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06:00

SHORTS Best in Fest

CONFESSIONS OF A LATE BLOOMER

2005 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Jen McGowan

Cast: D'Angelo Jones, Christina Stacey, Tylor Chase

15 mins

06:16

SHORTS Best in Fest

MEGATRON

It's Maxim birthday. He is 8 years old. he lives with his mother in a village quite far from the nearest city. For his borthday, his mother takes him to a McDonald's restaurant.

2008 / Drama / Romania

Director: Marian Crisan

Cast: Erwin Simshenson, Damian Oancea, Maxim Strinu, Gabriela Crisu

13 mins

06:30

Editor's Pick

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

Miguel is an East L.A. teenager with aspirations of going to a good college. One year earlier, Miguel's mother - Carolina, divorced his father due to his unemployment and constant infidelities.

2004 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Alonso Mayo

Cast: Jose Yenque, Jeff Licon

23 mins

06:54

Editor's Pick

EVERY NIGHT I GO RUNNING

The joy of running from the perspective of someone who cannot run. The central character uses the power of his imagination to transport himself into a universe which is every bit as challenging as the real thing.

2002 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: David Storr

Cast: James Farley

3 mins

07:00

SHORTS in Love

LEFT

An Inpressionistic short film largely inspired by Andrew Wyeth's paintings "Christina's World" and "Overflow", LEFT centers around the heartbreaking separation between a woman and the man she loves. Devoid of dialogue, this haunting and operatic

2006 / Drama / United Kingdom

Director: Alexandre O. Philippe

Cast: Henri Rowland, Marilyn Auer

9 mins

07:09

SHORTS in Love

EMPIRE

2005 / Experimental / France / English

Director: Edouard Salier

3 mins

07:14

SHORTS in Love

PASSENGERS

The story of a mythical figure, who throughout time has watched over the consciences of mankind. This figure visits Jack, a man on the run from a troubled past, who must face his fears or meet with this myth.

2000 / Drama / United Kingdom

Director: Matthew Kok

8 mins

07:22

SHORTS in Love

A SUMMER'S DAY

Two teenagers share a post-coital moment in a field on a perfect summer's day.

2002 / Experimental / United Kingdom

Director: Pippa Marks

1 min

07:23

SHORTS in Love

MELANCHOLY PUFF MACHINE, THE

Longing for the affection of a beautiful doll, a melancholy puff toy delivers a message across a child's bedroom.

2006 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Jennifer Oxley

4 mins

07:30

Stars in SHORTS

DREAMING, THE

2008 / US / English

Director: Anthony Green

Cast: Robbie Robertson, Vern Harper, Michael Greyeyes, Stanley Green, Devon Bostick

10 mins

07:41

Stars in SHORTS

WISHING TIME

WISHING TIME is a story about Maggie Simmons, a young woman who has lived her entire life without making a wish or believing in a god. But after an unusual encounter with a strange man, Maggie begins to see things differently.

2003 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Torrie Rosenzweig

11 mins

07:52

Stars in SHORTS

DARLING DARLING

Harold (Michael Cera) must do his best to make a good first impression on his date's one-of-a-kind father, Mr. Darling.

2005 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Matthew Lessner

Cast: Seana Mcgaha, Steven Barry, Michelle Marie-White, Michael Cera

13 mins

08:00

SHORTS Film School

PANOESTHASIA

Animation / United States

Director: Brad Schaider

6 mins

08:06

SHORTS Film School

BUDDY AND GRACE

B & G is about the enduring love of an elderly man and his wife who suffers from Alzheimer's. When they are suddenly faced wih the prospect of separation, Buddy discovers that rather that be paralyzed by his fear of the future, he can rebel agai

2001 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Claudia Myers

Cast: Elizabeth Hess, Michael Higgins, Rita Gardner

21 mins

08:30

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

09:00

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

09:12

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

09:17

SHORTS Animate!

JUNGLE BEAT: BECAUSE I GOT HIGH

2004 / Zimbabwe

Director: Brent Dawes

4 mins

09:22

SHORTS Animate!

DOWN TO EARTH

Netherlands / English

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

2 mins

09:25

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

09:30

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

10:00

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

10:14

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

10:22

Editor's Pick

FLYING SAUCER ROCK N' ROLL

1997 / Ireland / English

Director: Enda Hughes

12 mins

10:30

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

10:52

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

11:00

Stars in SHORTS

CAR KID, THE

Two unlikely heroes become connected through their love of music, and on the day they meet, their lives are changed forever. Stars James Franco ("Spiderman"), Brad Renfro; features Meat Loaf.

2001 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Tricia Brock

Cast: Brad Renfro, James Franco, Meatloaf

14 mins

11:15

Stars in SHORTS

ANOTHER GREEN WORLD

A novel and uplifting film in which Patsy Palmer plays a woman trying to contend with her gritty urban life after the loss of her sister.

2004 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Peter Chipping

Cast: Patsy Plamer

8 mins

11:30

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

11:54

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

11:57

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

12:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

13:00

SHORTS Best in Fest

MEGATRON

It's Maxim birthday. He is 8 years old. he lives with his mother in a village quite far from the nearest city. For his borthday, his mother takes him to a McDonald's restaurant.

2008 / Drama / Romania

Director: Marian Crisan

Cast: Erwin Simshenson, Damian Oancea, Maxim Strinu, Gabriela Crisu

13 mins

13:14

SHORTS Best in Fest

FETCH

1998 / Australia / English

Director: Lynn-Maree Danzey

1 min

13:15

SHORTS Best in Fest

ANNA AND BELLA

1984 / Netherlands

Director: Børge Ring

7 mins

13:22

SHORTS Best in Fest

NOT FUNNY

A yeti is in urgent need of a toilet...

2006 / Animation / Germany

Director: Sebastian Leunter

2 mins

13:30

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

13:40

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

14:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

15:00

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

15:25

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

15:28

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

15:30

SHORTS Comedy

JELLY MOUSTACHE, THE - EPISODE ONE WORK

Comedy / English

9 mins

15:39

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

15:55

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

16:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

17:00

Editor's Pick

MOVING STILL

Animation

Director: Santiago CAICEDO DE ROUX

2 mins

17:02

Editor's Pick

DEAR LEMON LIMA

A lonely girl with a vivid imagination struggles to plant seeds of love after her narcissistic sweetheart breaks her heart.

2006 / Family / United States / English

Director: Suzi Yoonessi

Cast: Hugh Scully, George Bass, Hana Moon, Melissa Leo, Ellen Hornberger, Miles Thompson

11 mins

17:14

Editor's Pick

DOG TIRED

2004

Director: Greg McLeod

9 mins

17:24

Editor's Pick

TUNNEL VISION

A man, a woman, a boring commute from work and football. Anything can happen, but who will score?

2001 / Drama / United Kingdom

Director: Alex Soskin

Cast: Raife Burchill

3 mins

17:30

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

17:43

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

18:00

Stars in SHORTS

AMAZING TROUSERS, THE

A Gothic comedy period drama about a meek loser who makes a Faustian pact with a sinister tailor to get his hands on a lucky pair of red trousers.

2007 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: Andy Kemble

Cast: Alice Eve, David Bamber, Kris Marshall

11 mins

18:12

Stars in SHORTS

PEACE

A brutal comedy about one man's struggle to preserve his sanity in the golden years.

2005 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Mike Doto

Cast: Kurtwood Smith, Nancy Lenehan

16 mins

18:30

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

18:51

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

19:00

SHORTS Comedy

JELLY MOUSTACHE, THE - EPISODE TWO CRIME

Comedy / English

12 mins

19:13

SHORTS Comedy

LOLLYPOPS

2003 / Australia / English

Director: Rebecca McElroy

Cast: Bev Langford, Carol Burns, Slim De Grey

4 mins

19:18

SHORTS Comedy

CROOKED MICK OF THE SPEEDWAH

2005 / Australia / English

Director: Philip Smith

9 mins

19:27

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

19:30

SHORTS Animate!

LOST CARGO

2006 / Netherlands

Director: Pieter Engels, Efim Perlis

15 mins

19:46

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

20:00

SHORTS Best in Fest

UDENS

Maria decides to go for a swin in the pool even though it looks deserted and she is warned that the water is cold. When she gets into the pool she is faced with not only the frigid water, but with her other feelings as well. Like fear.

2006 / Latvia / Polish

Director: Laila Pakalnina

Cast: Guna Zarina, Gundars Abolins, Irina Jegorova

2 mins

20:02

SHORTS Best in Fest

BIRD IN THE WIRE

A factory worker uses her imagination for relief from her everyday routine.

2001 / Family / Australia

Director: Phillip Hudson

2 mins

20:04

SHORTS Best in Fest

AMARELINHA

Mateus is six. He does not want to learn how to read. He thinks that when he's able to read, his parents will stop telling him stories at bedtime. The only special time he has with them will be gone. Mateus comes up with a plan.

2006 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Francois Choquet

Cast: Ike Krieger, Darien Dikeos, William Corkery, Alex Castillo, Brody Nicholas Lee, Cody Benjamin Lee, Paula Lemes

19 mins

20:30

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

20:51

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

21:00

SHORTS in Love

KIND OF A BLUR

A pair of aging ravers wake up after an all-night mountain bash and can barely recall the party, what day it is, or the location of that cow upon which a critical message was scrawled. Sandra Oh (Sideways, Gray's Anatomy) co-stars.

2005 / Romance / United States / English

Director: Jon Goldman

Cast: John Wright, Sandra Oh

9 mins

21:09

SHORTS in Love

LIGHT.RAPID.TRANSIT.

This anti-romance film is about a young mechanic who falls in love with the automated woman's voice on Vancouver's SkyTrain system. This obsession takes over his life, causing him to lose his job and long-term girlfriend.

2003 / Drama / Canada / English

Director: Jason James

Cast: Amber Rothwell, Seth Ranaweera, Tygh Runyan

14 mins

21:24

SHORTS in Love

CORONA STATION

Corona Station is a turf war between two violinists who vie for a prime busking location and the heart of a pretty girl in a gritty Vancouver SkyTrain station.

2004 / Romance / Canada

Director: Steve Rosenberg

6 mins

21:30

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

21:32

Stars in SHORTS

WILDLIFE

A wildlife photographer witnesses the darker side of Human nature when three gangsters and their hooded victim wander into his shot.

2005 / Action / United Kingdom / English

Director: Nick Allsop

Cast: David Charles, Ezna Sands, Jack Ryan, Les Dennis, Neil Hanson

10 mins

21:42

Stars in SHORTS

TRAILERS FROM HELL : EL CID

Samuel L. Bronston's 1961 historical spectacle was directed by the perennially underrated Anthony Mann and stars Charleton Heston and Sophia Loren.

Documentary / English

3 mins

21:46

Stars in SHORTS

TRAILERS FROM HELL : 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH

This 1957 science-fiction thriller features the dino-like Ymir, one of Ray Harryhausen's most personable stop-motion creations.

Documentary / English

2 mins

21:48

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

22:00

SHORTS Film School

FAR ON FOOT

In their attempt to reach an alternative cancer center, a father and daughter realize that healing can occur in the most unlikely circumstances.

2001 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Stephanie Smith

21 mins

22:22

SHORTS Film School

180 MILES AWAY

Girl attempts to take a vacation despite her boyfriend's indecisive habits.

2002 / Comedy / US / English

Director: Ray Kimsey

6 mins

22:30

SHORTS Comedy

BURIED

English

6 mins

22:36

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

22:44

SHORTS Comedy

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

23:00

SHORTS Animate!

THE GOD & DEVIL SHOW: BARBARA STREISAND

Find out why this private superstar needs to hide from her adoring public!

1998 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Aubrey Ankrum

4 mins

23:04

SHORTS Animate!

OUT ON A WING

Can Flaky overcome her fear of flying in time to land an out-of-control airplane?

2d animation

7 mins

23:11

SHORTS Animate!

THE GOD & DEVIL SHOW: THE CLINTONS

A pair of presidential balls or just a juggling act? Tune in to find out!

1998 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Aubrey Ankrum

3 mins

23:15

SHORTS Animate!

TONGUE IN CHEEK

Will the ant family survive against Sniffles' Robo Ant?

2d animation

7 mins

23:23

SHORTS Animate!

THE GOD & DEVIL SHOW: WILLIAMS SISTERS

Playing the race card is worth it for these star tennis sisters.

1998 / Comedy / United States / English

4 mins

23:30

SHORTS Animate!

THE GOD & DEVIL SHOW: EMINEM

Sex and violence? Dev would like a little Satanism in Eminem's lyrics!

1998 / Comedy / France / English

Director: Aubrey Ankrum

3 mins

23:33

SHORTS Animate!

THE GOD & DEVIL SHOW: DR. SEUSS

This doctor rhymes the most, but he doesn't like to boast! It's Dr. Suess!

1998 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Aubrey Ankrum

3 mins

23:37

SHORTS Animate!

THE GOD & DEVIL SHOW: DR. LAURA

Got Gay? Dr. Laura knows just how to take you there!

1998 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Aubrey Ankrum

3 mins

23:41

SHORTS Animate!

BLAST FROM THE PAST

Building a time machine to change the past creates a deadly future for Sniffles!

2d animation

7 mins

23:48

SHORTS Animate!

MIME TO FIVE

Working hard for his money, Mime asks how much is that unicycle in the window?

2d animation

7 mins

23:56

SHORTS Animate!

TWO OF A KIND

2003 / Netherlands

Director: Pascal Vermeersch

5 mins

00:00

SHORTS Midnight

CALL, THE

The Call is a tense urban thriller in which a gauche youth is drawn in by a sophisticated seductress after he discovers her mobile phone ringing in the street. Stars Louise Lombard ("CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" & "Hidalgo").

2003 / Thriller / United Kingdom / English

Director: Theo Delaney

Cast: Joe Trill, Louise Lombard

10 mins

00:11

SHORTS Midnight

ZEN WARRIOR, THE

A young woman travels from Japan to Munich to bring back a stolen scroll. She meets her old love and has to solve an incomprehensible Zen puzzle.

2004 / Action / Germany / German

Director: Martin Kowalczyk

Cast: Shijeki Ohno, Ralf Ulbig, Kato Masahiro, Tina Pham, Miyabi Sudo, Chiang-Mei Wang, Emanuel Bettencourt, Hiromichi Nagano, Tillbert Strahl-Schafer

14 mins

00:26

SHORTS Midnight

MOTEL (Brazil, 2003)

She left then and they suffered the consequences of this unusual love triangle.

2003 / Drama / Brazil

Director: Felipe Dall'Anense

Cast: Patricia Barros, Daniel Aguiar, Denise Boro

6 mins

00:30

SHORTS Best in Fest

RIXE, LA

Estelle, Young Police woman, goes in a "dangerous" area with two of her colleagues, with bikes.

2004 / Drama / France / French

Director: Antoine Renand

Cast: Ali Meziti, Daniel Lobe, Slimane Hadjar, Stephane Baikoff, Vincent Lecoeur

22 mins

00:53

SHORTS Best in Fest

UDENS

Maria decides to go for a swin in the pool even though it looks deserted and she is warned that the water is cold. When she gets into the pool she is faced with not only the frigid water, but with her other feelings as well. Like fear.

2006 / Latvia / Polish

Director: Laila Pakalnina

Cast: Guna Zarina, Gundars Abolins, Irina Jegorova

2 mins

00:55

SHORTS Best in Fest

BIRD IN THE WIRE

A factory worker uses her imagination for relief from her everyday routine.

2001 / Family / Australia

Director: Phillip Hudson

2 mins

01:00

Editor's Pick

TWO

A unicycle-riding father must deal with change when his son expresses his wish for a bicycle.

2002 / Family / Canada / English

Director: Eva Gaspar

10 mins

01:11

Editor's Pick

BEYOND THE PRETTY DOOR

Existing in a life of heartache, a young girl must ignore the fear of retribution and save herself and her siblings from their abusive mother.

2006 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Bobby Boermans

Cast: Jontille Gerard, Landon Williams, Tarina Pouncy, Taylor Parks, Yvonne Huff

18 mins

01:30

SHORTS in Love

CHAPERONE

Dorrie, a strait-laced Mid-Western woman, is asked to escort her fifteen year-old niece on a first date - to the young man's dismay.

2000 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Victor Buhler

Cast: Anne Carney, Josh Harto

16 mins

01:47

SHORTS in Love

I LOVE CONFUSION AT THE AIRPORT

A lovesick daydreamer finds and loses the woman of his dreams in twenty seconds.

2000 / Comedy / Spain / Spanish

Director: Jaime Bartolome

6 mins

01:53

SHORTS in Love

LOAF

In front of the Camera the two stars of the Fred and frances cookery programme couldn't seem happier, but what will happen when Fred leaves for the day and France is left to present the programme on her own?

1997 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: Deva Palmier

Cast: Emily Bruni, Karen Ascoe, Neil Clarke

10 mins

02:00

Stars in SHORTS

WAITING FOR ANNA

A small glimpse into the fears of the mind.

2002 / Drama / United States / English

Director: David Mitchell Rosenthal

Cast: Jennifer Siebel, Kristin Minter, Malcolm Kennard

13 mins

02:13

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

02:26

Stars in SHORTS

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

02:30

SHORTS Film School

SIT & SPIN

A man struggling to grow up turns to his best friend, the only woman in the world who doesn't hate him.

2002 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Kevin J Burke

Cast: Corin Nemec, Dean Cameron, Melonie Mack

19 mins

02:49

SHORTS Film School

GOD AT SEVEN

The story of a young girl's loss of innocence in the face of death and adult hypocrisy.

1999 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Daniel Pollack

6 mins

02:56

SHORTS Film School

TRAILERS FROM HELL : THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

This (British) trailer goes out of its way to sell David Bowie (the best-cast alien since Michael Rennie in Day The Earth Stood Still) as The Second Coming, but Nic Roeg and Paul Mayersberg's adaptation of Walter Tevis' novel is one of the fines

Documentary / English

2 mins

02:59

SHORTS Film School

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

03:00

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

03:16

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

03:23

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

03:31

SHORTS World Cinema

AFRO DEUTSCH

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

2001 / Drama / Germany / German

10 mins

03:41

SHORTS World Cinema

ALOE

We live immersed in globalization, but if someone asks why, we don't know the answer. Who's behind all of this?

2005 / Drama / Spain / Spanish

Director: Sergio Delgado Perez

Cast: Enrique Alcides, Oscar Jaenada

13 mins

03:54

SHORTS World Cinema

MIRACOLO

The magic surrounding a Franciscan goalie is dispelled when, under the watchful eye of the Vatican, he is decisively scored on.

2003 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Chris Drechsler

3 mins

04:00

SHORTS Best in Fest

SATSUMA

Macabre suburban parable. Two young children during an uncomfortably hot and tragic summer afternoon's play.

2002 / English

Director: Rob Brown

Cast: Lauren Parker, Ben Allsopp

8 mins

04:09

SHORTS Best in Fest

BRICK LANE

Brick Lane is a British-Asian, Bollywood influenced comedy about two teenage boys out to impress the beautiful Nabeela at a local Bhangra Party. Brick Lane is a film that explores the lives of Asian youth in contemporary London.

2002 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Paul Makkar

13 mins

04:22

SHORTS Best in Fest

FLYING

As he waits to board a plane, a businessman meets a stranger and begins to suspect that this flight may not be what he bargained for.

2001 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Bruce Terris

11 mins

04:30

SHORTS Midnight

ROOM TO THINK

2003

Director: Jamie Duncombe

8 mins

04:38

SHORTS Midnight

SINGLE ROSE, A

Set in the rural 20th centuary South, Rose, an African- American beauty, finds her soul singing at a nearby local juke joint.

2003 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Hanelle M. Culpepper

19 mins

05:00

Editor's Pick

UBUNTU'S WOUNDS

A black man flees South Africa when his wife is murdered, and runs into her killer 17 years later in Los Angeles.

2001 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Sechaba Morojele

Cast: Michael Elkington, Michael Chinyamurindi

30 mins

05:30

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

05:44

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

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