i hate babies
Short Film // Completed
Summary: After removing her IUD due to an undiagnosable pain, Mona must confront her fear of babies as every woman around her mutates into a Mombie.
Cast: Humberly Gonzalez, Katie Uhlmann, Alona Metzer, Stefanie Nakmura, Hilary McCormack, Greg Calderone, Mio Adilman, Blake Johnston, Deshay Padayachey, Louis Lemus, Ryelyn Cressman, Sidney Leeder
Directed by: Sidney Leeder, Walter Woodman & Alona Metzer
Written by: Sidney Leeder
Produced by: Alona Metzer, Walter Woodman, Sidney Leeder
Edited by: Carly Williams & Andrew Strachan
VFX: shy kids
Director of Photography: Morgana McKenzie
Music: Meg Cederberg & Malory
Colour: The Vanity
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Cannes Short Film Corner 2025
How will we continue to justify doing something the hard way, the old way? Rather, how will filmmakers convince financiers it’s worth climbing physical, figurative mountains to get the perfect shot? What’s the point of aiming high and swinging big if there’s lower, easier targets to shoot for?
Responding to these questions each in their own ways are the seven short films of this year’s Not Short on Talent cohort, playing at the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner this month. They remind of the result, of the intangible magic, going the distance can actually make.
-Jake Howell is a Toronto-based writer and film programmer.