The Calgary Underground Film Festival
Shorts: It's All In How You Say It
Spain, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, 2017 / 2018
Archives
2018
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In Cinema
Globe Cinema
Sun,
Apr
22
1:30 PM
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description
Communication is an art. A breakdown in it can have results ranging from funny to terrifying
Shorts screened:
Neutral
United States, 2018, 23 min, Director / Writer / Producer Nathan Barnatt
A bounty hunter and his prisoner break down on a desert road. After a long, hot, miserable day together, their shot at freedom comes unexpectedly.
Never Better
Canada, 2017, 10 min, Director / Writer Lucie Guest, Producer Synnove Godeseth
Rudi lives in complete denial of her mental state regarding her break up. She takes a road trip to reconcile with him but things take an interesting turn.
Flow
United Kingdom, 2017, 5 min, Director/ Writer Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Producers Jen Handorf, Shelagh Rowan-Legg
When two women rebels are involved in a skirmish, they have more to argue about than the enemy.
Emergency
United States, 2018, 12 min, Director Carey Williams
In the midst of an emergency situation, a group of young Black and Latino friends discuss how to go about calling the police.
Night Crosser
Canada, 2017, 8 min, Director Kevin T. Landry, Writers Kevin T. Landry, Christine Doyon
A strange Romanian trying to enter Canada is confronted by an overzealous customs officer and his curiously cooperative colleague.
Trope
Canada, 2017, 3 min, Director Sara Hughes, Writers Josiah Hughes, Sara Hughes
A game of make-believe backfires as two children face the crushing ennui of adulthood in this absurd, darkly comic short.
Mother
Spain, 2018, 18 min, Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen
A mother receives a call from her young son, on holiday with his father. What follows is an escalating nightmare.
What'S That In The Ground?
United States, 2017, 2 min, Director / Animator Wally Chung
When you want one thing, sometimes you get the complete opposite or something worse.
Poolside
Canada, 2017, 3 min, Director Morgan Ermter, Producers Karlee McTavish, Morgan Ermter
A retiring lifeguard in a landlocked town has one more story to tell.
Midnight Confession
Canada, 2017, 10 min, Director Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Writers Rob Benvie, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
West Berlin 1989 - A man calling old friends to make amends for past deceit does not receive the responses he was expecting.