''Stump the Guesser'' is a Canadian short film by

Guy Maddin Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer, and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Since completing his first film in ...

, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, which was released in 2020.Leonard Pearce
"NYFF’s Inaugural Currents Lineup Features Intrepid Filmmaking Voices from Around the World"
''The Film Stage'', August 24, 2020. A silent black-and-white film based on early

Soviet cinema The cinema of the Soviet Union includes films produced by the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, albeit they were all regulated by the central government in Moscow. M ...

tropes, it stars Adam Brooks as a man who works as a guesser at the fair, but whose mindreading tricks suddenly begin to fail him; simultaneously, he meets a long-lost sister he never knew he had and falls in love with her, and sets out to disprove the theory of

heredity Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic inform ...

in hopes of being able to marry her.Mindy Bond
"Canadian Auteur Guy Maddin World Premiering New Film at 2020 Berlinale"
''The Culture Files'', February 25, 2020. The film premiered on February 25, 2020 at the

70th Berlin International Film Festival The 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 20 February to 1 March 2020. It was the first under the leadership of new Berlin Film Festival heads, business administration director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director C ...

. The film was named to the

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permane ...

's year-end

Canada's Top Ten Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival and announced in December each year to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema" ...

list for short films in 2020.Victoria Ahearn
"Toronto International Film Festival releases Top Ten lists for 2020"
''

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'', December 9, 2020.

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* 2020 films 2020 short films Films directed by Guy Maddin Canadian black-and-white films Canadian silent short films 2020s English-language films 2020s Canadian films Canadian avant-garde and experimental short films {{2020s-Canada-film-stub