Join us in celebrating the best films of the 28th edition of ShortFest, with a day of screenings featuring audience favorites and jury winners.
Short Films
Carol, 70, just discovered her heart medication has doubled in price. She hustles to find money, attempting to borrow from her weary family, and pleading with Social Security for assistance. Desperate and reeling, she takes matters into her own hands.
A young boy named Sonny works in an underground coal mine with the adults, taking care of the canary that detects deadly methane gas. He teaches the bird to play dead to prank the men, risking their lives for a moment in the sunlight above.
When an immigrant teen must help her mother buy a ladder before school, tensions of belonging in a new country bubble to the surface. Meet the filmmaker: https://youtu.be/mZxp-qjjAZI
As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search of himself, a long overdue conversation with his mother plunges the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.
Filip is a professional dead body movie extra. On set, he meets Lucy, also an extra, playing a dead woman. While laying on top of each other during long hours, a bittersweet relationship develops in these unusual circumstances. Meet the filmmarker: https://youtu.be/oy-X027gnfo