A short film by Una Di Gallo.
Synopsis: A film about growing up in the twilight of industrial Hamilton, Ontario. Sam & Franklin spend an endless, muggy summer exploring their industrial neighborhood. Electrical towers dot the beach and factories loom high above them as strange, hallucinatory experiences take hold.
Synopsis: Two co-workers at a derelict fast-food franchise accidentally discover a yonic meat portal to another realm — a “burger” world, wherein they’re the only ones who can liberate an oppressed vegetable populace from the all-controlling hand of big meat.
Written and directed by Maddie Brewer.
Intended for mature audiences.
Synopsis: Under a moonlit sky, a bus speeds along the coast when a panicky scream shatters the night silence: a necklace is stolen. A fatal accident follows as the story unfolds with love, hatred and vengeance.
Written and directed by Joe Hsieh.
Synopsis: From Far Away tells the story of Saoussan, a young girl struggling to adjust to life in Canada after being uprooted from her wartorn homeland.
She has come to seek a quieter and safer life, although memories of war and death linger, memories that are awakened when the children at her new school prepare for a scary Halloween.
Directed by Shira Avni and Serene El-haj Daoud.
Synopsis: On a hot August afternoon, a family gathers at the dinner table. Their memories intersect to tell the story of uncle Botão — from the dictatorship to the emigration to France, where he worked as a garbage man, and when he arrived with a van filled with “garbage,” later transformed into treasures.
A short film by Laura Gonçalves.
Written and directed by Sheldon Cohen.
Synopsis: In My Heart Attack, filmmaker Sheldon Cohen chronicles his open-heart surgery through a humorous and philosophical lens, telling the story of the “nice Jewish boy with Buddhist inclinations” who suffers a heart attack.
Written, directed and animated by Frederic Siegel. He is a Swiss director, illustrator and visual artist who studied at the Lucerne School of Art & Design.
Synopsis: A face is born out of chaos. It struggles to exist. It struggles to find its purpose. It struggles to sit on a chair. In fact, it struggles with a lot of things. But thank god, it’s trying.
Directed by Claude Cloutier.
Synopsis: With school, tennis lessons, swimming lessons, art classes, homework and piano practice, a young boy leads such a regimented life that he has no more time just to be a kid.
Inspired by Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Overdose (1994) pleads for children’s right to rest and leisure.
Directed by Jonghoon Lee. Produced by VCRWORKS, an animation and picture book studio based in Seoul, South Korea.
Written, directed and animated by David Shen Miller.
Synopsis: A man finds himself trapped inside a room, his feet muddied from the dirty floor. Unable to get out, he spots a broom nearby and tries to clean the dirty floor. He succeeds, perhaps thinking he will be freed, but then he realizes he has left dirty footprints from working to wipe away the old ones.
Stuck in this paradox, the man attempts to solve the riddle he’s found himself in. He tries to clean his feet; he tries to find a way of walking on the wall instead. But no matter what he does, the room will never become entirely clean. At his lowest point, though, he finds a way to solve his problem — and realizes that perhaps it wasn’t such a problem in the first place.
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