‘Film Imitates Life’ Shorts

When a young girl hitchhiking is picked up by a stranger, who ends up taking whom for a ride?

Kat gets an unexpected call from her ex, saying he’s coming to her band’s gig that night. With this on her mind, she sets out for the evening ahead. A music-filled journey through Sydney, SET TIMES stars Freyja Benjamin and Aaron Chen and features an original soundtrack by Caroline de Dear and Joram Toth (Rising Damp, Day Ravies).

In the Limoilou neighborhood of Quebec City, René and Polo are apprehensive about the arrival of the new next-door neighbor. Though he doesn’t know it, the young man is moving into the apartment previously occupied by Robert, their late friend who passed away two weeks prior… Spotting Robert’s barbecue left on the balcony, René begins to spiral as he refuses to leave it in the hands of the new next-door neighbor.

Proxy is the story of Devon, a surrogate for a couple with fertility issues who decide they no longer want the child she is carrying for them when the child is found to have an abnormality. Devon retreats to the home of her sister, Andie, her partner Lisa and their two children to wrestle with the weight of a decision she never thought she would have to make. Proxy explores fertility, pregnancy and motherhood through the lens of these three different women and their unique experiences.

With his wedding to Carlos approaching, Tony, a young immigrant to the US, invites his conservative elder sister to the ceremony — a fateful decision that forces Tony to choose between his family and his happiness.

On the way home from another night of drinks at another neighborhood dinner party, Claire and Hugh brutally run over the family dog. While trying to get rid of the body before their daughter April wakes up in the morning, cracks start to reveal themselves in their marriage.

On a tumultuous wedding day, five women prepare to walk down the aisle while a teenage bridesmaid probes about what really happens on the wedding night. A subversive and political take on the rom-com genre that reveals the disturbing truth behind one bride’s pre-nuptial cold feet.

*DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE*
After losing full control over her body, a 21-year-old passionate musician living in the suburbs of Beirut with her handicapped father suffers from a mental condition called conversion disorder after the loss of her beloved mother. She is now set to adapt to her everlasting reality that she will never be able to control her hands the same way she plays music. She encounters a band at the bar that she works at, and that makes her hate her condition even more. However, the person that brought her down figured out that her condition was involuntary and wanted to right his wrongs. He presents her with a present that takes her back to the good old days and triggers her inner passion for music once more. In conclusion, music is a universal language. They both play music together in the air, able to translate that language just through the feeling that music is from within.