SHORTS PACKAGE - A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE CINEMA

Shorts screened:

CLOWN SONG

7 minutes United States (Comedy / Horror / Music / Narrative)

A man’s bleak life becomes even more nightmarish when his mother sleeps with an actual clown.

HALFWAY HAUNTED

17 minutes Canada (Comedy / Horror / Narrative)

A tenant in a haunted house teams up with a ghost to stop a real estate developer from demolishing the home they share.

STRIP MALL

8 minutes Canada (Narrative / Thriller)

Nate gets caught shoplifting.

BEAUTY SLEEP

13 minutes United Kingdom (Women Director / Narrative)

A creatively stifled beautician-turned-mortician, provides makeovers at a funeral parlour for living teens.

JINGLE JANGLE

10 minutes United States (Comedy / Horror / Narrative / Women Director)

When two pranksters sneak in to their friend's apartment, the joke spirals into blood-soaked chaos and they uncover a deadly secret.

WE WERE HERE

10 minutes India (Comedy / Drama / Narrative)

In a crumbling Indian town, three retired men stage a protest against machines taking over human jobs, by pretending to be household appliances.

SMOKE BREAK

5 minutes Canada (Comedy / Drama / Narrative)

A clairvoyant trapped in a city far from home, bums a cigarette and shares knowledge with a video store clerk on a smoke break.

SHRIMP FRIED RICE

12 minutes Canada (Comedy / Mockumentary / Narrative)

A talented shrimp chef with an ego that outweighs his tiny body carries out his vendetta against a culinary-inclined rat which puts The Shrimp’s human puppet at risk of deportation.

NICKY AND MIKE ARE IN BEACH FORMAL

3 minutes United States (Comedy / Narrative)

Nicky and Mike get sidetracked while looking for their friends' wedding at Coney Island.

FINGER GUNS

10 minutes Canada (Comedy / Narrative / Alberta)

A privileged office worker rebels when his freedom to use the "finger gun" gesture is threatened in this comedic satire.