SHORTS FOR BREAKFAST: NARRATIVES

Breakfast is the perfect time of day to enjoy 8 of our best narrative short films. Coffee provided by Coffee Bureau!

BOTS - Directed by Rich Williamson | 2025 | 14 min | Canada

Office-based bots sow discord and division in Williamson's biting satire about the disturbing influence of unstable forces controlling global politics.

HATCH - Directed by Alireza Kazemipour, Panta Mosleh | 2025 | 11 min | Canada/Iran

Trapped inside a water tanker, a young refugee’s escape becomes a journey that will haunt him forever.

YA HANOUNI - Directed by Lyna Tadount, Sofian Chouaib | 2025 | 3 min | France

While Mom and Dad try to put their baby to sleep, a competition arises: who will manage to get the baby to say its first word?

PEGASUS - Directed by Jean-Erasme Giudicelli | 2025 | 12 min | France

In the middle of burnout, Victor breaks down and meets the gaze of a horse.

HELL - Directed by Parker Croft | 2025 | 5 min | USA

HELL follows the patriarch of a dying farm on the outskirts of Ash Harbor as he is methodically ground down by the machinery of despair.

BLU’S - Directed by Rajesh PK | 2025 | 10 min | India

Blu has grown up in harmony with nature, but after witnessing the beautiful environment being swallowed up by industrialization, she decides to fight for the wildlife, meadows, rivers, and trees before they disappear completely.

MADE OF LEAKPROOF PLASTIC - Directed by Anastasiya Mykhaylova | 2025 | 15 min | Canada, USA

Blending animation and live-action, follow Sasha as she prepares to leave her newly sold home after the passing of her husband.

MAKING BEAUTY - Directed by Tammy Salzl | 2025 | 13 min | Canada

A gifted 10-year-old channels her grief after losing her grandmother by retreating into her shed and beginning a secret project.

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