Chaotic Evil
When night falls on CineYouth, anything goes.
Canada
Luz Diabla
On his way to a rave in the Argentine Pampas, a young queer man gets into an accident. Taking refuge in a mysterious rural tavern where he is conspicuously out of place, his paranoia begins to mount and he worries he might never escape.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 10: Outré.[…]
Shorts 10: Outré
The creators of these shorts unabashedly follow their own singular visions into wildly new and weird territories.
Paradaïz
In her first film, Canadian artist and animator Matea Radic imagines an impossible return. Paradaïz follows a young woman as she travels back to a city still unstable with the conflict she fled. Blending her own memories of leaving Sarajevo as a child in the early 1990s with a droll sense of humor and a quirky animation style peppered with archival photos, Radic offers an atypical portrait of displacement.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 2: Animation.[…]
Shorts 2: Animation
Some worlds can only truly be conjured outside of physical reality. These eight thrilling shorts unfold in an inventive array of visual and narrative styles that come together to form a vibrant snapshot of contemporary animation.