Shorts

Mousse

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Comedy

Genre: Drama/Comedy
Film Length: 41min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis: What could be easier than robbing a small bookie place on the outskirts of town? It’s during the year’s biggest horse race event and the betting center Washington’s Tobacco looks like the ultimate hit for some fast cash. Mousse is a man of pride and principles and is fed up with living as a second-class citizen. But what happens when he faces principles different to his own?

Promise Me

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Film type:
Short
Film Category: Drama

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 8min

Showtimes: Friday April 15, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis:
“Promise Me” is an emotionally charged social drama in which a once flourishing woman, now at the end of her life, struggles to ensure that her recently reconciled son does not make the same mistakes that she did.

Promise Me paints a touching, intimate portrait of one dying woman’s final day on Earth and her plight to right the wrongs of her past while attempting to convince her recently reconciled son not to follow in her footsteps. Promise Me broaches the topic of Death with Dignity in an environment where the practice is not legal, but shows the reality of a situation that happens in America on a daily basis.

Oh Crappy Day

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Comedy

Genre: Romantic Comedy
Film Length: 18min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis: “Oh Crappy Day” is a romantic comedy with a psychological twist. Jared, an aspiring filmmaker, meets Katie, a charming young grad student, on a blind date, and the two of them seem perfectly matched. Jared has a problem, though: an acute case of OCD, which he’s determined to hide from Katie. He succeeds for a while, until a sticky menu triggers his compulsive hand-washing, threatening the budding romance. It’s a classic love triangle — a boy, a girl, a pair of hands.

The Skin

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Horror
Film Length: 10min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 5:45pm – 7:15pm

Short Synopsis: After the peculiar death of her father, Lena Hardesty discovers that her sister, Sarah, has acquired the same strange symptoms. With the help of a rustic local, Lena sets a plan in motion to save her sister and herself from the same fate.

Mother’s Day

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Drama, Family,

Genre: Drama, Family
Film Length: 7min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis: Tragedy forces Mary (Academy Award Winner: Melissa Leo) and her son Jay (Gabriel Furman) to say goodbye forever.

No_PosterShoreline

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Narrative

Genre: Experimental Narrative 
Film Length: 11min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 10:00pm – Friday, April 15, 2016 at 12:00am

Short Synopsis: Wynne must leave the family home to confront her grief. Staying with longtime friend Brean and her daughter Carla, all three ladies must learn to live with each other as Wynne finds the strength to make her way back home.

Immunity

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Suspense/Mystery
Film Length: 20min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 10:00pm – Friday, April 15, 2016 at 12:00am

Short Synopsis: In 1942, in a small interrogation room at Auschwitz, a deadly game is playing out between a Jewish teacher (Rena Sofer) and her former student (Stephano DaFre) now an SS Doctor. The prize…his soul or her life.

Based on the Aurora Award winning Off-Broadway play

Sound of Tears

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 15min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis: Amina and her family have fled the city to escape her estranged lover Josh and the stamp of shame from their patriarchal community; but Josh tracks them down.

Mindflip – The Web Series

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Short

Genre: Sci-fi/Horror/Comedy
Film Length: 25min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 5:45pm – 7:15pm

Short Synopsis: The Mindflip web series introduces the characters of a feature length science fiction/horror film of the same name, while it is in development. The webisodes and interviews explore their backstories and their world. SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT features interviews with Dr. Laurence Fine, an ethically challenged Neurobiologist, and his arch-rival, Dr. Maurice Howard. WEBISODE 1 introduces Dr. Fine’s cut and paste approach to brute force cybernetics. In WEBISODE 2, Dr. Fine and his assistant Rex discuss impediments to their work over tea, with inescapable metaphors for literature, language and reality. WEBISODE 3 finds Dr Fine feeling scorned by the scientific community. To vindicate his theories, he attempts to swap the minds of a dog and a cat. The results are not as expected. WEBISODES 4 & 5 (in Post-production) reveal the dark consequences of his experiment, and the lightning bolt at the end of the tunnel.

Jack is Pretty

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Fairy Tale
Film Length: 26min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis: Amid the chaos and instability of growing up with neglectful parents, and enduring the taunting of a bully, a little girl strikes out on her own to find order, happiness, and an understanding of the world around her. As the dangers surrounding her come closing in, her world brightens when she finds the solace of friendship and love with an old, discarded Jack In The Box.

No_PosterGood Morning

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Dark Comedy/Drama
Film Length: 9min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Short Synopsis:

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No End

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Experimental
Film Length: 6min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 2:00pm – 3:45pm

Short Synopsis: No End was inspired by a poem written by the film maker over the course of six months. During this process, abstract images surfaced, subsided, and settled, eventually forming the foundation of a film. What developed from this is a lyrical journey that explores the intersection of interconnectivity and lived experience. An original soundtrack composed by Graham Stewart of Viosac accompanies and complements the work.

 

 

A Cows’s Tale – The Laura Secord Story

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Historical Drama
Film Length: 18min

Showtimes: April 17, 2016 1:30 pm – 3:15 pm

Short Synopsis: It is June of 1813 and England and the United States are at war.

On a warm afternoon in Queenston Upper Canada, Laura Secord is peacefully milking her cow Elsie. Suddenly Laura’s niece Elizabeth screams for help as American soldiers have taken Laura’s husband James prisoner. Laura, Elizabeth and Elsie run to his rescue. US Col, Charles Boerstler orders Laura and her family to house and feed the Americans during their occupation.

Late one afternoon following as the Americans are indulging in an alcohol fueled meal, Elsie causes a big commotion to draw Laura outside just in time to hear the American’s planning their attack on British commander Fitzgibbon and his forces.

Because James is too injured to make the long walk to De Cew House himself, Laura and Elizabeth set out on the 18 mile journey. Elsie joins them.

Laura Elizabeth and Elsie set out on the journey and change their appearance to look as if they are ‘just going into town’. Not long into the journey they hear a gun shot…and become aware of other US soldiers in the area. They must take a detour.
As they continue on their new route, Laura tires of holding Elsie’s rope and orders Elsie to stay put so she and Elizabeth can continue without her. Elsie refuses and continues to march alongside them.

Later in the day, as they grow more tired walking through the swamps and trails, Elizabeth injures her ankle and becomes to weak to continue. Laura arranges for Elizabeth to stay at a home in Shipman’s Corners. Laura and Elsie continue on together.

As Laura and Elsie make their way through the woods and trails, they must make it up ‘the mountain’ – the Niagara Escarpment. Elsie must pull and drag Laura up the the hill and then they must cross the waters of the 12 Mile Creek. Laura grows even more exhausted and cannot even carry the satchel containing the important scroll. Laura places the bag strap over Elsie’s head for her to carry it. Finally Laura collapses and Elsie must continue on to Fitzgibbon.

Elsie arrives at DeCew House the home being used by the British forces. She surprises a red coated soldier and he calls for Fitzgibbon’s help. Col Fizgibbon notices the satchel and retrieves the scroll, He quickly reads the information and orders Elsie to take him to Laura.

Fizgibbon finds the collapsed Laura along the trail and he helps her to her feet. She is too weak and he mus carry her. Fizgibbon cannot carry Laura too much farther and drapes Laura over Elsie’s back so now the cow can transport Laura back to DeCew House.

Laura, Fitzgibbon and Elsie finally arrive at DeCew House and Laura is helped to safety.
At DeCew House a few days later, Col Fitzgibbon dictates the heroic efforts of Laura and the British victory to his colleague Cuthbert, and now Laura and Elsie can return to their normal lives.

Goodbye Ohio

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama

Film Length: 16min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00pm – 11:45pm

Short Synopsis: Lily, an aspiring writer gets an internship to New York City with no plans of returning. She meets one last time with the guy who broke her heart, her ex. As they reunite, she starts to wonder should she stay or should she go?

Guess Who’s Not Coming To Breakfast Lunch or Dinner?

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Dark Comedy / Psychological Horror
Film Length: 11min

Showtimes: April 16, 2016 8:15 pm – 9:45 pm

Short Synopsis: Set in 1956 propaganda filled, nuclear bomb scared America, the Swanson family has a peculiar taste for entertaining their guests.

No_PosterThe Mobile Stripper

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Comedy / Drama
Film Length: 14min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00pm – 11:45pm

Short Synopsis: Mark is having what appears to be a normal ordinary day in a small ordinary town. On his way to work, he notices something different. A pink RV stationed in a parking lot. There he meets Veronica, a wild mouth woman who just needs directions to the gas station. But often things are never what they seem and what begins as a friendly ride to the gas station soon develops into an unforeseen adventure with the Mobile Stripper.

Peter And Jane Know Some of the Same People

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Thriller, Comedy Noire
Film Length: 13min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis: Peter and Jane found each other on the internet. They liked what they saw and decided to meet in person. That’s when they discovered what wasn’t mentioned online.

The Watchers

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Short

Genre: Thriller/Sci-Fi
Film Length: 17min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00am – 11:30am

Short Synopsis: Mind-Control, Manipulation, Assassination, Chaos: All in a day’s work. Every Action is calculated. Every outcome is planned.

Ouroboros

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Science Fiction

Genre: Science Fiction
Film Length: 16min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16 2016 at 10:00am – 11:30am

Short Synopsis: Quantum physicist Dr. Faye O’Neill creates an artificial wormhole and achieves a breakthrough in teleportation. But the wormhole brings an unexpected visitor – Faye’s future self – with a warning that the teleportation device threatens the fabric of space time and the very existence of the universe.

Burned

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Thriller

Genre: Thriller
Film Length: 17min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016. at 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Short Synopsis: Jason (Beau Knapp; ‘The Signal’, ‘Southpaw’) hides in a motel room afraid of coming out. The only person he trusts is his girlfriend Lila (Maika Monroe; ‘The Guest’, ‘It Follows’), who takes him to meet a friend in a remote house in the desert. At their arrival, an unexpected guest asks too many questions. Jason’s trust for Lila begins to fade.

The Iroquois Creation Story

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Animation
Film Length: 17min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15 at 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Short Synopsis:What happens when a pregnant young woman named Sky Woman, falls through a hole in Sky World? She lands on the back of a great sea turtle and starts a new world, called Turtle Island. The Iroquois Creation Story tells the tale of how our earth came to be according to the oral story recited by the Haudenosaunee people for hundreds of years. This 16-minute film combines animation and dance to tell the story of Sky Woman and her Grandsons Fint and Sky Holder. Flint and Sky Holder make everything on earth and eventually battle for control of Turtle Island.

 

 

 

No_PosterContingency

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Drama

Genre: Existential Drama
Film Length: 10min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Short Synopsis: After waking up in an unknown location, a troubled man finds a rope going out into a pond and curiously, pulls it in.

 

Oracle

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama, Horror
Film Length: 14min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 8:00pm – 9:45pm

Short Synopsis: Oracle (2016) is the second in a trilogy of short films that began with Home Near Water (2013). The films are connected through themes of metamorphosis and animal spirit archetypes.

Oracle is a film about a young woman’s first signs in becoming a shaman or oracle. It follows her uncertain relationship and the haunting, dream-like visions from nature and owls that lead her to question love, death, and magic.

In Everyone’s Eyes

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 7min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15 at 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Short Synopsis: A poetic and slyly subversive film about life in Cuba, where it’s too dangerous to speak openly against la Revolucion.

Most Cubans learn to hide their despair, fear and paranoia about the State with a facade of acceptance and even outward happiness – it’s safer.

In the same way, a smiling singing narrator and his happy melody create the thin facade for a compelling message about free speech in today’s revolutionary Cuba.

Metal bars are a recurring motif, at homes and at the derelict Modelo prison on the isolated Isla de la Juventude. Cubans often describe their country as an ‘open prison’.

Filmed entirely in Cuba/Filmada enteramente en Cuba.

Traces of Memory

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 15min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis: Ruth wants to help “Phoebe,” but Phoebe wants nothing to do with her. Ruth tells Phoebe that she will leave her alone if she tells her why she is on the run. Ruth admits to burning her house down – with her kids inside– in order to escape abuse. Phoebe admits to beating her boyfriend’s lover to death, unintentionally. Ruth has some advice for Phoebe, then disappears – leaving Phoebe to ponder her own situation, and whether or not Ruth was a ghost, having died in the house fire alongside her children. Phoebe’s boyfriend shows up to get her. She decides not go with him, but instead sets off on her own.

 

SammySammy

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 6min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 6:00pm – 7:45pm

Short Synopsis:
While training for his 12th marathon an extremely fit middle aged runner experiences symptoms that are eerily similar to that of a heart attack. After a battery of medical tests he is diagnosed with severe coronary disease. The exact disease that killed his brother and father!

His first question is… “can I survive the surgery?”

His next… “will I ever run again?”

There is no guarantee of either!

His surgery as told through text messaging! 

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Annulment

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Short

Genre: Romantic, Comedy
Film Length: 21min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00am – 11:30am

Short Synopsis:
As zombie-like humans infected with a pandemic roam the land, stopping at nothing to spread the infection, recently divorced Harold Derryberry and Kerry O’Donoghue-Derryberry
 grudgingly try to get along, while stranded on an island cottage, as possibly the last two humans on earth.

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Vasu

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 27min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00pm – 11:45pm

Short Synopsis:
A scintillating account of a how a renowned painter gets his wife to agree for his latest nude painting assignment and lands himself in troubled waters

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Soul Breakers

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Horror/Fantasy/Sci-fi
Film Length: 24min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:15pm – 6:30pm

Short Synopsis:
A strange tale of love, lust, deceit and karmic retribution. When Freddie Dale’s girlfriend sleeps with his house-mate, he is persuaded by his good friend Viz Verdi to unleash revenge through the manipulation of cosmic forces – Hindi dark magic that is Jadoo, on his unsuspecting housemate Ben with somewhat unusual repercussions. Freddie doesn’t expect any of the nonsense to work, but his friend Viz has other ideas as the two unwittingly bumble their way through a spell. An unusual set of events unfold that will change their perceptions of life, existence and the unknown forever…

‘When the need is desperate and the want impure, strange energies will flourish’

No_PosterSuspendu

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 15min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 7:45pm

Short Synopsis:
At dawn, in a great classical dance conservatory, a boy falls while rehearsing some movements. Something breaks in his foot, causing sharp pain.
But it’s exams day and the boy refuses to quit: he tries to face his dance partner and classmates, convincing himself his body has no limits.

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Ante Mortem

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Dark Comedy
Film Length: 5min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Short Synopsis:
Cici, a good ol’ southern gal, is in a graveyard, about to dig up her husband as part of an elaborate insurance fraud. She is assisted by his best friend Slim, which name should really be spelled with an ‘e’ at the end of it. He sparks up a conversation about percentages, cuts, and fairness, slowing down the shoveling to make his point. Cici nervously comply, and when he finally opens the coffin we find out why. A Twisted tale that leaves Slim with a goddamn good story he gets to tell no-one. Ever.

 

She Loves Me

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Horror
Film Length: 12min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 5:45pm – 7:15pm

Short Synopsis: It is BEN and Kat’s very first date and the two seem to be hitting it off. That is, until, Ben says the wrong thing to Kat, and from there it turns into a deadly chase of cat and mouse.

No_PosterFreedom Lost

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 11min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

 

Bluey

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 13min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis: Bluey is a powerful portrayal of an angry young woman trapped in a violent world of inner and outer turmoil. She desperately wants to break out of this cycle, but doesn’t know how. Through a young offender’s rehabilitation program Bluey meets a mentor. She plunges into the depths of her own self-loathing and despair. Bluey desperately wants to break out of her vicious cycle but doesn’t know how.
Bluey is a story about courage; the will to change and survive.

 

 

Hyde

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Horror
Film Length: 1min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00am

Short Synopsis:
A tribute to old school horror films. The work is intended to echo the intensity of the original novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson, with a new twist.. The destructive actions of Hyde continue into the future. The entity of Hyde may be real, or a phantom afterimage of Hyde many years later. The film includes B movie icon, Conrad Brooks.

 

 

Bailey Poster v3aTherefore I Am

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
ShortGenre: Sci-fi
Film Length: 9min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 5:45pm – 7:15pm

Short Synopsis: Teresa’s Fight to free herself from her merciless captor.

No_PosterSorry For Your Loss

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Film Length: 18min

Showtimes: Satuday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00am – 11:30am

Short Synopsis:
Janice is dead and her daughter wants to send her off exactly the way Janice pictured it – according to a psychic. Sorry For Your Loss follows Johnna after losing her alcoholic, absentee mother in a tragic accident. Johnna, her resentful brother, and two close friends come together to find peace and stay out of jail.

 

No_PosterSchattenboxer

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 17min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis:
Shadow boxing is a training exercise where the boxer trades blows with their reflection. In other words, a shadow boxer is someone who fights themself.
After committing a violent felony, passing an anti- violence training is Ahmets last chance to take his personal and occupational future into his own hands. A challenging test that he can withstand only with difficulty.

No_PosterKIRSCHKUCHEN

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 23min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis:
Don’t fill life with days, fill days with life
After her husband’s death, Käthe doesn’t want to impose on anybody. She already ordered old people’s home brochures. But an accidental meeting with the love of her youth Hannes arises old contending feelings. Heartache and disappointment are mixed with desire and intimacy. Is it too late to forgive? Everyday Hannes is waiting for her on a bench in front of Käthe’s house. One day the bench stays empty and Käthe has to make a decision.

 

No_PosterDER ALTE MANN UND DIE KATZE 

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 10min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis:
Out of a profound longing for company and social contacts, an old, lonely man fantasies about a perfect world. Together with his imaginary cat he celebrates his 80th birthday. Suddenly the doorbell rings. His young, pretty neighbor is standing at the door.

 

 

No_PosterWIR KÖNNTEN, WIR SOLLTEN, WIR HÄTTEN DOCH…

 

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 11min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis:
A wintry Sunday evening. A German apartment. On television, the usual news about refugee disasters on the coast of Italy, in the kitchen Sushi is being stacked on a plate. An upper middle class couple is just getting cozy on the sofa, when the doorbell rings…