Shorts Program: Words & Worlds

Burd Through intimated interviews, historical reenactments, and archival material, this documentary explores the extraordinary life of Canada's oldest person, 110-year-old WWII veteran Burdett " Burd" Sisler. Columbia The Space Shuttle Columbia thundered towards the sky at 10:39 AM on January 16, 2003 from Kennedy Space Centre. Little more than a minute later, a chunk of insulating foam tore away from the external fuel tank and splintered against Columbia's left wing. That Which Is Heard That Which Is Heard is an intimate observational-style documentary about Shruti Kithari, a former Stratford Festival actress whose world drastically changed in March 2020, when she suffered a stroke just days before the onset of the global pandemic. Writ Or Adapted from the short story by Emma Donoghue, Writ Or follows Raj, a struggling Canadian novelist who takes a teaching job in rural Ireland and becomes entangled with a brilliant student whose poetry sparks her ambition - and leads her toward a dangerous betrayal. The 2026 edition of the Forest City Film Festival is Powered By London Hydro.