Best of STUDENT Shorts Festival
1h 4m
HAPPY PLACES, 20min., USA
Directed by Nich Frost
A mysterious stranger interrupts the evening of a seemingly normal family to visit his childhood home. But his presence progresses towards a possibly ominous outcome.
A CRYING DOLL, 10min., USA
Directed by Karan Lines
Marvilyn Eugene has been a captive along with her 9 year old son most of her life by her sexually abusive husband. On a cold mysterious dawn, she decides to break the sacred vow by brutally murdering her husband and runs away along with her son and escape such nightmares.
Xerocoles, 4min., USA
Directed by Karan Lines
A USBP car is driven down the Texas desert road on a hot steamy august day with country music being played on a backdrop. Across the horizon, a bandit sits on the mountain aiming his sniper at the car. A shot is fired and hits the BP officer. The car wiggles down the ditch. The sniper Bandit comes down the terrain and steals all the money from the USBP. He approaches the USBP car to steal when suddenly a surprising element appears from the trunk of the car. Xerocoles shares the story of the three deserter characters with the taste of an indie crime cinema in a pseudo-western world.
Into Zephyr, 30min., Iran
Directed by Seyed Morteza Sabzeghaba, Amin Nazari
The teacher of "Tengeh Dez" village spends a sweet but difficult experience every week on a walk and a trip in nature, and by being with the people of this deprived village. In order to cross the raging river in order to educate the children of this village, he has no other tools at his disposal except his feet, body and life.
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