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The Assasstant
USA, 2008, 15 min.
Mentoring a replacement can be a tough job when you aren't quite ready to go out yourself. Red Cobra may be a little long in the tooth and just past his prime, but he still has a trick or two up his sleeve to pass on to young Staniel.... more
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Because There are Things You Never Forget... (Porque hay cosas que nunca se olvidan...)
Spain, 2008, 13 min.
Young boys, a soccer ball, a broken window -- it's a typical experience in any childhood, except this one. A group of boys concoct an electrifying and elaborate revenge on the widow who has had enough of their nonsense.... more
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Berni's Doll
France, 2008, 11 min.
Dullard Berni leads a humdrum life punching a time clock in a squalid cat food factory, until one night, he spots an ad on TV that might hold the key to all of his life's desires: his very own lifelike sex doll, available with or without the standard appendages. This is one animated film that is def... more
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The Break up
USA, 2007, 8 min.
When Rachel -- possibly the most aggravating girlfriend in the world -- doesn't "get" the message Adam leaves for her telling her it's over, he's forced to go and tell her face to face. And after a brief, lunatic encounter with the feared Rachel, Andy's predicament is a little easier to understand.... more
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Check Please
USA, 2007, 5 min.
When a young woman is invited to meet her fiancé's parents at a dinner in a posh restaurant, she anticipates a lovely night. But the meal descends into bedlam as her fiancé and his father have a slight tussle over who will pick up the check.... more
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Close Relations
USA, 2008, 12 min.
Debbie is looking to her Uncle Jacob as she writes a history of her family, meeting him at his hotel room as he travels through town. Unfortunately, Uncle Jacob seems to have other things on his mind…or does he? Is this the creepiest crazy uncle story ever or simply a generational misstep?... more
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Communion
USA, 2008, 16 min.
Plans for a quickie wedding in Las Vegas go amusingly awry when a young couple's car breaks down in the desert.... more
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Cosmos
USA, 2007, 23 min.
This wry fable explores the imagined fate of a lone cosmonaut circling the earth at the precise moment that the former Soviet Union falls.... more
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Death in Charge
USA, 2008, 15 min.
The Grim Reaper becomes a babysitter for the night in this hilarious tale about a slightly dead high school cheerleader and the headstrong brat she's promised to look after for an errant mother.... more
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A Death in Progress
USA, 2008, 9 min.
Death has writer's block. The Grim Reaper is having a little trouble deciding how to kill his next victim. Too bad for Daniel, the guy he's trying to kill.... more
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Dog Days
France, 2007, 16 min.
When a twist of fate and an eerie similarity in appearance cause a little girl and a puppy from two very different households to be switched in childhood, their lives take diverse paths to a strangely similar future.... more
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E1even Roses
Canada, 2008, 5 min.
A misanthropic loner is convinced that a box of roses will get him the woman of his dreams in this fabulously twisted tale of animated terror.... more
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Fathom
Switzerland, 2007, 7 min.
A man's obsessive hunt for buried beach treasure with his metal detector leads him to a predicament he'd never considered.... more
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Get off My Land
United Kingdom, 2007, 5 min.
A couple bickers as they make their way overland on a hike but are halted by a man who claims they are trespassing. The hen-pecked hiker and his needling girlfriend are stumped for a reply, but find their voices soon enough. Too bad they couldn't just keep quiet.... more
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Gilles' Lili (La Lili à Gilles)
Canada, 2007, 16 min.
Gilles has a manipulative son, an attentive housekeeper and a sparkling granddaughter, all of whom are gathered for dinner at his house, which his son wants to sell out from under him. Gilles may not remember things perfectly, but what he does remember is magical for those who will listen.... more
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Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
Ireland, 2008, 5 min.
WON: Runner up, Audience Favorite Animation Short
Granny O'Grimm retells her version of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale to her granddaughter as a bedtime story. But Granny's version hits a little too close to home.... more
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Hope Springs Eternal
USA, 2007, 7 min.
An incompetent suicidal man keeps trying to kill himself, but all he manages to bring to an end are the lives of a number of other people.... more
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I Think I Thought
USA, 2007, 7 min.
This subversive send-up of a society in which people just don't think for themselves stars Mathew Modine as a man who finds himself obsessed with thinking, and almost loses his job, his marriage and his sanity to his newfound passion.... more
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A Juicy Turkey (La Dinde Marinée)
France, 2008, 13 min.
A husband, fed up with his wife being distracted as usual by George Clooney in "E.R.," forbids her to watch anymore. Later, he returns home to find his wife has made a tiny mistake while cooking dinner. Bon appètite!... more
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The Last Thing to Go through a Fly's Mind
United Kingdom, 2007, 9 min.
A car crashes. The driver becomes an accident victim, his soul seemingly reincarnated over and over again until…a car crashes.... more
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Living Dead (Mort Vivant)
France, 2007, 10 min.
Jacques Dugain is an accountant accused of swindling everything: he's lost his job, his family, his honor. In the early hours he sinks into a forest to terminate his days. But when he presses on the trigger, fate intervenes.... more
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The Lost Ones (Las Perdidas)
USA, 2008, 16 min.
Three women whose car breaks down in the desert find themselves the potential victims of a possible serial killer who comes to their rescue in this giddy farce about malice and misperceptions.... more
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My Name is Pochsy: An Industrial Film
Canada, 2007, 7 min.
Pochsy has a life altering moment when she is audited at work and decides to examine her life in the same way.... more
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My Rabit Hoppy
Australia, 2008, 3 min.
WON: The Hard C Hi Five to Lo-Fi Award for Best Low Budget Short
Young Henry's Show-and-Tell school project about his pet rabbit goes horribly awry.... more
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One Careful Owner
United Kingdom, 2008, 12 min.
Derek's pride and joy is his classic Ford Capri, which is chronically breaking down. His Zen-obsessed wife rails against the car, but Derek's not sure which of them is the bigger problem, so he solves both of his dilemmas with one simple solution.... more
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Post Mortem
USA, 2008, 14 min.
A doctor works long hours in the hospital morgue, and his patients becoming dangerously close to the only friends he has. As his live friends try hard to keep in him in the world of the living, his dead patients seem to have greater hold over him.... more
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Side Effects
USA, 2008, 9 min.
Arye Gross stars as a man who meets a curious young pharmacist when he stops at the drugstore for a refill of Seconal after his wife has left him, in this wry tale about getting the right prescription for heartbreak.... more
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Single Occupancy
United Kingdom, 2008, 17 min.
Alone after his girlfriend leaves him, a writer suffers a fatal, freak accident in his home, and the story is narrated through a series of mock interviews with his best friend, Terry, who eventually finds the body.... more
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A Small Silent Film about Death
United Kingdom, 2008, 4 min.
Death isn't really dying if you can send a message back to your loved ones, is it?... more
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Stanley & Dean
Australia, 2007, 5 min.
After a clock tower accident of unusual proportions, Stanley and Dean set out for some revenge.... more
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Supply and Demand (L'Offre et la Demande)
France, 2007, 18 min.
A young man finally finds something he is good at when he takes a job in a police forensic lab, assisting the head doctor with autopsies in criminal cases. But when the flow of bodies begins to slow down, he decides to take matters into his own hands.... more
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This Way Up
United Kingdom, 2008, 9 min.
WON: Audience Favorite Animation Short
Two undertakers run into a number of slight problems delivering a body for burial.... more
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Tony Zear (Tony Zoreil)
France, 2007, 19 min.
Tony Zear comes from a long line of big-eared Zear’s. Really big-eared. When his parents try to arrange a blind date with a girl from another big-eared family, Tony resists. Surely there must be someone normal who'll love him as he is?... more
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You Better Watch Out
Australia, 2007, 22 min.
In this maniacally funny tale of misdirected revenge, Chris Haywood stars as a misanthropic department store Santa, kidnapped by a disgruntled pair of nitwits who want to get even for all the Christmas gifts they didn't get.... more
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