Also screens on Friday, October 24 | 8:00 PM | SR
VTIFF celebrates the international short film with five magical works. Jason Adam Maselle’s Punter is a South African tale of a wayward father and the son who’s trying in vain to steer him right. Chheangkea’s witty and knowing Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites, set in Cambodia, follows a young man coming clean to his potential fiancée, thanks to support from his dead grandmother. Lucia G. Romero’s intense Cura Sana finds two young sisters using love as an antidote to a cycle of poverty and domestic violence. Bill Morrison’s Ghost of the Past adapts an incomplete 1924 short to create something new, with the help of great music by guitarist Bill Frisell. And in Aditya Joshi’s A West Side Story Story (with Vermonters Luis & Cemi Guzman as co-producers), the opening of a production of that famous musical stirs some emotions for its young director. ~SM