2026 Saturday Screening Block 1

Sundar Prize - Saturday-Apr2526 - Block 1

Becoming Someone

Shorts Block 2

Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026
Time: 10:15 AM
Venue: Landmark Cinemas Guildford
Total Runtime: 2:33:00
Number of Films: 11
Block Description:
Becoming is rarely linear. This dynamic shorts block explores transformation — artistic, emotional, cultural, and political. From intimate identity journeys to surreal animation and bold narrative risks, these films capture the fragile and fearless moments that shape who we are becoming.

Films in Saturday Block 1

Pearl

(Canada, BC, 2025)

Film Details

Director: Alice Shin — 13:48 — BC Premiere

Logline: After losing his “pearl”, a grieving jeweller is given a final chance to make peace with his mortal desires through a chance encounter with a young lady.
죽은 딸 ‘진주’와 닮은 선녀는 보석상에게
삶의 고통과 욕망을 버려야 편안해진다고 이야기한다.

Don't Think About the Pink Dolphins

(Canada, BC, 2025)

Film Details

Director: Anthony Lee — 15:00 — BC Premiere

Logline: Kaki is obsessed with finding an exotic species of pink dolphin that takes habitat in Hong Kong. despite living in Canada. She starts a dolphin-sighting trip scam with her friend but only to realize what she longed for is more than just the dolphin.

ripe (chin)

(Vietnam/Canada, 2025)

Film Details

Director: Solara Thanh — 20:13 — Surrey Premiere

Logline: Lệ is a young Vietnamese woman who must decide if she will enter an arranged marriage in order to support her family of struggling durian farmers. The land and the spirit realm work in mysterious ways to guide her to her decision.

World Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, Selected for Canada’s Top Ten Films Showcase (organized by TIFF & MUBI), and Special Mentions at Festival du Nouveau Cinema and Vancouver International Film Festival.

Art Connoisseur

(Canada, BC, 2025)

Film Details

Director: Hugh Liu — 12:56 — World Premiere

Logline: To see the most erratic parts of society played out in an art appraisal game show.

ENIGMA

(Canada, BC, 2025)

Film Details

Director: Anya Kapustianyk — 4:58 — Surrey Premiere

Logline: In an attempt at self-discovery, Taylor takes a mysterious pill—only to discover it creates more chaos than confidence.

Our Long Goodbye

(Canada, BC, 2025)

Film Details

Director: Dave Beamish — 12:50 — Surrey Premiere

Logline: A struggling musician also plays caregiver to his father with dementia—each night awakening lost memories with an old song.

Praying For Love

(United States, 2025)

Film Details

Director: Sofia Tonin — 6:45

Logline: Linda, a female praying mantis, wants to find the one for her but runs into a snag when her cannibalistic tendencies keep prematurely ending her relationships. After one too many failed dates she’s about to give up when she realizes maybe she had been looking for love in the wrong place.

IF

(India, 2025)

Film Details

Director: Tathagata Ghosh — 25:41 — Surrey Premiere

Logline: An arranged marriage tears a lesbian couple apart, but with a mother’s love, perhaps another future is possible.

World Premiere at BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival; screened at Uppsala Short Film Festival (Academy Award® Qualifying), SHORTS MÉXICO (Academy Award® Qualifying), Mardi Gras Film Festival, International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, and TLVFest – Tel Aviv International LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

Lateral

(Canada, BC, 2025)

Film Details

Director: Loken Charon — 10:00 — BC Premiere

Logline: When a mixed Asian writer gets the chance to possibly have their film made, their pitch goes awry when they’re shunted to a darker dimension where people’s real natures come to light.

Sing to the Wind

(Canada, Ontario, 2025)

Film Details

Director: Yaffa Aboudib Husseini — 11:17 — BC Premiere

Logline: Orphaned and displaced from their home in Gaza City, two brothers must find their way to a “safe zone” to survive. Forced to grow up much too fast, the boys confront pain and loss on their tragic path along the shoreline. “Sing to the Wind” is a short, 2D animated film that tells the story of perseverance through the eyes of a child, and the resilience of a people in the face.

Obscura

(Canada, BC, 2024)

Film Details

Director: Arnold Lim — 20:00

Logline: Sang-Ook, a Hikikomori (shut in) whose locked himself in his room for a year, builds a camera obscura from his room as a conduit to the outside world.

Won Leo awards for best Short Film and Best Screenwriting.

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Becoming Someone

Shorts Block 2

Films in Saturday Block 1

Pearl

Don't Think About the Pink Dolphins

ripe (chin)

Art Connoisseur

ENIGMA

Our Long Goodbye

Praying For Love

IF

Lateral

Sing to the Wind

Obscura

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Becoming Someone

Shorts Block 2

Films in Saturday Block 1

Pearl

Don't Think About the Pink Dolphins

ripe (chin)

Art Connoisseur

ENIGMA

Our Long Goodbye

Praying For Love

IF

Lateral

Sing to the Wind

Obscura

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