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2017 • 29 min

With her sister hours from being removed from life support, a young mother is offered an unexpected opportunity to make a trade.

Containment

2017 • 8 min

A teenage couple is terrorized by a mysterious creature when they accidentally crash their car in a restricted government facility. This short film is a proof of concept prequel to a much bigger feature script called Ex-Vivo.

The Cage

2017 • 15 min • United States of America

A young teen with a terrible home life struggles with the everyday difficulties of living in the city, and must pursue his dreams despite the discouragement he receives.

You Know Where

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

A young skater, who lives in the woods, looks for a place to skate in a small Mid-Western town, and encounters two outsiders in dire need of someone to talk to.

Haunt Me

2017 • 13 min • United States of America

Angie wants to see a ghost more than anything. After many failed attempts, she arrives at a bed and breakfast that could make her wish come true.

Detour

2017 • 10 min • France

Two strangers bond during a taxi ride.

Complex x Complex

2017 • 24 min • Japan

Yui Kotani, a second-year junior high school student, is obsessed with men's underarm hair. Her classmate Masato Takeo has the thickest underarm hair in the class.

Lakota in America

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

Genevieve Iron Lightning is a young Lakota dancer on the Cheyenne River Reservation, one of the poorest communities in the US. Unemployment, addiction, alcoholism, and suicide are all challenges for Lakota on the reservation.

The Smoke

2017 • 23 min • Russia

The story of son and father. They have many secrets. Soon they find them out.

Vain: This Party Sucks

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

A warehouse rave makes a colorful snack for a coven of hungry vampires in this immersive 360 short.

Quand Jean devint Renoir

2017 • 54 min • France

The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image of his genius as a father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

A Terrible Beauty

2017 • 11 min • Australia

After her father destroys her prototype 'Soulmate' robot, a replacement for her dead mother, a roboticist, Olivia, questions her fundamental belief in a world without suffering and the nature of love.

Believe Me

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

In this contemporary take on the classic fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” a man finds himself bored with his job — and decides to amuse himself by playing pranks on his coworkers, only to find that they may be disinclined to believe him when their trust is most critical.

Love Jo. Right Now.

2017 • 19 min • South Korea

Director Ga-young wants to cast actor Zo In-sung, but there is no scenario yet.

Heart with No Cure

2017 • 45 min • Serbia

An older but still attractive widow falls in love with a younger man, which becomes the main gossip of her village and family.

A Bad Feeling

2017 • 14 min

The day after suffering a miscarriage, a young couple attend their local comic con.

The Chagra

2017 • 13 min • Ecuador

El Chagra is a short film that is constructed with two main concepts. The Alzheimer's disease and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Creating an analogy between the two, we assemble a cinematographic journey through Don Genaros disturbed mind. Recollecting, relapsing and reviving his last memories we try to give the audience a hint of the whole background, and story about his life by creating the divergent freedom, a glimpse of interpretation of the world as the main character sees it.

Gym Buddy

2017 • 5 min

Two women visit a gym together where they meet a personal trainer who harasses them with a seemingly never-ending sales pitch.

Weightless Bird In A Falling Cage

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

A faceless protagonist witnesses the alienation of gentrification as his home is overtaken by development. the forces behind it are demanding him to leave, but also consequently push him further and further into his not-home.

Exhortation

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

The divisional director of a large firm attempts to motivate his staff.

Duck on a Tractor

2017 • 11 min • United States of America

Find out what happens when Duck drives the big red tractor through town and past the popular diner where all the locals are having lunch.

Tam

2017 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Following a night of hard partying, Tam descends into a hallucinogenic world of his own psyche - inhabited by ghosts, witches, the Devil himself and the dangerously bewitching Cutty Sark.

After Laughter

2017 • 27 min

Ferit who adores the cinema of 70s, is now obsessed with the clinic he discovered a long time ago. A man whose real name is a mystery runs this clinic under the nickname as Doctor. He uploads on his patients' memory unforgettable scenes from the old Turkish movies by organizing private sessions for them.

Replaceable

2017 • 17 min • South Korea

Ji-won, a short-term teacher at a public high school, goes to a private high school job interview at lunchtime. She happens to meet her high school teacher, Jung-man, on her arrival.