September 26, 2023
20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (20.000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In this sun-soaked, sublimely sensitive debut, writer/director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren sets her lens on an eight-year-old’s identity crisis over one uncertain summer vacation. Ane, in the midst of separating from her husband, takes her children to her hometown, a sleepy village on the Spanish side of Basque Country, to stay with her mother. There,...
September 26, 2023
SHORTS PROGRAM: YOUNG AT HEART
CLOSING DYNASTY 2022 USA 16 MIN DIRECTOR Lloyd Lee Choi On a school day, a seven-year-old hustles strangers for money on the streets of New York City. STARLING 2023 USA 9 MIN DIRECTOR Mitra Shahidi The spirit of a little girl shoots down from the heavens to spend her birthday with her family. SAVI THE...
September 26, 2023
SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2
MIISUFY 2023 Estonia 10 MIN DIRECTOR Liisi Grünberg Digital pet cat Miisu gets tired of her owner and starts to revolt. Inspired by Tamagotchi, MIISUFY observes the world through the eyes of digital pets. A KIND OF TESTAMENT (UN GENRE DE TESTAMENT) 2023 France 16 MIN DIRECTOR Stephen Vuillemin A CRAB IN THE POOL (UN...
September 26, 2023
SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1
THE MIRACLE 2022 Belgium 14 MIN DIRECTOR Nienke Deutz Forty-year-old Irma goes on a vacation to an all-inclusive resort. Soon after her arrival she realizes the place is meant for young families, and Irma has to find her own place in this holiday paradise. SWEET LIKE LEMONS 2023 UK | Finland 5 MIN DIRECTOR Jenny...
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....
