SHORTS PACKAGE: LIFE ON THE FRINGE

SHORTS SCREENED:

DEMON BOX

2023, 14 m, Canada, Director Sean Wainsteim

After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life. *Please be advised that this film deals with themes of trauma and suicide.

 

RUNNING RABBIT

2023, 16 m 17, Canada (Alberta), Director Bret Robert Franics Kenworthy

Regan tells the story about leaving home, venturing out and following his visions on becoming an MMA fighter, with the hopes to help inspire his people from Siksika. 

 

DIE LAUGHING

2023, 18 m 53 s, United States, Arabic / English, Directors Tom Broecker & JL Pomeroy

An illumination of the power of comedy, and the lengths comedians will go to inspire laughter while expressing the truth—where freedom of expression is a literal fight for freedom. 

 

SUMMER NIGHTS

2022, 14 m 22 s, Canada, French w/ English Subtitles, Director Virgile Ratelle

Under the cover of night, skaters claim back the streets.

 

KRUSH THE WRESTLER

2023, 14 m, United States, Director Alex Megaro

Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.

 

ORANGE FROM MEMORY

2023, 14 m 32 s, Germany, English, Director Michael Arcos

A woman who paints Garfield for a living dismantles when the filmmaker becomes mystified with the colour orange.