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WSFF PRESENTS: THE NIGHT SHIFT
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema | Saturday, June 9 | 11:30 p.m.

More details, images and trailers at http://worldwideshortfilmfest.com/

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CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (June 5^th – 10^th) brings together an all new ghastly evening with THE NIGHT lowest propecia price SHIFT, a late night misadventure into some of the most twisted and out-there minds working in short film today. Filled with a rogues’ gallery of life-changing dancers, futuristic grandmas, and zombie cannibals, The Night cheapest viagra anywhere Shift is a late night lovefest for any genre fan, sure to make your jaw drop at least once. This screening is co-presented by the Fantasia International Film Festival.

“The Night Shift is a jam-packed movie marathon of the weirdest, grossest and creepiest films,” says Angie Driscoll, WSFF Interim Artistic Director. “It’ll be an adult sleepover of the sketchiest kind, and a fun test of endurance that will not only satisfy the genre lovers but also anyone looking for dark, uncanny stories that push boundaries.”

The Night Shift is presented in three sections – Dependents, Co-Dependence, and Independence.

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THE NIGHT SHIFT- DEPENDENTS

/dɪˈpɛndənts/ Reliant on others for support and sustenance: brother, mummy, granny, zombie

Shorts screening include:

REQUIEM FOR A C.H.U.D.

A Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller seeks retribution after a traumatic death Great tool. Normalizes erection very well. High quality cialis, there are a lot of legitimate mail-order pharmacies in this country. in the family. Forget an eye for an eye…

I AM YOUR GRANDMA

In the future, you get love by video. An uproarious vlog dedicated to an unborn grandchild.

ODETTE

A whiny, angsty, existential family dinner that ends as it should… with Grandma taking charge!

CTIN! (CTIЙ!)

You’re invited to a dinner party! Strange soups, re-animated guests and obtuse conversations are on the menu. RSVP to the mad viagra online without a prescription doctor.

THE CAPTURED BIRD

An idyllic secure places to buy levitra in canada visa playground, a perfect angel, a nuclear family. A little girl wanders out to a mysterious mansion and witnesses the birth of five horrifying monsters.

GHOST

A little ghost wanders the afterlife, trying to find her way back home to her parents. An expressionistic look at grief in this world and the next.

CHILDREN OF THE DARK

Two young boys hold onto the past and search for their mother while struggling to survive in a world gone to hell. A dystopian thriller that hits close to home.

THE UNLIVING (ÅTERFÖDELSEN)

Thirty years after a zombie outbreak, people are taming the undead and using them as cheap labour. Katrine catches ‘em and Mark lobotomizes ‘em. They’re an awesome team, but work is starting to bleed into their relationship.

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THE NIGHT SHIFT – CO-DEPENDENCE

/ˌkoʊdɪˈpɛndəns/ Unhealthy love between foot and mouth, fetus and fiend, living and dead.

Shorts screening include:

CROWN

Crack is whack! Check out what all the middle-aged white dudes are doin’, and take a hit off this supremely bizarre mix of street and meat – the tender, sweet, innocent kind.

MOXIE

A baby bear is found dead. His last days are retraced in this pitch-black animation from innovator Stephen Irwin (The Black Dog’s Princess) as we count down to his demise. Sick, violent and twisted – just the way we like it.

Screened at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Annecy International Animation Festival and Sundance Film Festival

THE MYTH OF ROBO WONDER KID

This cool anime music video blends Yo Gabba Gabba, and Frankenstein to create a catchy dead time story about how a family is what (and how) you make it.

IN A MUSTY, MISTY THICKET (PÖHELKÖN HÖNKÄ)

Pik Mama and Missy are stranded on a deserted island in this uncanny post-apocalyptic twist on master-slave dynamics.

BLACK DOLL (PRITA NOIRE)

Screened at Annecy International Animation Festival

UPSTAIRS

The horroromance genre has been invented! A man hates his girlfriend but hates being alone just as much. A dystopian view of relationships to be sure, this fresh take on settling for the lesser of two evils reveals the horror and disgust lurking in romance.

BELIEVE THE DANCE

Plumber, assistant, restaurant manager, dentist. No matter what you do, the power of dance will find you. Absurdist, hilarious, give in to the daaaaaance. You know you want to.

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THE NIGHT SHIFT – INDEPENDENCE

/ˌɪndəˈpɛndəns/ Separate yet equal, what skin is to flesh, not what Chang was to Eng.

Shorts screening include:

ADJUST TRACKING

Flashback to the 80s in this homage to anthology horror on VHS. A teenage fanboy extracts revenge on his drunk dad for interrupting his movie night with a little help from his onscreen friends.

RABBID

The hand of God and a fraction of animal rabies are bored… huh? Exactly.

BOBBY YEAH

Bobby likes stealing stuff. But his sticky fingers get him into trouble and this time he’s pressed his luck too far. Visceral and viscous, this stop-motion gorror is all tongue… and vomit and orifices and shape-shifting pustules.

Nominee for BAFTA award for Best Animated Short Film

Screened at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival

BODY MEMORY (KEHA MÄLU)

What tale would a tree tell if you gave it a canvas and pencil? This experimental film looks at the idea that our bodies remember more than just our individual experiences, but the pain and sorrow of those who came before us.

Screened at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

DECORATION

An elegant vase inhabits the body of a young girl and mounts a subversive theatrical production using crazy porcelain figurines, warm puppets and a cellular stage.

THROUGH THE WEEPING GLASS: ON THE CONSOLATIONS OF LIFE EVERLASTING (LIMBOS & AFTERBREEZES IN THE MÜTTER MUSEUM)

The inimitable Quay Brothers conduct a tour of the medical anomalies and curiosities on display at the Mütter Museum. Body horror is elevated to high art in this doc-meets-archive porn.

Screened at Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

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About CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival

Now in its 18^th year, the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival is the leading venue for the exhibition and promotion of short film in North America and is one of the premier short film festivals in the world. Taking place June 5^th – 10^th, 2012, the WSFF will present 244 films from 35 countries. Offering one of the largest prize packages for short film in the world, top WSFF winners are eligible for both Academy Award^® and Genie Award consideration. The WSFF Short Films: BIG IDEAS Symposium offers renowned professional development, while the WSFF Business Centre is home to the largest marketplace for the sale and acquisition of short films in North America. For more information please visit: www.shorterisbetter.com

The WSFF recognizes the generous support of: doug & serge Agency, Deluxe, Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture, and Telefilm Canada

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).

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