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For the 13th annual edition of Short Circuit, CineVic presents a rich and evocative selection of short films from British Columbia and regions around the Pacific Ocean including Chile, Singapore, New Zealand, Taiwan, Colombia, Guam, Hawaii, California, Alaska, and Yukon.

Join us May 1-3 in Victoria BC for more than three dozen films in five screening programs, plus filmmaker Q&As, parties, awards, and more!

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2025 Award Winners

Outstanding Local Film
Day 3

Outstanding BC Film
DTF?

Outstanding International Film
The Queen’s Flowers

Outstanding Documentary Film
Saturday

Outstanding Animated Film
Door to Door: A Loogaland Cartoon

Outstanding Direction
Lea Tupu'anga / Mother Tongue

Outstanding Cinematography
Allergic to Love

Outstanding Screenplay
Obscura / 옵스큐라

Outstanding Art Direction
Moonbeaming

Sound
Easybake

Music
She and Her Good Vibrations

Editing
Obscura / 옵스큐라

Performance
Lea Tupu'anga / Mother Tongue (Luciane Buchanan)

Audience Choice (tie)
Obscura / 옵스큐라
Beyond the Salish

Festival Program

Thursday May 1, 2025

Friday May 2, 2025

Saturday May 3, 2025

May 1-9, 2025

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CineVic acknowledges and respects the long and continuing history of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking people, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations, on whose traditional and unceded territory we carry out our activities.

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CineVic gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance and support of Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, Province of British Columbia, CRD Arts Development Service, and City of Victoria






Gratitude to our Festival Sponsors:


 

 

 

 

 



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