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Just for Laughs Film Festival

The premiere film event of the Just For Laughs Festival which attracts over 2 million visitors and over 1,000 industry members each summer. This film extravaganza, previously named 'Comedia' showcases the world’s largest selection of comedy shorts, Hollywood and International film premieres, a series of star-studded special events, and an outdoor site which features a terrace and giant screen.

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12^th edition

2008 | 10 - 20 July

Awards

Selected short films

Edition details

Best Film - International

Tony Zoreil

France | 2007

Director: Valentin Potier

Best Film - Canada

Terminus

Canada | 2007

Director: Trevor Cawood

Best Film - Québec

Mon Nom Est Victor Gazon

Canada | 2008

Director: Patrick Gazé

Burley!

Australia | Oct 2007 | 8:45

Directors: Gareth Cowen, Dave Edwardz

A young tetra fish, one of a million in her school, just wants some attention. Feeling lonely and bored, she is attracted by the manic antics of a gan...

Isabelle au bois dormant

Sleeping Betty

Canada | 2007

Director: Claude Cloutier

Princess Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king appeals to his subjects to wake her, and several respond: Uncle Henry VIII, Aunt Victoria, an ...

The Job

United States | Jan 2007 | 3:11

Director: Jonathan Browning

The immigration debate just got a little funnier.

John and Karen

United Kingdom | 2007 | 3:30

Director: Matthew Walker

Karen the penguin is not pleased to see John the polar bear on her doorstep. Their argument last night has put her in a very bad mood and John is on e...

Kidney Thieves

United States | 2006 | 8:00

Director: Toby Wilkins

Maybe this has happened to you... You wake up in a Mexican hotel room, in a bathtub full of ice, a dull ache in your head, and a dim recollection of t...

Mon Nom Est Victor Gazon

Canada | 2008

Director: Patrick Gazé

For his fourth grade school project, Victor Gazon makes a short film on the pros and cons of living. Weighing both sides very carefully his thoughtful...

Silence is Golden

United Kingdom | 2006 | 14:00

Director: Chris Shepherd

My neighbour’s a right loony. He's always banging our wall down. I'm used to it. I think other people's houses are well weird. There's no knocking - r...

Spider

Australia | 2007 | 9:00

Director: Nash Edgerton

Jack and Jill are always hurting each other’s feelings. But like Mum said, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye."

Stencil

Belgium | Jul 2007 | 10:00

Director: Dominique Laroche

Two actresses are waiting for the result of a screen test. Times goes by and during hours they keep themselves busy and discuss about just everything.

Tanghi Argentini

Belgium | 2006 | 14:00

Director: Guido Thys

Despite the faceless, cold atmosphere at his work place, an office clerk tries to make his colleagues happy. Instead of the classical cliché Christmas...