Shorts
VIFF Short Forum: Program 1
As time moves ever the more forward, histories are revisited. Some continue to be honoured while others are called for a reckoning.
International Shorts: Relational Baggage
The short films in this program illustrate some of the barriers or difficulties people run into with their personal relationships.
VIFF Short Forum: Program 2
Get in for a rollercoaster journey through the depths of struggle and perseverance. Not for the faint of heart, this collection is as difficult as it is beautiful.
International Shorts: Conflicts of the Heart
This program of short films offers a range of LGBTQ2S+ lives and experience stories, from youthful romance to estranged seniors.
VIFF Short Forum: Program 3
The femme experience as told through various disciplines and genres, each a distinctly inimitable perspective.
International Shorts: Family Adventures
The challenges of relations with one's family are the basis for the short films in this program.
International Shorts: Not Your Everyday Drama
There is high drama a plenty in this program of short films where uncommon scenarios turn into transformative life and death experiences.
VIFF Short Forum: Program 4
To locate one's self, the desire to be seen and the need to hide one’s desires are in constant negotiation.
International Shorts: Nothing Comes Easy
In this program of short films our protagonists discover that sorting out their lives can be much more difficult to achieve than they realized.
VIFF Short Forum: Program 5
Cosmological, geological, and speculative potentials provide hope in periods of doubt and hardship.
Short Fuse
An innovative and eye-opening collection of animated and experimental Canadian shorts. A collection that inspires new approaches to the moving image on screen and re-imagines compelling perspectives, histories, memories and formative life experiences.