SHORT FILM 🎬 Light Hearted

 

"Light Hearted" explores the unexpected consequences of bringing someone back from the afterlife. Joy, a widow still grappling with her husband's death, receives an unexpected and peculiar delivery that disrupts her quiet routine. As she comes to terms with the strange presence in her life, the past and present collide, leading to moments of both humor and heartbreak. The film offers a touching and quirky exploration of grief, memory, and the complexities of moving on, all with a dose of unexpected warmth. "Light Hearted" is a poignant, darkly comedic reflection on love, loss, and what it means to let go.

Director: Sye Allen 

Writer: Sye Allen 

Stars: Gillian Wright, Simon Greenall, Dominic Rawson

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 The End

                            

 

Sam has been a ghostwriter for most of his career, but what he really wants to do is finish his first detective novel. But he's 75, and he fears time is running out, struggling to finish it before it's too late. With its New York setting, late-night timeframe, jazzy piano-and-sax score and classic sense of storytelling, the visual storytelling evokes old Hollywood film noirs, laying out clues to an unraveling mystery that Sam finds himself mixed up with as the night goes on. We meet him at a classic diner late at night as he tries to work on his book, but things aren't going so well. The proceedings take a nose dive when he leaves: he takes a fall, hits his head and then awakens to someone shaking him down for an unpaid debt. From there, the story unfolds with quirky, strange touches that add an element of the dreamlike to Sam's increasingly unsettling night. He finds himself in the midst of some real-life mysteries. The lines between his real and fictional lives blur, giving him inspiration for his book. 

Director: Will Pinke 

Writer: Will Pinke 

Stars: Bill Gold, Regina Ohashi, Jeremy Holm

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Supermonk

 

This Nepali short film tells a deeply emotional and spiritual story inspired by innocence, compassion, and the quiet strength of monkhood set against the majestic Himalayan landscape. It's the journey of an eleven years old monk, who finds his way of applying the Buddha's teachings of compassion and joy in an unconventional way. 

Director: Shenang Gyamjo Tamang 

Writer: PrachandaMan Shrestha

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Writing Doom

 

Writing Doom is a fiction short film about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI). A writing team are given the task of making Artificial Superintelligence the ‘bad guy’ for the next season of their TV show. With the help of a newcomer to the team (a Machine Learning PhD), they must figure out how and why an ASI might function as an antagonist – and the threat it might pose to humanity. 

Director: Suzy Shepherd

Writer: Suzy Shepherd 

Stars: Esmée Cook, Amantha Edmead, Mike Kelson

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 The Ornament

 

Tessa is a young girl whose class is preparing for the holiday season. She's already made an ornament, which she sweetly gifts to her entrepreneur mother, Luna. She also has to complete an assignment to share her family’s traditions with her class. But when her mother becomes the subject of a magazine cover profile, Tessa discovers the gap between the manicured facade of a loving family and the harsh emotional reality. A holiday homework assignment transforms into a heart-wrenching test for 9-year-old Tessa, forcing her to face the ultimate decision: disclose the truth about her abusive mother or continue to perpetuate the lies she's expected to tell. 

Director: Jinjara Mitchell 

Writer: Jinjara Mitchell 

Stars: Remy Marthaller, Nat Boltt, Sigrid Pareja

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Libido

 

"Libido," is a 17-minute Iranian drama short film.The film centers on a teenage boy who breaks his silence to reveal a hidden truth about a girl, exploring themes of youth, secrets, and cultural norms in its narrative. 

Director: Saeed Dashti 

Writer: Saeed Dashti 

Stars: Mohammad Rashno, Hanieh Yahyaei-Fard, Negar Nafez, Shamim Yadegari, Roghayeh Lotfi, Saba Ahmadi, Hamid Pazouki                                                Language: Azeri Turkish

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 The Rug

 

Made with a crew of creative senior citizens, this short horror film centres around Edna, a senior aged woman who discovers that a discarded throw rug she has found will, for lack of a better word, digest anything left under it. The more it digests, the more it wants. 

Director: Sean Cisterna 

Writer: Sean Cisterna 

Stars: Jayne Eastwood, Tony Nardi, Zoë Belkin, Jonathan Kim

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Two People Exchanging Saliva

 

In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face. Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague. 

Directors: Natalie Musteata, Alexandre Singh 

Writers: Natalie Musteata, Alexandre Singh 

Stars: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Luàna Bajrami, Vicky Krieps

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Kissed

 

A coroner fixes up the new body in the morgue, and adds a few touches of his own. 

Director: Elwood Quincy Walker 

Writer: Elwood Quincy Walker 

Stars: Aurora Persichetti, James Warfield

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Yae: Blind Samurai Woman

 

In 18th century Japan, when a blind woman's father is killed by a young samurai avenging his own father's death, she agrees to be escorted to the nearest village. 

Director: Akiko Izumitani 

Writers: Akiko Izumitani, James 'Doc' Mason 

Stars: Masa Kanome, Nobuaki Shimamoto, Yuwi

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Squirrel

 

A meager apology tests a woman's fortitude to forgive in this expertly deadpan comedy that wittily articulates the oft selfish objectives that belie performative remorse. 

Director: Alex Kavutskiy 

Writer: Alex Kavutskiy 

Stars: Max Jenkins, Kati Rediger, Andrea Rosen

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Schwarzfahrer

 

A young black man is verbally harassed by an older woman on a streetcar, while the other passengers remain silent. He finally exacts his revenge. This short film received an Oscar in the short film category in 1994. 

Director: Pepe Danquart 

Writer: Pepe Danquart 

Stars: Senta Moira, Paul Outlaw, Stefan Merki

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Sing (Mindenki)

 

In 1991 Budapest, Zsófi, a young girl, joins a prestigious school choir renowned for its excellence. Under the strict guidance of their conductor, Miss Erika, the choir prepares for a national competition with a chance to perform in Sweden. Zsófi discovers that Miss Erika enforces a policy where only select students are allowed to sing, while others are relegated to miming. With the support of her friend Liza, Zsófi devises a plan to confront this injustice. The film explores themes of fairness, courage, and the power of collective action. Inspired by true events, Mindenki won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2017. 

Director: Kristóf Deák 

Writers: Kristóf Deák, Bex Harvey, Christian Azzola 

Stars: Dorka Gáspárfalvi, Dorottya Hais, Zsófia Szamosi

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Active Shooter

 

When a school shooting erupts, a father suspects that his own son is the shooter. 

Director: Jacob J. Tanenbaum 

Writers: Josh Litman, Jacob J. Tanenbaum 

Stars: Ron Kologie, Meredith Lindsey, Mikandrew

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Dre

 

In an attempt to rob a department store, a young man walks into an unexpected encounter. 

Director: Victor O'Frank 

Writer: Victor O'Frank 

Stars: Frantzdy Alexandre, Malcolm Boyd, Emil Ferzola

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Dekalb Elementary

 

Inspired by an actual 911 call placed during a school shooting incident in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Director: Reed Van Dyk 

Writer: Reed Van Dyk 

Stars: Tarra Riggs, Bo Mitchell, Shinelle Azoroh

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Le dîner avec mes ex - Le Parfait Inconnu

  

This comedy is the story of a guy who has to guess which of his exes is making up an anecdote. 

STARS: Nadia Blixen, Éric Bontemps. David Champomier. Charlene Cudrat, Romain Knockaert, Florina Mehr, Aurélie Palovitch, Florent Speroni, Marine Viguier

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Girl at the door

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SHORT FILM 🎬 Rent-A-Girlfriend

 

A family's Christmas dinner takes an unexpected turn when a guest's arrival is delayed. Their increasingly outlandish explanations for their absence build the comedic tension. Prepare for a hilarious evening of escalating fibs and awkward family dynamics 

Written by Wyatt Gallitz 

Directed by Stevie Emerson 

Stars: Brent Pella, Nina Marie Daniele, Tony Gaeta, Natalie Porretta, Rolana Brumley

 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Caller Unavailable

 

After an aspiring filmmaker's dream job defrauds her, she recounts how her seemingly perfect life crumbled before her eyes. 

Director: Bella Maxwell 

Writer: Bella Maxwell 

Stars: Kenneth Andrew, Nora Josephine, Dominick DeFazio