2017 Films

Andy Wooff's Birthday

Director
William Bentley
7
MIN
UK
Andy Wooff has been stuck in a cycle for nearly 4 decades: rest, pan-handle, shoot up heroin and repeat. Today is his 51st birthday. He reflects on the culmination of his life thus far, memories of family and what could have been, a cacophony in his own mind.

Blastercore

Director
Alessandro Vivarini
11
MIN
Italy
Two drunk heroes driving fast on the street are going to face the evil forces: tha police!

Bombing

Director
Gloria Mercer
13
MIN
BC
Best of BC
Sophie is an unmotivated comedian. When her estranged young daughter is unexpectedly thrust back into her life, Sophie's plans have to be reshuffled. While they both struggle to adjust to the new environment, Sophie must come to terms with the fact that she's in over her head.

Bout

Director
Shane Brar
10
MIN
BC
An ex-fighter named Bobby who is trying to move forward with life but his past keeps holding him back.

Breeze Into The Storm

Director
Josh Havelka
14
MIN
BC
While fleeing an ugly breakup, a man is mistaken for an adulterer and becomes caught in a deranged revenge plot.

Delinquent

Director
David I. Strasser
97
MIN
BC
Best Script
Best Actor
Chilliwack Spirit Award
Delinquent tells the inspirational story of a seventeen year-old on a downward spiral. Jakob Levin is sentenced by the courts to serve his time on an organic farm run by his uncle. Put to work with a bunch of misfit interns, he soon discovers that not everything is as idyllic as it first appears, and beneath the beauty of the farm, potentially malevolent forces are at play.

Edge

Director
Billy Rees
11
MIN
UK
A harrowing film exploring how a situation can be perceived - who is Michael and what is his relationship with the woman he is talking to?... A One shot continuous take short film, looking at perception, mental health and relationships.

Edit > Undo

Director
Daniel Clements
18
MIN
US
A random online stranger lures Bill to a dating website in an attempt to be flirtatious. However, Bill finds his girlfriend's profile on the same website. She's searching for other men behind his back. Enraged, he creates his own dating profile and wages a vengeful, internet, cold war on his relationship.

Empty Space

Director
James Choi
75
MIN
US
Best Feature Film
'Empty Space' is a coming of age dramedy about, Tom, an overweight young man who takes refuge at his grandmother’s cabin in rural Protection, IL, in an attempt to bury the years of being bullied and feeling rejected. While in town, he meets a precocious blind girl named Lilly, who shows him how to be accepted and loved.

Graffiti

Director
Lluis Quilez
30
MIN
Spain
Best of Fest
An apocalyptic world. A devastated city. One last survivor. Edgar learned to survive on his own avoiding contaminated areas by the "incident", that destroyed any way of life as we knew it. But Edgar's routine is suddenly disrupted by the discovery of a wall with a graffiti by his bed. Just one word reveals the presence of another survivor: "Anna"

Hope

Director
Adam Losurdo
12
MIN
Norway
A senseless wandering ghoul roaming the world full of the hunger-less undead and hateful humans will soon discover a craving, leaving him completely and utterly without hope.

Human Nature

Director
Matej Balaz
4
MIN
Fraser Valley
Best Music Video
Fast track twenty years into the future - a young man decides to solves his loneliness by buying one of the first version of the female “LOVE ROBOT”.

In The Blink of an Eye

Director
Janalee Budge
17
MIN
BC
A short documentary film about an extreme Whistler athlete, Don Schwartz who discovers 25 years after a tragic helicopter crash that leaves him with 3rd degree burns to his face that he suffers from PTSD.

Iridescence

Director
Maxime Beauchamp
9
MIN
BC
Best Cinematography
"Iridescence" is an experimental visual short film, which exposes how society needs to label a person by their sexuality. In this story, dance and interpretive movement replaces the dialogue, allowing us to use the body to communicate the relationship between the characters and they’re true human emotions.

Let Us End With It Too

Director
Caisha Lea Thompson
15
MIN
BC
Best Short Film
The division between intending and departing, as told in four shots. Let Us End With It Too is an exploration of a dying relationship. When Sarah realizes that she may be falling out of love with her partner, Jessica, she withdraws into herself in order to face her emotions and interpret them before acting on the initial presence of the potentially detonative thought.

Lost

Director
Michael Chen
12
MIN
BC
A little girl finds a stuffed rabbit and tries to reunite it with it's owner.

Ninetofive

Director
Lee Charlish
17
MIN
UK
No job, no prospects and descending into depression; Mr Mann is looking for something better. Then he finds a job and his problems really start to begin.

Nowhere

Director
Taras Demian Groves
30
MIN
UK
A homeless man struggling to survive on the streets of London finds his world is changed forever when he meets a young troubled runaway with a dark past.

Second Chance On The Caprock

Director
Ahbra Perry
13
MIN
US
A short documentary about the Dove Creek Equine Rescue.

Shiners

Director
Stacey Tenenbaum
78
MIN
US
Best Documentary
Shiners delves into the lives of shoe shiners around the world giving you an insider’s view of this often overlooked profession. Travel from Tokyo to La Paz, New York, Toronto and Sarajevo, to meet the men and women who make their living cleaning our shoes.

Shishok

Director
Varvara Ivanova
32
MIN
Russia
Sergey or, as the village calls him, “Shishok”, lives near the Ilyatino village, next to the old Anichkov’s estate, between Ostrovito and Nemega lakes. Sergey is 20 years old. He doesn’t work and doesn’t plan or even think about his future. This is the reality not only for him, but also for the majority of young Ilyatino people.

Sideways

Director
Aniruddha Pande
4
MIN
Canada
A modern classical narrative music video following the events of an office employee on a holiday, hoping to fabricate his own love life.

Sunlight Over Water

Director
Jesse Gotfrit
15
MIN
BC
High-schooler Merit discovers his sexuality through a tumultuous relationship with his friend Julien.

The Beautifully Drowned

Director
Jon Dewar
24
MIN
Canada
Best Actress
A maritime fairy tale about a woman who longs for the day her husband will drown at sea.

The Talk

Director
Tanner Sawatzky
12
MIN
Canada
Neil and Carol, a husband and wife, try to come up with the perfect way to have the most uncomfortable conversation known to mankind; the sex talk with their teenage daughter.

The Tinwife

Director
Travis Neufeld
27
MIN
US
Set in a futuristic 1950’s, a woman is imprisoned in an internment facility for unwanted android housewives.

Themes For Dying Earth

Director
Casey Kowalchuk
10
MIN
Fraser Valley
Best Score
Jamison Isaak, when creating his new Teen Daze record, finds relief from his anxiety in a world that seems to be crumbling around him. The film is a journey through Jamison's experience on tour supporting his 2015 record "Morning World", and how he dealt with his high stress and exhaustion induced anxiety.

Unravel

Director
Evan Luchkow
11
MIN
BC
Mary lives a lonely and isolated existence, meticulously documenting suspicious activity in the skies. When she connects with a fellow conspiracy theorist, she struggles to open up and reveal her secret: painful and mysterious fibres growing out of her skin.

Violet and June

Director
Linnea Ritland
7
MIN
BC
Violet & June is a short film about falling in love, the terror of being alive in a cold heartless universe, and butts.