TO Short 2025

Toronto Short returned to the Paradise Cinema, on 1006 Bloor St. West, to celebrate our 11th year in March 2025!

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Award Winners 2025

Best Short Film
Age Of Consent by Katherine Gauthier, Ben Sanders

Best Short Documentary
Chef Stories by Dave Cheung, Quin Cheung

Best LGBT Short
Forgiveness In F Minor by Doug Sroka

Best Experimental Short
Fallen by Kirk Percival

Best Horror Short
Happy by Kato Alexander, Renjie Li

Best Sci-Fi Short
Paired by Menelik King

Best Animated Short
Petit Mollusque by Catherine Dulude

Best Short Feature
The Boxing Ring by Emily Gutierrez

Best Short Short
Just Grand by J.Christian Hamilton

Best Music Video
Konami by Yarron Jesuratnam

Screenings 2025

Wednesday, 12th March

6pm: Shorts 1
Petit Mollusque by Catherine Dulude
The Trade by David Kalinauskas
Paint It! by Jenny Yi
Living From Work by Zak Mroueh
Windhorse by Robert Bazzocchi
My Dire Need of Air, A Camouflage Trucker’s Cap & Better Vision by Niko Mihajlovic, Yasmeen Ahmed
Have Your Cake by Leah Magdalen
The Arborist by Michael A Wright

8pm: Shorts 2
Oh Catnada! by Casper Flatman
Daisy by Madhav Kapoor
The Ballad of Skipjack & Atticus by Dani De Guzman
What I Did For Love by Aveleigh Keller
Moonwalking by Jillian Smart
Plenty Of Fish by Mahshad Jalali
Age Of Consent by Katherine Gauthier, Ben Sanders
Forgiveness In F Minor by Doug Sroka
It’s a Green Light by Kristine Lee

10pm: Documentary Shorts 1
Raveival by Devony House
Being A Pilot: Two Perspectives by François Tiffreau
Darkroom Diaries by Olivia Melnick
Whit’s End by Andrew Quinn
Promised Land by Keefe Jassoy
Work, Life by Jeremiah Schuster
Vulture Culture: Creating Afterlives by Teya Nicolaou
Chef Stories by Dave Cheung, Quin Cheung

Thursday, 13th March

6pm: Shorts 3
Seasons by Ingritt Rincu
The Voice Of Water by Uapukun Mestokosho McKenzie
Unlucky Penny by Spencer Langlois
Sweat Loaf by Addie Ogilvie-Burke
Dosa by Shashank Banawalikar Subhash
Road Trippin’ by Madeline Rose Fiore

8pm: Documentary Shorts 2
To Be A Child by Nicholas Dorsey
Let’s Get Married! by Joseph Antony
The Invisible School by Isaac Peter Stacey
Lane Switch by Dion Mackay
Deskaheh by Allan Downey, Tekenikhon Doreen, Jersee Hill
Beyond The Fields by Quinn Aden Corkal
Echoes of the Ice by Indigenous Geographic

10pm: Experimental Shorts
Vessel by Zed Xu
Twink Time at Barbizon by Patricia Silva
Flow by Shoko Tamai
Mr. Eff and Lucy by Asia Marrion
Sunyata by Quentin Kwiatkowski
More Than One, 2024 by Bia Gayotto
The Sands Of Time by Dasha Palagut
Aquaphoria (Before The Waters Rise) by Monique Tschofen
Lionfish by Marco Moro
Fallen by Kirk Percival

Saturday, 15th March

6pm: Shorts 4
Forget Me Not by Leslie-Ann Coles
you deserve it! by Hannah Melissa Scott, Madeline DeCorso, Janet McMordie
(No Exceptions) by Nathan George
Konami by Yarron Jesuratnam
The Most Viral Video Of All Time by David Cryan
Hurt, Sad, and Beautiful by Mari Tinvaleli
DIY by Naomi Eidinger
Sound Tracks by John Schaffer
Thereby Hangs A Tale by Aaron Yeger

8pm: Shorts 5
Obsolete – Yoko Gold by Paul Short
Gemma by Christina Ienna
I Love You More by Lukas Press
The Hold Up by Elliot Jannetta
The Hall Pass by Ken Pham
The Boxing Ring by Emily Gutierrez

10pm: Shorts 6
Who Is At Fault? by Anissa Feriel
The Hard Way by Nathan Brown, Jesse Landen
Gerry by Michael Hanley
Passenger by Josh Aubin
Alpha-Man Returns by Gage Munroe
Across The Counter by Ted Bridgwater
Canopy by Massimo Russo

Sunday, March 16th

4pm: Shorts 7
FML by Jessica Hinkson
Squeeze Left by Darlene Spencer
Fly Away, Froggy Boy by Mia Lobo
The God Man by Andrew Foerster
One Thing A Day That Scares You by Emma Buchanan
Double It by Minas Adonai, Yodit Adonai
Paired by Menelik King

6pm: Shorts 8
Where Will I Go by Delfin Lakatosz
What’s Killing Lilith? by Set L. Shuter
J’Accuse by Pascale Behrman
The Good Hench by A Braatz
Punk’d Pooch by Aberdeen Wasley
Sidekicks by John Daniel

8pm: Horror Block
Teenager In Love by Arrow Strayed
First & Last by Alexander Nonaka Galant
The Hitcher by Camilo Andres Giraldo, Johnathan Tinebra
Just Grand by J.Christian Hamilton
It Lurks In The Lamplight by Carrara Stern
Carter by Xander Copp
Eden by Lester Lubuguin
Happy by Kato Alexander, Renjie Li
Chain Link by Stephen J Birtles