A Day At The Office
USA, 2005, 16 min.
This satirical comedy depicts the ordeals of a nameless homeless man as he scams, cons, and schemes to make a buck.... more

A Difficult Case
Scotland, 2005, 11 min.
A remarkable story of hallucinatory voices that diagnosed a brain tumor and the British psychiatrist who was prepared to gamble his professional creditabilty and believe them.... more

A Good Day (En god dag)
Sweden, 16 min.
In the middle of the train tracks Nils pulls on his car’s hand brake and turns off the engine. But fortune and a nearby farmer intervenes.... more

A Hell of Fishing (Une Peche D'enfer )
Belgium, 2006, 24 min.
This trenchant documentary traces the decimation of a Senagalese fishery to global explotation of the world’s resources by wealthy corporations.... more

A Little Bit Higher (Kami Balatar)
Iran, 2005, 12 min.
Two crane operators who have never met before are waiting to start work. The young man’s head is full of his chaotic love life; the older man, an ex-teacher who is standing in for the usual driver, is afraid that somebody might catch on; when the true nature of the job is revealed to him.... more

A Little Light
USA, 2006, 23 min.
Life is simple for Ernie, Los Angeles Parking Enforcer extraordinaire. Even gravity ‘flaking out’ and sucking random people into the sky doesn’t throw Ernie off his stride.... more

A Riot in the Dark
USA, 2006, 10 min.
Nasur’s plans for revenge are unpturned when he catches his bully in a disturbing and perverse situation.... more

A Supermarket Love Song
United Kingdom, 2005, 14 min.
A teenage girl doing community service takes an isolated old man to the supermarket in this character-driven drama set in contemporary London. A love story in a minor key.... more

Across the Hall
USA, 2005, 25 min.
A quiet night takes a dangerous turn when Julian (Adrian Grenier) receives a frantic phone call from his best friend, Terry (James Oliver).... more

Adidas “Adicolor - Green”
USA, 2006, 4 min.
10 or 20 million years from now, a futuristic Palm Springs ritual (involving small green truffles) commemorates the end of the Nuclear Winter.... more

Adventure Time
7 min.
Pen and his Zen dog Jake fight a snow monster and angry penguins as they try to rescue the Bubble Gum Princess from the evil Ice King.... more

Adventures in the Mind of Jack Quimby
USA, 2005, 15 min.
Jack Quimby can’t find peace at home, but he can make it for himself. Through his magical thoughts he creates stories that provide him sanctity and eventually deliverance from the harsh reality at home.... more

Afraid So
USA, 3 min.
Based on a poem where each line forms a question with the implied response being “afraid so.” Narrated by Garrison Keillor.... more

After June
USA, 2005, 15 min.
Three old friends meet for an afternoon of furniture moving, petty theft, and fortune telling, but when the tea leaves are read, a hint of menace is predicted before the day is over.... more

After the World Changed
99 min.
We’re all familiar with the date: 9/11/01; what we’ll never fully know are the multitude of stories connected with the events of that date and its aftermath, though the eight stories included in this selection are as moving and provocative as anything you’re ever likely to see or read about in conne... more

Afterlife
Australia, 2006, 9 min.
A female flight attendant on a trans-Pacific flight asks the questions, “What would you do with the last five minutes of your life?”... more

Air Band: or How I hated being Bobby Manelli's blonde headed friend.
USA, 2005, 29 min.
A tale of friendship, rivalry, and rock ‘n’ roll set in the late 1980s. Darren has always lived in the shadow of his best friend Bobby, the lead singer for their air band Ma-cab-ree. When a rival band challenges Ma-cab-ree’s supremacy, Darren proves to himself, his friend Bobby, and an audience that... more

Air Guitar
USA, 2005, 4 min.
In a mock casting session more than 200 candidates (many actual air guitar champions from around the world) vie for a lead role in a movie.... more

Alex's Party
Australia, 2006, 12 min.
Christie is a thief. When she breaks into a studio one night she learns that some things are priceless.... more

Alone and Inhuman
USA, 2006, 14 min.
In this perverse tale, an evil farmer cultivates an insidious new drug, but he soon get a taste of his own medicine.... more

The Aluminum Fowl
USA, 2005, 13 min.
A cinematically beautiful and disturbing portrait of four brothers living on a rural Louisiana cockfighting farm. Please note: There are disturbing scenes involving animal cruelty in this film.... more

Angel's Fire (Fuego De Angel)
Spain, 2006, 13 min.
Eight-year-old Angel works in a brick factory all day long in his village in Peru near Lake Titicaca. This documentary depicts the forced labor of children and the poverty and despair that leads parents into abuse.... more

Angry Unpaid Hooker
USA, 2005, 7 min.
In this wry animated short, a young man wakes up with a cranky prostitute in his apartment. He can’t pay her, and he can’t explain to his girlfriend how she got there.... more

Animal (Elukka)
Finland, 2005, 28 min.
This animated short combines twisted humor and folk tale to tell the story of a widowed father who is turning into a werewolf, his son who has traded bodies with a lamb, and a female doctor—the object of the father's desire.... more

Animal Attraction
97 min.
Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my! Our fascination with the animal world may just be because we know little separates us from the denizens of the feathered, finned or four legged world other than the ability to talk and to reason; that said, we do share certain “animal instincts…”... more

Apocalypse Oz
USA, 2006, 25 min.
In a filmic synthesis of Apocalypse Now and The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy Willard, a disgruntled Vietnamese-American teenager embarks on a journey to find her Vietnam-vet father.... more

Around the World
114 min.
The world is immense and at the same time incredibly small. These brilliant shorts explore the interconnectness of it all, and examine—as the current phase in vogue has it—the root causes of our problems.... more

The Art of the Story
81 min.
Sublime storytelling connects these glorious films that reveal the human condition in all its glory and variety.... more

Aruba
Canada, 2006, 11 min.
WINNER: PANAVISION GRAND JURY AWARD - 2006 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. The redemptive story of an 11-year-old boy who escapes a home-life of domestic violence and drug abuse through his imagination.... more

The Audience
2006, 5 min.
Celebrated BBC telejournalist Alan Feasible introduces us to Alex Thomas, a comedian who travels with his own audience—the logical extension of the celebrity entourage.... more

Auteur
USA, 2006, 26 min.
The satirical tale follows the rise and fall of an ambitious film buff who pirates films to raise money to produce his own screenplay.... more

Available Men
2005, 15 min.
A harried Hollywood agent trying to court a hot new writer he’s never met hooks up with a sensitive gay man (with same first name as the writer) who’s on a blind date in this comedy of mistaken identity.... more

Avatar
Spain, 2005, 15 min.
In this stylish thriller a beautiful wife’s resentment of her wheelchair-bound husband is played out in their gorgeous black and white tiled bathroom.... more

Bad Habits
Australia, 2006, 9 min.
Bill has to make a compromise when forced to choose between his wife and is best mate. His best mate is his dog, Seven.... more

Bagelized
USA, 2005, 5 min.
A bagel man teaches an apprentice everything there is to bagel-making, but the young woman turns out to not be an apprentice... more

Ballyvaughan Story
USA, 2006, 7 min.
Based on a true story, this beautiful animated short tells the tale of the village of Ballyvaughan in Western Ireland during the Irish War of Independence in 1921.... more

Bare
Ireland, 2005, 5 min.
Roses, cherries, fish, goats. Shimmering ponds and swan-like throats. Verdant forests and golden hair. Guy gets lyrical, girl gets bare... more

Bawke
Norway, 2005, 15 min.
WINNER: BEST OF THE FESTIVAL Award - Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. A man and his very young son have been on the run for a very long time. When they reach their destination, the father is forced to make a choice between two evils to provide for his sons future.... more

Before Sunrise
Ireland, 2005, 5 min.
In a place among the skewed and twisted houses of a quaint village, the shadows play in the moonlight. It is a world of magic where a shadow can fall in love with a flame.... more

Benjamin's Struggle
United Kingdom, 2005, 18 min.
A 9-year-old German Jewish boy chances upon the highly-prized original manuscript of Hitler's Mein Kampf, and begins a lifelong quest.... more

Best and Fairest
Australia, 2005, 14 min.
Two brothers are driving their mentally ill father to a nursing home.The father is aware that he has two sons, but only recognizes one of them.... more

Best of ShortFest 06 - Audience Favorites III
84 min.

Best of ShortFest 06 - Audience Favorites II
84 min.

Best of ShortFest 06 - Jury Award Winners I
86 min.

Best of ShortFest 06 - Jury Award Winners II
89 min.

Best of ShortFest 06 - Programmers Picks
85 min.

Best of ShortFest 06 - Audience Favorites I
92 min.

The Betsy Wetsy Time Bomb Effect
USA, 2005, 22 min.
What if your life was a sitcom? Or if an argument with your mother turned into a scene from Dynasty? That’s exactly what happens to Alistair!... more

Big Girl
Canada, 2005, 14 min.
In playful competition with Mom’s boyfriend, nine-year old Josephine learns that letting people in can lead to wonderful things.... more

The Big Toe (Le Gros Orteil)
USA, 13 min.
Recalling the stylish b&w films of the nouvelle vague, a young boy finds a human toe on the beach in 1960s France and takes it home.... more

Billy Goats Bacon & Bunk “Moby Weenie”
5 min.
Bacon and Bunk are two billy goat best friends searching for a stolen hot dog. Can they survive the emotional trauma?... more

Birth of Industry
2005, 13 min.
A ravishing fable that personifies the industrial revolution as a mother who gives birth to a rapacious son.... more

Black Sea
USA, 2005, 21 min.
A young American travels to Romania to reconnect with his estranged father.... more

Blindsight
USA, 2005, 10 min.
The story of a man who has a neurological disorder that leaves him unable to recognize faces. Ethan faces a series of bizarre encounters that make him question his memory, his sanity, and even his own identity.... more

The Body Against (Contracuerpo)
Spain, 2006, 14 min.
A young woman obsessed with her image turns her body into a prison, and lives a self-destructive dream of becoming what she is not.... more

Body Language
93 min.
The body can be a source of great pleasure and great pain. In this collection of gems, ambivalence is the key…... more

Booth Story
Australia, 2006, 12 min.
A sad but often funny tale of the lengths to which one man goes to overcome loneliness—the story of a duck, a booth man, escape, and an unexpected swim in a country lake.... more

Boy Meets Boy...
88 min.
Okay, strictly speaking, not every short in this package involves two boys or men meeting for the first time. That said, each of them does involve a one-on-one encounter in which something unexpected happens between the protagonists, but we didn’t want to call the package “Tales of the Unexpected”, ... more

Boy Meets Girl.
107 min.
We all know what happens when boy meets girl… or do we? Expect the unexpected when the hero and heroine of each of these distinctly different shorts encounters each other. Your view of male-female relationships may never be the same!... more

Breakdown
USA, 2006, 11 min.
An unlucky-in-love casting director, desperate to find the perfect man, puts out a call for a new 'untitled romantic comedy.' After sorting through hundreds of headshots Mary calls in her favorites...... more

Breakfast with Suicide (Desayuno con el Suicida)
Colombia, 2005, 7 min.
Residents of a apartment building wake up to discover that one of their neighbors is about to jump from his window. In commiserating with the jumper, everyone realizes that they all have similar complaints.... more

Breathe
Australia, 2005, 15 min.
A young couple copes with the birth of their severly disabled son.... more

Bugcrush
USA, 2006, 36 min.
A story of Ben, small-town high school loner, whose fascination with Grant, a dangerously seductive new kid, leads him into something much more sinister than he could ever have imagined.... more

The Butler of the Van der Waal House
USA, 2005, 9 min.
After serving for many years as the Van der Waal family's butler Orson is dismayed at the changes in the household. After the death of the mother, Orson adds the job of preventing the son’s numerous attempts on Mr. Van der Waal's life to his daily responsibilities.... more