The Calgary Underground Film Festival
SHORTS PACKAGE - A BANQUET OF CONSEQUENCES
2023/2024: 103 minutes
description
The choices made in this package may have all seemed like good ideas at the time. Most do not work out well.
Shorts screened:
Bird Hostage
2023: 13 minutes
Lauren takes a job pet-sitting a parrot named Reggie, who longs for freedom and has a mouth like a sailor. The two strike up a friendship, and hatch a plan for his escape.
Caller Number Nine!
2024: 8 minutes
A telemarketer accidentally calls into a radio show and wins a radio contest.
The Rainbow Bridge
2024: 12 minutes
Tina and her elderly dog visit a mysterious clinic offering human-to-pet communication. Two sinister doctors uncover a bond that transcends time and space.
Fár
2023: 5 minutes
A bird hits a window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to ignore nature or to react.
Yummo Spot
2024: 8 minutes
Corny lovebirds move to the boonies and experience big, wild, American love.
Favourites
2023: 5 minutes
Two parents face an impossible choice when their family camping trip turns deadly.
Tiny Thing
2023: 15 minutes
It’s the tiny things that fuck us over in the end.
YOUR MONEY’S NO GOOD HERE
2023: 9 minutes
A common phrase's misinterpretation propels one man's life into a dark, downward spiral.
Threads
2024: 3 minutes
A harrowing clay animated story of a seamstress's desperate battle against an insidious parasite that threatens to consume her from within.
The Year Of Staring At Noses
2024: 22 minutes
A hybrid narrative-documentary about a woman who undergoes plastic surgery in an attempt to become a contestant on a reality television show.
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special guest
Several directors in attendance for the screening and Q&A