Tuesday, June 17 • 9pm
Not Enough Womb for the Two of Us
Director: Cameron Kletke • BC • 1 minute
Sibling rivalry starts early. In this spacious hand-drawn animation, watercolours and pastels depict an in utero skirmish between twins, plunging viewers into an intimate watery universe where the umbilical cord becomes a prop in a comic battle of wills. Those little elbows can be sharp!
Wracu
Director: Chase McGill • USA • 7 minutes
A knight awakens in a carriage driven by Death, tormented by the memory of his execution. Consumed by a thirst for vengeance, nothing will stand in between his iron will and retribution.
Dance with the Reaper
Filmmakers: Alsinet, Anglas, Aranda, Berney, Cortit, Domene, Martín, Massó, Menta, Moya, Torras • Spain • 4 minutes
Sooner or later you’ll dance with the reaper. Sofia, the most wanted criminal in the state, can't avoid meeting her fate after a manhunt ends. In a face-to-face encounter with Death, the dance begins, driven by love at first sight. Death has a job to do: to reap Sofia's soul, but in this moment, must make a crucial decision.
Northerner
Director: Stephen Cadigan • NL • 13 minutes
Shane’s a thief who embraces his evolution into a super-villain; Kate’s bound to her past by Shane and her reputation as a dirty cop, and Northerner, the catalyst who confronts Shane and Kate with an opportunity to change the course of their lives. Created through NIFCO’s Picture Start program.
Hammer, Wrench & Screwdriver
Director: Gabriel Vilandré • Quebec • 13 minutes
Wracked with guilt, Jonathan Cammuso, aged 16, goes to a hardware store to return some tools he stole — but things don’t turn out exactly as he planned.
No Name Blade
Director: Xiang-Pu Zhu • Taiwan • 15 minutes
In the heart of the White Shirt, there lies a sword technique representing the desires he’s yet to overcome. Set against a backdrop of war, No Name Blade uses traditional martial arts puppetry to explore conflict resolution beyond violence.
Roque
Director: Banni Leclerc • Spain • 17 minutes
One year after breaking the 100-meter freestyle record at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Roque, now retired from competition, realizes that he must settle accounts with his past and the man who abused him. Giving free rein to his criminal instincts is the only way to free himself from the feeling of shame that all of life’s pleasures provoke in him, even swimming.
The Inconvenience Store
Director: Ifeanyi Ezieme • USA • 12 minutes
In this sci-fi comedy, five unlikely strangers get stuck in a gas station during an alien invasion. Realizing their collective survival depends on one another, they try to put their differences aside and work together before time runs out.
20 Euros
Director: Alexander Machlouzarides-Shalit • Cyprus • 14 minutes
A couple’s night out is interrupted by an unexpected encounter with a man in a parking lot.
Runtime: 1h36
