CCF's Solstice Stories

Through Static

A Science-Fiction Short film where a man gets sucked into a shelf to an unknown realm.

Ferine

A woman wanders in a big and empty parking lots following a man who she seems to want to ambush. From her gestures something furious and menacing emerges. Everything seems to draw back to a woods beyond her abandoned home, a place that hides the true nature of her actions.

Open Relationship

Oscar and Sergio have been in a relationship for 5 years. They live together and they have very different personalities: Oscar is more passionate and emotional and Sergio has a much more mental role. On a random afternoon on a random day, one of them decides to ask the other if he would be interested in starting an open relationship.

Protecting Winter

A police officer haunted by the spirits of a serial killer's victims, must search to find the killer before he strikes again.

The Rink

After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

The Pawnshop

A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives at the pawnshop.

The Count

A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the count cannot attend a dance party, so he dresses as such to take his place; but the apprentice has also gone to the mansion where the party is celebrated and bumps into the tailor in disguise…

Mazout & Trahisons

Within the Woods

While spending a weekend at a remote cabin, Bruce desecrates an Indian burial ground and becomes re-animated, making way to kill his friends.

Ivasyk-Telesyk

The animation is based on a Ukrainian fairy tale about an old married couple, who had no children. One day the woman asked her husband to cut down a log and put it in a cradle for a night. The old man did what she had asked him to do. Next morning, a surprise was waiting for them.

Photo Op

A lonely Brooklyn photographer (Randy Harrison, "Queer as Folk") gets the courage to come out from behind his camera to capture his crush, but it turns out there is more to the picture than meets the eye.

Parachute

Trapped in professional purgatory, four junior bankers must decide what they truly want before it's too late.

Seasonal Severity

A Man's Cat observes and witnesses his descent into madness at the end of his seasonal depression during the last days of winter.

Eternelles

Two sisters, Emma and Alice, meet again after a long absence. Strangely, they resemble each other more than they think.

Dessine-moi un monde…

A young boy is bored in a park while his parents chat with another couple. Using a pencil and paper, he begins to redraw the world around him.