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2021 Festival Shorts


Shorts Programme 1
Starts: May 27
Time: 6pm Eastern Time
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A still from Sukar

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Sukar
Country: Morocco 
Director: Illias El Faris 
Length: 11 mins
Synopsis: Casablanca's beach, Morocco. Teenager's desire for each other is growing discreetly. Adults and children oversee. A fight creates a diversion. 

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A still from Mutts (Clebs)
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Mutts (Clebs)
Country: Canada, Morocco
Director: Halima Ouardiri 
Length: 18 mins
Synopsis: The animals’ brown, beige, white and black coats blend into the ochre earth and sunbaked walls. After the calm of rest hour, a deafening cacophony breaks out at feeding time, as the dogs bark excitedly. In a stray-dog refuge in Agadir, Morocco, more than 750 animals find help and protection while awaiting adoption. Each day is the same as the last, the only excitement provided by mealtime. Empathetic and alert to subtleties of light and texture, Halima Ouardiri observes the rhythm of the animals’ lives, their suspended existence paralleling the far more tragic waiting endured by millions of human beings in search of a new home.

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A still from Foam (Ecume)
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Foam (Ecume)
Country: Canada
Director: Omar Elhamy 
Length: 28 mins
Synopsis: The car repair shop is their second home and their colleagues are like family. Everyone has their quirks and is accepted for the way they are. But then comes the bad news: they are soon to be squeezed out by a more lucrative new building project. How should they respond? How can they support each other? A buddy film about life’s little and larger transformations, about social class and solidarity, captured in sensitively telling images.

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A still from Jardins Paradise
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Jardins Paradise
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Country
: Canada
Director: Yza Nouiga
Length: 6 mins
Synopsis: Garden of Eden, jardin à la française, English, Zen, Bahai, Arab-Islamic: Gardens reflect history, culture and heritage. They are some of the rare places where intimacy, gatherings, fun and religion coexist. And, what if Paradise was nothing more than a green parking lot designed to suit each and everyone's own preferences?

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A still from And The Night Will Carry Us
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And The Night Will Carry Us 
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Country
: Tunisia 
Director: Koudhai Amine 
Length: 11 mins
Synopsis: A dog walks at night. 

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          • Feature: Abou Leila
          • Feature: Unknown Saint
          • Feature: Sugar Cage
          • Shorts Programme Collection (Available Globally)
          • TAFF Shorts Programme 1
          • TAFF Shorts Programme 2
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        • 2021 Festival Events >
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          • Feature: Talking About Trees + Panel
          • Feature: Noura's Dream
          • Closing Night Feature: Flesh Out
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