ShortsFest Opening Night

84 min.

It is our great pleasure to open our ShortsFest Spotlight with this collection of superb films from around the world: whether narrative or documentary, live action or animation—these films prove short is truly sweet.

Come to the May 10 screening for a chance to win tickets to 48 Hour Project Film Project's 2025 Filmapalooza!

  • Running Time: 84 min.

Packaged Films

Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy

Indonesia | 2023 | 15 min. | Khozy Rizal 

Between meddling relatives, self-doubt, and an explosive confrontation, a married couple discover why they have not been blessed with a child.

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USA | 2024 | 16 min. | Kailee McGee

Filmmaker Kailee McGee’s world turns sideways with a late-stage breast cancer diagnosis. But as the voice inside her head toggles between existential crisis and self-actualization, she resorts to the only way she knows how to heal….

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Cantata

Ireland | 2023 | 12 min. | Dave Fox

Darren embarks on a journey to overcome operatic hallucinations and reconnect with his inner child.

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Essex Girls

United Kingdom | 2023 | 15 min. | Yero Timi-Biu

After an incident at her high school draws her into the orbit of Ashlee, the only other Black girl in her year, Bisola plunges into a journey where she discovers a whole new side of herself.

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Madeleine

Canada (Québec) | 2023 | 15 min. | Raquel Sancinetti

Two friends, decades apart, take a whimsical trip to the sea in this hybrid animated documentary that blurs the lines between the real and imagined.

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Quasi Perfetto

Italy | 2023 | 11 min. | Federico Frefel

In 1969, a hapless television operator mistakenly deleted the official commentary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Forty years later, Journalists Marco Blaser and Eugenio Bigatto return to the studio to finally correct the mistake.

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