Shorts from: Canada, Korea, Romania, USA.
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.
Various
Various
2024 & 2025
Various
Flashing/strobing lights, graphic violence, self harm, drug & alcohol abuse
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1: Call your mother
Shorts from: Canada, China, UK.
2: Memory & mediation
Shorts from: Canada, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Syria, USA.
3: The peripheral core
Shorts from: Brazil, Canada, Japan, Norway, USA.
4: Um, womanhood
Shorts from: Canada, Columbia, France, Netherlands, Sweden.
5: The absurd & spiritual
Shorts from: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Portugal.
6: City slickin’
Shorts from: Canada, France, Jordan, Spain, USA.
7: All day I dream about
Shorts from: Canada, India, Spain, Taiwan, USA.
8: Love and despair
Shorts from: China, France, Germany, Portugal, USA.
9: The scary one
Shorts from: Canada, Korea, Romania, USA.
10: The new socialism; ceasefire now!
Shorts from: Belgium, Canada, China, India, Myanmar, UK.
Short Fuse
An eye-opening collection of shorts exploring memories, experiences and relationships between friends, family, and across generations. From powwows in North America, to the rivers of Ethiopia and beyond, these shorts offer memorable stories on screen.