AUBREY GRUMP, 1min,. USA
Directed by Mike Dietz
"Some people are only happy when they're not."

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Last year I met artist/animator/producer Casey Follen while working on a freelance job. Several times a year Casey and her partners re...

BALI FRODO, 5min., Russia
Directed by Felix Benjamin Schaefer
After his epic journey to destroy the ring, Frodo Baggins spends the next 20 years of his life in Bali, Indonesia. Despite his attempts to have a regular life, his strong obsession with the ring makes it impossible for him to move on.
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THE JUMP, 5min., Poland
Directed Bogdan Kozula
When you don't get along with your boyfriend and need to prove him something.

UNDER THE BED, 1min,. UK
Directed by Jeremy Sladdin
Not your normal bedtime story.

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1. What motivated you to make this film? Firstly it was the challenge of telling a complete story in under a minute. Then I started to think about what kind of story it would be and I...

APPARITION GLIMMER, 5min., USA
Directed by Devin Christian
Meanwhile winding down at her home. Yeilda finds her lost foster sister at her doorstep. Their past has caught up to them. Frantically trying to figure out what to do. The connection between them has brought them together again like nothi...

PRIMETIME FOR MIME CRIME: A CHRISTMAS MOVIE, 5min,. USA
Directed by Christopher Francis
A private detective and crime scene photographer investigate the death of a mime.

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1. What motivated you to make this film?
A. The film was originally made for the Hyperfokal Film C...

Yakaru Talibé ( A Beggar's Dream ), 1min., Senegal
Directed by Cheikh Sidate Niang
Modou is a young talibé (child who begs on the street) who is a fan of soccer, especially of the Senegalese player Sadio Mané. His dream is to one day get the Senegal team’s jersey. On his way home with his fellow ...

DIRTY SECRETS, 4min., USA
Directed by Prathiba Natesan Batley
DIRTY SECRETS is autobiographical dance short film with an all women cast and crew, that traces a lifetime of sexual abuse and harassment across my lifespan in both the east and the west which is a surprisingly common story. This is an...

PLACES BEEN, 3min,. USA
Directed by Cameron Bortolussi

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

I really wanted to challenge myself. I wanted to see how quickly I could make a film, a half decent one at least, from start to finish. For an extra bit of challenge, I...

POSI-TRACTION, 5min., USA
Directed by Caleb Johnson, Clint Calvert
An intense emotional conflict scene between a mysterious older man and a younger man in a scene floating between reality and imagination, fear and despair. A man searches for something to justify his wrongs, but what awaits him wi...

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THE DARK SIDE OF BRIGHT NIGHTS, 50min., Germany
Directed by Sander van Iersel, Tim Visser
When light pollution causes the night to disappear, a fundamental clock for life on earth is thrown out of balance.

TIDAL VARIANCE, 30min., USA
Directed by Marin M.Yang
Water...

MISFORTUNE, 7min,. USA
Directed by Linda Kudzmas
Adapted from a Polish folktale, ‘Misfortune’ tells the story of two sisters; Marta the elder, and Zofia the younger. Marta is very rich, and lives in luxury. Zofia is very poor because Misfortune lives on her stove. Misfortune plagues Zofia, causin...

THE HEAVIEST ORDER, 10min., Germany
Directed by Peter Boeving
Greta Thunberg places a significant order at a bakery.

http://www.kloetzchenkino.de/2022/10/15/die-bestellung/

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

Food waste is a big topic in Germany at the momen...

THE NOTORIOUS NETWORK, 8min., USA
Directed by Sam Aria
After receiving an unexpected package, a group of sub-par villains is tasked with watching what the mysterious box contained, a baby.

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1. What motivated you to make this film?
I was in a class where the main assig...

GROWNUP, 5min,. USA
Directed by Jee Kim
A peculiarly precocious boy whose perfectly well-adjusted life comes to a halt when his long lost father returns to make amends.

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NOBODY, 4min., USA
Directed by Mingyuan Li
A woman comes to Paris, France seeking chances of making money to support her struggling family in China. And her fate has since been rewritten.

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PASSION, 7min., USA
Directed by Hyonok Kim
Mourning on lost beloved one is depicted by dance movements inspired by Italian Renaissance Paintings and sculpture Pieta. A woman is lamenting at the edge of madness, a man is supporting and watching over for not letting ...

THE SIGNAL - CASE #CE2-09031996-252, 14min., USA
Directed by Raymond Wallace
Two men find themselves being interrogated by a mysterious man in black after an other worldly encounter leads to the mysterious death of their friend and sister.

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CREEPERS, 9min., USA
Directed by Darren Bailey, Leo Kei Angelos
In this stylish horror-action short set to the music of The Midnight, a woman finds herself lost on a friend’s spooky ranch on Halloween night and being followed by a creepy man. When he’s finally confronted, things take a turn for t...

BELIEF, 4min., USA
Directed by Jiandong Shen
A conversation between two strangers, about religions and beliefs.

FROM HERE TO THERE!, 30min., UK
Directed by George Atkinson, Alan Ciechalski
From Here To There! is a Science Fiction Romantic Comedy about a young man named Casper who builds a teleportation device based on the concepts of 'Port and Starboard' that can take him anywhere in the world. He attempts...

HIGHWAY, 11min,. USA
Directed by Douglas Alan Cunningham
Betrayed by her husband, Amanda, a former Army Ranger, drives hours to meet a revenge lover but is followed by a mysterious and menacing truck on lonely desert roads.

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INCARNATION, 14min,. Australia
Directed by Bernard Winter
A man is tortured and tested upon seeks escape from a sinister facility – this escape is all part of the plan.

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DOJO, 15min., USA
Directed by Armin Alic
Shane Lucas, an ex-Yakuza member and 4th degree black belt in Judo, is hunted down at his local dojo in Los Angeles 1985 by his long-time rival, Elias Da Rosa and his crew members from the same crime family. Shane is threatened to come back to the Yakuza o...