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 Grapes of Wrath
In this Film Studies workshop, Devan Scott explores the purposes of three-point lighting and the influence of German Expressionism on Hollywood studio filmmaking. Followed by a screening of The Grapes of Wrath, photographed by Gregg Toland.
The Last One for the Road
Two middle-aged drunkards drive across the Veneto region on a freewheeling bender, taking a young college student along for the ride. A celebration of the spirit of drink and the kinds of stories told around a table of old friends and too much wine.
Blue Heron
In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behaviour from Jeremy, the family’s oldest child.
How Deep Is Your Love
Filmmaker Eleanor Mortimer tags along with a team of oceanographers and marine biologists as they survey the Clarion-Clipperton fracture, one of the most remote spots on Earth, home to a dazzling array of unknown creatures.
Amrum
Twelve-year-old Nanning (Jasper Billerbeck) sets himself a mission to secure bread and honey for his mother to snap her out of her depression. It is 1945. The war is all but lost, and such luxuries are not easy to find on the remote island of Amrum...