School of Fish

Indigenous people and salmon have been intertwined for thousands of years in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Today, kids learn from elders to fish but must also learn to fight, as pollution from Pebble Mine threatens this pristine ecosystem. Can the next generation defend the most prolific salmon run left on earth?

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Dark Comedy Ben West 8 minutes

Fugu & Tako

Two Japanese salary men's lives literally transform when one of them eats a live puffer fish in a sushi bar.

Festival September 22nd, 2020

A Shorts-Centric Recap of TIFF 2020

With TIFF adopting a hybrid approach - featuring live screenings, online rentals and a virtual library - we take a short centric look at what this year's festival had to offer.

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Drama Olivia De Camps 17 minutes

Sirena

A young Dominican woman is forced to rethink her move to the US after a dark family secret surfaces.

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Comedy Rebecca Halfon 12 minutes

Bodega

A Syrian deli owner and a high school girl with a fake ID find common ground on one winter night in Brooklyn.

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Thriller James Kim 4 minutes

Pin Point

An orphaned child overcomes her fear of her evil caretaker to exact a much-deserved revenge.

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Documentary Savannah O'Leary 7 minutes

Gone Viral

Four years after the presidential debate that catapulted him to stardom, a forgotten internet sensation struggles with withdrawal from his stint in the limelight.

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Dark Comedy Bali Engel & Matthieu Landour 7 minutes

Shock Therapy

Snakes, spiders, monsters, you name it, Jim’s afraid of it! In order to face his fears, Jim will bring everything he is afraid of into his house. It doesn’t quite work out as expected....

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Documentary Ethan Brooks 6 minutes

Ghost Bikes

There are over 150 white-painted bicycles chained up throughout New York City. Each bike represents a cyclist killed on the city streets. This is the story of a man who puts up the the ghost bikes - who remembers these fallen cyclists when everyone else seems to have forgotten them.

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Comedy David Rusanow 13 minutes

MOTHER

A suburban housewife finds a used condom while vacuuming her house. It could only have come from one of two people, her fifteen-year-old daughter or her husband...