WORLD PREMIERE
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Four teenage students that their end of year exams. Inside these students' minds there are vivid imaginations and different ways of expressing themselves. That's because they have dyslexia, autism or ADHD. Not all of them manage to complete the papers. Plays before the feature film White Lie
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Everyone has secrets - some big, some small. Through a series of personal, intimate and random street interviews, Ending in Six Minutes explores the innermost secrets of everyday people interviewed on Australia's Sydney streets. Part of Shorts Program 6: Docu-Nation
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When the tables turn, nothing is as it seems. When the bar doors closed one evening, the night was far from over. After Matt, a handsome, young bartender, discovers an attractive, bloodied woman passed out on the bathroom floor, the descent into utter chaos begins. He and his arrogant manager, Tony, frantically argue about what to do when she wakes up and hysterically accuses them of attacking her. Taking matters into her own hands with irresistible charm and manipulative mind games, she discovers their deepest, innermost weaknesses.
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After being mugged by Freud and Jung, brilliant scientist Doktor Fang creates a machine to prove his own theory about the nature of dreams. But on his return from the patent office he discovers his assistant murdered, the machine gone, and the two assassins trying to kill him. Part of Shorts Program 5: Mindbenders
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Re-developers are destroying the Dharavi slum. Its one million residents struggle to keep their hopes and dreams alive. Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts
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With change comes sacrifice. From rocker to family man, this captivating debut reveals the strife we face when it's time to grow up. The rhythm of Sully's (Lawrence Levine, Gabi on the Roof In July) life drastically changes when he abandons Philadelphia's gritty punk rock scene for suburban simplicity. Now, in a dull office job, Sully must support his family, while the lifestyle he had lead is tough to let go. Nostalgia puts him in a paralyzing daze of somber apathy, prompting his exasperated wife to beg him to focus on the present.
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Follow the Biloxi, MS based Ohr O'Keefe Museum through it's development by architect Frank Gehry, it's destruction by Hurricane Katrina and it's triumphant rebuilding. Learn the story of George Ohr, the mad potter of Biloxi. Plays before the feature film Stable Life
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From Castro's Cuba to America - Remarkable stories of immigration and success. When Fidel Castro revealed the true nature of his dictatorship, thousands of Cubans, including many who had supported him, escaped to the U.S. seeking freedom and a better life. Cubamerican weaves a mosaic of Cuban history, beginning in 1952 until present day, through the recollections and experiences of Cuban exiles who fled Communism. Cuban-Americans were brought to freedom in the United States by a generation that left everything they owned behind.
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Crisalida, which means cocoon of an incubating butterfly, is the name of an 86-year-old woman who watches the world through her bedroom window. Over the course of a Sunday in her small Cuban town, her past and present converge in profoundly ironic, unsettling ways. Part of Shorts Program 6: Docu-Nation
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Detective Dan Skok's methods are, to say the least, unusual.
As a member of Missing Persons unit, Detective Skok realizes the first 72 hours are the most critical in any investigation. When a young boy goes missing inside his own house, Skok immediately recognizes the unusualness of the case and takes the opportunity to have his team move in with the family and become residents of the crime scene. What follows is an absurd and comic investigation that leaves no stone unturned, no family member un-interrogated. . . and no wall without an entire wallpaper made up of missing posters.