Also screens on Saturday, October 25 | 8:00 PM | SR
VTIFF’s second installment of international short films is equal to the first. In Fran Zayas’ Entre Tormentas (which boasts Spike Lee and Cory Fukunaga as co-producers), a grieving man breaks into an off-limits cemetery after a hurricane to rescue the remains of his brother. Jan Saskia’s utterly hilarious animated marvel, Hurikan, follows the only anthropomorphic pig in Prague as he tries to find a keg of beer for the barmaid of his dreams; it doesn’t go well. Joan Iyiola’s Mango is a disquieting work that subverts body horror into social critique. Nelson Yeo’s Through Your Eyes takes you to the strangest disco in Singapore, where four lives intertwine in a search for connection and meaning amid the pulsating beats, And Aisling Byrne’s touching Turnaround follows a struggling West Cork cleaner who faces both a tightly held secret and a crisis of conscience. ~SM