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The Shyness of Trees , dirs. Sofiia Chuikovska, Loïck du Plessis D’Argentré, Lina Han, Simin He, Jiaxin Huang, Maud Le Bras and Bingqing Shu The Shyness of Trees is a meditative story about 40 year old Hélène who takes a trip to visit her aging mother. She lives alone in the french countryside, surrounded by thriving plants and garden insects taking up every corner of her home. Hélène knocks on the front door but gets no response, so she lets herself in only to find her moth

In Part 2 of our Student Academy Award Winner series we break into the documentary category to review Tatiana McCabe's Tides of Life. See our full review below! Tides of Life , dir. Tatiana McCabe Jacques-Yves Cousteau is quintessential to documentary filmmaking and marine biology. After creating his diving suit, the multi-talented French man would document his dives, culminating in the 1956 film The Silent World, co-directed with Louis Malle. It won the 1956 Palme d'Or. Henc

Welcome to our Student Academy Award Series. We are very excited to be back for a third year highlighting and celebrating the Student Academy Winners leading up to the medal ceremony on October 6th. We kick things off with Live Action winner Kubrick, Live I Love You, directed by Zefan Wang. Kubrick, Like I Love You , dir. Zefan Wang Fei is facing a problem that would horrify any cinephile. “My girlfriend doesn’t know who Kubrick is!” (Or Renoir, or Bergman, or Tarkovsky, or…)

Here at ShortStick we like to leave no stone unturned, exploring every genre of short film, including experimental shorts and some of the stranger corners of short film. Some of the best work in short film can be found in more experimental blocks that TIFF offers like Wavelengths and Strange Cuts. We are lucky to have writers on this site like Josh and Pedro who are passionate about this unique style of film-making. Here they write about five of their favourites from these bl

TIFF, as always, brought the heat this year with their short film programs. It is always so exciting to attend a festival full of world and international premieres with every program having a little mix of everything genre-wise. For Short Cuts 5 and 6 we chose to review some of our favourites from the programs including Dish Pit, Arguments in Favor of Love and All The Empty Rooms. Dish Pit, dir. Anna Hopkins A year and a half ago, I quit my job at a local radio station. I had

Short Cuts 3 and 4 are in the books! Short Cuts 3 offered one of the strongest lineups of the festival with standouts like Sea Star, Asparagus Bear and the star-studded The Non-Actor. Throughout both Short Cuts 3 and Short Cuts 4 a common through-line appeared in three shorts I have reviewed for these programs. Check out below as we review Dust to Dreams, What We Leave Behind and Ali - all stories about finding and using your voice. Dust to Dreams, dir. Idris Elba Idris Elba