SHORTS PACKAGE - HOW TO SUCCEED IN LOVE WITHOUT REALLY TRYING

Shorts screened:

ITTY BITTY BETTY

12 minutes Canada (Women Director / Fantasy / Narrative / Dark Comedy / Romance / Comedy)

Betty must choose; a safe isolated life with miniature figurines or an authentic, vulnerable experience in the outside world.

GATE CRASHERS

13 minutes United States (Comedy / Drama / Narrative)

Hoping to impress with borrowed luxury, an insecure bachelor invites a date to a backyard pool he's secretly “pool-sitting”, only to trigger a humiliating chain reaction that exposes how far he'll go to fake belonging.

PICK IT TILL IT BLEEDS

3 minutes Canada (Animation / Experimental / Women Director)

Yearning to pick his girlfriend’s scab, a young man gets more than he bargained for in this mixed-media animation.

POTATO POTATO

14 minutes United States (Comedy / Narrative)

When Cynthia writes a letter to the baby growing inside her about her hopes for their future, the baby writes back.

ROACH TRIP

12 minutes United States (Comedy / Narrative / Women Director)

In this offbeat road movie, a woman fleeing heartbreak forms an unlikely bond that forces her to face the pain she’s been trying to outrun.

KLEE

19 minutes Canada (Erotic / Fantasy / Narrative / Sci-Fi / Indigenous)

An alien is sent to earth and tasked with a mission to invade, seduce, and terminate a family of colonizers in 19th century Saskatchewan.

SPANKED BY A GHOST

11 minutes United States (Dark Comedy / Horror / Narrative / Women Director / Thriller)

Alone in her home, a woman is spanked by an unseen entity, awakening a force she cannot control.

MY GIANT WITHIN ME

12 minutes United States (Comedy / Narrative)

A would-be life-coach pushes forward his multimedia corporation while avoiding all of his responsibilities.