September 26, 2023
SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2
THRIVING: A DISSOCIATED REVERIE 2023 Canada 9 MIN DIRECTOR Nicole Bazuin THRIVING: A DISSOCIATED REVERIE is a surrealist exploration of dissociative identity disorder (DID) based on the lived experience of Black, non-binary, disabled emerging multidisciplinary performance artist and former sex worker Kitoko Mai. FRIDAY NIGHT BLIND 2022 USA 13 MIN DIRECTOR Scott Krahn, Robb Fischer...
September 26, 2023
SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1
MERMAN 2023 USA 11 MIN DIRECTOR Sterling Hampton IV A 58-year-old Black queer man speaks about his life as an emergency nurse, leather title holder and civil rights advocate. FLESHWORK 2023 USA 7 MIN DIRECTOR Lydia Cornett At a butcher shop in Jeromesville, Ohio, four meat processors situate their labor within their own minds and...
September 26, 2023
SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2
THE OLD YOUNG CROW 2022 USA 12 MIN DIRECTOR Liam LoPinto An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo. THURSDAY (CZWARTEK) 2022 Poland 15 MIN DIRECTOR Bren Cukier Maria is an actress with secret plans for Thursday, but her day takes an unexpected turn. SÈT LAM 2022 France | Reunion...
September 26, 2023
SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1
HONOLULU 2022 USA 14 MIN DIRECTOR Maya Tanaka Flaming lobsters and menstruation woes plague 12-year-old Yuki’s doomed Hawai'ian beach vacation. As tensions boil over, she, her aloof father and elegant grandmother battle bright red sunburns and the seemingly mundane family scuffles that manage to leave behind the deepest scars. THE SKATES (LES PATINS) 2023 Canada...
September 23, 2023
UR HEINOUS HABIT
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 A blackmail email prompts a filmmaker to explore the intersection of shame and masturbation through a series of Zoom conversations with his friends. Bios Eugene Kolb is a filmmaker and animator based in New York City. Born and raised in Ukraine, he learned English by watching...
September 23, 2023
THE WAITING
DescriptionBiosDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 Karen Lips is a researcher living in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica observing frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth....
September 23, 2023
THE SKATES (LES PATINS)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription International Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Mina loves to skate. Today, her father, recently divorced from her mother, accompanies her to her first figure skating lesson. An ordinary day is derailed when something happens to her skates. Bios The Swiss-Moroccan writer and director Halima Ouardiri is a graduate of...
September 23, 2023
STARLING
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: YOUNG AT HEART The spirit of a little girl shoots down from the heavens to spend her birthday with her family. Bios Mitra Shahidi is an Iranian-American story artist, director and screenwriter. Growing up in Turkey, Shahidi’s passion for storytelling began at a young age that...
September 23, 2023
SÈT LAM
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 In the midst of a trance ritual, a young girl is paralyzed by fear, scared her loved ones may be hurt or disappear. It is then that her grandmother tells her the strange tale of Edwardo, the first one of his kin to have seen...
September 23, 2023
SWEET LIKE LEMONS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription U.S. Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 SWEET LIKE LEMONS is a visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade,” only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but...
