Short Films 2021

Bertin

Elise Lausseur | France | 12′

In the Alps, a big man named Bertin and a small man named Yohann rob a chartiy shop. Things don’t work out as planned and Bertin must improvise.

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Blue Frontier

Ivan Milosavljević | Serbia | 20′

A fisherman has spent his life searching for the biggest fish in the blue Danube—clapping on the river surface with a hand-carved piece of wood.

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Cherry Cola

Amandine Thomas | United States | 12′

When Sherri gets arrested for shoplifting from work, she needs to find money for legal fees. After a few dead ends, opportunity strikes, and his name is Tom.

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Da Yie

Anthony Nti | Ghana | 20′

A foreigner in Ghana is tasked by the local gang to find 2 kids for a risky job. But after meeting Prince and Matilda, he has second thoughts.

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Departure

Douglas Gibbens | Canada | 15′

A housewife must balance her fears and her husband’s idealism about a decaying planet Earth when her closest friends decide to emigrate to Mars.

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Extraneous Matter

Kenichi Ugana | Japan | 22′

A sexless woman navigates her loneliness and her boyfriend’s indifference. Seemingly out of options, she finds a solution in her bedroom closet.

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Fighter

Meagan Brown | Canada | 12′

Fighter asks three generations of firefighters why they do what they do, and how they feel when they get home.

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FREYA

Camille Hollett-French | Canada | 16′

When a one-night stand doesn’t go as planned—in a future where social media and the State operate as one, a woman attempts to regain control of her body

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Good Thanks, You?

Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom | 13′

Following an attack, Amy is left voiceless—trapped in a whirlwind of incompetence. She must confront what happened, in order to save what matters most.

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Her Coming

Christie Will Wolf | Canada | 13′

When Jesus Christ is cloned into a girl, we see a utopian future where men are decimated, and woman rules and governs a conflict-free earth.

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How to Get $100 Million

Ilya Polyakov | United States | 9′

A disenchanted young woman ascribes to the get-rich-quick advice of self-help guru—only to learn the cost of getting exactly what you want.

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If You Love Her, Let Her Go

Ilan Zerrouki | France | 6′

When a man tells his colleagues that he’s building a spaceship with spare scraps in his backyard, everyone laughs—until it actually takes off.

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Kilter

Rob Stanton-Cook | Australia | 12′

Following a violent crime of passion, a gentle young man descends into a tormented reality as he struggles to reconcile who he is and what he has become.

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Line

Giran Findlay | Canada | 5′

An anxious man runs into a mysterious room and tries to leave – but is stopped by a stern receptionist at every turn. In the vein of The Coen Brothers or Kafka.

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Lloyd Loses Everything

Aris Athanasopoulos | Canada | 14′

When he’s fired from his job for “consuming alcohol in the workplace” – Lloyd sees the chance to win back the faith of his loved ones in grand style.

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Maalbeek

Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | France | 16′

Amnesiac of the attack at the Maalbeek metro station, Sabine is looking for the missing image of an over-mediatised event of which she has no memory.

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Mamaville

Irmak Karasu | Turkey | 20′

While spending the summer at her grandmother’s beach house, fifteen year-old Ferah is secretly longing for her own sexual release.

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Middle of Nowhere

Molly Shears | Canada | 15′

Reeling from the sudden death of their older brother, Dezzy and Oscar move to Northern Canada to spend a summer with their chain-smoking grandma.

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Not Your Average Bear

Cliff Skelton | Canada | 14′

As the bills pile up and his mother’s medication runs out, a seemingly average man plots a daring robbery.

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Organisms

Nikola Polić | Serbia | 13′

When his sister moves out after 10 years to start a family, a 26-year-old man realizes his notion of family is in conflict with the society he lives in.

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Pacaroni

Christian Bunea | Canada | 15′

A teenage boy copes with the sudden loss of his mother as he scrambles to save and savour the last dish she made for him—a plate of pasta.

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Peeps

Sophie Somerville | Australia | 18′

A peek into the inner world of a turbulent and hilarious teenage friendship group on their after-school shopping trip.

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Right Side Down

Ted Jefferies, Marshall Jefferies | Canada | 3′

Calvin—a man who was born upside down—signs up for a one-way solo space voyage—longing to escape to a place where there is no up or down.

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Savage Breakup

Jaclyn Vogl | Canada | 9′

After discovering she’s been cheated on, Claire looks to her favourite sex advice podcaster to even the score.

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School Ties

Oscar Albert | United Kingdom | 15′

In the woods outside an old British boarding school, Sid and William find Jake, a former pupil and friend, mysteriously living in their makeshift den.

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Sister This

Claire Byrne | Ireland | 9′

When Caitlin is made an offer of work that she can’t refuse, she must explain that she cant make it home for her son’s birthday.

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Sticker

Georgi M. Unkovski | Macedonia | 19′

After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father.

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STRASBOURG 1508

Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom | 10′

STRASBOURG 1518 is a collaboration in isolation with some of the greatest dancers working today.

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Take it and End It

Kirineos Papadimatos | Greece | 20′

When a butcher is asked to slaughter a veal he refuses on account of a simple fact—the veal is his child.

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The Bears on Pine Ridge

Noel Bass | United States | 39′

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (in South Dakota) declares a State of Emergency when youth suicide rates reach the highest levels in the country.

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The Curiosity of Edward Pratt

Thomas Sandler | Belgium | 13′

A glimpse into the life of adventurer, Edward Pratt and the first circumnavigation of the globe on a unicycle.

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The Fall

Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom | 7′

Inspired by ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’, an etching by Francisco Goya, the film invites its audience to project their preoccupations and interpretations.

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The Invisible Monster

Guillermo Fesser Perez de Petinto, Javier Fesser | Spain | 29′

Aminodin’s father always smiles because he says “happy people live longer”. That’s why, at eight years old, Aminodin puts his best smile while working at the Papandayan dump.

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The Listening

Milena Bennett | Australia | 25′

Freya and Dan move to the country to have their first child; as the pregnancy develops they lose their grip on reality. Distance and time, dreams and waking life, the living and the dead converge.

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The Man Who Became Everything

Michael Alexander Uccello | Canada | 9′

The last human survivor of an unknown invasion is stalked by inter-dimensional entities that have plotted humanity’s extinction.

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The One Who Crossed the Sea

Jonas Riemer | Germany | 11′

In a folding boat, a GDR refugee flees via Denmark to Western Germany, where the story tips into the dark. His newly acquired freedom turns into disorientation.

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The PIGS Method

Boris Kozlov | Spain | 23′

Toni’s last chance is self-publishing: he has just finished “The PIGS Method”, a personal success manual which he hopes will turn his life around.

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The Wireman

Noah Brown | Canada | 11′

The Wireman spends his days feeding a strange hole in the ground, until he makes a startling discovery that changes his life.

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There Will Be Monsters

Carlota Pereda | Spain | 5′

Monsters exist. They live inside us. And sometimes, they win. From Pendance 2019 Best Short Film winner Carlota Pereda.

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To Sonny

Federico Spiazzi, Maggie Briggs | USA | 19′

Set in the American South just before the 2016 presidential elections, ‘To Sonny’ follows a vending machine loader on his daily, lonely route.

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There’s Nothing You Can Do

Ryan Terk | Canada | 27′

On the day of a high profile photoshoot, a street photographer struggles to control his compulsive lying, soaring debts, and artistic integrity.

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Truth Hurtz

Shaun Majumder | United States | 3′

When a father suspects his son is lying, he buys lie detector robot and gets more truth than he had hoped for. From Canadian-born actor Shaun Majumder.

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