaderi Adriana Marchand Matea Pasaric David Wojnarowicz’s “Untitled”

A life that flashes before our eyes, this film is a remarkable feat. Every scene is so richly embroidered with detail, but it never feels overwhelming.
- BBC News

Ambush | كمين

A pop-up techno club ambushes the streets of downtown Amman flooding a conservative neighborhood with heavy bass and unfamiliar faces. Jana arrives, newly sober, wrestling with intimacy. While across the street, Hasan watches from his family rooftop, anticipating a long-overdue encounter.

Short film | 21 min | 4k digital | 2025 | Jordan, Canada

Writer,Director Cinematographer Production design Costume designer Editor Sound
Yassmina Karajah Farhad Ghaderi Nasser Zoubi Nabil Khoury Abdallah Sada Janis Ahnertt, Noor Halawani

Awards & Festival Selections
2025 Toronto International Film Festival, Short Cuts
2025 Busan International Film Festival, Wide Angle: Asian Short Film Competition
2025 Vancouver International Film Festival
2025 El Gouna International Film Festival
2026 TIFF Canada’s Top Ten
2026 Aspen Shortfest

Production Companies
Migmar Pictures, Imaginarium Films Co.

International Sales Contact
New Europe Film Sales - Nela Zielinska - nela@neweuropefilmsales.com

Lay Me By The Shore

The last exams at school, everyone is in a celebratory mood. The teenager Noah is one of them - but he's often thrown out of this happy mood and overtaken by tormenting memories.

Short film | 19 min | 65mm & 35mm | 2022 | Canada

Director Cinematographer Production Design Editor Inspired by the music of Production company David Findlay Evan Prosofsky Kathleen Cooper Alexander Farah The White Birch Solab, Asymetric

Official Selection
2022 Berlin International Film Festival, Generation 14plus
2022 Toronto International Film Festival
2022 TIFF Canada’s Top Ten
2024 Locarno Film Festival: L’immagine e la parola
2023 WINNER Vancouver Short Film Festival, 2023 - Best Short Film, Best Directing, Best Editing, Best Cinematography
2023 Palm Springs ShortFest

Featured on
Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere - Nowness - Short of the Week - FilmShortage - Directors Notes - Shots.net

FACES

Starring Rianne Van Rompaey as herself, in a space between dream and reality, 'Faces' depicts Rianne's absurd journey to making it on time to a packed theatre's stage for a much anticipated performance she has conceived of.

Fashion film | 8 min | 4k Digital | 2024

Writer, Director Cinematographer Production design Editor Composer Costumes Cosmetics
David Findlay Antoine Cormier Lucie Libotte Gwen Ghelid Kalaisan Kalaichelvan Khaite Sisley

Featured on
W Magazine | Vogue France | Nowness | Harpers Bazaar | M Le Monde | I-D | D La Republica | Beyond the Noise | Directors Notes

Drier Down Here

An adolescent boy struggles to balance his own childish desires with the presence of a dark and mysterious figure living in his family's farmyard on the Canadian prairies.

Short film | 19 min | 4k Digital | 2024

Writer, Director, Editor Cinematographer Production design Costume designer
Christopher Lorenz Blake Davey Madison Friesen Troy Johnson

Official Selection
2024 Calgary International Film Festival
2024 Reykjavik International Film Festival

Commercial, 2min., 4k digital with 16mm film out.

IBERIA: We’re United By Much More Than Language

Director Cinematographer Stylist Edit Grade Production company Tata Persico Alvar Riu Ivana Gonzalez Tamara Torres Ignaci Gonzalez Insa BLUR, HierSoir, Anemone Film

Executive Producer Producers
Manu Aguer Laura Cusi, Joaquin Cardoner, Alex Marano

Fashion film, 50s.

ADERERROR X Zara : Cycle A to Z

Director Cinematographer Styling Edit Production company Grajper Louis Evennou ADERERROR Kuba Tomaszewiczh EDDY

Featured on
GQ Korea - DesignScene - Fashion Network - HypeBeast - MMScene

Music video, 5 min.

SAM TUDOR, Joesph in the Bathroom

Director Cinematographer Production Design VFX, Edit Made Posiible with Lucas Hrubizna Blake Davey Charlie Hannah Lucas Hrubizna The Canada Council for the Arts

Featured on
Prism Prize Top 20 - Vimeo: Staff Pick best of the month - UK MVA 2019 - Directors Notes - Directors Library - Boooooom.tv - ION

Commercial, 40s.

ACNE + Arquitectura G - ‘Rue Saint-Honoré’

Director Cinematographer FPV Drone Music Production company MANSON Moritz Matlik Andriu FPV Studio EL BLUR, Diplomats

Public Service Announcement, 1 min.
35mm

Ontario Hospital Association - ‘Here To Care’

Director Cinematographer Edit Production company Kacper Larski Cole Graham Michael Barker Asymetric

Short film, 2 min.
35mm

Air

Director Cinematographer Production Design Edit Music Production company David Findlay Farhad Ghaderi Charlie Hannah Alexander Farah La Femme Musique Asymetric

Featured on
Little Black Book - Vimeo Staff Pick - Boooooom.TV - Directors Library - Shots - Shoot - Film Shortage

Short film, 9 min.

Found Me

Director Cinematographer Production Design Sound design Music Production company David Findlay Farhad Ghaderi Liz Cairns Mitchell Allen Men I Trust Les Enfants | Control Films

Official Selection
Toronto International Film Festival 2020

Short film, 2 min.

Citizen

Director, editor Cinematographer Music
Brock Newman Blake Davey Factor Eight

Featured on
Boooooom.tv premiere

Short film, 6 min.

Roadside Deadguys

Writer, Director, Editor Cinematographer Producer
Chris Lorenz moi Ricardo Carneiro

Press
UBC POV Film Festival 2016

Music video, 6 min.
16mm

Jordan Klassen - Golden Ladder

Director & cinematographer Production Design Edit Colourist Production Co.
Farhad Ghaderi Charlie Hannah Alexander Farah Sam Gilling BOLDLY

Featured on
Vimeo Staff Pick - Boooooom.TV - Directors Library - Shots.net - Exclaim!

Commercial spec, 2 min.
35mm

You Know Where You Belong

Director Cinematographer Production Design Edit Music Production company David Findlay Farhad Ghaderi Kat Loski Alexander Farah Sam Tudor BOLDLY

Featured on
Directors Library premiere - Shots.net - Boooooom.TV - Directors Notes - SHOOT online - Mâché