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The Girl Who Cried Pearls (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film)
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski | 2025 | 17 min. A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.
HotHouse 15
Abbey Collings, Mégan Dupont, Katie Finn, Mitchell Keys, Max Ma, Aerin Wu | 2025 | 6 X 1 min. Working out of Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City, they were given only 12 weeks to each create a one-minute film on the theme “People...
Paradaiz (Soon in the programming choices)
Matea Radic | 2025 | 9 min. Welcome to a place filled with houseless slugs, bullet-ridden walls, never-ending cigarettes and exploding tomatoes. This must be Paradaïz.
Bread Will Walk (Soon in the programming choices)
Alex Boya | 2025 | 11 min. A devoted sister races to save her brother, a bread-turned zombie. A mob of hungry living pursues, mouths agape. Streets twist into mazes, reason crumbles. Can love defy appetite?
Good Luck to You All (soon in the programming choices)
Cordell Barker | 2025 | 8 min. A young girl plays with her toys, unaware that she might just be holding humanity’s remote control. Voices of tech experts blend innocence, hope and mild panic about AI.
Society of Clothes
Dahee Jeong | 2024 | 15 min 7 s. When morning arrives in Society of Clothes, a shirt and a pair of pants step outside the closet, transforming into a human figure.
Samaa
Ehsan Gharib | 2024 | 2 min . A caged bird, yearning to fly, finds release through the transcendent power of music and movement.
Corpus and the Wandering
Jo Roy | 2024 | 7 min. One dancer, one body, one phone. In a time of collective alienation and technological mass control, one woman rediscovers her soul and reclaims her mind.
What the Hell (soon in the programming choices)
Valerie Barnhart |2024 | 9 min. Dante’s classic Hell is falling into oblivion. Charlotte, a sharp-witted Harpy, navigates the chaos and sets out, despite the odds, for a new life and destiny.
The Sounds of Things Ablaze
Hayat Najm | 2025 | 7 min. Told through animated charcoal drawings, this is a story of resilience about a woman still haunted by the horrors of war.
