Shorts from: Canada, Korea, Romania, USA.
Oct 10 & 11: Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
The Littles
Andrew Duplessie, USA/Canada (7 min)
When Juliet stubs her toe on a loose floorboard, she discovers that hers is not the only family living in the house.
Living Grounds
Emile Lavoie, Canada (20 min)
Luc, a weathered corpse mover, is called upon to the scene of a suicide.
Bread Will Walk
Alex Boya, Canada (12 min)
The planet is starving and people resort to eating bread, which turns them into bread themselves. A sister tries to save her bread-brother as he is chased by a hungry mob.
Inanna
Dragos Badita, Romania/Canada (24 min)
“Uncanny” is an understatement in this AI-processed dream-poem inspired by the ancient Sumerian goddess of death and rebirth.
Ramón Who Speaks to Ghosts
Shervin Kermani, Canada (8 min)
In the aftermath of a devastating eruption, Ramón walks the island of La Palma with his microphone, listening for ghosts.
Jeff
Julia Hebner, USA (25 min)
A phone sex operator gets into it with a caller who makes a disturbing confession.
Dinner
Hyejin Yoo, South Korea (22 min)
When a woman is bitten by a zombie, her husband uses a delay patch that extends the duration of her transformation by an hour so they can have one more meal together.
Supported by
Community Partner
Various
Various
2024 & 2025
Various
Flashing/strobing lights, graphic violence, self harm, drug & alcohol abuse
Book Tickets
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The Executioner
Regularly cited as the greatest Spanish film ever made, Berlanga's masterpiece is a pitch black comedy about an undertaker lined up by the state executioner to marry his beautiful daughter -- but he'll also have to inherit the old man's job.
The Mother and the Bear
Johnny Ma’s film stars Kim Ho-jung as a Korean woman who flies to Winnipeg when her immigrant daughter is hospitalized there. This crowd-pleaser plays up cultural differences to hilarious effect and offers a touching take on mother-daughter tension.
The Plague
At a water polo camp, Ben is plunged into the deep end of toxic peer pressure. Terrified of incurring his campmates’ wrath, he joins them in tormenting a kid whose skin rash has been branded “the plague”. But then he experiences a breakout of his own...
The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés + Por Derecho (For the Right) Live
Winner of the Goya Award for Best Documentary, this is an exquisite and surprisingly intimate portrait of the brilliant young guitarist Yerai Cortés, preceded by an hour of passionate flamenco music, song and dance performed by Flamenco Rosario.