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Films

The Dark Room
Hope
Ode to a Post-it Note
No Pity
Ragman
Son of None

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The Dark Room

Rated: PG
Director: Z. Eric Yang
Length: 25 min
Short | Drama | Family
USA

John, a divorced, old-school photographer, who has spent his life dedicated to the discipline of his darkroom and art of photography, finds himself fighting for his craft and ultimately his livelihood. When his young manager gives him an ultimatum, he is faced with a decision that will define him not only as an artist, but also as a father.

Website: The Dark Room


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Hope

Rated: G
Director: Roman Jirnih
Length: 5 min
Short | Drama | War
Russian Federation

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Website: Roman Jirnih

A window into a life of an old Russian woman who sent her family and friends off to war and to this day prays and awaits for their return.

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Ode to a Post-it Note

Rated: G
Director: Jeff Chiba Stearns       Producer: Jeff Chiba Stearns
Length: 6 min
Animation | Short | Adventure
Canada

On a cluttered office desk plastered with Post-it Note ‘to do’ lists, one little Post-it Note escapes on an incredible journey of self-discovery to find his ‘father’.

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Website: Meditating Bunny Studio Inc.
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No Pity

Rated: G
Director: Drew Goldsmith       Producer: Drew Goldsmith
Length: 19 min
Documentary | Short | History
USA

A poignant exposé of pity-based fundraising, as revealed through a disabled pre-teen’s heartfelt appeal for respect and dignity.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIjE_s7eaSA

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Ragman

Rated: G
Director: Dale Ward     Producer: Dale Ward
Length: 19 min
Short
USA

A ragman from another time and place visits a modern city, offering to trade his new rags for the old ones of the people he meets.

Website: Ragman Film News




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sem0oFQTa8M

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Son of None

Rated: G
Director: Todd Looby
Length: 16 min
Short | Drama
Liberia

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Website: Obrigado Productions

Joshua is a seven-year old Liberian war orphan who is constantly disheveled, falling behind, and failing at school. When the orphanage’s goat goes missing, Joshua comforts the one thing more vulnerable than he.

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Films

Our Condolences
Me or the Porn
Bathing & the Single Girl
Black Coffee
An Affair with Dolls (Leka med dockor)
Good Bot, Bad Bot!
When Night Fa11s
Atlas

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Our Condolences

Our Condolences on FacebookRated: R
Director: Edwin Herod       Producer: Edwin Herod
Length: 22 min
Short | Drama
USA

Victoria Ross, a delusional corporate executive, is on a quest to get her gourmet coffee… at the expense of her dwindling staff. When a young college grad comes looking for a job–a way to cease his mounting debt–he will force Victoria to see beyond the bottom line. She just might discover something more awakening than a triple grande, non-fat hazelnut latte, sugar-free.

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Me or the Porn

Rated: R
Director: Ryan Mains       Producer: Ryan Mains
Length: 6  min
Short | Comedy | Romance
Canada

A man must choose between his beloved girlfriend and his equally beloved porn collection.

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Bathing & the Single Girl


Rated: R
Director: Christine Elise McCarthy
Length: 11  min
Short | Comedy | Romance
USA

A comedic look at the unspoken horrors of dating – and bathing with –  younger men.
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Website: Bathing and the Single Girl





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTUy5ogT6Sw
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Black Coffee

Rated: R
Director: Bao Tran          Producer: Liza Keckler
Length: 10  min
Short | Crime | Romance
USA

Someone has found out about David’s affair and is blackmailing him. David plans to make the payment to spare his political career, but he’s about to find out he’s been double-crossed.

Website: Persistence Of Vision Films

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FWIBKA_E8

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An Affair with Dolls (Leka med dockor)

Rated: R
Director: Hans Montelius
Length: 12  min
Short | Drama | Horror
Sweden

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A woman plays with dolls because her boyfriend wants her to. But the game takes a serious turn.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RolvgSIwdU8

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Good Bot, Bad Bot!

Rated: G
Director: Marcus Ng
Length: 4  min
Animation | Short | Comedy
USA

A suspected toaster killer is interrogated by the robot police and an unplanned ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine ensues. Will justice prevail?

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When Night Fa11s

Rated: PG13
Director: Derrick Lui
Length: 20  min
Short | Drama | Romance
Singapore

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Working with a theme of isolation and dislocation with a striking visual aesthetic, it depicts the forlorn love story of Eternity (??) and Wei Wei (??). Eternity and Wei Wei are two people who are in love, but with vastly different personalities and lifestyles. In addition, both of them have a different understanding and expectation of what this relationship entails.

A work of visual poetry, the story laments how seemingly minor issues can snowball, to understand our loved ones, and cherish that “special moment in time”.

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Website: When night Fa11s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3yRJl4J6yk

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Atlas

Rated: R
Director: Jack Bennett
Length: 6  min
Short
USA

Atlas the film, takes us into the life of Atlas the man, as he travels the city collecting sounds for a symphony to be performed for a very special audience of one. Atlas is a unique look at the nature of sound and our use and understanding of it.

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Films

Endgame
Siren
Lucky Break
KnockDown GragOut
Back Portrait

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Endgame

Rated: PG-13
Director: John Ruby             Producer:Joanna Chong
Length: 29 min
Short | Drama
USA

Endgame tells the story of Bennett Dale, an unemployed, engaged man, who is struggling to find meaning in life. With no job prospects and constant fighting with his girlfriend, Bennett’s at the end of his rope. But when, through a chance encounter, he befriends a chess player in the park, things start to change. This new friend teaches Bennett not only the right moves to make on the chess board, but also, the right moves in life. A cross between The Shawshank Redemption and Searching for Bobby Fischer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKOpc8-C0O4

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Siren

Rated: PG-13
Director: Andras Novak             Producer:Andras Novak
Length: 11 min
Short | Drama
Hungary

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A story about a young Hungarian boy and his fatal acquaintance with a Russian soldier during the 1956 Revolution in Budapest, which leads to an unusual trip down memory lane.




http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=s4w_EDY14mE

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Lucky Break

Rated: PG-13
Director: Mark Bauer            Producer:Carlos Miranda
Length: 20 min
Short | Adventure | Drama
USA

Travis begins seeing unique messages inside of fortune cookies. The fortunes help Travis at first, they turn his life around, give him the confidence he never had. But all is not what it seems. The fortunes have ulterior motives and soon turn menacing, asking Travis do do things he would never dream of doing. Now Travis must do as the fortunes ask, or risk the consequences.




http://vimeo.com/14014469

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KnockDown DragOut

Rated: PG-13
Director: Clint Hudson            Producer: Clint Hudson
Length: 14 min
Short | Drama | Western
USA

A former outlaw, turned family man, has a decision to make. He must choose between his outlaw past with his brother and the future of his family. Ethan and Abby want the best for young Madison and realize the time is now, to move on and raise their family. Ethan and his brother Duke are small time outlaws in the Old West and have taken on two young outlaws, Jeremiah and Elijah, for one last hoorah. Ethan faces pressure, from Duke and Abby, forcing him to make a decision.

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Back Portrait

Rated: PG-13
Director: Vojin Vasovic         Producer: Dejan Petrociv
Length: 15 min
Documentary | Short | Biography
Serbia and Montenegro

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This guerrilla project was shot in a remote town in post communist, developing, and xenophobic Serbia. Researching the theme of tolerance, dozens of people were interviewed about social and political changes, fear, boundaries, experiences on repression, and religious views in connection to accepting innovations. Back Portrait is a great overview of struggle between tolerating and accepting differences in opinion; political and personal.
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Films

Not Worth a Bullet
Joan & Jonas
Make Me
The Appointment
Separation
The Sheets Must Be Silk
The Violinist

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Not Worth a Bullet

Rated: R
Director: Markus F. Adrian           Producer: Marco J. Riedl
Length: 25 min
Short | Crime | Drama
Germany

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Website: MJM Pictures

The old tobacco store owner, Walter Bukowski, and his beloved wife Maggie are victims of a brutal and cold-blooded robbery…so it seems. Just before the face off with the five potential suspects, Walter receives a deeply disturbing phone call. Now with his back to the wall and the knowledge of only having caught a glimpse of the villain in a fuzzy mirror, he identifies one of the suspects. Lt. Carter, however, won’t give him any credence on account of the obvious afflictions of old age, nor does Det. Todd who remains unimpressed while pursuing the happenings. Off his own bat, and with the wisdom and patience of an aged man, Walter personally sees to it that the man responsible gets his just desserts. The journey begins…the clock is ticking…doubts, moments of angst, and bruised pride just ride along in Walter’s search for justice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5RT8XPxhJ0
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Joan & Jonas

Rated: R
Director: Lucas Madigan           Producer: Samantha Swan
Length: 10 min
Short | Crime
Canada

They’re young and in love. Don’t let them in your home.

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Make Me

Rated: R
Director: John Ma           Producer: John Ma
Length: 7 min
Short | Action | Drama
Australia

A kidnapped man is presented with a loved one’s token, before being set free. The threat to her life is confirmed when the man returns to an empty home and finds a ‘package’ to deliver. He realizes that great forces are at work when the authorities arrive without being called. Knowing their involvement could jeopardize her life, he eludes their pursuit and makes the drop. But he encounters a violent figure in the shadows and comes face-to-face with his own fate.

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The Appointment

Rated: MA
Director: Ryan Mains       Producer: Ryan Mains
Length: 8 min
Short | Comedy
Canada

A man suffering from an embarrassing ailment, gets some suspect advice from his new doctor.

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Separation

Rated: PG13
Director: Andras Novak       Producer: Andras Novak
Length: 4 min
Short | Crime | Drama
Hungary

A story about the change of fortune followed by a sudden stroke of good luck and the dramatic changes it brings into the life of a man – in the reflection of past, present and future.

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The Sheets Must Be Silk

Rated: R
Director: Ben Andrews       Producer: Lucian Flynn
Length: 15 min
Short | Biography | Drama
USA

New York, 1961. Young photographer Dario Massimo lands the assignment of his career – to photograph Hollywood celebrity Marian Moore for a famous magazine. But when the two meet, an irresistible connection forms that will change the course of their lives.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCZO1q1zTKw

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The Violinist

Rated: R
Director: Carlo Besasie
Length: 20 min
Short | Comedy | Horror
USA

When a charming, world famous concert violinist comes to town for a concert series, a lonely bag boy attempts to impersonate him in an attempt to improve his love life.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJRo4hnL8YM
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Films

Lastrain
Qua
Katie’s Dad
Imaginary Friend Practical Manual
Kidnap
The Day I Thought I Died
Sunset to Sunset
Wind (Vento)

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Lastrain

Rated: PG
Director: Tony Lopez          Producer: Raul Alvarez
Length: 20 min
Short | Fantasy | Romance
Spain

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He arrives in a discotheque confused and without so much conviction. Suddenly, he sees Irene. He realizes that while he observes her he experiences unique and indescribable feelings. The young guy will predict a succession of events which will gradually become true, intriguing each time more Irene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK6pOzOZfag

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Qua

Rated: G
Director: Andres Vidal Alarcon        Producer: Mar Muro
Length: 10 min
Short | Action | Fantasy
Spain

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“At the beginning of time, our world was a desert illuminated by two suns where the mankind barely could keep alive and the night was unknown. Meanwhile one sun provides life, the other one provides a sure death. Then, the change started…”

http://vimeo.com/6547015
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Katie’s Dad

Rated: G
Director: Deanna Dewey      Producer: Terry Wookey
Length: 9 min
Short | Drama | Family
United Kingdom

An absent father, a daughter left behind. Magical happenings lest we forget.






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcZXoLQj458
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Imaginary Friend Practical Manual

Rated: G
Director: Ciro Altabas        Producer: Ciro Altabas
Length: 19 min
Short | Drama | Family
Spain

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Fernando is a shy 27 year old man with an imaginary friend.






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tBudqsYYDI


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Kidnap

Rated: G
Director: Sijia Luo
Length: 4 min
Animation | Comedy
USA

Cute student animation for children.

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The Day I Thought I Died

Rated: G
Director: David McCallum           Producer: Aeschylus Poulos
Length: 10 min
Documentary | Short | Drama
Canada

A 10 minute personal narrative about the possible meaning of one’s own death. Set against the backdrop of the beautiful song “18” by Moby, and using a combination of home-movie footage and dramatic re-creation, the short film explores the greater meaning of our lives, and the impact that the loss of that life has on both ourselves and those around us.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er6Y89tOlWQ

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Sunset to Sunset

Rated: G
Director: Kent Hayward Producer: Kent Hayward
Length: 3 min
Documentary | Animation | Short
USA

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In a city known for its love of cars, one pedestrian with a Super 8 camera walks across Los Angeles, coming face to face with the metropolis instead of watching it blur by through a windshield.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UzUQO4sR4A


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Wind (Vento)

Rated: G
Director: Marcio Salem Producer: Marcio Salem
Length: 15 min
Short | Drama | Fantasy
Brazil

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A small isolated town in Brazil becomes windless. The local population is beginning to act strange, with no hope and no optimism. And in the middle of all of this, a boy wants to change his life and pursue his dreams.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KNS5WtDNZY



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Films

Painter of the Skies
Sunday Punch
Into the Gloom
The Lift
Playland
Clemency
Shadowpuppet

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Painter of the Skies

Rated: R
Director: Jorge Morais Valle         Producer:Jorge Morais Valle
Length: 20 min
Animation | Short | Drama
Spain

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From the darkness of the lost cliffs, a crazy painter, marked by his past, and his faithul assistant try to find a solution against perpetual storms. Sea is destroying their home. A magic boiler and some tormented ghosts will help them to find the light.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZTHPYdudMY

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Sunday Punch

Rated: R
Director: Dennis Hauck            Producer: Dennis Hauck
Length: 19 min
Short | Crime
USA

After one too many bad nights, a ring girl decides it’s high time to get out from under the thumb of a local gangster, and burn every bridge she can on the way out.






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvRSc8zZan4

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Into the Gloom

Rated: PG13
Director: Giacomo Arrigoni            Producer: Giacomo Arrigoni
Length: 4 min
Short | Drama
Italy

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Lara spends her days into the gloom, prisoner of the fables she tells herself to hide her life of sorrows: dominated by her husband and hostage of his violence, she’s not able to react and waits for the arrival of a savior.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGz_-2j8IbQ


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The Lift

Rated:  PG13
Director: Robert Kohr            Producer: Robert Kohr
Length: 6 min
Animation | Action | Comedy
USA

Everyone has been guilty of small misdeeds at one point or another. The Lift explores the consequences of one all too common act of not holding the elevator door open for someone eager to get on or worse, pushing the “close” button. An elevator interaction goes wrong, prompting a young woman to learn about being insensitive and to never make the same mistake again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FF0nZYQliA

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Playland

Rated:  PG13
Director: Colleen Halloran          Producer: Colleen Halloran
Length: 11 min
Short | Drama
USA

Competition in the Heartland. How does one continue to feed the hunger for competition? A rural family has a hard time quelling their desire to compete and win.






http://vimeo.com/12687606



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Clemency

Rated: R
Director: Joseph Albanese
Length: 19 min
Short | Thriller
USA

Arthur Poe (Cris D’Annunzio) is a sadistic killer who likes to torture his victims. In 1993, he was captured and subsequently convicted by the state of Virginia for several gruesome murders. Poe received a sentence of death. Years later and days before his execution, the newly elected governor granted Poe clemency based on the testimony of a forensic psychologist at Poe’s murder trial. The testimony convinced the governor that Poe deserved psychiatric care rather than death. Many are outraged by the governor’s act of leniency. A reporter (Maury Morgan) confronts Poe in an interview seeking to shed light on the emotionally charged topic. What she learns can never be forgotten.

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Website: Clemency the movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8njbgK3lDIk

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Shadowpuppet

Rated: PG13
Director: Michael McCallum
Length: 8 min
Short | Thriller
USA

A couple is on the run from a killer. Money is missing and only they know where it is. Will they get to it before the hired gun gets to them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1OfwHePas

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Films

The Broken Heart of Gnocchi Bolognese
The Danger of Secrets
The Absence
Becoming Bergdwarf
Unknown Spectre
The Bear and the Rabbit
Stalker
Gold Digger
Telephone

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The Broken Heart of Gnocchi Bolognese

Rated: PG
Director: Katherine Vondy Producer: William Kwok
Length: 19 min
Short
USA

Website: Gnocchi Movie

Gnocchi Bolognese has never known her father, the chef whose signature dish she was named for. As the stage manager of a local theater, she pines from the wings for the troupe’s star actor. And with her 25th birthday around the corner, Gnocchi decides it’s time to act on her infatuation – but the pursuit of romance leads her down a tragicomic road to the origins of her unusual name.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxnQW9ZPAaM

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The Danger of Secrets

The Danger of Secrets - Ardent PicturesRated: PG13
Director: Christopher Comrie         Producer: Samantha Swan
Length: 3 min
Short | Comedy
Canada

Website: Ardent Pictures

This was inspired by U.S. “mental hygiene” propaganda films of the 50’s. We love DV’s versatility and saw this as a chance to make new colour DV look like old scratched and spliced black and white high-contrast film. It satirizes the resurgence of 50’s Cold War style paranoia in the world’s culture of fear.

by-the-way…
If you saw the Charlie Chaplin BIFF promo produced by Ardent Pictures… that’s Phil Luzi playing Charlie. You can see him again here in The Danger of Secrets.

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The Absence

Rated: PG
Director: Kristóf Novák
Length: 7 min
Short
Hungary

This short about what a teeneger does when he is absent from school.

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Becoming Bergdwarf

Rated: PG13
Director: A.J. Winslow           Producer:Adam Sherer
Length: 18 min
Short | Comedy | Drama
USA

A young adolescent, Sean Bergdwarf, saves and befriends a prostitute, challenging his overbearing mother’s morals. With encouragement from his quirky grandfather, Sean takes a step into manhood, and reconnects with his mother.

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Unknown Spectre

Rated: PG
Director: Stephen Pickering
Length: 6 min
Short | Sci-Fi
USA

Detective Jack Spencer is investigating several strange disappearances. His investigation brings him to question a local energy consultant, Dr. John Charles. Charles has been assisting the aliens in abducting humans for energy, expecting them to leave when they have enough, not knowing they will never be content.


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The Bear and the Rabbit

Rated: G
Director: Rob Ikegamie
Length: 12 min
Short | Drama
USA

An elderly hermit, along with his taxidermied dog, puts together a jigsaw puzzle, then must cope with the fact that it’s missing a piece.

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Stalker

Rated: PG
Director: Damien Patrik             Producer:Damien Patrik
Length: 3 min
Short | Drama | Mystery
USA

A man is being stalked in downtown Denver….by himself.

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Gold Digger

Rated: G
Director: Karen Lindholm-Rynkiewicz
Length: 18 min
Short | Drama | Family
USA

5 sisters travel by train to stop their widowed father from remarrying

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Telephone

Rated: G
Director: Jeffrey Bliss
Length: 5 min
Short | Drama | Fantasy
USA

Two isolated individuals desperately search to make connections amidst mysterious gift boxes, rotary telephones and spinning dials.

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Films

Love , Processed
4 Pictures
Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns
Interview with the Vampire
Implants
Little Flowers

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Love , Processed

Rated: R
Director: Clementine Cayrol      Producer:Clementine Cayrol
Length: 17 min
Documentary | Short | Comedy
USA

Have you ever wondered what goes on in your body & brain when you fall in love, or if there was a scientific explanation for what you think you feel ? Love, Processed is a fake documentary on love, based on real scientific facts…kind of. Narrated by a fake scientist and illustrated by a fake couple, this movie looks at love from a scientific point of view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCslHQe9PYQ

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4 Pictures

Rated: R
Director: Mike Madigan Producer:Matthew Peach
Length: 16 min
Short | Comedy | Drama
USA

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A personal narrative comedy that focuses on Kaitlin, living and documenting a simple day- to- day routine. Trying to avoid “change” whenever possible, an unexpected revelation causes her to rethink her closest relationships.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD0BbvkEvts

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Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns

Rated: PG13
Director: Pardis Parker
Length: 7 min
Short | Comedy
Canada

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An unexpected visitor with odd news and an odder story interrupts a family’s quiet day at the farmhouse, sending it spiraling into a chaotic whirlwind of unfortunate misunderstandings.

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Interview with the Vampire

Rated: R
Director: Unoc Min           Producer: Mihee Kim
Length: 31 min
Short | Drama | Fantasy
South Korea

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Story of a girl who is producer and become confused about her identity as a human being. She doubts if her nature is rather close to a vampire than human being as she interviews with living vampires.

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Implants

Rated: PG13
Director: Pardis Parker
Length: 2 min
Short | Comedy | Romance
Canada

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A couple discusses the thought of using implants of the silicone variety.

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Little Flowers

Rated: PG13
Director: Vincent Biron          Producer:Carolyne Goyette
Length: 18 min
Short | Comedy | Drama
Canada

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On one summer day, four children face themselves, and become a little older.

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Films

Out of Place
The Tape
Soy Milk
Cupid’s Arrow
The Strange Rebirth of Andre Weil
Model

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Out of Place

Rated: G
Director: Rosario Fuentenebro Yubero        Producer:Hussein Hassan Minum
Length: 17 min
Short | Drama | Family
Spain

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The intimate relationship established with Trini, a young, amusing and very enthusiastic girl, helps Emilio, an elder man in his seventies, to assume and bear his stay in the asylum his daughter has settled him in.




http://vimeo.com/3848869


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The Tape

Rated: PG
Director: Jorge M. Rodrigo      Producer:Jorge M. Rodrigo
Length: 19 min
Short
Spain

Should you find a tape in your mailbox sent by yourself from the future, don’t you think listening to it would change your life forever?






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Soy Milk

Rated: PG
Director: Veeran Naran        Producer:Veeran Naran
Length: 8 min
Short | Comedy | Drama
Australia

Fifteen year-old, Jateen exists in two worlds. His master plan to combine them both results in a magnificent, albeit, gut-wrenching clash of culture. Set in Melbourne’s impoverished western suburbs, Soy Milk chronicles the Indian assimilation into Australian society and ensuing fallout. Exploring themes of identity, teenage rebellion, deception and family values, Soy Milk is an elegant and provocative drama that offers a refreshing take on multicultural Australia. The film is a compelling advocate for tolerance, acceptance, and above all, unconditional love.



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Cupid’s Arrow

Rated: PG
Director: Leonardo Perez        Producer:Leonardo Perez
Length: 13min
Short
Spain


Humanity lacks contact and mutual love. An individual appearing as the authentic God of Love comes to solve such a disaster.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czc8WyrnlOc

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The Strange Rebirth of Andre Weil

Rated: PG
Director: Joel Garber        Producer:Joel Garber
Length: 17 min
Short
USA

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A boy meets girl… Boy gets shot in the head… Boy turns to God short film. Based on a true story.

Shot on black and white, Super 16mm film The Strange Rebirth of Andre Weil is a blackly-comic love story that explores themes concerning the fragility of human consciousness and spirituality. Using archival footage and a deadpan narration, the film loosely reconstructs the historic neurological case of Phineas Gage, who in the mid-1800’s survived a freak accident in which a 13-foot metal rod shot through the frontal lobe of his brain and skull. The film also weaves in an homage to Dr. Michael Persinger, the neuroscientist, and his famous God Helmet.




http://vimeo.com/1870164


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Model

Rated: G
Director: Andras Novak       Producer:Andras Novak
Length: 14 min
Short | Drama
Hungary

*subtitled*


The life story of a young successful model who is suddenly driven to despair. In the hopeless situation she finds out who she can rely on… others and herself. Yet most unexpectedly, “hope” itself knocks on the door.


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Films

Dangerous Summers
Thunderbolt and the Mermaid
Written Off
My Dearest Love
Unrepentant
Inkblots
Afghan
Opening Day
Breadwinner
Dear Child Jesus

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Dangerous Summers

Rated: PG
Director: Jennifer Robers
Length: 7 min
Short
USA

Polly’s been taken, and the race is on to rescue her before the clock runs out.

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Thunderbolt and the Mermaid

Rated: PG
Director: Diego Sanchidrian
Length: 11 min
Short
Spain

It is said that dreams are unreachable. But in order to make them come true you must dare to be faster than the mermaids…








http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI0SFWSGxWU
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Written Off

Rated: PG13
Director: Robert Jarzen
Length: 6 min
Short
USA

A writer chronicles the story of a dame and the mug who done her wrong, only to find that the story has ties close to home.


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My Dearest Love

Rated: PG
Director: Marc Wiskemann                     Producer: Marc Wiskemann
Length: 3 min
Short | Drama | Music
USA

Family… tradition… love..
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Unrepentant

Rated: PG13
Director: Jason Kempnich                   Producer:Jason Kempnich
Length: 15 min
Short | Drama
Australia

Recently graduated psychologist Julie must face personal demons when she is left in charge of a convicted pedophile and his formal release from prison. Discovering an unexpected side to herself, an unsupervised Julie begins to turn her fear and indecision into opportunity. But at what cost?




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KRbdJy24JU
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Inkblots

Rated: PG13
Director: Jason Sheedy               Producer:Kyle Steinike
Length: 13 min
Short | Drama | Family
USA

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Mrs. Berkeley is a struggling mother hoping to regain balance in her life through her son, Jake, who suffers from a rare mental condition in which his imagination is his reality. Frustrated with months of hopeless treatment she decides to take things into her own hands, but there’s still one person standing in her way.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ey88izxERQ
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Afghan

Rated: PG13
Director: Pardis Parker             Producer:Pardis Parker
Length: 12 min
Short | Comedy | Drama
Canada

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An afternoon surprise forces two friends to turn hate crime lemons into hilarious lemonade.


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Opening Day

Rated: G
Director: Producer:
Length: 4 min
Short
USA

A look at the serene country that awaits deer hunters opening season.


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Breadwinner

Rated: PG
Director: Cornelius Murphy             Producer:Cornelius Murphy
Length: 10 min
Short | Drama
USA

Douglas is a hard working independent man who has made a great life for himself. This contrasts sharply with the life that his father lead. Douglas’  father, Leonard was an often out of work writer who could not provide financial stability for Douglas as a child. Douglas is reflecting back on how he treated his father growing up and the disdain he felt for him not being a good provider. At first feeling justified about the way he acted in the past, Douglas in the end questions whether he really knew his father at all, and if the man he often looked down upon wasn’t really all that he seemed to be.
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Dear Child Jesus

Rated: G
Director: Jesus Perez-Miranda            Producer: Jesus Perez-Miranda
Length: 10 min
Short | Drama | Mystery
Spain

*subtitled*

Jesus, a six-year-old child, wakes up in the middle of the night with an urgent need to pee. But his fear of the dark stops him from crossing the corridor that leads to the bathroom. Influenced by his mother’s advice, he asks God for help, in the hope that some kind of miracle might happen.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D930MPLNTt8
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Films

Voices of the Victims
Teen Prenancy
Pilgrimage
Fractured
Flush
Cajun Queen
Lumiere D’Ampoule
Certainties


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Voices of the Victims

Rated: PG13
Director: Jim & Julie Baker
Length: 13 min
Short | Drama
USA

Zonta members together with the Wisconsin Coalition of Domestic Violence are the voices of 46 victims that lost their lives to domestic violence and the children that they left behind.

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Teen Pregnancy

Rated: PG13
Director: Jamie Norton
Length: 30 min
Short | Drama
USA

Teen Pregnancy takes a look at the story of a teen mom, Brenda Macias, in Beloit, Wisconsin. All of the different aspects about why Brenda became a pregnant teen unravel through interviews with Brenda, students at the Hendricks Education Center, health teachers, and community members.
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Pilgrimage

Rated: G
Director: Christopher Jason Bell & Ryan Sartor
Length: 12 min
Short
USA

Website: Pilgrimage

Corey and Stew were high school friends. When Stew visits Corey at college, they both realize how little they actually have in common. Pilgrimage is a humorous look at friendship, our trouble with communication, and the silly lengths we go to not connect with one another.

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Fractured

Rated: PG
Director: Kane George Jason         Producer: Mhairi Stewart
Length: 10 min
Short | Drama | History
Australia

A husband can’t face losing his property. A single parent runs out of options. A mother can’t bring her family together. In a city that could be yours, three lives are connected by isolation.

 

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Flush

Rated: PG13
Director: Tyler Breitbach       Producer: Tyler Breitbach
Length: 8 min
Short
USA

After discovering his sister is kidnapped and being held for ransom, Derek Miles embarks on a man hunt to try and get her back before its too late.






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LEt-c519qs



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Cajun Queen

Rated: PG
Director: David Haldiman Producer: David Haldiman
Length: 5 min
Short
USA

Explore New Orleans with international violinist Susan Aquilla and our own Rob Tomaro.

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Lumiere D’Ampoule

Rated:  G
Director: Joe Kirschling       Producer: Joe Kirschling
Length: 10 min
Short
USA

Amazingly creative shorts using photos in video. Gina T’ai faculty Beloit College  makes dancing for the camera films and videos with her collaborator, Joe Kirschling.  Lumiere D’Ampoule the recipient of the Best Student Work Award, Dancing for the Camera Film Festival at the American Dance Festival, 2007.






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLCUVWPxHbE



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Certainties

Rated:  PG-13
Director: Vincent Caldoni       Producer: C.K. Lichenstein II
Length: 3 min
Short
USA

A dark comedy about two teen girls discussing a difficult problem.







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n12LIwByfWA



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Andrew Napier

Date of Birth
15 October 1988, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
Began filming Mary and Bill at the age of 17.

Also playing at BIFF by Andrew Napier Mary & Bill

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Keeping the Spirit

Rated: PG13
Director: Andrew Napier     Producer:Margie Hykema
Length: 30 min
Documentary | Short | Drama
USA

Students, teachers, archaeologists, and the Ho-Chunk Nation band together to save a 1000-year-old sacred Burial Mound that is at risk of being destroyed after it was discovered in the heart of a small Wisconsin town.

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Hopeless

Rated: G
Director: Andrew Napier       Producer:Mark Register & Erin Lasquade
Length: 17 min
Short | Crime | Drama
USA

Two young lovers on the run.

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Spin Cycle

Rated: PG13
Director: Andrew Napier & Michael Anderson
Length: 15 min
Short | Comedy | Drama
USA

A quirky vignette about two strangers in a Laundromat and the silent battle that ensues over the last remaining washing machine.

http://vimeo.com/7070976


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Double Gin

Rated: PG13
Director: Andrew Napier        Producer: Mark Register
Length: 8 min
Short | Action | Comedy
USA

Two brothers working in organized crime fight over the same girl while torturing a man in the back of a restaurant.
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Poisoned!

Rated: G
Director: Andrew Napier        Producer: Mark Register
Length: 5 min
Short | Drama | Music
USA

A bizarre silent film about love, loss, and whiskey, set to music by Of Montreal.
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Marvin Milktoast

Rated: PG
Director: Andrew Napier         Producer: Andrew Napier & Andrew Staplin
Length: 4 min
Short | Drama | Music
USA

Super villain Marvin Milktoast and his side kick Commander Coma strive to be evil by annoying their roommates.
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Larry’s School Dance

Rated: PG13
Director: Andrew Napier      Producer: Andrew Napier & Mike Bentzen
Length: 2 min
Short | Drama | Music
USA

Larry tries drugs at a school dance.
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Films

Sudden Death
Letter Home
A Second Chance
School for the Rude
For a fistful of Snow
Kavi
Goldstar, Ohio
Responsibilities of Men

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Sudden Death

Rated: PG
Director: Adam Hall
Length: 20 min
Short | Comedy | Musical
USA

Los Angeles has been overtaken by a virus known as Sudden Death Syndrome, a disease that causes its victim to die suddenly and has only one symptom… spontaneously breaking into well-choreographed song and dance.

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Website: Sudden Death!


http://vimeo.com/13253333
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Letter Home

Rated: G
Director: Ken Pak       Producer: Ken Pak
Length: 10 min
Documentary | Short | History
Canada

In times of trouble, home is only a letter away. There was only one person who understood the hell William Kemp went through… and when history repeats, William will be the one who will have to understand.


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A Second Chance

Rated: PG
Director: Stephen Pickering
Length: 10 min
Short | Drama | Family
USA

When a global chemical warfare promises to wipe out all of civilization, a young couple faces a tragic choice– give their baby to the government’s desperate attempt to save a generation of the United State’s population in underground bunkers, or to die together as… a family.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbZgEKuAX0c

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School for the Rude

School for the RudeRated: G
Director: Genevieve Davis
Length: 2 min
Short
USA

Two Pulcinella clowns lounge in the streets of Venice during Carnivale. One sleeps, while the other is engrossed in a how-to pamphlet from the School for the Rude, called “Getting Rid of a Tapeworm”. He experiments on his sleeping compatriot with what he has read and is abundantly rewarded for his efforts!


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For a Fistful of Snow


Rated
: G
Director: Julien Ezri          Producer: Julien Ezri
Length: 6 min
Animation | Short
Switzerland

A long time ago, terror, loathing and power reigned over the Wild Wild North. The foolishness of the inhabitants led them to battle for anything, even…For a Fistful of Snow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yv1mSIZ8sA


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Kavi

Rated: PG
Director: Gregg Helvey           Producer: Gregg Helvey
Length: 19 min
Short | Drama
India and USA

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Website: Kavi the Movie

I was shocked to learn that 27 million people* around the world are enslaved today. As I began to research and understand the extent of modern slavery, I knew that I had to make a movie about it. People had to know. This injustice and cruelty had to stop.

Kavi is my USC thesis film. It’s a 19-minute fictional film about a young boy who wants to escape from the brick kiln where he is forced to work as a modern-day slave. Kavi will be the first fictional film of its kind to expose the reality of “bonded labor”,  a form of modern slavery.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZS718v6FIc

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Goldstar, Ohio

Rated: PG
Director: Michael Tisdale           Producer: Michael Tisdale
Length: 16 min
Short | Drama
USA

Twenty-two marines — all from the 325, a reserve unit based in Brookpark, Ohio — were killed in Iraq’s Anbar Province on three separate occasions between July 28, 2005, and August 3, 2005. I grew up about a fifteen-minute drive from said base and when my father died (of cancer) on August 5, 2005, and I traveled back to northeast Ohio for his memorial, my grief and that of the friends and families of those marines became entangled. By the beginning of December 2005, I had begun cold-calling the families; and in February 2006, I returned to Ohio to meet with and audio record my first conversations with five families. More than three years later, I have made innumerable trips (to Ohio) and accrued in excess of seventy-hours of audio and video material documenting the experiences of four families since they were officially notified (by the Marine Corps) of their loved one’s death.

Goldstar, Ohio is an exploration of the instant the death of a loved one is understood. It contains no fictitious persons nor fictitious events. Words are never attributed to anyone but the individual who spoke them, and names have not been changed.

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Website: Goldstar, Ohio Film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqxhT4UPhQA

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Responsibilities of Men

Rated: PG
Director: Ryan Marzolph        Producer: Ryan Marzolph
Length: 6 min
Short | Drama
USA

The Responsibilities of Men chronicles the daily life of the last man on earth, still trapped in the mundane rituals of his former life. Unable to cope with the terrible realities of the world around him, he chooses to blind himself by engaging in the meaningless traditions of a former world. He delivers a persuasive monologue on the merits of routine, obligation, and conformity which ironically contrasts his reality and serves to highlight the futility of his charade. As the humor wanes we see the true sadness of a man too afraid of the truth to face it. Choosing a comfortable lie over the heartbreaking truth, he condemns himself to repeat his mistakes forever.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSRozNN-8SA

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