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SHORTS Film School

AMERICAN MADE

An Indian - American family confronts issues of tradition, faith, conformity and sacrifice after the youngestson accuses his turban - clad orthodox father of looking like a terrorist while standed on a remote desert road.

2003 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Sharat Raju

23 mins

06:24

SHORTS Film School

TRAILERS FROM HELL : JOHNNY GUITAR

Nick Ray's wild "revisionist" western must be the most critically dissected Republic Picture ever. Pure fifties hysteria with Mercedes McCambridge at her most terrifyingly overwrought. Great cast and terrific score by Victor Young.

Documentary / English

3 mins

06:27

SHORTS Film School

TRAILERS FROM HELL : LORD OF THE FLIES

Author William Golding turned down numerous entreaties for movie adaptations of his provocative novel, finally accepting Peter Brook's concept of taking 30 or so boys to a tropical island and semi-improvising a feature film. The result, surprisingly,

Documentary / English

2 mins

06:30

SHORTS Comedy

AUTO DA FE

2005

Director: Steve Rainbow

9 mins

06:39

SHORTS Comedy

DOCTOR MUFFINS

Doctor Muffins leads an image driven town towards cosmetic bliss untill a new patient threatens to undo all they have come to know.

2003 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Will Canon

Cast: Laura Reeves, Robin Read, Bob Hess, Phil Harrington, Molly Harrington, Truett Griffin

16 mins

06:56

SHORTS Comedy

STICK GUNS

STICK GUNS looks at the instinct boys have for war, deep within the local wood, narrated from the viewpoint of a now thirty-something dad. A world where adventure was limited only by your imagination. A world where a good stick became a great gun.

2005 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: David Tucker

5 mins

07:00

SHORTS Animate!

MY DATE FROM HELL

The Devil moves into his Viagra years, hoping to find the right girl to make his life complete, in this clever and atmospheric short. Beelzebub is fat, complacent and bored with the daily pressures of running the underworld. He's convinced that findi

2006 / Animation / Germany / English

Director: Tim Weimann, Tom Bracht

12 mins

07:12

SHORTS Animate!

JUNGLE BEAT: AND SO THE FEELING GROWS

As if ant isn't small enough, when he gets lost in the maze of tunnels in his underground home he stumbles across a strange liquid. He drinks it. He shrinks. Tiny tiny! His tunnels are now huge caverns and the other ants are giants he now has to evad

2004 / Zimbabwe

Director: Brent Dawes

4 mins

07:17

SHORTS Animate!

JUNGLE BEAT: BECAUSE I GOT HIGH

2004 / Zimbabwe

Director: Brent Dawes

4 mins

07:22

SHORTS Animate!

DOWN TO EARTH

Netherlands / English

Director: Niels Van Der Heidjen, Michiel Wouters, Jairo Bambang Oetomo

2 mins

07:25

SHORTS Animate!

HARD BOILED CHICKEN

2006 / Netherlands

Director: Arjan Wilschut

4 mins

07:30

SHORTS Best in Fest

BORIS

A Russian man living in Los Angeles is forced to come to terms with his past and navigate his future.

2001 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Francesca Galesi

Cast: Ilia Volok, Irene DeBari, Yevgeni Lazarev

26 mins

08:00

Editor's Pick

NAME OF THE GAME, THE

A journey into the musical mind of a 12 year-old tomboy, Maxine, who would rather wear shorts and play baseball than wear dresses, cook or clean. Through her imagination, she sees things more vividly brought to life through the beats of the big band.

2005 / United States / English

Director: Daniel Buday

Cast: Brooke Mackenzie, Joel McCrary, Stasha Surdyke

14 mins

08:14

Editor's Pick

BEATS PER MINUTE

Through very lovable and entertaining choreography, a talented French street dancer leaves Europe with a one-way ticket to Hollywood to show the world a style of dance they've never seen before. He discovers that through dancing he can rewind time.

2008 / Drama / United States / French

Director: Andrea Ball

Cast: Celine Thubert Cole, Cole Walliser, Leigh Fox, Salah Benlemqawanssa

7 mins

08:22

Editor's Pick

FLYING SAUCER ROCK N' ROLL

1997 / Ireland / English

Director: Enda Hughes

12 mins

08:30

SHORTS in Love

SWEET AS CANDY

In the stylised-50s parallel universe of Bubblegum Valley, young love is on the rocks. Will Blue ever be reunited with his true-love Candy? A fantastical musical extravaganza!

2003 / Music Video / New Zealand / English

Director: Kezia Barnett

Cast: Andrew Jolly, Tanya Horo

9 mins

08:41

SHORTS in Love

MOVING IN

A romantic comedy about the unromantic reality of living with the person you love. When Tina moves in, does love moves out?

2003 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Jeff Stephenson

15 mins

09:00

Stars in SHORTS

DEATH OF SALVADOR DALI, THE

When Dali seeks Freud's assistance to inject madness into his art, tables are turned and student becomes teacher.Through a series of visits by Dali's friends, enemies, and muse, Freud is unwittingly subjected to chaos, deception, and guns. Featu

2005 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Delaney Bishop

Cast: Alan Shearman, Bob Cesario, Dita Von Teese, Mary Burton, Salvador Benavides

18 mins

09:19

Stars in SHORTS

SPYHOLE

Haunting, evocative study of an ebbing relationship rekindled. When their neighbours go away, Angela offers to watch their cat. Once inside their flat, both Bill and Angela discover a sensual forbidden world, reminding both what they have left behind.

2002 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Jodhi May

Cast: David Morrissey, Lesley Sharp

6 mins

09:27

Stars in SHORTS

TRAILERS FROM HELL : THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

George Pal's pioneering H.G. Wells adaptation from 1953 with Oscar-winning state-of-the-art visual fx and sound effects so great they're still in use today.

Documentary / English

2 mins

09:30

SHORTS Film School

WINGED

A young astronaut goes into deep space to fix a deadly situation caused by his own father.

1999 / Sci-Fi / United States / English

Director: Val Keller

Cast: Doug Tompos, Jennifer Massey, Mike Roemer

25 mins

09:55

SHORTS Film School

TRAILERS FROM HELL : ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

Sergio Leone's 1968 masterpiece which gives the lie to the term "spaghetti western".

Documentary / English

3 mins

09:58

SHORTS Film School

TRAILERS FROM HELL : NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

One-time industrial filmmaker George Romero's seminal Pittsburgh indie (an unauthorized re-imagining of "I Am Legend") changed the face of horror films and redefined the word "zombie" for a generation. It spawned a flood of imitations, but a copyrigh

Documentary / English

2 mins

10:00

SHORTS Comedy

JELLY MOUSTACHE, THE - EPISODE ONE WORK

Comedy / English

9 mins

10:09

SHORTS Comedy

FAMILY ATTRACTION

The last "nuclear family" in America is an endangered species, held in captivity at The National Zoo. Stars Chris Penn and Martin Sheen.

1998 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Brian Hecker

Cast: Martin Sheen, Chris Penn

16 mins

10:25

SHORTS Comedy

LUNCH (2003)

A look into the secret infrastructure of eating out: In a small cafe, a big man in need of lunch encounters a uniquely American brand of malaise while two curiously unqualified chefs try to decode a TV cooking show .

2002 / Comedy / United States

Director: Mark Herzig

Cast: Reda Bellarbi, Rick Kleder

7 mins

10:30

SHORTS Animate!

BAR CODE

2001 / Netherlands

Director: Adriaan Lokman

8 mins

10:38

SHORTS Animate!

HERO

2002 / Netherlands

Director: Geertjan Tillmans

3 mins

10:42

SHORTS Animate!

HOLD THE LINE

2005 / Netherlands / English

Director: Sem Assink

6 mins

10:48

SHORTS Animate!

SHIPWRECKED

2005 / Netherlands / English

Director: Frodo Kuipers

5 mins

10:53

SHORTS Animate!

STICKY FEET

2007 / Netherlands

Director: Udo Prinsen

4 mins

10:58

SHORTS Animate!

FETCH

1998 / Australia / English

Director: Lynn-Maree Danzey

1 min

11:00

SHORTS Best in Fest

CODENAME: SIMON

Simon is an undercover space agent whose new mission finds him on Earth awaiting pick-up by his parents' spaceship.

2004 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Graham Tallman

9 mins

11:09

SHORTS Best in Fest

TRAILERS FROM HELL : ROSEMARY'S BABY

William Castle's greatest movie-- because it was directed by Roman Polanski! May be the finest book to film adaptation ever, brilliant in every detail. Naturally, it's slated to be remade--but we dunno who'd be foolish enough to try.

Documentary / English

3 mins

11:13

SHORTS Best in Fest

PHOBIAS

A surreal adventure into the minds of five phobiacs in a waiting room.

2006 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: KATIE ELLWOOD

Cast: ANDREW BUCKLEY, ISOBELL HURLL, KIKI KENDRICK, LUCY MONTGOMERY, Paul Kaye

8 mins

11:21

SHORTS Best in Fest

CONCRETE

When a reserved botanist tries to teach a little girl about the world of plants, he finds that she is, in fact teaching him about the world of people.

2001 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Andy Watts

14 mins

11:30

Editor's Pick

CONCRETE

When a reserved botanist tries to teach a little girl about the world of plants, he finds that she is, in fact teaching him about the world of people.

2001 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Andy Watts

14 mins

11:44

Editor's Pick

HOME

The story of a young homeless man.

2005 / Drama / United Kingdom

Director: Giles Borg

Cast: Kieran O'Brien

10 mins

11:55

Editor's Pick

TRAILERS FROM HELL : POINT BLANK

John Boorman's dreamily stylized adaptation of a Donald E. Westlake novel was way ahead of its time, adapting New Wave techniques to produce a deliberately alienating effect that confused and annoyed the brass at MGM, and might even be a moment-of-de

Documentary / English

3 mins

12:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

13:00

SHORTS Film School

WHITE LIKE THE MOON

A young hispanic girl living in the 1950's has an identity crisis when her mother makes her bleach her skin.

2001 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Marina Gonzalez Palmier

20 mins

13:21

SHORTS Film School

WOODEN SOUL

Displacement of grief. Charming to some, shocking to others.

2006 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Rehana Rose Khan

Cast: Michael Gilroy, Stephanie Edwards, Trae Gould

10 mins

13:30

SHORTS Comedy

JELLY MOUSTACHE, THE - EPISODE TWO CRIME

Comedy / English

12 mins

13:43

SHORTS Comedy

LOLLYPOPS

2003 / Australia / English

Director: Rebecca McElroy

Cast: Bev Langford, Carol Burns, Slim De Grey

4 mins

13:48

SHORTS Comedy

CROOKED MICK OF THE SPEEDWAH

2005 / Australia / English

Director: Philip Smith

9 mins

13:57

SHORTS Comedy

LOVES LABOURER

Ern, a council worker and hopeless romantic, tries to negotiate his way around the obstacles of modern dating.

Australia / English

Director: Alister Grierson

5 mins

14:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

15:00

Editor's Pick

SYLVESTER

A car crash leads circus folk into a bizarre paternity suit.

2001 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Kevin Molony

Cast: George Yiasoumi, Kari Väänänen

20 mins

15:21

Editor's Pick

VALENTINE'S DAY

6 year old Jason is kicking, screaming and biting his way through school. Mr Valentine, his new teacher can't cope at all but one day Jason paints a picture which begins to reveal secrets that show a different side to this "wild child".

2003 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Joanna Carrick

8 mins

15:30

SHORTS in Love

VELOCITY RULES

Midwestern housewife inadvertently discovers that she is a superhero.

2000 / Comedy / United States

Director: Patty Jenkins

18 mins

15:48

SHORTS in Love

I WANT YOU

A 'boy meets girl' love story. Nearly.

2003 / Romance / United Kingdom / English

Director: Alex Norris

Cast: Bryan Dick, Loo Brealey, Ranee Chambers

3 mins

15:52

SHORTS in Love

LOVE TAKES

Finding Mr. Right is apparently as difficult at 8 as it is at 80. Love Takes is a documentary that charts the places that love takes us and leaves us over a lifetime.

2003 / Documentary / United Kingdom / English

Director: Jeanie Finlay

10 mins

16:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

17:00

SHORTS Comedy

JELLY MOUSTACHE, THE - EPISODE TWO CRIME

Comedy / English

12 mins

17:13

SHORTS Comedy

CLAIRE MAKES IT BIG

Claire, an overweight actress is fed up with losing parts to skinnier rivals. When she is rejected for a part in a Hollywood movie, she decides to get even.

2000 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Jeremy Workman

Cast: Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt, Stuart Fratkin, Wali Collins, Clancy Brown, Mara Hobel, Paige Turco, Peter Bogdanovich

28 mins

17:30

SHORTS Animate!

KEITH REYNOLDS CAN'T MAKE IT TONIGHT

Keith Reynolds leaves his hat in his car. This isn't the only mistake he makes today.

2007 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: Felix Massie

Cast: Scott Johnson

6 mins

17:36

SHORTS Animate!

MAESTRO, anim

Five minutes before his big performance, the Maestro and his persistent mechanical assistant are getting ready. As the clock ticks, life at the top is not all it seems.

2005 / Comedy / Hungary

Director: Geza M. Toth

4 mins

17:41

SHORTS Animate!

SAME DIFFERENCE

Five identical robots struggle with what it means to be different.

2003 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Gregory Scott Katsoulis

Cast: Jessica Haynes

11 mins

17:52

SHORTS Animate!

HARVEST, THE

This alien race's demands are simple: just hand over your kidneys and no one will get hurt. But wait... that's a lie.

2006 / Animation / Netherlands / English

Director: Mark Bazelmans

Cast: Ferry Bazelmans

2 mins

17:55

SHORTS Animate!

ANNA AND BELLA

1984 / Netherlands

Director: Børge Ring

7 mins

18:00

SHORTS Best in Fest

BOY NEXT DOOR

Calvin thinks his new next door neighbour will bring his unlucky streak to an end. Unfortunately he's right.

2005 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Travis Davis

Cast: Travis Davis

17 mins

18:18

SHORTS Best in Fest

GOING POSTAL

Ten year old Sandy is abandonned for a week at home, alone. She strikes up a friendship with the postman. Can she trust him?

2005 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Suzi Ewing

Cast: Heather Cameron, Steve Husin

13 mins

18:30

Editor's Pick

DOG TIRED

2004

Director: Greg McLeod

9 mins

18:39

Editor's Pick

LITTLE TERRORIST

A twelve year old Pakistani Muslim boy mistakenly crosses the minefield strewn border into India and finds an unusual ally - Bhola, a Hindu school teacher who must find a way of hiding him from Indian soldiers looking for the 'terrorist' who cro

2004 / Drama / United Kingdom

Director: Ashvin Kumar

Cast: Salim Ali, Megnaa Mehtta, Sushil Sharma

15 mins

18:54

Editor's Pick

TRAILERS FROM HELL : PHANTHOM OF THE PARADISE

Brian De Palma and Paul Williams' satirical glam-rock-opera takeoff on the Lon Chaney classic is the very definition of a midnight movie: bizarre, stylish and totally out there in that unique anything-goes 70s mode that looks positively classical tod

Documentary / English

3 mins

18:58

Editor's Pick

TRAILERS FROM HELL : FORBIDDEN PLANET

Dr. Morbius. His daughter Altaira. Robby the Robot. The Monster from the Id. Did we mention Altaira? (!) All are cultural icons introduced in the best-loved space opera of the nifty fifties, based on The Bard and bolstered by memorable fx by Disney's

Documentary / English

3 mins

19:00

SHORTS in Love

ROASTBEEF

2007 / Canada

Director: Miryam Bouchard, Francois Begin

Cast: Louise Lecavalier, Reynald Bouchard

5 mins

19:06

SHORTS in Love

INDEFINITELY

A wedding videographer decides it's his moral obligation to break up the bride and groom. Chaos ensues.

2001 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Marc Pilvinsky

Cast: Dameon Clarke, Alaina Kalanj, Jeffrey Schmidt

20 mins

19:30

Stars in SHORTS

COOKIE THIEF, THE

A silent duel over a bag of cookie set in a train station.

1999 / Comedy / United Kingdom

Director: Toby Leslie, Hugo Currie

Cast: Honor Fraser, Jack Davenport

7 mins

19:37

Stars in SHORTS

LISTENING

2002 / United Kingdom / English

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Cast: Frances Barber, Paul McGann

20 mins

20:00

SHORTS Film School

JOHN

A men's room attendant is in jeopardy of losing his job when the restaurant owner's son takes over.

1998 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Marni Banack

18 mins

20:18

SHORTS Film School

NO PROBLEM

Delightful and poignant, the film is set in the late 1970's and tells the story of a newly arrived immigrant boy dealing with his first days in an American school.

2001 / Drama / United States / Russian

Director: Gene Lushtak

16 mins

20:30

SHORTS Comedy

DORIS THE BUILDER

2004

Director: Alice Troughton

10 mins

20:40

SHORTS Comedy

DISHPAN MAN, THE

The rise and fall of a young hood with a supernatural gift.

2000 / Sci-Fi / United States / English

Director: Hal Long

14 mins

20:54

SHORTS Comedy

ONE SHOT WONDER

Two filmmakers discuss whether it's possible to make their short film using only one shot. And apparently it's not.

2001 / Spoof / Australia / English

Director: Carine Colin

6 mins

21:00

SHORTS Animate!

THE GOD & DEVIL SHOW: CHARLES DARWIN

The best way to serve humans is in a nice marinade.

1998 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Aubrey Ankrum

4 mins

21:04

SHORTS Animate!

AW SHUCKS!

Farmer Lumpy proudly protects his giant ear of corn from a hungry crow!

2d animation

7 mins

21:12

SHORTS Animate!

THE GOD & DEVIL SHOW: TOM HANKS

Get an extra shot of love juice with America's male sweetheart, Tom Hanks!

1998 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Aubrey Ankrum

4 mins

21:16

SHORTS Animate!

SIGHT FOR SORE EYES

Seeing just want Mole needs, Lumpy the Optometrist prescribes a seeing-eye dog for Mole!

2d animation

7 mins

21:24

SHORTS Animate!

THE GOD & DEVIL SHOW: PRINCESS DIANA

Do the people really love Diana or love the headline of a tragic death?

1998 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Aubrey Ankrum

4 mins

21:30

SHORTS Best in Fest

BAGATELLE

An international group of amateur footballers find their efforts to locate a pitch to play on abruptly halted by a group of angry French locals.

2009 / Comedy / France / French

Director: Ben Adler

Cast: Oli McAvoy, Philippe De Monts, Acim Vasic

8 mins

21:38

SHORTS Best in Fest

CAROLINE CROSSING

The story of a young girl evacuated from London during the Blitz and sent to live with distant relatives in America. She struggles to accept her new home and family while fearing the worst for her parents back in London.

2006 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Mahesh Pailoor

Cast: Addie Daddio, Lexi Ainsworth, Patrick Knutsson, Traber Burns

18 mins

22:00

Editor's Pick

BULLIES

2009 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Kole Onile-ere

Cast: Kelsey Gallagher, Kelsey Hardwick, Anthony Edwards, Aki Asar, Beau Baptiste, Craig Dowding, Faraz Ayab, Ali Khali, Michael Karim

11 mins

22:11

Editor's Pick

FANCY DRESS

Four friends meet on their way to a fancy dress party. They're all wearing masks - in more ways than one. Starring Martin Freeman.

2000 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: Jon Wright

Cast: Martin Freeman

9 mins

22:20

Editor's Pick

YOUNGSTER

Marcus is new to the world of dealing crack. He becomes entangled in a situation when he forgets to take money from a strung-out addict. Should he follow this man to an abandoned crack-house to receive his payment, or try to recover the money himself?

2005 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Will Canon

Cast: Al Thompson, Derek Jamar Taylor, Mack, Rhianna, Wilbur Penn

6 mins

22:30

SHORTS in Love

LA MEME NUIT

The story of three couples living in a chic inner-city apartment and a night of quarrels and infidelity, overseen by a frazzled concierge.

2007 / Australia / English

Director: Gracie Otto

Cast: Sophie Scarf, Michael Piccirilli, Barry Otto, Matthew Newton, Ashleigh McDonald

17 mins

22:47

SHORTS in Love

THE TELL TALE-HEART

Ed hates the huge, disgusting eye of his father and so he decides to kill his old man and thus rid himself of the eye forever. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart".

2005 / Animation / Germany / English

Director: Gregor Dashuber, Annette Jung

5 mins

22:52

SHORTS in Love

I WAS CATHERINE THE GREAT'S STABLE BOY

The stable-boy who engineered Catherine The Great's notorious rendez-vous with a horse looks back and reflects on the incident that changed his life forever.

1995 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: Stephen Leslie

4 mins

22:57

SHORTS in Love

EMPIRE

2005 / Experimental / France / English

Director: Edouard Salier

3 mins

23:00

Stars in SHORTS

TRAILERS FROM HELL : BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLL

It seemed like a good idea at the time-- give the sequel to one of Fox's soap opera hits to skinflick auteur Russ Meyer in the heady days of X-rated prosperity. Ok, it didn't work out so well at the boxoffice, but it did give us a touchstone for

Documentary / English

2 mins

23:03

Stars in SHORTS

TRAILERS FROM HELL : THE PARTY

Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers approach silent-movie purity in this non-stop, quintessentially '60s gagfest set at the kind of Hollywood party that Fatty Arbuckle wishes he'd lived to see.

Documentary / English

2 mins

23:05

Stars in SHORTS

FAMILY TREE

Jake navigates through a Thanksgiving filled with dysfunctional in-laws including a long-lost brother cursed to sprout leaves when he gets wet.

2003 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Vicky Jenson

Cast: Ethan Phillips, Harland Williams, Jackie Katzman, Talia Shire

29 mins

23:30

Stars in SHORTS

HARD TO SWALLOW

3 Couples and a cat share Sunday Lubnch... and certainly don't end up drinking too much, swearing at each other or fighting.

2007 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: Mat Kirkby

Cast: Daisy Haggard, Katherine Parkinson, Kerry Godliman, Nick Burns

14 mins

23:44

Stars in SHORTS

TEN MINUTE MOVIE

A lowly extra gets a shot at stardom. The glory, and the girl, are at Sam's fingertips. But suddenly his best friend is packing heat and his femme has gone all fatale. Sam's got 10 minutes to stop the plot twisting out of control.

2003 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: Imogen Murphy

Cast: Alexandra Staden, Jimi Mistry, John Simm

9 mins

23:54

Stars in SHORTS

I JUST WANT TO KISS YOU

1997 / United Kingdom / English

Director: Jamie Thraves

Cast: Martin Freeman

11 mins

00:00

SHORTS Midnight

Creator, The

It's 1000 years in the future. A corporation has devised a procedure that has the ability to liberate the human race...or possibly doom it for eternity. The fate of the humanity lies in the hands of a single human being.

2006 / Australia / English

Director: Paul Mayze

Cast: Glen Keogh, Robyn Moore

9 mins

00:09

SHORTS Midnight

REDUCING STANLEY

The surreal tale of a young boy struggling to communicate with his increasingly obsessed father in the lingering aftermath of tragedy.

1998 / Thriller / United States / English

Director: Mike Harvkey

Cast: Christopher Coulson, Ramsey Krull

23 mins

00:30

SHORTS Film School

JOHN

A men's room attendant is in jeopardy of losing his job when the restaurant owner's son takes over.

1998 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Marni Banack

18 mins

00:48

SHORTS Film School

NO PROBLEM

Delightful and poignant, the film is set in the late 1970's and tells the story of a newly arrived immigrant boy dealing with his first days in an American school.

2001 / Drama / United States / Russian

Director: Gene Lushtak

16 mins

01:00

SHORTS Comedy

YOU OWE US: THE FAMILY NEVER FORGETS

A comedic look at the film noir genre, You Owe Us is about lackluster newlywed, Billy who must suddenly make good on a forgotten favor owed to the Mafia from years past.

2004 / Comedy / United States / English

16 mins

01:16

SHORTS Comedy

TWO STOPS TO BANK

A journey home that turns into a nightmare, TWO STOPS TO BANK is a roller coaster ride of suspense, suspicion, guilt and romance. Okay, not that much romance actually!

2004 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: Fred Aidroos

7 mins

01:23

SHORTS Comedy

MALTONIUS OLBREN

Maltonius Olbren lives on the top floor of a tall, old building on the ring road. One morning he wakes up with the urge to fly.

2001 / Comedy / France / French

Director: Kalev Kamen

Cast: Eric Caruso, Fabien Krzyzanowski

6 mins

01:30

SHORTS World Cinema

BREAD

English

4 mins

01:34

SHORTS World Cinema

NALE

A girl straggles through a nightmarish and desolated landscape. Everyting around her is burnt. Not realizing what has happened, her journey becomes a passage between life and death.

2007 / Drama / Germany

Director: Tobias Rahm, Marc Tobias Winterhagen

Cast: Marc Tobias Winterhagen, Camilla Nas

5 mins

01:40

SHORTS World Cinema

Prep Rules

2003 / Australia / English

Director: Luke Mayze

Cast: Colin Chua, Alison Hart, Michael Coughlan, Tom Cushing, Mark Finden

20 mins

02:00

SHORTS Best in Fest

VENOM

Venom is a dark tale about an elderly widow, Angela Gannon, who many years ago lost her beloved husband in a war and her cat to a bee sting. Vowing to protect her new cat at all costs Angela has waged war on the world of insects. But when you've lost

2006 / Fantasy / Ireland / English

Director: John Hayes

Cast: Sheila Flitton

9 mins

02:09

SHORTS Best in Fest

L'ECLUSE

Father is painting the boat.The children are playing. The water runs deep and smooth. Something is floating on the surface. It's starting to rain.

2007 / Drama / France / French

Director: Olivier Ciechelski

Cast: Louise Oisel, Léopold Oisel, Douce Mirabaud, Marc Barbé

18 mins

02:30

SHORTS Midnight

SNOW

Will filming herself sleeping reveal the secret behind Beth's nightmares?

2003 / Fiction / United Kingdom / English

Director: Emily Greenwood

Cast: Adrian JUBB, Geraldine Gough

10 mins

02:40

SHORTS Midnight

3 A.M. ETERNAL

A Vietnam vet is haunted by disturbing reoccurring nightmare.

2000 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Norman Lesperance

17 mins

03:00

Editor's Pick

BULLIES

2009 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Kole Onile-ere

Cast: Kelsey Gallagher, Kelsey Hardwick, Anthony Edwards, Aki Asar, Beau Baptiste, Craig Dowding, Faraz Ayab, Ali Khali, Michael Karim

11 mins

03:11

Editor's Pick

FANCY DRESS

Four friends meet on their way to a fancy dress party. They're all wearing masks - in more ways than one. Starring Martin Freeman.

2000 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: Jon Wright

Cast: Martin Freeman

9 mins

03:20

Editor's Pick

YOUNGSTER

Marcus is new to the world of dealing crack. He becomes entangled in a situation when he forgets to take money from a strung-out addict. Should he follow this man to an abandoned crack-house to receive his payment, or try to recover the money himself?

2005 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Will Canon

Cast: Al Thompson, Derek Jamar Taylor, Mack, Rhianna, Wilbur Penn

6 mins

03:30

SHORTS Film School

PERSONAL PLEASURE

An underappreciated housewife in an upper-class society fantasizes about a man intruding into her home and murdering her neglectful husband.

2005 / Drama / United States / English

Director: James Oakley

Cast: Ames Ingham, Blake Robbins, Michael Oberlander

13 mins

03:44

SHORTS Film School

ONE, THE

Natasha Brooks thinks she can have it all with a career, husband and child. Time slips by and she realizes she only has one. She thinks she's in control of her life until a twist of fate makes her question if she has really found "the one"

2007 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Deborah Read

Cast: Victoria Lauture, Marty Lodge, Fred Ochs, Christina Kendal York, Daila Cardenas, Reda Alili, Deborah Read, Chris Cleveland, Giselle Jones, Jennifer Lynn Wetzel

13 mins

04:00

SHORTS Comedy

BOY NEXT DOOR

Calvin thinks his new next door neighbour will bring his unlucky streak to an end. Unfortunately he's right.

2005 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Travis Davis

Cast: Travis Davis

17 mins

04:18

SHORTS Comedy

HETTY

On 14th May 2002, Hetty Vickers invited loved ones to her home, to assist in taking her own life.Unfortunately, something went awry. A disarming satire about euthanasia and just how hard it is to rest in peace.

2002 / Comedy / Australia / English

Director: Angus Stevens

Cast: Carole Skinner, Don Reid, Julie Herbert, Maggie Kirkpatrick

8 mins

04:26

SHORTS Comedy

NOUVEAU RICHE NO. 34

2003 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Saar Klein

3 mins

04:30

SHORTS World Cinema

AFRO DEUTSCH

Remembering critical moments of his life, a man turns to face his enemies.

2001 / Drama / Germany / German

10 mins

04:40

SHORTS World Cinema

PUNITION, LA

Paris, France: a film producer and alcoholic asks a private detective to spy on his wife to make sure she still loves him. The detective discovers an absurd and deadly relationship.

2007 / Drama / France / French

Director: Yuki Kawamura

Cast: Claire Renaut, Didier Nobletz, Francois Podetti

19 mins

05:00

SHORTS Best in Fest

CODENAME: SIMON

Simon is an undercover space agent whose new mission finds him on Earth awaiting pick-up by his parents' spaceship.

2004 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Graham Tallman

9 mins

05:09

SHORTS Best in Fest

TRAILERS FROM HELL : ROSEMARY'S BABY

William Castle's greatest movie-- because it was directed by Roman Polanski! May be the finest book to film adaptation ever, brilliant in every detail. Naturally, it's slated to be remade--but we dunno who'd be foolish enough to try.

Documentary / English

3 mins

05:13

SHORTS Best in Fest

PHOBIAS

A surreal adventure into the minds of five phobiacs in a waiting room.

2006 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: KATIE ELLWOOD

Cast: ANDREW BUCKLEY, ISOBELL HURLL, KIKI KENDRICK, LUCY MONTGOMERY, Paul Kaye

8 mins

05:21

SHORTS Best in Fest

CONCRETE

When a reserved botanist tries to teach a little girl about the world of plants, he finds that she is, in fact teaching him about the world of people.

2001 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Andy Watts

14 mins

05:30

SHORTS Midnight

Back

2002 / Australia / English

Director: Sam Toy

Cast: Lucas Stibbard, Damien Garvey

13 mins

05:45

SHORTS Midnight

Hole in The Wall

2005 / Australia / English

Director: Peter Hegedus

Cast: Helen Howard, Samuel Johnson, Harrison Reynolds

10 mins

05:56

SHORTS Midnight

DESSERTS

An unsuspecting man becomes the victim of a vengeful sea creature. Stars Ewan McGregor.

1998 / Thriller / United Kingdom

Director: Jeff Stark

Cast: Ewan McGregor

4 mins

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