Short movie.
Social & External
The people behind it
Sam Slovick
Lisa Barnes
Anna
In this short National Safety Council film, the perfect crime is presented as excess speed. Accidents at high speed often results in deaths and are rarely investigated like the robbery of a corner grocery shown at the beginning of the film. The film ends with a plea to support the costs of new modern roads.
A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.
A man and a woman, talking over their relationship.
Fifth grader Naho has been both mama and sister to her baby brother, Jun. After making plans to meet with her friends on her birthday, her father tells her that he has to go out for the day and that she needs to stay home with her brother, but he says that a Helper-san (babysitter) should be coming later. The Helper-san turns out to be a Dream sphere Dealer who offers Naho her choice of three very different dreams, and each one could change her life completely ...
Zbyszek volunteers as an organ donor for his friend.
With passion and uncertainty, Tzunami, a small-town Cuban girl prepares her "quinceañera", the celebration of her fifteen birthday - the official crossroads between innocence and maturity.
Two young men are alone at a self-service laundry. They are sitting next to each other, waiting in silence. An old framed embroidery of a young deer is hanging against the wall across them.
Para resgatar um amor do passado, uma mulher vai até as últimas consequências. Retornando ao local dos antigos encontros, acaba por descobrir que o seu amor vive agora em família e tem uma filha de 10 anos. O tempo passa lento no encontro que parece não ter fim, mas assim que o constrangimento se torna insuportável, surge a grande revelação: de que o amor não tem mesmo limites.
A farmer finds out that a wolf's bite has turned him into a voracious beast. Worse still, his only son seems to have swapped brains with one of his sheep.
Alice is a woman in her late thirties. Her life is in a rut. Each day at her work at a supermarket looks the same. Playing the piano is the only highpoint in her life. Then one day a mysterious stranger comes into her life.
A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies away with it.
Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go out with her, she lies and tells him that she is just babysitting the kids. This will be her first date in years.
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
Told entirely through still photos and voice-over, a young woman explores a large empty house in the countryside. As she wanders through the house, she muses on various subjects, including nature, color, beauty, how we can know or trust the things that we see. Though there are several animals around the house, she is the only person to be seen.
Every day, thousands of gay and lesbian students are verbally and physically harassed in schools. Bullied centers on the powerful story of Jamie Nabozny, a gay teenage boy, tormented for years by classmates in his middle and high schools. Jamie fought back, not with his fists but in a courtroom. His historic federal case established that gay and lesbian students have a constitutional right to be free from harassment and bullying.
It's 1972 and 'It's Time', but not it seems for Violet who is caught in the limbo world of adolescence in a small costal town. Director Graeme Wood's exceptional cinematic rendering of a place, a time and the hard-edged desperation of teen trouble is a tough tour de force of short filmmaking.
Terrorized by Guido, her drunken and brutal father, Marie receives assurance from her dying mother that the Madonna will always protect her. The father reels in just after the mother has expired, too drunk to realize the woman is dead, and finding the whiskey bottle empty, abuses the child. Marie appeals to the image of the Madonna and Guido, in a frenzy of rage, smashes it on the floor. Horrified at the sacrilege, Marie screams.
An earnest G.I. returning home from European trenches awaits a woman to whom he has written but never seen.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Jesse Freeman is a former special forces officer and explosives expert now working a regular job as a security guard in a state-of-the-art basketball arena. Trouble erupts when a tech-savvy cadre of terrorists kidnap the team's owner and Jesse's daughter during opening night. Facing a ticking clock and impossible odds, it's up to Jesse to not only save them but also a full house of fans in this highly charged action thriller.
