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International Shorts
In only minutes, these lms immerse you in fully realized narratives that leave a mark.
International Shorts
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Island of Freedom
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 111 MIN.
SUN OCT 2 5:45 PM IN08 TUE OCT 4 1:00 PM IN08
Bye Bye
AMÉLIE BONNIN, FRANCE, 2021, 25 MIN. A man who left his native Normandy to build a bigger life for himself in Paris returns to his hometown, where he runs into an old ame.
A Di erent Place
SOPHIE BLACK, UK, 2022, 14 MIN. On a clandestine date, a 40-something woman battling with her identity embarks on a journey of rediscovery that she cannot ignore nor fully encompass.
Island of Freedom
PETR JANUSCHKA, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2022, 27 MIN. It’s 1981 in Czechoslovakia, and a young man surprisingly reunites with his teen love on board a charter ight to Cuba.
The Ceremony
LISLE TURNER, UK, 2021, 10 MIN. Written by Iman Qureshi, The Ceremony is a searingly honest take on non-binary marriage, with a twist.
The Cormorant
LUBNA PLAYOUST, FRANCE, 2021, 23 MIN. A mother and son live in a secluded house on an isolated island, where memory merges with the present, intertwining two moments of their lives—youth and maturity.
Magni ed City
ISAKU KANEKO, JAPAN, 2022, 12 MIN. In a ruined city, a wandering Magnifying Glass Human encounters a secret society of Projector Humans with grand plans to reconnect to the past in a surviving mountaintop theatre.
Mumu
International Shorts: Family Ties
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 108 MIN.
SAT OCT 1 6:00 PM IN08 MON OCT 3 1:45 PM IN08
Killing Ourselves
MAYA YADLIN, ISRAEL, 2021, 15 MIN. A lm student and her family drive to the desert to shoot a scene for her latest lm, but things quickly deteriorate and nothing goes as planned.
Mumu
MO SHA, CHINA, 2021, 25 MIN. The six-year-old daughter of a deaf-mute couple frustrates her father, who believes she can hear and speak.
Baby
CRISTINA SÁNCHEZ SALAMANCA, COLOMBIA, 2022, 15 MIN. The daughter from a man’s rst marriage feels left out and misunderstood at a birthday celebration for her younger stepsister.
Ellie
FERNANDO BONELLI, SPAIN, 2022, 20 MIN. An emergency room nurse arrives late for work after being involved in a serious car accident and soon has to make life or death choices involving a loved one.
Nest
JAMES HUNTER, AUSTRALIA, 2021, 9 MIN. An isolated father haunted by his child’s cries of hunger takes up work as a timber feller, only to nd operations halted by a mysterious alarm coming from deep in the woods.
Further and Further Away
POLEN LY, CAMBODIA, 2022, 24 MIN. A young Bunong woman and her older brother spend one last day in their rural Cambodian village before a move to the city in search of a more prosperous life.
Plastic Killer
International Shorts: Having a Bad Day
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 114 MIN.
WED OCT 5 6:30 PM IN08 FRI OCT 7 1:00 PM IN08
My Name Is Anti
ANDREAS VAKALIOS, FILI OLSEFSKI, GREECE, 2022, 16 MIN. On the way to the airport a teen girl jumps from a moving car to ee a sex tra cking abduction; while she escapes, she records it all on a stolen cell phone.
OST
ABHICHOKE CHANDRASEN, THAILAND, 2021, 20 MIN. A perfectionist scoring assistant on a horror lm rush job becomes convinced she is being haunted by a spirit from the movie she’s working on.
Starfuckers
ANTONIO MARZIALE, USA, 2021, 15 MIN. An intimate evening between a lm director and an escort is disrupted when a familiar face arrives.
Judy, Judy, Judy
JESSICA MCGAUGH, USA, 2022, 7 MIN. A menopausal woman wakes up in the midst of a hot ash, and everything just goes downhill from there.
Marianne
JULIEN GASPAR-OLIVERI, FRANCE, 2021, 17 MIN. A woman gets interviewed by a young journalist for her heroic act of saving children, but she’s a moody and reluctant participant.
Censor of Dreams
LÉO BERNE, RAPHAËL RODRIGUEZ, FRANCE, 2021, 18 MIN. For many nights, The Censor and his team have been moderating a woman’s dreams to keep them in safe territory. Tonight, nothing happens as planned.
Plastic Killer
JOSE POZO, ANDORRA/SPAIN, 2022, 21 MIN. Amparo lives in an old abandoned haberdashery in the centre of Madrid. Her only companion is Carmela, a plastic bag whom she considers her daughter.
The Lone Wolf
International Shorts: Morality Plays
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 107 MIN.
MON OCT 3 5:45 PM IN08 WED OCT 5 1:30 PM IN08
The Silent Ones
BASILE VUILLEMIN, FRANCE/BELGIUM/SWITZERLAND, 2022, 20 MIN. At the end of an unsuccessful shing trip, a small trawler’s desperate captain and crew ultimately agree they have to do something risky, but potentially lucrative, to change their fortune.
Solar Eclipse
ALIREZA GHASEMI, RAHA AMIRFAZLI, FRANCE/IRAN, 2021, 15 MIN. A teen girl and her two friends and are o for an afternoon in the largest park in Teheran to photograph a rare total solar eclipse.
A Moral Man
PAUL AND SIMON WADE, UK, 2021, 19 MIN. A right-to-die evangelist must wrestle with his faith and morality when his latest client turns out to be not what she claimed.
For Real
ERNEST LOREK, POLAND, 2022, 19 MIN. A young man’s house party takes an unexpected turn when his gangster neighbour breaks into his apartment.
Perspective
ALAA ALGBURI, IRAQ/JORDAN, 2021, 10 MIN. A symbolic examination of how men treat women in most of the Middle East from a young woman’s perspective.
The Lone Wolf
FILIPE MELO, PORTUGAL, 2021, 24 MIN. A talk show radio host has chosen emotions as his theme for tonight’s show, which proves surprisingly banal until he gets a call from an old friend.
