Shorts Not Pants Film Festival returns after a one-year hiatus, promising an unforgettable cinematic experience. This year’s festival boasts a carefully curated selection of outstanding short films from 17 countries: 23 narrative, 11 animated, and 9 documentary short films; 19 of those films are Canadian.
The festival will take place in Toronto from Friday, November 13 through Saturday, November 14, 2026 at the Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton St., Cinema #8.
From close to 300 submissions, Shorts Not Pants Film Festival has curated a lineup of 43 films that will surely captivate audiences and showcase the extraordinary talent of filmmakers from around the globe. The festival provides a platform for emerging and established filmmakers to present their work and engage with audiences passionate about the art of storytelling through short films.
In the ten-minute Canadian animated short “I Don’t Love You Anymore” you will be treated to an “amusing” little ditty about a couple on vacation in Niagara Falls, that place with a reputation for honeymooners at least some fitty or so years ago. Niagara Falls a façade (aside for the Falls) of tackiness and illusion.
The short gives serious meaning to the phrase “love is blind” applicable a couple or to half that couple and when in a forced space where accommodation can’t be avoided or ignored the inevitable may be hastened.
In this case love being blind is singular and either amusing or painful to watch but I’ll take it as deadly serious with jovial animation potentially obfuscating the silent suffering of “love blindness”.
Directed by Diane Obomsawin.
RKS Short Films Rating 71/100.
