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06:00

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

06:12

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

06:17

SHORTS Animate!

JUNGLE BEAT: BECAUSE I GOT HIGH

2004 / Zimbabwe

Director: Brent Dawes

4 mins

06:22

SHORTS Animate!

DOWN TO EARTH

Netherlands / English

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

2 mins

06:25

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

06:30

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

07:00

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

07:14

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

07:22

Editor's Pick

FLYING SAUCER ROCK N' ROLL

1997 / Ireland / English

Director: Enda Hughes

12 mins

07:30

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

07:52

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

08:00

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

08:15

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

08:30

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

08:55

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

08:58

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

09:00

SHORTS Comedy

JELLY MOUSTACHE, THE - EPISODE ONE WORK

Comedy / English

9 mins

09:09

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

09:25

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

09:30

SHORTS Animate!

BAR CODE

2001 / Netherlands

Director: Adriaan Lokman

8 mins

09:38

SHORTS Animate!

HERO

2002 / Netherlands

Director: Geertjan Tillmans

3 mins

09:42

SHORTS Animate!

HOLD THE LINE

2005 / Netherlands / English

Director: Sem Assink

6 mins

09:48

SHORTS Animate!

SHIPWRECKED

2005 / Netherlands / English

Director: Frodo Kuipers

5 mins

09:53

SHORTS Animate!

STICKY FEET

2007 / Netherlands

Director: Udo Prinsen

4 mins

09:58

SHORTS Animate!

FETCH

1998 / Australia / English

Director: Lynn-Maree Danzey

1 min

10:00

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

10:09

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

10:13

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

10:21

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

10:30

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

10:40

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

11:00

SHORTS in Love

WEDNESDAY

"Wednesday" is the story of a girl and a boy, born on the same day, at the same time, in the same hospital, whose paths cross again years later, in the very same place.

2007 / Drama / United Kingdom / English

Director: Rob Sorrenti

Cast: Anne Emery, Sinead Matthews, Tom McClane

21 mins

11:22

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

11:30

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

11:42

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

12:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

13:00

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

13:10

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

13:19

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

13:30

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

13:44

SHORTS Best in Fest

FETCH

1998 / Australia / English

Director: Lynn-Maree Danzey

1 min

13:45

SHORTS Best in Fest

ANNA AND BELLA

1984 / Netherlands

Director: Børge Ring

7 mins

13:52

SHORTS Best in Fest

NOT FUNNY

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

2006 / Animation / Germany

Director: Sebastian Leunter

2 mins

14:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

15:00

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

15:08

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

15:10

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

15:22

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

15:30

SHORTS Film School

DOUBLE NEGATIVES

Enter the world of 12 year old Paul Sorensen as his battle with obessives compulsive disorder reaches a climactic moment and for the first time he is forced to choose between friendship and the desperate loneliness caused by his disorder.

2003 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Stig Tue Walin Storm

16 mins

15:46

SHORTS Film School

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRIS

While the USA and the USSR engage in a nuclear standoff, a single mother potty trains her two-year old.

2002 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Charles McNamara

16 mins

16:00

ShortsTV

60 mins

17:00

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

17:02

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

17:04

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

17:30

Editor's Pick

DOG TIRED

2004

Director: Greg McLeod

9 mins

17:39

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

17:54

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

17:58

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

18:00

SHORTS in Love

ROASTBEEF

2007 / Canada

Director: Miryam Bouchard, Francois Begin

Cast: Louise Lecavalier, Reynald Bouchard

5 mins

18:06

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

18:30

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

18:37

Stars in SHORTS

LISTENING

2002 / United Kingdom / English

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Cast: Frances Barber, Paul McGann

20 mins

19:00

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

19:18

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

19:30

SHORTS Comedy

MARILYN HOTCHKISS' BALLROOM DANCING & CH

When Steve and Peter's game of "British Bulldog" gets out of hand, their moms sign them up for the "Dorky" Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School. Narrated by William Hurt.

1990 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Randall Miller

Cast: Elden Henson, William Hurt

31 mins

20:00

SHORTS Animate!

DIRTMONSTER

Five Dirtmonsters, working for the detergent industry, have to deal with getting replaced by a more efficient Dirtmachine.

2007 / Animation / Germany / English

Director: Christian Retzlaff, Maike Ramke

7 mins

20:08

SHORTS Animate!

DRAGON SLAYER

In a time when dragons threatened mankind, there was only one man who fought against them all. His name is Tarragon and riding on his brave battle horse Black Bull he is on his way to work. But things don't always turn out as they should?and one day.

2004 / Animation / Germany

Director: Robert Kuczera

8 mins

20:16

SHORTS Animate!

TWO OF A KIND

2003 / Netherlands

Director: Pascal Vermeersch

5 mins

20:22

SHORTS Animate!

TEENOLOGY 5 SIMPLE RULES TO... Buses

2007 / Animation / UK / English

1 min

20:23

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

20:30

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

20:46

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

21:00

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

21:11

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

21:20

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

21:30

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

21:47

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

21:52

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

21:57

SHORTS in Love

EMPIRE

2005 / Experimental / France / English

Director: Edouard Salier

3 mins

22:00

Stars in SHORTS

DARK SIDE

English

13 mins

22:13

Stars in SHORTS

ULTIMA RATIO

Mr. Schmidt is doing his job at the assembly line of a factory. It doesn't bother him that beside him, only robots are working there. But one day his life jumps out of the track as he gets dismissed in order to complete the rationalization of the fac

2008 / Germany / German

Director: Marc Schleiss

Cast: Andreas Genschmar, Marcin Glowacki, Matthias Komm, Moritz Gaa, Yvy Pop

17 mins

22:30

SHORTS Film School

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

22:51

SHORTS Film School

SEED, THE

2006 / Sci-Fi / United States / English

Director: Joe Hahn

Cast: Will Yun Lee

10 mins

23:00

SHORTS Comedy

JELLY MOUSTACHE, THE - EPISODE THREE: HOME

Comedy / English

10 mins

23:11

SHORTS Comedy

OUT OF HABIT

A tale of a nun's revenge on the milkman.

2002 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Robin Larsen

Cast: John Astin, Kelsey Klein, Lorinne Vozoff, Lyle Kanouse, Robin Larsen

19 mins

23:30

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

23:46

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

23:53

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

00:00

SHORTS Midnight

SHADOWBOX

A war hero returns home, traumatized by the memories of his imprisonment. Unable to reconnect with his wife and son, he forces himself to relive the war by watching the film of his own torture.

2006 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Will Dickerson

Cast: Brud Fogarty, Kelly Carlson, Lance Guest, Neil Hopkins, Virginia Williams

21 mins

00:21

SHORTS Midnight

DEAR PAMMY

Jane is always in competition with her sister Pammy.

2004 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English

Director: London Film School

Cast: Babak Jalali, Dean Bajramovic

8 mins

00:30

SHORTS World Cinema

ALL GOD'S CHILDREN

2002 / Ireland / English

Director: Tom Cosgrave

9 mins

00:40

SHORTS World Cinema

WHAT ABOUT THE BODIES

2002 / Ireland / English

Director: Simon Ellis

Cast: Ishbel Nicol, Allen Mechen, Philip Webster

6 mins

00:47

SHORTS World Cinema

AM ENDE EINES TAGES

A funny love story about two young people who find themselves drawn together on one fateful night.

2003 / Drama / Germany / German

Cast: Annett Reunberg, Richard Kropf

15 mins

01:00

SHORTS Best in Fest

ANNA AND BELLA

1984 / Netherlands

Director: Børge Ring

7 mins

01:07

SHORTS Best in Fest

ULTIMA RATIO

Mr. Schmidt is doing his job at the assembly line of a factory. It doesn't bother him that beside him, only robots are working there. But one day his life jumps out of the track as he gets dismissed in order to complete the rationalization of the fac

2008 / Germany / German

Director: Marc Schleiss

Cast: Andreas Genschmar, Marcin Glowacki, Matthias Komm, Moritz Gaa, Yvy Pop

17 mins

01:24

SHORTS Best in Fest

FUSED

The humorous and unexpected events facing a group of friends at a dinner party when the power keeps cutting out.

2008 / Romance / UK / English

Director: Wayne Marc Godfrey

Cast: Olivia Godfrey, Emma Pollard, Greg Finnegan, Johnny Morgan, Marny Godden, Tom Turner, Ed Weeks, Daniel Mendoza, Zahra Browne, Ashley Madekwe, Iddo Goldberg

5 mins

01:30

SHORTS Midnight

RED VEIL, THE

Yasmine dances under the watchful eye of saloon owner Sami. When a mysterious gypsy arrives in town, Yasmine must decide between freedom and the only man she has ever loved.

2005 / Drama / United States / English

Director: Tarik Karam

Cast: Stephen R. Hudis, Alex Helfrecht, Marian Griffin, Tyler Dawson, Chris Hogan, Melissa Marsala

18 mins

01:48

SHORTS Midnight

PITBULL

Meet Pitbull, A twelve year old with a taste for money and the skill to kick ass.

2002 / Drama

Director: Daniel Nemet-Nejat

5 mins

01:54

SHORTS Midnight

ONE QUIET SUBURBAN NIGHT

A prostitute, a thief and a suburban husband all receive big surprises when the wrong customer is serviced.

2001 / Comedy / United States / English

Director: Robbie Pickering

Cast: Al Thompson, Danielle Viola

7 mins

02:00

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

02:11

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

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

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

03:12

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

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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