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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Sirât
A desperate father (Sergi Lopez) searchers for his missing daughter through the spiritual wasteland of the Moroccan desert. An unforgettable sensory powerhouse, Sîrat will have you riveted and rattled for hours after the end credits have rolled.
2026 Oscar® Shorts (Documentary)
Don't come to the program of Oscar®-nominated documentary shorts for escapism. But let's talk about the Canadian contender, Perfectly a Strangeness, featuring an abandoned observatory and three donkeys. More of this, please.
Emergence: Women in the Storm
Stories of resistance and recovery, courage, creativity and community in the face of the climate emergency gleaned from women first responders and those impacted in Western Canada, particularly Lytton and the Fraser Valley.
