Short Film Packages
Short is indeed sweet in these collections of some of the best short films this year. Catch them on the big screen May 11-21 or stream them on the SIFF Channel May 22-28.
Adolescent Overdrive
86 min.
From surrealistic swimming lessons to ’90s motocross, teenage coma musings to rip-roarin’ rodeos, this is growing up.
ALT Shorts: Dead Reckoning
86 min.
Chart a course through experimental fables and water imagery and oceans of cut-out and crazy animations…with nary a Tom Cruise nor impossible mission in sight.
Animation4Adults
84 min.
Startling transformations, post-career life choices, and underground mysteries.
The Family Picture Show
88 min.
Make your way through a magnificent mix of movies curated for kiddos and their families at THE FAMILY PICTURE SHOW!
The Feminine Urge
94 min.
To spit, to protest, to indulge, to break up with a boyfriend…to be a cat.
FutureWave: Teenage Hearts
98 min.
These films made by teens explore love in all its permutations, including romantic love, self-love, and familial love.
Head Trip Shorts
89 min.
Follow the white rabbit to a wonderland of bizarro, belly-bursting, gasoline-fueled fun.
Medicine Circle: Indigenous Stories of Return
71 min.
Indigenous-made films about the stunning fortitude, vibrant visions, and healing born of the snowy northern regions of the world.
Queering The Way
95 min.
Pursuing social and personal opportunities, these queer individuals strive to break through obstacles and forge on.
ShortsFest Opening Night
89 min.
It is our great pleasure to open our ShortsFest Spotlight with this collection of superb films from around the world.
Sound Visions
96 min.
These shorts explore our region’s creative spirit and talented filmmaking community.
The Spirit Cabinet
96 min.
Within the spirit cabinet, discover messages from the beyond, supernatural terrors, and an unimaginably creepy cabaret.
Through the Looking Glass
91 min.
Journey through surreal worlds, warped realities, and absurd encounters where nothing is as it seems.
WWYD (What Would You Do?)
94 min.
Heart-pounding, sexy, surreal, and sinister. Stories that ask, what would you do?