SHORTS: ASSORTED COOLNESS

These shorts are ice cold! A wide mix of stories including documentary, animation, comedy and drama. What is your favourite short from a past CUFF?  Oh cool.  One of these is just like that.

CONSPIRACY CRUISE

Canada / United States, 2019, 12:30 min. Dir. Brad Abrahams

The (partly) real story of a cruise ship vacation for conspiracy theorists that takes a turn for the surreal when their most outlandish theories come true on board.

 

JESSE JAMS

Canada, 2020, 15:51 min. Dir. Trevor Anderson

A young Indigenous musician and his rock band bring mumblepunk to the Interstellar Rodeo. A rock 'n' roll survival story of a different stripe.

FREE FUN

Cyprus, 2019, 5:00 min. Dir. Fehmi Öztürk

When Kika entered a game to have fun, she encounters something she never expected. Nothing will be the same anymore.

 

EAR ACHE

United States, 2019, 14:30 min. Dir. Alex Kavutskiy

A down on his luck aspiring actor suffers from chronic earaches.

 

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

United States, 2019, 6:52 min. Dir. Mary Dauterman

A male stripper has an unusual experience on the job.

 

THE DEVIL'S HARMONY

United Kingdom, 2019, 14:23 min. Dir. Dylan Holmes Williams

A bullied teenage girl leads an a cappella club on a trail of destruction against her high school enemies.

 

HOT AND TASTY

United Kingdom, 2019, 3:39 min. Dir. Laura Jayne Hodkin

Two drunk friends accidentally walk into a crime scene.

 

THE MOTHER

Canada, 2020, 9:52 min. Dir. Kaytlyn Turner

A colonial trapper wrestles with his violent past alone in the wild.

 

IMMORTAL

United States, 2019, 10:30 min. Dir. Natalie Metzger

A brilliant geneticist is on the verge of a breakthrough that could change humanity, but when her experiment is discovered, she will have to make an impossible choice.

 

I LOVE TO WAIT

United States, 2019, 8:58 min. Dir. Harrison Atkins

Sarah gave Ezra a soul crystal, and that may have been a mistake.