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International Shorts
International
Shorts
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Neko and Flies
Animation
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 118 MIN.
SAT, OCT 2 6:15 PM ANEX SUN, OCT 3 1:15 PM ANEX OCT 1-11 CONN
Anyhow, Anyway
CATARINA ROMANO, PORTUGAL, 13 MIN. A lonely woman has a routine to her days, though she rarely leaves her apartment.
Charlotte
ZACH DORN, USA, 2021, 13 MIN. A 1970s folk singer’s life is transformed when a current pop star records one of her songs.
FALL OF THE IBIS KING
MIKAI GERONIMO, JOSH O’CAOIMH, IRELAND, 2021, 10 MIN. The antagonist of a dark opera is unsettled following the return of the lead actor.
Flowing Home
SANDRA DESMAZIÈRES, FRANCE/CANADA, 2021, 15 MIN. Two sisters from Vietnam, separated by war, exchange letters and relive the tragedy for 20 years.
Granny’s Sexual Life
URŠKA DJUKIC, ÉMILIE PIGEARD, SLOVENIA/FRANCE, 2021, 14 MIN. Five women re ect on old times and how di erent sexual relations between men and women were.
The Monkey
LORENZO DEGL´INNOCENTI, XOSÉ ZAPATA, PORTUGAL/SPAIN, 2021, 17 MIN. 1588. A shipwrecked member of the Spanish Armada is found washed up on shore and alive.
Nuevo Rico
KRISTIAN MERCADO FIGUEROA, USA, 2021, 16 MIN. Twin musicians on the run steal a magical contract that will make them reggaetón stars.
Unnecessary Things
DMYTRO LISENBART, UKRAINE, 2020, 14 MIN. Could intelligent robots grow as thinking entities with needs and desires?
Wake
Chants From a Holy Book
Have We Ever Learned?
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 114 MIN.
SUN, OCT 3 6:15 PM ANEX MON, OCT 4 3:30 PM ANEX OCT 1-11 CONN
The Black Disquisition
QUINCY G. LEDBETTER, USA, 11 MIN. A traumatic event in a boy’s life underlies a surprising answer to a guidance counselor’s question.
Chants From a Holy Book
CASSIANA DER HAROUTIOUNIAN, CESAR GANANIAN, BRAZIL, 2021, 25 MIN. In the lm’s own words, “the objective is to recreate in ve chants the synergy that generates revolutions.”
The Following Year
MIGUEL CAMPAÑA, SPAIN, 2021, 22 MIN. On his anniversary, a widowed farmer receives a clone of the woman he lost under tragic circumstances years ago.
The Night I Left America
LAKI KARAVIAS, USA, 2020, 14 MIN. A teen immigrant boy starts questioning the American Dream while his mother awaits the decision on her visa.
A Quiet Man
NYIMA CARTIER, FRANCE, 2021, 15 MIN. Looking out an o ce building window, voices speculate about a man sitting on a park bench down below.
A Roll in the Hay
GEOFFREY FIGHIERA, FRANCE, 2020, 19 MIN. A man takes his mistress to his country house for the weekend where a surprise awaits.
Your Street
GÜZIN KAR, SWITZERLAND, 2020, 8 MIN. A nondescript street in Bonn is linked to one of the most painful episodes in the history of reuni ed Germany.
Life Labs
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 112 MIN.
MON, OCT 4 6:15 PM ANEX SUN, OCT 10 6:30 PM ANEX OCT 1-11 CONN
Apart, Together
OLIVIA HANG ZHOU, USA/CHINA, 19 MIN. A teen girl and her mother from China are in Los Angeles, searching for her older sister who was abandoned as a baby.
Carrier
MAX OVASKA, FINLAND, 2020, 23 MIN. A woman takes advantage of her pregnancy to smuggle drugs through customs for her brother.
Goodbye Tornio
EMILIA HERNESNIEMI, FINLAND, 2021, 15 MIN. A girl who just graduated from high school is moving to the big city, leaving her family and her best friend behind.
MeTube: August Sings ‘Una Furtiva Lagrima’
DANIEL MOSHEL, AUSTRIA, 2020, 8 MIN. A pair of intergalactic music nerds with telekinetic powers hijack an opera performance.
Neko and Flies
TSAO SHIH HAN, TAIWAN, 2020, 25 MIN. In the brutal summer heat, a security guard looks after boats tied up at a dock and a sex worker with an intellectual disability.
Quality Time
OMER BEN-DAVID, ISRAEL, 2020, 22 MIN. When his mother goes away on vacation, a stoner teenager and his recently retired father are forced to spend time together.
Al-Sit
Seniors Day
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 121 MIN.
TUE, OCT 5 6:15 PM ANEX SUN, OCT 10 1:00 PM ANEX OCT 1-11 CONN
Al-Sit
SUZANNAH MIRGHANI, SUDAN/QATAR, 20 MIN. In a cotton-farming village, a girl’s arranged marriage to a businessman requires approval by the village matriarch.
All Dogs Die
NINNA PÁLMADÓTTIR, ICELAND, 2020, 17 MIN. On a foggy weekend in an isolated part of Iceland, an aged farmer and his dog confront mortality.
Charon
YANNICK KARCHER, FRANCE, 2020, 15 MIN. A recently retired man is spurred into action by the fear of death and boredom, so he initiates a crazy project.
Don vs Lightning
BIG RED BUTTON, UK, 2021, 13 MIN. All Don wants is a quiet life in the Scottish Highlands. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans.
Dona
MARGA MELIÀ, SPAIN, 2020, 20 MIN. After a lifetime of silence, an elderly woman in a mental hospital decides to confess her family secrets to a doctor.
Roy
TOM BERKELEY, ROSS WHITE, UK, 2021, 16 MIN. Trapped in a lonely existence, a reclusive widower desperately seeks brief moments of companionship.
The Saverini Widow
LOÏC GAILLARD, FRANCE, 2020, 20 MIN. In the 1890s, an older widowed midwife lives a quiet life with her son and dog in a Corsican town until one eventful night.
