UWPG Film Festival - Shorts 1: October 18th 8:15pm
Moss Man
Dir. Noah Davidson
Synopsis: While visiting her family farm, Tesha and her friends find themselves under attack from an ancient monster known as Moss Man. The friends must put aside their differences and fight together in order to defeat the monster.
Runtime: 8min 23sec
Canada, MB
chatroom #88
Dir. Jenny Wu
Synopsis: She decided to leave the womb 3 weeks, 3 hours, and 6 minutes too early... and 17 years later it still remained her biggest regret. This is a story about the turbulence of the adolescent struggle and the search for an answer to the ultimate question in an over-saturated world: Is there really a purpose to all of this?
Runtime: 1min 26sec
USA
Home Away From Home
Dir. Rohit Srinath
Synopsis: Story of an immigrant to Canada and getting used to the changes, homesickness and trying and build something on his own.
Runtime: 1min 26sec
Canada, MB
When the sun is shining outside
Dir. Thomas Hinse
Synopsis: Despite his numerous efforts, Félix can't get a cell phone. His mom just refuses to buy one. He choses then to try to convince his friends to get rid of their phone. And things will get lucky for him.
Runtime: 5min 5sec
Canada, QC
Bette
Dir. Laurence Mongrain, Geneviève Tremblay
Synopsis: Bette grows rare flowers. At the heart of each are eyes that are never to the liking of the myopic young gardener. One morning, the blooming of a different flower allows her to take a fresh look at the world. Unfortunately, the second button is slow to open… Bette must wait to get the pair.
Runtime: 1min 13sec
Canada, QC
What do I Remember of the Evacuation?
Dir. Sammy Vu, Poppy Suro, Sodam Hong, Kris Reyes
Synopsis: This film is a video poem of the poem "What do I remember of the evacuation" by Joy Kogawa. The idea behind poem is about the Japanese internment camp in Canada during World War 2. This film project utilizes archival photographs and history on the historical site, allowing the students to develop their vision and personal relationship to the topic and the work. The poem was originally written in English but was translated and recorded in Japanese with English subtitles portraying the inclusiveness within our multicultural communities.
Runtime: 3min 32sec
Canada, BC
Never Too Late
Dir. Christian Caputo
Synopsis: A year after high school graduation in the early 50s Rita and Beth have a chance to reconnect. In the solitude of the back room at Rita’s job she and Beth are able to let their true feelings for each other finally show themselves. They make a plan to run away together but fate intervenes and keeps them apart. Forty years later their lives have changed but their love remains an unexplored journey.
Runtime: 10min 34sec
Canada, BC
A Time to Wallow
Dir. Tara McCabe
Synopsis: In the not too distant future, a pig leaves a shut down factory farm and discovers the outside world. Along the way, she meets a cast of colourful characters and tries to figure out who she is and who she could be.
Runtime: 4min 25sec
UK
Tails of the Were-Cow
Dir. William Manning
Synopsis: A cute date is going perfectly well until the guy turns into a cow.
Runtime: 1min 13sec
Canada, ON
Seeking Sanctuary
Dir. Parker Andreas
Synopsis: A cornerstone of West End Winnipeg, the 110-year-old heritage site, Westminster United Church, faces collapse after structural damage threatens to condemn the building.
Runtime: 8min 59sec
Canada, MB
Intertwined
Dir. Karen Velázquez Moreno
Synopsis: Sofía is a teenager who lives between the contrast of the noise of the city and the calm of her town: Gualupita, State of Mexico. One day, exhausted when she returns home, she finds a cord. Intrigued, she decides to follow it without imagining that it will lead her to discover what she needs.
Runtime: 3min 21sec
Mexico
Une Laveuse S.V.P (One Washer Please)
Dir. Roxana Baloiu
Synopsis: Une Laveuse S.V.P follows Alina, a Romanian immigrant in Montreal, struggling with the language barrier as she buys herself a laundry machine. Faced with a rude salesman at the appliance store, she spends her time at the local laundromat waiting for this washer that will never come. The film explores patience, immigration, integration, human interaction, the solitude that comes with a new place with a splash of queer tension.
Runtime: 11min 25sec
Canada, QC
The Sledgehammer Man
Dir. Aidan Billard Dooley
Synopsis: A troubled factory worker prepares for the interdimensional "Sledgehammer Man" to possess his body.
Runtime: 16min 30sec
Canada, MB