So hard! 24 films was the number of films we featured in June, a number that, as always, was whittled down from the immensely higher number of films our team watched. When you're already picky, pruning your selections gets unbearably tough, but that's the point of this series—to highlight some of the truly best of the best, can't-miss shorts of the past month.
May 2017. The city of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is the theatre of the mythic Crawfish Festival. It’s just another day, in America.
In this dark comedy of manners set in a surreal world, meticulously-coiffed soccer moms Jill and Lisa vie for perfect children, perfect husbands, and most importantly, perfect teeth.
A cockroach. A woman. The course of true love never did crawl smooth.
Starring "Beasts of the Southern Wild" star Quvenzhané Wallis, a young girl is taken to a Louisiana church in the hopes of banishing the evil spirits her parents believe possess her.
A man awakens in a hospital only to find his life now comes with an accompanying foley group in this Wes Anderson meets Twilight Zone short.
A pregnant mother is rushed to the hospital after a sudden bombing - a story told from within the womb.
Investigating a mysterious explosion in the Florida Everglades, a crop-duster named Bill discovers a lone crate that survived the wreckage. Curiosity gets the better of him and he pulls the crate unto his airboat. That's just the first in a series of decisions he learns to regret.
When a tomboy growing up on military bases starts (yet another) new school, one small act of rebellion has large reverberations at home forcing her to face harsh realities about gender, power, and finding your place in the world.
A black comedy for kids and parents alike, this festival favourite takes its viewers through a gore-filled alphabet of death as a Father Possum reads a cautionary tale to his two young children.
