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06:00

SHORTS Comedy

AUTO DA FE

2005

Director: Steve Rainbow

9 mins

06:09

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

06:26

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

06:30

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

06:42

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

06:47

SHORTS Animate!

JUNGLE BEAT: BECAUSE I GOT HIGH

2004 / Zimbabwe

Director: Brent Dawes

4 mins

06:52

SHORTS Animate!

DOWN TO EARTH

Netherlands / English

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

2 mins

06:55

SHORTS Animate!

NA HRANI

One day during a training session a figure skater fell don and was badly hurt... His future sportive career is threatened. His eyes are full of horror. What phantom did he see and what will he do to change the fearsome destiny?

2007 / Animation / Ukraine / English

Director: Artem Sukharev

6 mins

07:00

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

07:30

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

07:44

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

07:52

Editor's Pick

FLYING SAUCER ROCK N' ROLL

1997 / Ireland / English

Director: Enda Hughes

12 mins

08:00

SHORTS in Love

CHIARA

A beautiful and mysterious Italian girl and a local Irish lad meet at a country railway station, unfortunately heading in opposite directions.Will their brief encounter lead to further romance?

1999 / Comedy / Ireland / English

Director: Chris Roche

Cast: Myles Horgan, Romina Mondello

22 mins

08:22

SHORTS in Love

Weight of Sunken Treasure, The

2008 / Australia / English

Director: Luke Mayze, Simon Toy

Cast: Chris Haywood, Renai Caruso, Michael Dorman, Alex Rayner-Barnes

12 mins

08:30

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

08:49

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

08:57

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

09:00

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

09:25

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

09:28

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

09:30

SHORTS Comedy

JELLY MOUSTACHE, THE - EPISODE ONE WORK

Comedy / English

9 mins

09:39

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

09:55

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

10:00

SHORTS Animate!

BAR CODE

2001 / Netherlands

Director: Adriaan Lokman

8 mins

10:08

SHORTS Animate!

HERO

2002 / Netherlands

Director: Geertjan Tillmans

3 mins

10:12

SHORTS Animate!

HOLD THE LINE

2005 / Netherlands / English

Director: Sem Assink

6 mins

10:18

SHORTS Animate!

SHIPWRECKED

2005 / Netherlands / English

Director: Frodo Kuipers

5 mins

10:23

SHORTS Animate!

STICKY FEET

2007 / Netherlands

Director: Udo Prinsen

4 mins

10:28

SHORTS Animate!

FETCH

1998 / Australia / English

Director: Lynn-Maree Danzey

1 min

10:30

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

10:39

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

10:43

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

10:51

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

11:00

Editor's Pick

ONE OF US?

The dynamic pace of Quincy's basketball match soon calms when he is faced with a life changing dilemma.

2007 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Clint Dyer

Cast: Ellen Thomas, Simon Kunz, Danny Webb, Cathy Tyson, Madra Ihegborow, Alexis Rodney

10 mins

11:10

Editor's Pick

ORION SLAVE GIRLS MUST DIE

This is the voyage of Jules and Matt, best friends whose lives are devoted to Star Trek...and devoid of girls. When Matt falls for Stacey, an alluring sorority girl, he ashamedly hides his love of Trek to join a fraternity. Outraged, Jules must take drast

2008 / Sci-Fi / English

Director: Eric Kallevig

Cast: Matt Jones, Nicholas Downs

21 mins

11:30

SHORTS in Love

JACKALOPE, THE

Flustered by his awkward advance toward a beautiful girl, a shy boy hears the tale of a mysterious creature, which turns out to be more than just a work of fiction.

2002 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Joseph Guerrieri

Cast: Brendan Shanahan, Corey Lewis Pearman, Richard Swaidan

11 mins

11:43

SHORTS in Love

SHOES OFF!

Stuart, a timid 31-year-old bachelor, is inspired to break out of his monotonous existence by a mysterious woman and her beautiful black boots.

1998 / Drama / Canada / English

Director: Mark Sawers

Cast: David Lewis, Deanna Milligan

13 mins

12:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

13:00

SHORTS Comedy

JELLY MOUSTACHE, THE - EPISODE TWO CRIME

Comedy / English

12 mins

13:13

SHORTS Comedy

LOLLYPOPS

2003 / Australia / English

Director: Rebecca McElroy

Cast: Bev Langford, Carol Burns, Slim De Grey

4 mins

13:18

SHORTS Comedy

CROOKED MICK OF THE SPEEDWAH

2005 / Australia / English

Director: Philip Smith

9 mins

13:27

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

13:30

SHORTS Animate!

VOODOO BAYOU

After being mistakenly bitten by an electrified mosquito, a voodoo doll comes to life in a dilapidated shack. Then, realizing he's been used a an instrument of evil, tires to escape the control of his master, the mysterious Witch Doctor...

2007 / Horror / Mexico

Director: Javier Gutierrez

10 mins

13:40

SHORTS Animate!

RAFT, THE

Two starved and exhausted castaways are lost at sea, when a seagull drops a fish to their raft. this is the moment tos ee what the real friendship is!

2004 / Animation / Germany

Director: Jan Thuring

8 mins

13:49

SHORTS Animate!

DREAMMAKER

The Dreammaker once made the most beautiful dreams for people. Now he lives solitary for only one purpose, the creation of a special dream - his dream. One day a girl visits him to ask for a dream to help her through scary nights. When he refuses, he stay

2007 / Animation / Germany / English

Director: Leszek Plichta

12 mins

14:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

15:00

SHORTS in Love

VELOCITY RULES

Midwestern housewife inadvertently discovers that she is a superhero.

2000 / Comedy / United States

Director: Patty Jenkins

18 mins

15:18

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

15:22

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

15:30

Stars in SHORTS

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

15:38

Stars in SHORTS

TRAILERS FROM HELL : ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN

Directed by Nathan Juran, no one could have predicted that this mini-budget exploitation film from 1958 would become one of the most famous titles in movie history.

Documentary / English

2 mins

15:40

Stars in SHORTS

COME HERE TODAY

The philosophical journey of Alex, Rhys Ifans, through his most intimate relationships towards an emotional reconciliation with his father. It is only in the moment of death that one can truly grasp the meaning of life.

2007 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Simon Aboud

Cast: John McArdle, Rhys Ifans, Rita Tushingham

11 mins

15:52

Stars in SHORTS

TRAILERS FROM HELL : PSYCHO

This trailer (almost a short subject at nearly 7 minutes long) is from 1960, when Hitchcock had merchandised himself a la Walt Disney into one of the most recognizable movie directors on earth.

Documentary / English

6 mins

16:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

17:00

SHORTS Animate!

LOST CARGO

2006 / Netherlands

Director: Pieter Engels, Efim Perlis

15 mins

17:16

SHORTS Animate!

ANNIE & BOO

It is night, in a lonely train station when a young girl meets with a strange... coincidence. Literally. What if coincidences were living, breathing entities? And what would happen if a human and a coincidence met? Would either one of them ever be the sam

2003 / Animation / Germany / English

Director: Johannes Weiland

14 mins

17:30

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

17:48

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

18:00

Editor's Pick

DOG TIRED

2004

Director: Greg McLeod

9 mins

18:09

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

18:24

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

18:28

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

18:30

SHORTS in Love

ROASTBEEF

2007 / Canada

Director: Miryam Bouchard, Francois Begin

Cast: Louise Lecavalier, Reynald Bouchard

5 mins

18:36

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

19:00

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

19:07

Stars in SHORTS

LISTENING

2002 / United Kingdom / English

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Cast: Frances Barber, Paul McGann

20 mins

19:30

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

19:48

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

20:00

SHORTS Comedy

DEATH IN PROGRESS, A

A short dark comedy following the Grim Reaper as he writes out the last moments of a hapless man, Daniel Matthews. When he can'r decide how he wants the man to die, Grim ends up rewriting his death over and over, trying to make it better.

2007 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Don Bitters

Cast: James Powell, Pietro D'Alessio

7 mins

20:08

SHORTS Comedy

EXPRESS: AISLE TO GLORY

The rise and fall of a legendary bagboy are recounted in this pastiche of the sports documentary.

1998 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Jonathan Buss

Cast: Kal Penn

11 mins

20:20

SHORTS Comedy

BITTER

2008 / Drama / UK / English

Director: Joel Wilson, Jamie Campbell

Cast: John Sessions, Philip Davis

10 mins

20:30

SHORTS Animate!

OPERATOR

A man makes a phone call to God and He answers.

2007 / Comedy / UK (England) / English

Director: Matthew Walker

Cast: Matthew Walker

1 min

20:32

SHORTS Animate!

TV PEOPLE

This story is about a man in a city. He spends a Saturday afternoon in his apartment bit by bit developing his own,very individual, phantasies.

2003 / Animation / United States

Director: Katrin Glanz

2 mins

20:34

SHORTS Animate!

HARD BOILED CHICKEN

2006 / Netherlands

Director: Arjan Wilschut

4 mins

20:38

SHORTS Animate!

JUNGLE BEAT: YOU GIVE ME FEVER

2004 / Zimbabwe

Director: Brent Dawes

4 mins

20:43

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

20:48

SHORTS Animate!

JUNGLE BEAT: BECAUSE I GOT HIGH

2004 / Zimbabwe

Director: Brent Dawes

4 mins

20:53

SHORTS Animate!

VENT

2004 / Netherlands

Director: Erik Van Schaaik

4 mins

20:58

SHORTS Animate!

FETCH

1998 / Australia / English

Director: Lynn-Maree Danzey

1 min

21:00

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

21:08

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

21:30

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

21:41

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

21:50

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

22:00

SHORTS in Love

SIDE EFFECTS

An ordinary guy becomes a human guinea pig in an experimental drug test and meets the girls of his dreams, but when the side effects of the drug are discovered he faces the harsh reality of never seeing her again.

2001 / Sci-Fi / United States / English

Director: Scott Allen Perry

Cast: Scott Allen Perry

17 mins

22:17

SHORTS in Love

ELI

2007 / Sci-Fi / United States / English

Director: Josh Lee Kwai

Cast: Caroline Rich, JanelleTaylor, Scott L. Schwartz, Kristen Kerr, Christina Carlisi, Erin Beaux, David Anders

17 mins

22:30

Stars in SHORTS

APPARENT HORIZON

Kama, a Thai mail-order bride moves to the US with her husband, Joseph Delaney, in search of the American dream. She soon discovers the world she hoped for is actually an emotional prison. Her only salvation may be Joseph's mentally unstable son, Bil

2006 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Tymaya Payne

Cast: Matthew Carey, Myla Balugay, Peter Coyote

21 mins

22:52

Stars in SHORTS

8.3 MINUTES

2008 / Drama / Norway / English

Director: Klaus Thymann

Cast: Nick Kneller, Julie Lawes, Jeremy Tiang, Rob Crouch, Nicolai La Barrie, Colin Salmon

8 mins

23:00

SHORTS Film School

ANGELMAKER

When the day is done and she is given one last chore, Little Turcott must find the courage to outwit her mother in the shadows of the deep woods.

1998 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Zev Berman

23 mins

23:24

SHORTS Film School

WARPED!

2004

Director: Tony Jopia

10 mins

23:30

ShortsTV

EXISTENCE

In the line between reality and illusion, life and death... can we really tell the difference? What happens when you are trapped in the line?

2006 / Fantasy / United States / English

Director: Anthony Leonardi

Cast: Gabriel Pimentel, Jack Walsh, Jonathan Davis, Matthew McGrory, Max Baker

26 mins

00:00

ShortsTV

KRAFT

2005

Director: Scott Johnston

10 mins

00:10

ShortsTV

NATURAL SELECTION

In the city of L.A 2097, outlaw genetic engineering has transformed the streets into a battleground between those who protect nature and those who exploit it. Angelo and his father are fighting to save innocent wildlife from evil gene poachers.

2004 / Sci-Fi / United States / English

Director: Scott Leberecht

Cast: Ian Nelson, Kevin McCorkle, Lee Arenberg

17 mins

00:27

ShortsTV

GRAVITY

Three boys power play with a gun. Gravity is a short film that deals with the detached nature of gun violence, and how actions and responsibility are often very disconnected.

2004 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Colin Hutton

6 mins

00:30

ShortsTV

OBCY VI

Poland / Polish

27 mins

01:00

ShortsTV

WORLD OF WRESTLING

Welcome to a colourfully noctural world of oversized men, ill-fitting leotards, Boston-crabs, half-Nelsons and the unforgiving whims of the British transport system.

2007 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: Ben Gregor

Cast: Kris Marshall, Kevin Eldon, Justin Edwards, Miranda Hart, Stewart Wright, Jonathan Ryland, Patrick Baladi, Mackenzie Crook

12 mins

01:12

ShortsTV

ARROW MAN SAM

Welcome to the world of pub darts - a world of fast cars, fast women and free food. In this comedy mockumentary cledwyn's dreams fall around his snakeskin shoes as he grooms his chubby protege Sam for the success he himself recently let slip.

2004 / United Kingdom / English

Director: Tom Rowson

Cast: Lily Robinson, Masato Ando, Peter Rowson, Sam Childs, Tom Rowson

16 mins

01:30

SHORTS Best in Fest

FAULT

A poignant, disturbing, and darkly comic short film about a boy who attacks his sadistic tennis instructor.

2003 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Justin Swibel

Cast: Josh Podoris, Brian Swibel, John Austin, Aaron Fall, Justin Swibel

14 mins

01:44

SHORTS Best in Fest

APOLOGY LINE, THE

2006

Director: James Lees

9 mins

01:54

SHORTS Best in Fest

TEZ

Tez is in his car, having a BAD day. A lighthearted study in stress and misanthropy, 'Tez' takes one intolerant man, puts him under the microscope and prods him until he explodes.

2007 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: Elliot Goldner

Cast: Alex Lowe

6 mins

02:00

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

02:09

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

02:30

Editor's Pick

CLINIC E

CLINIC E is a black comedy about how the power of denial can lead to destruction. Jack Everhart, a man in his 20s, receives a letter informing him that one of his ex-lovers has tested HIV positive.

1996 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Mark Ward

27 mins

03:00

SHORTS Film School

SANTA CROCE

A fractured family drops into disarray when a local Virgin Mary statue begins bleeding from the eyes. As flocks of wroshippers and tourists flood the forgotten town, the family's eldest daughter embarks on a bizarre spiritual journey.

2006 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Gavin Hefferman

Cast: Abby Eiland, Allisyn Ashley Arm, Brad Fisher

23 mins

03:23

SHORTS Film School

HONOR SYSTEM, THE

The comedic story of what happens when a group of awkward sixth graders compete for the school's dodge ball title.

2003 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Jeff Morris

Cast: Kyle Swann, Sydnes Franklin

7 mins

03:30

SHORTS Comedy

LONGBRANCH: A SUBURBAN PARABLE

A cowboy, a blind man, and a guy in a red sweater all come together in a didactic recipe of hamburger, ketchup and suicide.

2002 / Comedy / United States / English

12 mins

03:42

SHORTS Comedy

JEFF FARNSWORTH

Ross wants to be a bouncer at a nightclub, but the harder he tries the greater the struggle to succeed.

2003 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Paul Cotter (dba Z Group Films)

14 mins

04:00

SHORTS World Cinema

PASSPHOTO, DAS

Getting a photo to renew his passport leads Felix into a series of absurd and comical situations.

2002 / Comedy / Switzerland / Russian

Director: Christina Zulauf

Cast: Aleksander Polovzev, Anatolij Slivnikov, Kira Kreilis-Petrova, Michail Devjatkin

14 mins

04:14

SHORTS World Cinema

CODE, THE

Polo is a small time crook.He must carry a stolen suitcase acroos the border,a job he's done hundreds of times.But even before he can start,he's already in trouble.People are betraying him.Polo has no idea, if they are after the suitcase - or af

2003 / Thriller / Germany / German

Director: Hercli Bundi

Cast: Jaap Achterberg, Kristian Krone, Pascal Ulli

10 mins

04:30

SHORTS Best in Fest

SAMOURE

A peculiar shepherd living in a village in the mountains of Crete hopes that one day he will become a true samurai. Samoure is a story of being different in a small community and the conflicts this causes.

2005 / Drama / Greece

Director: Theo Papadoulakis

25 mins

04:56

SHORTS Best in Fest

WHOA

Urban opera about a man in the wrong place at the wrong time.

2001 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Maurice Dwyer

Cast: Eddie Steeples

5 mins

05:00

SHORTS Midnight

PROS AND CONS OF BREATHING, THE

A character-driven action film about a criminal who suffers from cystic fibrosis. He's been afflicted with this condition and his criminal lifestyle, at the core, is both an expression of rage and an attempt to take control of his morality.

2006 / Action / United States / English

Director: Seth Manheimer

Cast: Coby Ryan McLaughlin, Dylan Purcell, John Laughlin, Tino Sutras

21 mins

05:21

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

3 mins

05:25

SHORTS Midnight

TRAILERS FROM HELL : THE SKULL

Probably the most accomplished of the non-omnibus Amicus horror pix. Dedicated occult collector Peter Cushing scores a coup - the skull of the Marquis deSade. But it doesn't make him --or anyone else--very happy!

Documentary / English

2 mins

05:30

Editor's Pick

CONFUSED

A dark and ironic comment on modern day relationships. We circle six characters whose lives coincidentally engage and collide with one another. Where we see loss and deceit for one person we find hope and truth for another.

2002 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Camille Griffin

Cast: Anna Chancellor, Heike Makatsch

11 mins

05:42

Editor's Pick

LOCK PICKING

A couple faces a trust crisis as the woman describes to her lover the unbelievable story of her clandestine friendship with a mysterious man who's helping her discover her talents as a cat burglar, escape artist and baker of the finest pastries.

2002 / Drama / Germany / German

Director: Scott Kirby

Cast: Alexander Wipprecht, Camilla Renschke, Rainer Ewerrien

15 mins

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