23rd Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 16-26, 2026 Globe Cinema

14th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 18-22, 2026 Globe Cinema

ITTY BITTY BETTY

Canada, 2025: 12 minutes: Alberta Premiere
Special Guest!
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description

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

Betty's fear of rejection has her living isolated at home in a reality constructed with miniature figurines, one with whom she has developed a relationship. After meeting a woman who she can’t get off her mind, Betty is thrust into making a difficult decision: continue her small private life at home with her miniature figurine boyfriend or face the big world outside and risk rejection in the pursuit of an authentic and vulnerable relationship with a stranger.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Fantasia Film Festival 2025
Image+Nation Film Festival 2025
Courts d'un Soir 2025
Mardi Gras Film Festival 2026
Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2026

details

Women Director / Fantasy / Narrative / Dark Comedy / Romance / Comedy

English
12 minutes

special guest

Director, screenwriter, cast Laura Buchanan in attendance

credits

Director
Laura Buchanan

Screenwriter
Laura Buchanan

Producer
Mariel Sharp

Cinematographer
Stephanie Weber Biron

Music
Kid Koala

Cast
Laura Buchanan
Victoria Hall
Matt Keyes

awards

Winner, 3rd place MELS Award Best Short Film, Fantasia Film Festival 2025
Winner, Emerging Voices Award and Short Film Audience Award, Image+Nation Film Festival 2025