Join IFFBoston and the Mass Production Coalition for the Eighth Annual Student Short Film Showcase, where short films selected by and representing thirteen local colleges and universities will be screened. This program is free and open to the public.
Shorts playing in the showcase include:
CLIENT ZERO (Middlesex Community College)
A trauma therapist, struggling with the weight of her own unresolved trauma, takes on an unconventional client, hoping their connection will unlock her path to healing.
A GLOBSTER (Emerson College)
An outcast woman falls for a man washed up on the beach who is secretly a carnivorous sea slug.
KEYTAR BEAR (Suffolk University)
A street busker dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the evils that plague his home. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld—Keytar Bear.
SCALAE SENSUS (Fitchburg State University)
Only in sonder do we find we aren't alone.
SKATE OR DIE (Endicott College)
After an up-and-coming skateboarder experiences a traumatic physical injury, he struggles to find his place in the world as a paraplegic.
SLEEP WALKERS (Lesley University)
A woman navigates a world where nobody sleeps.
SMILE, BEAUTIFUL (Curry College)
When an ominous stranger outside her window gets closer with every blink, a young woman must take matters into her own hands after the threat and her distress are dismissed by her boyfriend as a symptom of exhaustion.
SUPERNOVA (Bridgewater State University)
Stella meditates on her college experience before graduating.
TIERRA (University of Massachusetts Boston)
In a ritual of remembrance, Tierra unearths the paradox of Caribbean identity, where history stains the soil.
UNTIL THEN (Wheaton College)
A story about relationships and time.
UNTITLED (Mass College of Art)
With society on the brink of collapse, a determined couple expecting their first child must brave moral dilemmas and treacherous landscapes as they forge a path to safety.
WILBUR, THE KING (Tufts University)
A washed-up Elvis Presley impersonator loses his job at a kitschy amusement park, so he must find work as a middle school music teacher. In the process, he rediscovers his passion for music and confidence in his own identity outside of Elvis.
PÓPO (Boston University)
Set in Boston, the film follows a family of Hong Kong immigrants during the final stage of a loved one’s life, offering an intimate, unembellished portrait of their time together within the context of hospice care.
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