All Films

Weather Talk

2017 • 17 min

A short film depicting the strained relationship between a son and his father as they drive together across the United States. This coming out story and centers on the new bond formed between these two estranged people.

The Hopeless

2017 • 15 min • Spain

In the Name of Confucius

2017 • 52 min • Canada

One of Canada's top 10 universities and its largest school board found themselves embroiled in a growing global controversy as scholars, parents, and officials question the Confucius Institute program's true purpose.

Bird Dog

2017 • 26 min

An imaginative young girl is confronted by fear and wonder after swallowing the heart of a mourning dove while on a hunting trip with her family.

Ice

2017 • 15 min • Estonia, France, Luxembourg

Harri is a lieutenant colonel in the Estonian army. Divorced, he only sees his 10-year old son during school holidays. Harri decides to make up for lost time by going to an adventurous father-son winter trip to an island. Missing the last ferry, Harri decides to take a local ice road over the frozen sea.

Florida-Montréal

2017 • 17 min • Canada

Mum breaks up with Dad while on vacation in Florida and flies back to Montreal. The kids, Jonathan and Florie, two immature and impressionable twentysomethings, only have a few hours to figure out how they'll welcome her back.

Discreet

2017 • 6 min • France

Two young men from the same neighborhood meet randomly. As they give each other the lowdown of their night out, an unexpected game envelops them.

Brother

2017 • 19 min • Mexico

Two brothers are going through financial difficulties to pay for their mother's medical treatment. One of them also has a significant debt that endangers his life.

Gladys Brown

2017 • 14 min

After being cheated out of her dream job, a long-suffering receptionist plots revenge.

Sneakers

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

A guileless shoe designer is determined to make her sneaker pitch a success despite her nerves and general awkwardness in this comedy short directed by Rachel Wolther written by and starring Amy Zimmer.

SCUM Manifesto

2017 • 27 min • Poland

Jill Godmilow (Far From Poland, Waiting for the Moon) in collaboration with Joanna Krakowska and Magda Mosiewicz pay homage to the original SCUM Manifesto, a French film made in 1976 by Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig that was inspired by Valerie Solanas’s infamous text of the same name. Much like Solanas’s radical feminist text, SCUM Manifesto is a form of resistance and a call to action.

Zunda Horizon

2017 • 24 min • Japan

Zunko Tohoku can make any mochi into delicious zunda mochi by shooting it with her Zunda Arrow. Along with Kiritan Tohoku, Itako Tohoku, Usagi Chūgoku, Metan Shikoku, and Sora Kyushu, she enjoys eating zunda mochi while being full of happiness. Chanko Ōedo conversely leads the Natto Factory along with her companions Tsurugi Chubu, Shinobi Kansai, Awamo Okinawa, and Meron Hokkaido. Even though zunda and natto use the same type of bean, the edamame used in zunda and the soy beans used in natto are harvested at different times, with edamame being harvested first. As a result, the members of the Natto Factory are afraid of a decrease in the quantity of soybeans harvested. Chanko sends Awamo Okinawa and Meron Hokkaido to Zunko's house to assassinate her, but a third power makes their appearance.

Waiting for Ishtar

2017 • 47 min • Canada, United States of America

A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of the famous Hollywood bomb Ishtar (1987).

Team Thor: Part 2

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

A continuation of the documentary spoof of what Thor and his roommate Darryl were up to during the events of "Captain America: Civil War". While Cap and Iron Man duke it out, Thor tries to pay Darryl his rent in Asgardian coins.

Shock Theater

2017 • 10 min

A mixed media video collage story about fear, trauma and family pranks, loosely based on a series of autobiographical events.

On Hold

2017 • 19 min • Norway

Martin is afraid of what (and whom) his ex-girlfriend Emma has been doing since last time they met. Tonight they will meet again for the first time since they broke up, and his friends try to prepare him for his meeting.

The Impossible Joy

2017 • 29 min • Switzerland, United States of America, Germany

An 11-year-old illegal immigrant seeks the guidance of a reluctant, old man to help him win the heart of his first love at school, while he cleverly overcomes violent prejudice from fellow students.

Bonefire

2017 • 13 min • Canada

Somewhere between a music-video, a documentary and a fantasy - created with and around a Toronto-based acting-collective called LUSTR.

2048: Nowhere to Run

2017 • 6 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

“2048: Nowhere to Run” takes place one year before the events of Blade Runner 2049. The short film focuses on Sapper, a man who is trying to make it through life day-by-day without turning back to his old ways. We’re introduced to both the gentle nature of Sapper and the violence he’s capable of when set off.

Gina

2017 • 18 min

A senior high school student transferee from Japan starts a new life in Pangasinan. Gina, a girl who always wears a red glove on her right hand, struggles with making friends in her new school. She keeps a strong and neat impression in her identified society while struggling to fit in. She makes a friend and eventually falls in love, only to find out that the man she falls head over heels with spills her deepest, darkest secret.

Scaffold

2017 • 15 min • Canada

Recent immigrants to Canada, working on scaffolding break the routine of their job by observing the people in the the neighbourhood from a unique, precarious and ephemeral vantage point.

God's Own Children

2017 • 18 min • United Kingdom

In this cheeky comedy debut, two thieving boys take refuge at the local church in a small Irish town. When the parish priest leaves behind his briefcase, they embark on a self-appointed mission from God. But on their epic journey to the big city, the boys discover that the grown up world is a bit more complicated than it seems.

Why You've Never Met The 4th Haim Sister

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

Frime Haim, a.k.a the other sister, is finally ready to join the family band. Something tells us her sisters aren't thrilled about that.

Picture World

2017 • 14 min • Sweden

A model agent tries to do a good deed but it pulls us into a game with our own judgemental gaze.