Cindependent Film Festival,
Cindependent Film Festival,
Fri, September 18, 2026
9:30 AM
$19.00
inc. $4 service chargeCindeTicket 6 Around The World 2026 Cindependent Film Festival
Cindependent goes around the world with these shorts by filmmakers from Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, and the story of a beaver in South Africa that sees a classic creature feature.
GUM
Director: Belal Albader
Runtime:10:00
Award winning short film about a child with Down syndrome who falls in love for the first time in his life and begins a journey of new emotions he never knew existed, this forces him to make decisions he was not ready to take.
THE TEETH
Director: Tarryn Kay Goetsch
Runtime: 3:15
Deep in the forest, Ash, a young beaver with fangs, struggles with his identity. He watches his mother stripping bark off a log like most beavers do naturally. He tries to do the same but his sharp teeth only get stuck. Disappointed, he decides to watch TV to distract himself. After flipping through channels, he comes across Nosferatu and realises that they have similar teeth! Could he be a vampire? He sets out to test his new theory.
SUMMER TRIANGLE
Directors: Maryam Esmaeili & Ali Babai
Runtime: 8:00
A young girl goes to the rooftop to find her cat and discovers a boy who is attempting suicide. She forces the boy to search for her cat with her in the last moments of his life.
MEOW
Director: Sarah Meital Benjamin
Runtime: 11:58
The search for her lost cat changes the path of a Hasidic girl’s world.
AS IT SHOULD BE
Director: Edwin Lai
Runtime: 11:58
During a Lunar New Year reunion dinner in Hong Kong, Megan returns home from overseas to celebrate with her family. Surrounded by familiar traditions, crowded conversations, and the warmth of people who love her, she quietly carries something she’s never found the words to say. As the evening unfolds, how will her family respond? A film about family love, and how acceptance can arrive in the gentlest of ways.
CindeTicket 6 Around The World 2026 Cindependent Film Festival
Cindependent goes around the world with these shorts by filmmakers from Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, and the story of a beaver in South Africa that sees a classic creature feature.
GUM
Director: Belal Albader
Runtime:10:00
Award winning short film about a child with Down syndrome who falls in love for the first time in his life and begins a journey of new emotions he never knew existed, this forces him to make decisions he was not ready to take.
THE TEETH
Director: Tarryn Kay Goetsch
Runtime: 3:15
Deep in the forest, Ash, a young beaver with fangs, struggles with his identity. He watches his mother stripping bark off a log like most beavers do naturally. He tries to do the same but his sharp teeth only get stuck. Disappointed, he decides to watch TV to distract himself. After flipping through channels, he comes across Nosferatu and realises that they have similar teeth! Could he be a vampire? He sets out to test his new theory.
SUMMER TRIANGLE
Directors: Maryam Esmaeili & Ali Babai
Runtime: 8:00
A young girl goes to the rooftop to find her cat and discovers a boy who is attempting suicide. She forces the boy to search for her cat with her in the last moments of his life.
MEOW
Director: Sarah Meital Benjamin
Runtime: 11:58
The search for her lost cat changes the path of a Hasidic girl’s world.
AS IT SHOULD BE
Director: Edwin Lai
Runtime: 11:58
During a Lunar New Year reunion dinner in Hong Kong, Megan returns home from overseas to celebrate with her family. Surrounded by familiar traditions, crowded conversations, and the warmth of people who love her, she quietly carries something she’s never found the words to say. As the evening unfolds, how will her family respond? A film about family love, and how acceptance can arrive in the gentlest of ways.
