Vancouver Short Film Festival 2025

Program Five: Everything Really Matters [Virtual Screening]

Available in 12d 16h 46m 36s
Available June 15, 2025 11:00 PM UTC
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7 films in package
Small Step
Antoine, a young introverted boy, dreams of going into space. While accompanying his mother to the hair salon, he slips under an old hooded hair dryer and suddenly finds himself transported into a spaceship.
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The Little Shopping Trolley
Living on a shoestring in Montreal, a Vietnamese mother must act in bad faith to assert her right to buy 12 discount laundry detergents that she's been refused at a grocery store.
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Tailor Made
Tam Nguyen, a refugee from Vietnam 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.
Memento Mori
Bonnie has gathered a group of friends together for her medically assisted death, but her husband has other plans.
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From My First Breath
Embark on a journey along the infamous highway 16, a 447-mile-long road in BC Canada, so steeped in tragic history it’s known as the Highway of Tears. Where countless indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people have disappeared or fallen victim to violence.
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Cargo
Trapped in sealed cargo boxes, a group of migrants chasing a better future must confront the traumas of their past and the brutal reality of human trafficking—fighting for survival, and ultimately, freedom.
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HATCH
An Afghan refugee boy hides with his mother inside a moving water tanker trying to cross the border to safety.
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Welcome to Program Five: Everything Really Matters [Virtual Screening]! This is a virtual-only screening, taking place online via Eventive Virtual.


This Program includes:


Small Step Directed by Jimmy G. Pettigrew

The Little Shopping Trolley Directed by Laurence Ly

Tailor Made Directed by Quan Luong

Memento Mori Directed by Andrew Moodie

From My First Breath Directed by Rowan Brady

Cargo Directed by Gizem Tataroğlu

HATCH Directed by Alireza Kazemipour and Panta Mosleh


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Embark on a journey along the infamous highway 16, a 447-mile-long road in BC Canada, so steeped in tragic history it’s known as the Highway of Tears. Where countless indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people have disappeared or fallen victim to violence.

  • Year
    2024
  • Runtime
    14:42
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    British Columbia, Canada
  • Genre
    Documentary
  • Content Warning
    Discussion of violence
  • Social Media
  • Director
    Rowan Brady
  • Producer
    Lia Zhou
  • Cast
    Nicole Brown
  • Cinematographer
    Rowan Brady and Christopher Yuen
  • Editor
    Ella Netshidzivhani and Sára Ní Eithir
  • Composer
    Finnegan Lamb
  • Sound Design
    Finnegan Lamb
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