• SIBLING STORIES

The bond between siblings is stronger than ever in this eclectic selection of shorts that oscillates between shenanigans and unconditional support, reminding us that blood is thicker than water.

Showtimes

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Festival Theaters 1

Short Films

ALMOST CERTAINLY FALSE

Having fled Syria, Hanna and her brother Nader find themselves staying in a run-down neighbourhood of Istanbul. When Hanna falls for a Turkish man, she finds herself trying to balance her identity and desires with her younger brother's needs.

HERMANO HERMANA

Two siblings reconnect in a gothic cemetery 50 years later, after sister unburies brother.

DUST TO DUST

Beau is forced to reconcile a falling-out with his brother when he returns home for the first time in two years to attend his funeral.

HATCHLINGS

A resentful teenager is forced to babysit her turtle-obsessed half-brother, who dives into a vivid fantasy world where he is a sea turtle and she is a tortoise.

LITTLE GOODBYES

When eight-year-old Florence accompanies her younger sister Simone to the local market to visit Santa Claus, a traumatic incident occurs. In shock, Florence will do everything to protect her little sister's imagination.

STRANGER, BROTHER.

When Adam, a self-absorbed and lonely millennial, wakes to find his estranged half-brother on his footsteps one morning, he must face the family he’s been running away from.

ShortFest 2025