Dogs, frogs, hogs, and more!
This short film program includes the following films:
Piluk
Elisapie Isaac, Marc Séguin, Canada (11 min)
Young Piluk walks through the wounded world, healing animals and passersby in need.
Sitting Bird
Athena Han, Canada (17 min)
Stay-at-home dad Ming struggles with a growing sense of inadequacy.
The Dream Is a Snail
Ân Thiên Nguyễn, Vietnam (15 min)
Huy lands an odd job as a human racetrack for snails at a senior rejuvenation workshop.
The Great Disgust
Alejandro Samandjian, Argentina (18 min)
When insects around the house grow increasingly aggressive, a young man’s controlling father releases a small frog to solve the problem.
First Breath On Mars
Malic Amalya, USA (20 min)
A quest to change honorific bird names in light of their colonial namesakes leads to further inquiry into the projected colonization of the red planet.
The Kalgan Horse
Zichen Zhao, China/USA (14 min)
In the borderlands of Northern China, 10-year old Amu is determined to save his beloved horse from castration.
Content Considerations: Animal violence
The End
Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Sweden/France/Denmark (17 min)
The voice talents of Alexander Skarsgård, Noomi Rapace, and Denis Lavant are featured in this stop-motion tale of death and existence set in a large international airport.
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VIFF Short Forum
See more shorts in this series
Short Forum 1: The Scarier One
The return of scary: fear in all its chilling, suspenseful, and unsettling shades.
Short Forum 2: Anthropomaxx
Dogs, frogs, hogs, and more!
Short Forum 3: Workers of the World
The grind of the working class in a system that betrays its promises.
Short Forum 4: Immanence: A Life
You don’t have to look far; life is beautiful!
Short Forum 5: Somewhere Else
If space and time are pure perception, let’s build them differently.
Short Forum 6: Archive Lives!
Before anything becomes archival, it’s lived.
Short Forum 7: War at Home
Truly, no one is safe until everyone is safe.
Short Forum 8: Sticky & Wet
No matter the age, things can always get sticky and wet.
Short Forum 9: Big Time Sensuality
Explorations of desire and intimacy serve both pain and pleasure.
Short Forum 10: Are the Kids Alright?
The future kinda depends on it.