Best Short Movies

Two siblings, Sid; a successful artist and Joe; a widowed mechanic, come together on the day of the earth's destruction to try and re-build their broken relationship. After a year and a half apart, Joe visits Sid at his prestigious new flat as they re-tread their past and come to terms with why their relationship has floundered. A story of brotherhood, realisation and acceptance set against the backdrop of the apocalypse.

A mentally ill young man sees everything that is happening in Yerevan with a bit of an exaggerated eye. Or does he?

The current day-to-day life is much different than what it was thirty or forty years ago, but it is the life to which we as people are now accustomed and take for granted. But it also provides us with what we must deal, including joys, happiness, sorry and anxiety. These thoughts are interpreted through a series of snapshots and sounds - some, what we now take for granted as being givens, but some more disturbing - combined in such a way to make one ponder if life is indeed better than it was thirty years ago.

8-year-old Joe has a birthday he'll never forget. His school friends tease him for lack of birthday gifts. Joe hides out in the school clinic and falls asleep, wishing the everyone in the world would go away. When he awakes, he finds his school empty and wonders if his wish has come true. But his fantasy is shattered, when an event darker than the thought of a being the last person on earth confronts him.

Clips of atomic explosions, pornography, and B-movies are spliced together to evoke certain emotions.

The Butterfly Circus is the story of a renowned circus troupe traveling through the devastated American landscape at the height of the Great Depression, lifting the spirits of audiences along the way. During their travels they discover a man without limbs in a carnival sideshow, but after an intriguing encounter with the showman, he becomes driven to hope against everything he has ever believed.

A newly arrived Turkish immigrant faces a series of mounting challenges on her path to reunite with her husband in America.

Italy, September 1955. A Formula One driver crashes his car during a race, leaving him stuck in a small village but good surprises will come his way.

Seemingly ordinary, nevertheless, sentient, a discarded plastic grocery bag is bent on shedding light on its existence. Abandoned by its maker, the immortal plastic bag embarks on an endless existential journey, drifting across unknown landscapes to reach its final destination: the vast, blue ocean. In its search for meaning and purpose in life, the once-useful shopping bag has unexpected encounters with mysterious creatures and experiences the effects of fleeting happiness, only to end up with its own kind in the close-knit plastic community of the Great Pacific garbage patch.

Riding through a children's wonderland of ice cream parlors and amusement parks, a Little Girl's innocent adventure is interrupted when her beloved bicycle is stolen. Forced to choose between giving it up, or giving chase, she sets off on a new and daring adventure in pursuit of the Big Man who has taken it.

The basis for the feature film "Hard Eight". The short begins with an older man (Hall) giving a younger man (Baltz) advice over cigarettes and coffee. The younger man tells how he won around $8,000 gambling. At a nearby table, a newlywed couple argues over losing money in Vegas playing craps. The husband lights his last cigarette before rethinking his marriage. Then a hitman (Ferrer) enters to buy cigarettes and coffee before hitting the road.

A short film about the problems that accompany an actor as he auditions, due to his multi-ethnic appearance.

Alfie and her new lover travel to a remote waterfall in the woods and she falls asleep there. A dream follows that is bizarre, surreal and horrific.

Struggling to come to terms with her life and marriage after breast cancer, Julia gets more than she bargained for when she attends a bridal shower and finds herself locked in a bathroom with Kat, the frank-talking sister of the bride-to-be. OPEN YOUR EYES is a poignant and humorous look at our complex relationship with breasts, each other and what it really means to be whole.

Sadly, having reached the lowest point in his life and on the brink of demise, the self-destructive outcast, Richie, desperately wants out. However, as nothing is over yet, an unexpected call from his estranged sister, Maggie, offers a new lease of life, even though it is only a fleeting one. Strange as it may seem--as Richie is the last person she would ever call--a distraught Maggie needs Richie, of all the people, to look after her young daughter, Sophia, for the night. However, as the two alienated relatives timidly reconnect under New York's silvery night lights, much to their surprise, a subtle and delicate relationship will start to bloom. Could this be the beginning of a new reality?

Kanye West in a fairytale.

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