This month we’re proud to present a curated programme of notable American short films from the past decade or so. These films have played festivals around the world and we’re happy to bring them to you here in Toronto. Please join us and bring a friend or two!
Thursday July 19th at 7:00pm
(but meet us at 6:00pm in the lobby for pre-screening drinks – $5 tall cans courtesy of Woodhouse Brewing Co.)
Carlton Cinemas
20 Carlton Street (steps from College subway station)
CRYSTAL LAKE
Dir: Jennifer Reeder
USA – 2016
Crystal Lake is about a group of girls who take over a skate park, forming an all-female force field on the half pipe. There on the ramp, with no boys around, they are thriving and visible. This is an anthem for young feminists which presents female friends as a means to survive adolescence. EVERY GRRRL-SHAPED BREATH IS A BATTLE CRY.
Duration: 16:00
STRYKA
Dir: Emily Carmichael
USA – 2015
Stryka is an awesome reptile woman from another planet who does heists and odd jobs with her (literal) partner in crime, Callen. But she has a secret: she’s been stealing with somebody else. (She just wants a partner who cleans up well enough to pull off a fancy jewel heist once and a while–is that so wrong?) Anxious about her career in thievery and torn by her loyalty to competing thieves, Stryka has to figure out where she belongs. Luckily, she has a highly advanced robot therapist to talk it over with.
Duration: 8:00
THE PROCEDURE
Dir: Calvin Lee Reeder
USA – 2016
A man is tranquilized on the street and wakes to find himself tied up in empty room. But what is that thing coming down?
Duration: 4:00
AFTERMATH ON MEADOWLARK LANE
Dirs: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
USA – 2007
While on their way to a mariachi recital, a devastating car crash forces a mother and her two sons to confront the truth about their past.
Duration: 10:00
FRY DAY
Dir: Laura Moss
USA – 2017
An adolescent girl comes of age against the backdrop of serial killer Ted Bundy’s execution in 1989.
Duration: 16:00
DARLING DARLING
Dir: Matthew Lessner
USA – 2005
Meeting your date’s parents is never a comfortable experience, but the event is taken to unexpected levels of surreality in Matthew Lessner’s directorial debut starring Michael Cera as an awkward and flustered everyteen forced to make small talk with his prom date’s bizarre father.
Duration: 12:00
MEN DON’T WHISPER
Dir: Jordan Firstman
USA – 2017
After being emasculated at a sales conference, gay couple Reese and Peyton decide the only way to regain their confidence and prove their masculinity is to sleep with some women. When they meet fellow conference attendees and pleasure seekers Beth and Dominique, it seems like a perfect match. Unfortunately sealing the deal is easier said than done.
Duration: 21:00
Tickets available online or at the Carlton box office ($10 adults, $7 seniors). Facebook RSVP here!