Reel Youth Film Festival
For the sixth year running, the VIFF partners with Reel Youth to showcase an international program of incredible youth-made short films. Music videos, animations, dramas, documentaries, comedies—all are represented in this diverse and entertaining package dealing with subjects ranging from love, loss and sex to identity, isolation and the imagination.
Films in Program
A glimpse, through the diary of a young woman, into a life of addiction and recovery. (Wapikoni Mobile)
Not every swamp-dwelling monster is what it seems… (Rooms Animation Club)
Exposing surprising ways that women perpetuate their own and their sisters’ oppression. (Reel Youth, CitizenU)
A boring night shift for Dave and Carl suddenly changes when a hooded stranger makes an appearance. (Powell River Digital Film School)
Parents aren’t always the best at talking about sex. Based on a true story, a mother’s plan backfires, and opens up an uneasy conversation. (YouthCO, Reel Youth)
To a frenzied beat, Louis-Philippe remembers his love. (Wapikani Mobile)
What thread is common to the world’s major religions? London’s sacred temples provide a backdrop to the answer.
A symbolic and silent relationship unfolds between two very different people.
An intimate story of love and shame between two young women. (Reel Youth & CitizenU)
Meet Vang A Lu, a Black H’mong hill tribe boy with big dreams. (Reel Youth/UN International School of Hanoi)
It all started with a poem. An unbearably ironic poem, a pompous English teacher, and a classroom full of would-be intellectuals.
Do we really need phone books? An animation. (Reel Youth/Environmental Youth Alliance)
Red walks alone, faceless, speechless, and friendless. What does it take to walk free of fear? (Port Alberni Secondary School)
Sara, a charismatic and starry-eyed teen, sets out to document herself falling in love. (Pacific Cinematheque’s Summer Visions Film Institute)
ClergyMan, SinBob and Shargwan were “lost in the dark”— but these Sierra Leone ex-street youth write, sing and film their way out.
How would $260,000 change your life? (The Factory, Bay Area Video Coalition)
Will is searching everywhere for a piece of tape, but keeps getting distracted along the way.
Smokes cost more than you may realize. (Templeton Secondary School)
A sumptuous journey into the nature of what we are.
Envisioned and created in response to local youth suicides, this touching short follows a young man as he navigates high school, encumbered by his struggles with isolation, loneliness, and despair. Spoken word by poet Shane Koyczan and scored by Corwin Fox.
