Synopsis: Romina tells the true story of a 14-year-old girl facing an unplanned pregnancy in a state where abortion is banned. Despite the legal barriers, a community rallies around her, ensuring she can access the abortion she desired.
Written and directed by Paola Mendoza.
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.
Intended for mature audiences.
Synopsis: Terra Incognita follows life on a mysterious island, inhabited by immortal beings. These beings lead a pre-civilized life forgotten by time, spending their endless days in hedonistic lethargy.
Through anecdotal vignettes, the film tells the story of what happens when these beings are visited by the outside world, and whether or not there is a greater meaning to it all.
A short film by Adrian Dexter and Pernille Kjaer.
A short film by Wendy Tilby & Amanda Forbis.
Synopsis: In 1917 two ships collided in the Halifax Harbour, causing the largest accidental explosion in history. Among the tragic stories of the disaster is the remarkable account of a sailor who, blown skyward from the docks, flew a distance of 2 kilometres before landing uphill, naked and unharmed. The Flying Sailor is a contemplation of his journey.
Drawing on accounts of traumatic shock and near-death experiences, Tilby and Forbis consider the kind of cataclysmic moment that pulls us from our path, strips us bare, and utterly shifts our perspective. By suspending the Sailor in a state of near-death, the film contemplates the stuff of life that is at once fleeting, profound, and utterly insignificant.
An orange comes to terms with her purpose in life.
Written and animated by Danny Sangra.
Starring Zosia Mamet as Orange, Evan Jonigkeit as the Client/Director/Agency and Mary Ellen Lea as a cloud.
Synopsis: A spirited young woman persuades a hyena from London Zoo to take her place at a dinner dance held in her honor. Their plan requires a surprising amount of artistry and violence.
Written and directed by Elizabeth Hobbs. Based on the short story by Leonora Carrington.
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