TIFF announced its Short Cuts section today comprised of 39 live-action narrative, documentary, and animated short films from directors repping 18 countries.

Among the notables in TIFF’s Short Cuts section is Le Pupille, a holiday tale set in Italy during WWII, which was directed by Alice Rohrwacher, stars Alba Rohrwacher and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and was co-produced by Alfonso Cuarón. There’s Hazel McKibbin’s She Always Wins, starring Honor Swinton Byrne of Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, and Asia Youngman’s N’xaxaitkw, featuring Kiawentiio of Tracey Deer’s TIFF 2020 award-winner Beans.

In 2021, She Always Wins was selected for the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Mentorship Program at Columbia University School of the Arts.