Shorts from: Belgium, Canada, China, India, Myanmar, UK.
Oct 11 & 12: Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
Good Luck to You All
Cordell Barker, Canada (8 min)
Audio interviews with AI experts form the basis of this animated envisioning of what the future may bring.
The Glass Essays
River Yuhao Cao, UK/China (17 min)
Unable to sleep, a young man follows a mysterious sound across the river and through the forest.
My Comrade
Tathagata Ghosh, India (25 min)
A romantic spark between a villager and a wounded Naxalite insurgent emboldens their solidarity and threatens their safety.
A Metamorphosis
Lin Htet Aung, Myanmar (17 min)
Repurposed government propaganda footage and haunting folk lullabies are used to deconstruct Myanmar’s dictatorship and examine the suffering and resilience of the Burmese people.
Thanks to Meet You!
Richard Hunter, UK (14 min)
Five business people walk into a room…
Loynes
Dorian Jespers, Belgium (25 min)
Set in 19th-century Liverpool, a corpse with neither name nor past is on trial.
The 12 Inch Pianist
Lucas Ansel, USA (8 min)
Just a typical night at a NYC bar, where a genie with a hearing problem is granting wishes in the bathroom.
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Sinners
2025's unexpected box office sleeper is that rare beast, a genre movie full of bold invention and surprise. We are in Mississippi in the early 1930s, and the opening of a new blues joint on the edge of town is the signal for all hell to break out.
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
A harried mother (Academy Award nominee Rose Byrne) clings to an unhelpful therapist (Conan O’Brien) as she struggles to cope with her daughter's mysterious illness in Mary Bronstein’s darkly comedic psychological drama.
Islands
In this sly, engrossing mystery, a dissolute English tennis coach in a Canary Islands holiday resort falls under suspicion when the husband of a beautiful guest disappears after a night of heavy drinking...
All That's Left of You
Jordan's submission for the Academy Awards, All That's Left of You makes the most of its epic format to chronicle seven decades of Palestinian history while tracking the psychological impact of cycles of exile and oppression on three generations.
L'Étranger
Recreating 1940s Algeria in vivid, high contrast black and white cinematography, L'Etranger is erotic, enigmatic and brutal in equal measures, a masterful screen version of Albert Camus's insoluble classic of existential alienation.