This year marked an interesting milestone for the Oscar nominated animated short films. For the first time in recent memory, people actually watched them.
Toronto native Jamie Travis has been making short films for more than a decade. When he finally made the leap to features (his debut For a Good Time, Call premiered at Sundance and will hit cinemas this fall), he gave shorts lovers everywhere a wonderful gift by releasing all his previous work online.
With our annual Short Awards planned for Early 2022, to round off our yearly coverage we take a look at the S/W team's favourite films from 2021.
A granddaughter celebrates the life of her 'Gan Gan' by telling the story of her colourful life.
Frank told a bad joke at his new place of work and nobody laughed, now at 3.00am he's unable to sleep as he ponders on the nature of memory itself.
When an elderly Chinese man's cultural naivety gets him in trouble, he struggles with his son and the legal system to make the context of his behaviour understood.
When Paul refuses to leave, Benny's easy night of sex and drugs takes a strange turn in this 16-min. single take film exploring notions of male-on-male intimacy, sexuality and violence.
Young couple Anna and Gunnar are deeply in love but they face being torn apart by a society where people are assigned a new spouse by lottery every seven years
Liza Mandelup, Matt Vesely and Michael Lukk Litwak - three filmmakers with features at SXSW 2023 - join us to discuss how short film was important in helping to shape their careers so far.
