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.
This thirteen minute Quebec short resonates with all Canadians waiting at ER rooms where urgent medical care is illusory. Waits in Canadian hospital ER’s have been omnipresent and only seem to increase. Canadians wait for an improvement in deplorable emergency care in Canadian hospitals. Wait for increased governmental funding…hospital efficiencies… increased staffing? We wait for consensus on solving the problem!
Is Canadian health care but THE BIG WAIT?
Perhaps this is all taken for granted in this short. What may be unique is that all the seven patients waiting for urgent medical care are also united in that they all have a litany of issues and matters they are waiting for? LIFE IS A BIG WAIT.
A creative short but waiting for urgent medical care is far more important than the matters these seven ER patients are awaiting, or is it?
I’d throw this short in this dumpster if its goal to equate issues of personal waiting with receiving urgent medical care. What will you think after watching this short?
My take is “Waiting All the Time” conveys the message Life is a Wait without trivializing wait times in Canadian ER rooms.
What a delightful gloomy yellow green set and the eerie god like speaker, like Big Brother, controlling the destiny of those in the waiting room! And the song and dance numbers!
Directed by Emmanuelle Lacombe.
RKS Short Films Rating 74/100.
