Short Cinema

Something is about to change drastically. We can only be witnesses to it.

A bullied schoolboy takes drastic measures against his tormenter, summoning an ancient being in the woods using a spellbound book passed down through the generations of his family.

A little girl home alone finds herself face-to-face with pure evil.

An inquisitive girl is convinced her dead father will soon be resurrected; certain he has died to test their love for him. However, when the corpse begins to rot, the girl is forced to reconsider the situation.

A naive young girl becomes the target of a murderous sociopath when she attempts to reinvent herself to impress the boys in her small Texas town.

When Anna and Priss pick up a mysterious hitchhiker, their road trip takes a turn for the worse.

A teenage girl and her older brother's best friend find themselves alone at a cliff jumping spot in the California mountains.

Lou and Chantal are gonna blow up. One day. Somehow. But girls don't get out of Coberge, Ontario by playing nice. All they've ever wanted, was to feel what it's like to be free.

Separate We Come, Separate We Go is the story of a 10-year-old girl, Thea who escapes her bleak domestic life to find sanctuary in the surreal desert landscape of Dungeness. Roaming around the barren skeletons of boats and abandoned fishing huts, she is increasingly aware of her loneliness and vulnerability. Seemingly out of nowhere a man (David Thewlis) appears; she is so intrigued by him she defies all lessons taught about strangers and approaches him. As they walk and talk she discovers he is a widower and has lost his son; she realises she is not alone in experiencing loss. He notices her sadness and unusual maturity and decides to help lift her out of her melancholy. Through the metaphor of the freedom of flying birds, he shows her that life does have exciting possibilities. This redemptive story shows that in life you should not allow fear to limit your horizons.

A classics professor finds herself enticed by a Matisse print and becomes enamored with its owner, hairdresser Lucian.

A short film showing a young man's journey as he walks though the empty rural landscape. Due to the recent loss of a lover, his life falls under a shadow of disillusionment, self reflection and anger. His lamenting is told through a voice over, a poetic stream of consciousness that ebbs and flows from regret to gratitude. As the film progresses the audience may believe he is entirely altruistic but the perception shifts in the last beat. He realizes that he must put his turmoil in the past and live a new life that honors the love that they shared.

From the get-go, Arnold was fascinated by the careless, seemingly simple choices people make in their day-to-day lives that lead to unintended, complicated consequences.

A teenage girl gets ready to go out to meet her boyfriend, despite her mother's loud verbal disapproval of her clothes. She goes out to a deserted area with him and he begins to touch her up and have sex with her, however a dog reveals the true nature of her boyfriend.

A struggling single mother is determined not to let her four young children be an obstacle in the pursuit of starting a relationship with an old acquaintance.

A young girl and her mother face an evil that is frighteningly familiar.

Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.

In the Garden, humans get converted into A.I. constructs to survive. But Luc - a rebellious ballerina - would rather die than conform.

A young girl tries to connect with her estranged father who runs the town's local funeral home.

An aging scream queen deals with her insignificance.

A woman finds something quaint in her kitchen sink and feels strangely captivated towards it.

On a stormy day, 12-year-old twins Sophia and Jacob set out to hawk special bibles, only to be left to fend for themselves when their trailer park is evacuated.

Mia recounts her most intimate confessions, uncensored, in her first approach to a totally new world of domination and submission.

Two runaway teens steal a car with dreams of driving down to Florida, but things take a turn when a stranger appears with unknown intentions.

Emilia and Martina have always been inseparable, but when their cousins come over on a hot summer day, Emilia learns that her sister's priorities might be changing.

After discovering something she was never meant to see, 16-year-old girl begins to examine her close friendship with three boys from the school football team.