''Soul Cages'' is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Phillip Barker and released in 1999. Inspired by the old legend of

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, in which the souls of drowned sailors are trapped in clay pots at the bottom of the ocean, the film adapts it to the present day by depicting the interactions between a photographer ( Susanna Hood) and the clerk (Srinivas Krishna) processing her film in a one-hour photo lab, around the philosophical question of whether the souls of photographic subjects are trapped in the image. The film premiered at the

1999 Toronto International Film Festival The 24th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 to September 18, 1999. The festival opened with Atom Egoyan's ''Felicia's Journey'' and closed with '' Onegin'' by Martha Fiennes. A total of 318 films were screened in the 13 progra ...

. It was later screened at the Local Heroes Film Festival in

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, where it won the Audience Choice Award, and at the 2000

Atlantic Film Festival FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival (known as The Atlantic International Film Festival until 2017) is a major international film festival held annually in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada since 1980. FIN is the largest Canadian film festival eas ...

, where it won the award for Best Canadian Short Film. It received a

Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for scu ...

nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 21st Genie Awards in 2001,"Maelstrom leads Genie nominations with 10 including best picture". ''

Moose Jaw Times-Herald The ''Moose Jaw Times-Herald'' was a daily newspaper serving the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, and the surrounding area. It was printed Tuesdays through Saturdays (Monday editions ended in 2016). J.N. McDonald founded the ''Times'' as ...

'', December 13, 2000. and

Luc Montpellier Luc Montpellier is a Canadian cinematographer. He is most noted for his work on the 2013 film ''It Was You Charlie'', for which he was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Cinematography at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014. He has also b ...

won the

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award for Best Cinematography in a Dramatic Short in 2000.Mark Dillon
"Montpellier helps bring cinematic approach to Foreign Objects"
'' Playback'', August 21, 2000.

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