Das Leben In Mir (The Life Inside)
(2018, Germany, 19 mins) Director: Konstantin Egerndorfer Nature is truly beautiful. It gifts us with life. It lets us breathe, love and laugh. And yet it can also be cruel. It takes our lives and tears to pieces. What remains is darkness, pain and death. |
The Incident
(2017, Lebanon, 22 mins) Director: Meedo Taha Producer: Wesam Nassar At a bus stop near Beirut, a veiled Muslim woman and a migrant Syrian worker get in a scuffle and are arrested. They must argue their innocence in the face of the only witnesses: a bus full of women on their way to the mosque, each with her own version of the truth. |
Save
(2016, Spain, 4 mins) Director: Iván Sáinz-Pardo Dawn . A baby breaks the silence. |
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My Name is Batlir, not Butler
(2017, Turkey, 98 mins) Director: Stare' Yıldırım Producer: Stare' Yıldırım, Rick Porras Hello, my name is Batlır, not Butler. I’m not actually overweight, I just have some excess in a certain area....It is told in Anatolia that, the baby looks like whatever the mother craves while she is pregnant. My mother craved watermelon. I mostly talk to 52 Hertz, she is the loneliest whale in the world, and she is my best friend. |
Passion Gap
(2017, UK, 20 mins) Director: Matt Portman, Jason Donald Producer: Gavin Schneider, Matt Portman Elani survived her brutal childhood by carefully watching people. Now she plans to use her relationship with Mikey to get out of Cape Town for good. All she has to do is manage his ego for one more night, but the seeds of violence were planted in her early on. |
Guests Always Return
(1900, Spain, 20 mins) Director: Diego Sabanés Producer: Diego Sabanés Laura and Miguel are a perfect couple. Who wouldn´t want to live in their house? |
Robot & Scarecrow
(2017, UK, 15 mins) Director: Kibwe Tavares Producer: Daniel Emmerson A fairy tale set against the backdrop of a heady summer music festival, where a robot and a scarecrow meet and fall in love. |
Say No
(2017, UK, 10 mins) Director: Samuel Clemens Producer: The Rose Theatre Kingston - Ciaran McConville, The Clemens Bros Schoolgirl Rossella has just split up with her boyfriend and is travelling to school with a handbag full of guns. Her ex has met a new girl and passions are running high. What does Rossella intend to do? |
Shift
(2017, UK, 15 mins) Director: Charlie Bray Producers: Joost Zoetebier, Marina Ferreira An easy-going young professional wakes up hanging upside-down in a warehouse with no recollection of how he got there. As he tries to escape, survive and piece together what happened, he begins to uncover a nightmarish plot involving him and his loved ones. |
Prenatal
(2017, USA, 11 mins) Director: Bears Fonte Producer: Scott Honea Mysteriously eight months pregnant overnight, Katie believes the Angels responsible, but her sister thinks differently. |
Native
(2016, USA, 15 mins) Director: Travis Champagne, Stephen Kinigopolous Producers: Tyler Corie, Donna Champagne, Jonathan Luke, Jared Kudabeck, Sam Cespedes While on a ceremonial walkabout a young boy must defend his tribe against a mysterious force. |
RFLKTR
(2017, USA, 8 mins) Director: Matt K. Turner Producers: Matt K. Turner, Breeda Wool, Saam Gabbay In this psychological thriller a pilot crash lands on an alien planet where she faces an unexpected enemy… another version of herself—one who has been on the planet long enough to know that only one of them is going to make it out alive. |
Echoes
(2018, USA, 12 mins) Director: Mark Kerins, Elliot Mayen Producer: Mark Kerins, Brent Turman An ordinary family outing becomes a waking nightmare when a young mother loses her children and her search for them forces her to confront the echoes of a past she cannot escape. |
Real Artists
(2017, USA, 12 mins) Director: Cameo Wood Producer: Cameo Wood, Ryon Lane, Alexa Fraser-Herron Against all odds, Sophia just scored her dream interview at a world-famous animation studio -- who’d have thought a fan edit of one of their hit films could land her a shot at a job? But when she meets an arch, mysterious executive, she soon learns all is not as she expects behind the curtain. |
Laboratory Conditions
(2017, USA, 16 mins) Director: Jocelyn Stamat Producer: Joe Russell A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment. Stars Marisa Tomei and Minnie Driver |
Kick Tac
(2017, France, 23 mins) Director: Félix Farny Producer: Bruno Darles, Stéphane Malhuret A watchmaker in his forties, Christopher's life is as regular and monotonous as clockwork. One day, a break in the routine: a brush with death and a new neighbour whose round-the-clock drumming is starting to wind him up. |
House Rules
(2017, USA, 12 mins) Director/Producer Sean Robinson and Actor/Writer Eileen Kearney in attendance Producers: Sean Robinson, Jessica Fernando A jobless, aimless woman stumbles upon a room for rent. Swallowing her pride, she decides to go for it. From the moment she knocks on the door, she finds that this house may be more than she bargained for. |
Gloria Talks Funny
(2017, USA, 18 mins) Director: Kendall Goldberg Producer: Michael Stanziale When a struggling voice actress discovers her agent failed to tell her that her claim-to-fame cartoon is being remade, she sets her sights on reprising her role as the famous BioBoy. |
The Walk
(2017, USA, 4 mins) Director/Produce Ahren Thomas and Actor Ted Ely in attendance A New York City night takes an unexpected turn for a new young couple |
17 years together
(2016, Spain, 15 mins) Director: Javier Fesser Producer: Luis Manso Pepe and Asun have been married for 17 years. Walter and Mardelina are domestic employees who must take care of everything for the celebration. It is also Mardelina's birthday and both had asked for the night off. |
Look at Me
(2016, USA, 14 mins) Director: Andres Gil Producer: Amadi Pate, Shamola Kharkar A 74-year-old lonely man tries to find the ultimate social experience: behaving in an eccentric way in front of strangers, hoping to get some attention. But his best opportunity to be remembered arises when he finds an advertisement to pose as a nude model in an art class at a college campus. |
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Painless
(2017, USA, 80 mins) Director: Jordan Horowitz Producers: Anthony Ambrosino, Nicholas Delmenico Cast: Joey Klein, Evalena Marie, Kip Gilman, Pascal Yen-Pfister Producer Anthony Ambrosino in attendance Purchase Advance Tickets Henry Long was born with a rare condition that leaves him unable to feel physical pain. Life for him is daily struggle, never knowing when he might become seriously injured without realizing it, or — worse — die from an internal injury he never knew existed. He lives in fear, completely alienated from those around him who cannot relate to his daily struggles. Barricading himself in a world of science, Henry has dedicate his life to finding a cure so that he can one day know what it’s like to feel ‘normal’. When he discovers a promising drug he is unable to obtain on his own, he gets involved with a dangerous scientist with a dark past and his own secret agenda. Henry must decide if his need for normalcy is worth paying the ultimate price before it’s too late. Based on actual medical science, "Painless" looks at the dark side of life with a rare condition and the challenges both symptomatic and social that people with these conditions face. |
Hair Wolf
(2017, USA, 12 mins) Director: Mariama Diallo Producer: Valerie Steinberg In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture. |
Yous Got Somethin', Right There
(2018, USA, 4 mins) Director/Writer John Nunn in attendance Two friends try to have a nice meal. |
The Apocalypse will be Automated
(2017, Australia, 9 mins) Director: Melanie Killingsworth Producers: Cat Fay, Melanie Killingsworth, Rachel Baring As a virus spreads through Melbourne in summer of 2021, a group of friends follow their pre-determined emergency plan and flee the city. But the plan relied on technology, which may not be as helpful as they had hoped. Will the machines side with the humans . . . or zombies? |
Sans Reponse (Without Answer)
(2017, USA, 4 mins) Director: William Papadin A young man moves back home to Sonoma after failing to "make it" in the Los Angeles film scene. |
Paid For By - Diane Busch's Anti-Fracking Campaign Ad
(2017, USA, 8 mins) Director/Writer/Producer Dawn Smith and Producer Devra Zabot in attendance Explores the nature of American politics as seen through the lens of political commercial production. Our heroic producer, Margot Meriwether, environmentalist zealot, is passionate about her job producing political ads that she believes in. |
Cuidado, Antonio (Be Careful, Antonio)
(2017, Spain, 4 mins) Director: Yeray Pacheco Producer: Nestor Rivero Antonio's life is apparently quiet until a heart arrythmia turns his world upside down. |
The Ticket
(2017, USA, 8 mins) Director: Chris Stacy Producer: Chris Stacy, Rebecca Stacy Parking enforcement officer Williams is having a bad day until a stranger shows him the light at the end of the tunnel. |
Shy Guys
(2016, USA, 8 mins) Director/Writer Fredric Lehne and Producer Ginger Lehne in attendance Two strangers bring the laughs as they confront and resolve one of the most insidious scourges afflicting mankind - while standing at public urinals with their willies out. |
Akado
(2017, Russian Federation, 7 mins) Director: Kim Belov Producer: Max Volovik A cable guy comes to customer's apartment and meets his fate. |
Prick
(2017, USA, 8 mins) Director: Lisanne Sartor Producers: Xiaolin Yu, Lisanne Sartor When a burglar gets stuck in a closet during a robbery, he finds out way more about himself than he wants to know and even more about the couple he's robbing than they know themselves. |
The Insecurities of Dill
(2017, UK, 7 mins) Director: Robert Trott Producer: Adam Gregory Smith A film about hopes, doubts, and crumpets. Dill is being used, and he knows it. After a morning of "passion" Dill's suspicions that the woman he was made for is seeing someone else begin to bear fruit. Battling his insecurities, he decides to deal with them in the only way he knows how; by pondering politely. |
The Wedding
(2017, UK, 2 mins) Director: Ben and Chris Blaine Producer: Sophie Falkner Does anyone know of any just cause or impediment why this couple cannot be lawfully wed? |
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