SHORT SHORT STORY FILM FESTIVAL

Saturday, November 27th:

The fourth annual Short Short Story Film Festival returns to Red River Theatres this Thanksgiving weekend.

The festival includes both live-action and animated films from across the globe, all of which tell a story in five minutes or less. 

The idea is to present a wide variety of themes and moods within the time of a typical feature film. The festival will focus both on succinctness and storytelling. Shorts in many festivals can be twenty minutes or longer, whereas these films will be within five minutes. Despite that, these films tell genuine stories rather than being just concept pieces.
 

• Neon Skin, from Melbourne, Australia, about a sensual connection between a yound man and his blind friend.
• The First King, a lighthearted animated history of Portugal's first king, Alfonso.
• Frosty Man and the BMX Kid, from the mountains of New Zealand, bridging the generation gap as an old man and a young Maori boy eat ice cream and do cannonball dives, or "bombs"
• Gun, Bees, and Tadpoles, an animated short from Northern Ireland recounting a summer's day in 1971 that took a turn to the extraordinary for an ordinary family.
• Make Piece, from London, where a machinist tries to cope with the loss of his girlfriend by literally finding missing pieces of his life

• Timeless Confessions, a Sicilian film on the world economic crisis capturing reflections in an intimate fashion with a dash of magic
• Familyship, a Korean black comedy about unusual approaches to dealing with family conflicts
• The Unhappy Woman, a Norwegian satire showing what happens when the filmmaking process gets too personal
• Farat, a tragic animated horror fable from Bulgaria based on the poem "The Lighthouse Keeper Loves Birds Too Much"
• Perpetuum Mobile, a Swiss role reversal film about a man rescuing a woman from doom before needing rescuing himself