Enjoy a selection of shorts exclusively available in an online screening from around the world. This programme highlights human stories, whimsical worlds, laughs and character-driven works.

A heartfelt story of unrequited love explored through a lonely seagull struggling to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life.

Bird Drone

A Production assistant working on a low budget horror film is trapped in the apartment of the film's method acting antagonist.

Method to Their Madness

A girl who works in a museum tries to convince another co-worker that two visitors are flirting. And how does she know? Scientific studies say that there are six signs that show one person's attraction to another.

Collage

Awoken from a deep sleep by a noisy neighbour, an irritable and hungover Jess goes on the hunt for food in an attempt to lessen the effects of the mother of all hangovers. After a comedic series of events lead her to be locked out of the house, she must think on her feet and, with the help of next door’s cat, find a way back inside.

Hanging

Sprout, an ambitious young sapling who yearns of creating a dream home of his own, packs up and sets out across the forest, only to find that a house is not truly a home, without family to share it with.

Sprout

Tailor Made is a 12-minute documentary about the passion and perseverance of Tam Nguyen, a refugee from Vietnam who came to Canada in the 80s as part of the Vietnamese "boat people" and used his masterful tailoring skills to craft a new life for himself and many others. As October 2023 marks 43 years since Tam's arrival in Canada, Tailor Made captures his reflections on his life's journey and how he fulfilled a promise to dedicate his life to helping others.

Tailor Made

Feeling the financial pressures of family life, a man is manipulated into joining the addictive world of online gambling, where he can't even trust himself.

Flutter

Pietro wants to race his horse Dream in the Palio di Buonriposo. This dream is thwarted by his father, who intends for Peppe, his older brother, to compete instead. Pietro seems to give up on the race, but meeting Elvira triggers a reaction in him. The time
has come for him to transition to adulthood.

Dreaming Boy

Pura has made an important choice and invites her daughter home to tell her while having breakfast. Overwhelmed by the situation, not because of the choice she is facing, but the conflict of carrying out what her mother is asking her to do, everything ends up falling apart… In the cinema nothing is what it seems.

Pure Reality

The formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are re-imagined with hand-made animation, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language.

Baigal Nuur - Lake Baikal

After completing lengthy prison terms (for murder and arson, respectively), two women forge a strong bond within a nursing home catering to the formerly incarcerated. Creating a positive present tense in the wake of complicated pasts, these survivors cling to simplicity, routine, and each other.

Roommates

Two young women, swap jokes and comfortable silences on a bus journey through the idyllic English countryside. As the film develops we discover that their relationship is more than it seems. Saying goodbye is never easy, but a bus full of goodbyes will always be heart-breaking, an end of infinity, a bus of one last moments.

End of Infinity

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OFFA (Oakville Festivals of Film and Art) 2024 presents an engrossing selection of Canadian and international drama, comedy, documentaries and shorts.

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