• Parables, Fantasies & Fables

Suspend belief and lose yourself in the stories of these imaginative and expressive shorts.

Short Films

Aikāne

Wounded in battle, an island warrior falls into a mysterious underwater world. When the octopus who rescues him transforms into a handsome young man, they fall in love and an epic adventure begins. Meet the Filmmakers: https://youtu.be/mDNjcFNQHVA

The Melting Creatures

Nataly, a trans woman, is visiting her former lover Leon with her daughter Secreto in a mysterious reclusive community hiding from the Sun. These reunions will bring back the memory of a toxic and abusive relationship to Nataly.

Sprout

After an agoraphobic scientist accidentally creates a baby-like plant creature, their connection threatens to upend his reclusive way of life.

Untitled Floating Mom Short

A girl's mother has started to levitate unconsciously. At the same time, the girl grapples with an unusually optimistic doctor's visit. Meet the filmmaker: https://youtu.be/tff3dON8nbg

Zeb's Spider

An eight-legged force of fate spins a complex web in a superstitious homebody’s life. What begins as a way of coping with an uninvited arachnid soon takes on a monstrous life of its own.

Sèt Lam

A frightened girl listens to her grandmother tell the strange tale of Edwardo, the first of his kin to have seen and fought death. The child is captivated, feeling that there is a reason her grandmother is recounting this story. Meet the filmmaker: https://youtu.be/-xdGhhlfcNw

Things That Disappear

An elderly person living alone in a redevelopment area holds a funeral for a dead cat they find in the street. Meet the filmmaker: https://youtu.be/vWninhlgZfA

ShortFest 2023