ShortsFest Opening Night
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 RizalBetween 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 McGeeFilmmaker 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….
Cantata
Ireland | 2023 | 12 min. | Dave FoxDarren embarks on a journey to overcome operatic hallucinations and reconnect with his inner child.
Essex Girls
United Kingdom | 2023 | 15 min. | Yero Timi-BiuAfter 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.
Madeleine
Canada (Québec) | 2023 | 15 min. | Raquel SancinettiTwo friends, decades apart, take a whimsical trip to the sea in this hybrid animated documentary that blurs the lines between the real and imagined.
Quasi Perfetto
Italy | 2023 | 11 min. | Federico FrefelIn 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.