OPENING NIGHT PROGRAM
Friday, November 1, 2024, 7:00 PM
Simple Truth
“It's time to put aside the pain
Then give and watch away the stains
And love you with what time remains anyway
Who wants the true, soft bruises” —Roo Panes
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Festival Opening Film--JUPITER
A cantankerous former soldier turned breeder is furious when he discovers that one of his goats has run away again. Ready to do anything to teach him a lesson, Jean attracts the wrath of Jupiter.
DIRECTOR: Carlos Segundo
Narrative/15 min/France-Brazil -
WAN
After a frantic sunset chase in the forest, a fierce-looking hominid confronts an old man and his hyena-dog, with an unexpected result.
DIRECTOR: Victor Monigote
Animation/13 min/Spain -
TRAPPED
A high school janitor, investigating voices echoing through the empty halls, is drawn to the gymnasium, where he stumbles into a group of boys in the middle of a senior prank.
DIRECTORS: David Cutler-Kreutz, Sam Cutler-Kreutz
Narrative/15 min/USA -
BOB'S FUNERAL
Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.
DIRECTOR: Jack Dunphy
Documentary/Narrative/19 min/USA -
A CRAB IN THE POOL (Un trou dans la poitrine)
When Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves in a run-down neighborhood, they will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
DIRECTORS: Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel
Animation/11 min/Canada -
BASRI and SALMA in a never-ending COMEDY
A husband and wife own an Odong-Odong at the carnival and spend their days taking care of other people's children without having any of their own.
DIRECTOR: Khozy Rizal
Narrative/15 min/Indonesia -
VOL 666
During a flight for a dream vacation, Johnny, a compulsive gambler and notorious crook, finds himself propelled to Hell with his wife Monica. To save their souls, they will have to confront and beat the Devil at his own game in Hell's Casino.
DIRECTORS: Julie Corniere, Anselme de Pertat, Killian Derlin, Manon François, Anaïs Lavault, Léo Le Corre, Aliénor Poisson, Lucas Roy
Animation/6 min/France -
DISSOLUTION
A woman is forced to confront her elderly husband’s physical deterioration when they meet to sign their divorce papers.
DIRECTOR: Anthony Saxe
Narrative/14 min/USA -
SNAKE (Shé)
When pressures mount on a tightly wound violinist in a London youth orchestra, her internal monsters take external form.
DIRECTOR: Rene Zhan
Narrative, Animation/15 min/UK -
Opening Night Closing Film--THE COMPANIONS (La CompaÑÍa)
As a young couple walks down the street, they encounter a crowd gathered around a strange event.
DIRECTOR: José María Flores
Narrative/12 min/Spain
Matinee Program
Saturday, November 2, 2024, 2:00 PM
Hope For Others
“Grabs a note and reads aloud
"The passion new'd make a mother proud
I miss you so, it seems we all have much going on “ —Joshua James
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Matinee Opening Film--PASTURE PRIME
A widow falls for a younger man she meets at the Cowboy Church.
DIRECTOR:Director: Diffan Sina Norman
Narration/10 min/USA -
DEADLINE
A black comedy Stop-motion short that explores the power balance between bureaucracy, death and feline devotion of the elderly.
DIRECTOR: Idan Gilboa
Animation/13 min/Israel -
AFTER ISIS
For Dan, helping to rebuild Iraq is an act of redemption that unites those returning to their homeland and heals the wounds of ISIS.
DIRECTOR: Jimmy Gault
Documentary/6 min/USA -
JEDO'S DEAD
A young girl and her brother discover their grandfather's body during the aftermath of 9/11. They experience grief, loss, and rituals surrounding death through a child's perspective.
DIRECTOR: Sara Nimeh
Narrative/11 min/USA -
UWD (Until We Die)
IA poetic crisscrossing in a ruined world where everyone survives the collective disarray alone.
DIRECTORS: Brigette Poupart, Myriam Verreault
Experimental/20 min/Canada -
Even Though It's Night (Aunque es de noche)
La Cañada Real, Europe's largest slum on the outskirts of Madrid, has been without electricity for over a year. Toni and Nasser have made this place their playground. But one day, Nasser tells Toni that he is leaving for France.
DIRECTOR: Guillermo García López
Narrative/15 min/TFrance -
WANDER TO WONDER
Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three tiny humans who star in a kids' TV series called “Wander to Wonder.” After the creator dies, they are left alone in the studio starving to survive and continuing to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
DIRECTOR: Nina Gantz
Animation/13 min/Netherlands -
MY TOMATO HEART
Madeleine is forced to quit her position at the neighborhood grocery store. Her job is her whole life; her colleagues, her only family. The quinquagenarian spends her last days of work fighting to save what is near and dear to her heart.
DIRECTOR: Benoît Le Rouzès Ménard
Narrative/14 min/Canada -
MOVE
An invite to a rave puts refugee and outsider Faisal's sense of identity and belonging into question.
DIRECTOR: Ana Farré Moutinho
Narrative/13 min/USA -
Matinee Closing Film--ESSEX GIRLS
After an incident at her high school pulls her into the orbit of the only other Black girl in her year, “Essex Girl” Bisola is plunged into a journey to discover a whole new side of herself.
DIRECTOR: Yero Timi-Biu
Narrative/15 min/UK
Closing Night Program
Saturday, November 2, 2024, 7:00 PM
All Things Go
“You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow.” —Sufjan Stevens
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CLOSING NIGHT OPENING FILM--LETTER TO A PIG
A traumatic memory from a Holocaust survivor transports a young schoolgirl on an inner journey.
DIRECTOR: Don Josepus Raphael Eblahan
Animation/17 min/Israel. France -
FLAIL
It's her boss' birthday, and Allie is trying as hard as she can.
DIRECTOR: Ben Gauthier
Narrative, 14 min/USA -
MATTA AND MATTO
In a time when all interpersonal closeness is forbidden, the hourly hotel Vaip offers wondrous rooms where guests snuggle up to devices built with great skill and let themselves fall into the perfect illusion of human touch.
DIRECTORS: Bianca Cederas, Kerstin Zemp
Animation/10 min/Switzerland -
OASIS
At the dawn of their teenage years, twins see their fraternal attachment crumble while one of them, suffering from an increasingly marked disability, remains a prisoner of childhood.
DIRECTOR: Justine Martin
Documentary/15 min/Canada -
THE GARLIC ANIMAL SAUCE (L'animal sauce ail)
In Gooseville, each new managing and self consuming environment is told via low budget homemade TV shows. Advertising, teleshopping and the media shows us the devolution of a small French village rushing towards its end.
DIRECTORS: Ysaline Debut, Isa Cotte, Aurélien Duchez, Camille Rostan, Clément Mouchel, Diane Mazella
Animation/6 min/France -
SIMO
The usual rivalries and jealousies that exist between two Egyptian teenage brothers Simo and Emad take a dangerous turn that may seriously impact the future of their family.
DIRECTOR: Aziz Zoromba
Narrative/20 min/Canada -
BUG DINER
Mayhem follows when a Mole chef with suppressed desires and a Fly waitress buzzing around let their freak flags fly.
DIRECTOR: Phoebe Jane Heart
Animation/17 min/USA -
SAINT ROSE
As her husband takes over the preparations for their daughter's engagement ceremony, an unhappy Muslim housewife hides in her bathroom and drinks vodka.
DIRECTOR: Zayn Alexandre
Narrative/14 min/Spain/Lebanon -
KINGS (les rois)
Two new counsellors at a summer camp struggle with ridicule and rejection after an initiation goes sideways.
DIRECTOR: Olivier Côté
Narrative/ 11 min/USA -
Festival Closing Film--THE MASTERPIECE (la gran obra)
Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects.
DIRECTOR: Àlex Lora
Narrative/20 min/Spain