• Parables, Fantasies & Fables

Suspend belief and lose yourself in this selection of imaginative and otherworldly shorts.

Short Films

THE CASCADE

A man discovers he has been crying for two months. His tears are strangely working in an inverse manner, transforming his interiors into a waterfall. He has to find a way to stop a cry he can't even feel.

JELLYFISH AND LOBSTER

When two elderly, terminally ill patients discover the pool in their care home restores them to their younger selves, they are forced to reconcile with the inescapable truth of their mortality, or drown in the illusion of their past.

MOTHERS & MONSTERS

For a very special celebration, a host-mother gathers mothers and their perfect children for a great banquet, which is suddenly disrupted by strange disturbances. What is hiding behind the scenes of this ideal world?

ON THE 8TH DAY

It took seven days to create the world, it only took one to disrupt its balance.

RECURRENCE

Some cows ran away from a cottage. The next day, a planet approaches the Earth. The owner of the cottage leaves his disabled son out of fear and runs away. Then the cows return to the cottage.

SYMBIOTIC

A teenage girl is plagued by dreams of a praying mantis couple, all while tackling her own personal demons at home. Tension mounts as these two worlds converge and the line between dream and reality starts to blur.

ShortFest 2024