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The 20 Second Rule
USA, 2008, 13 min.
When the phone-salesman-from-hell makes the mistake of tangling with the wrong customer (a Voodoo priestess in the midst of casting a spell), the results are hilariously appropriate.... more
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Adelaide
USA, 2008, 12 min.
Adelaide's Munchausen's Syndrome serves her well — getting her out of the house, helping her meet people emergency medical workers and doctors trying to save her life. The tables turn, however, when she meets a young pharmacist who seems to like her just the way she is.... more
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The Art of Darts & Dying
Australia, 2008, 20 min.
Life is a series of endless choices, but for one man the siren call of the dart board may make his choice for him.... more
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Careful Carl
United Kingdom, 2009, 9 min.
Carl is careful, predictable and very safe. He has a wife named Vicky, for whom he has brought home a sensible birthday gift. Vicky hopes Carl has also brought home some fun -- a little romance and maybe a celebration -- but Carl's not really a risky kind of guy.... more
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Charlie Thistle
USA, 2008, 14 min.
In the Department of Normality, Charlie Thistle is a little unhappy with his work. However, a promotion to a new title allows him to make some -- gasp! -- changes.... more
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Conrad the Wise
Canada, 2009, 10 min.
Conrad, who lives with his caretaker great-aunt, has a very special friend who lives in the garden shack out back.... more
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Dead Bunny
USA, 2008, 13 min.
Mary and John have broken up. John is devastated: it's his first heartbreak, and he's not handling it well. When their dog Binky brings home 80 year-old Mrs. Pattersen's pet bunny -- dead -- the two are brought together one last time to right a wrong and maybe, just maybe, find their love again.... more
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Dear Diary
Australia, 2009, 19 min.
Arthur seems convinced that his wife is trying to kill him -- "accidentally" -- and needs to get away before it's too late. But the truth will be revealed before this day is done, in a surprising climax to a convoluted tale of matrimony and murderous intent.... more
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The Dinner
Hungary, 2008, 27 min.
This Venice Film Festival award-winner tells the wry tale of a hapless pig farmer whose minor domestic accident turns into a wholly unexpected catastrophe for all involved.... more
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The Funk
Australia, 2008, 6 min.
Jack woke up in a funk one morning. No one could say how it started, but once in a funk there really is only one way to end it.... more
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Imminent
USA, 2008, 10 min.
An unsettling stare-down between two friends becomes even more unsettling once they return to their car after a trip to a supermarket for beer in the course of one strange evening.... more
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Last Meal
USA, 2008, 12 min.
A famous diner offers its clientele "last meals" from equally famous death row prisoners. You can order the Dahmer or the Gacy, or even the Timothy McVeigh. When tourists Noah and Clare come in and an urban legend turns out to be true, dinner would be best served to-go.... more
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Love and Roadkill
USA, 2008, 14 min.
A Manhattan woman has car trouble on an idyllic country road in the middle of nowhere, right next to a dead deer. When help arrives, it's wrapped in an unlikely package and the rescue becomes more unnerving than the trouble.... more
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Love Hate
United Kingdom, 2009, 20 min.
Is it really ever wise to unleash your inner Id? And if you did, could you get her to go home when you'd had enough?... more
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Maid to Oust
Switzerland, 2008, 20 min.
Stephanie, an ambitious young maid whose home life is less than ideal, seeks to create a new life for herself at the home of a woman who seems to have everything Stephanie wants, including an oblivious husband.... more
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Make Yourself at Home
France, 2008, 21 min.
Benoit, newly arrived in Paris, hosts a party at his flat, but when the party is over, three of the guests aren't quite ready to leave.... more
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The Man Inside
Ireland, 2008, 14 min.
Trapped in his rooftop apartment when his key breaks off in the lock one morning as he prepares to leave for work, a hapless man tries everything he can to make the best of a bad situation.... more
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Marry, F**k, Kill
USA, 2008, 2 min.
As a couple sits around their apartment bored one day, the wife suggests a game they can play to kill a little time.... more
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Me, Me, Me
United Kingdom, 2009, 20 min.
An ambitious actor makes up for his lack of charm with an overabundance of narcissism, but his drive to be cast in the next big film is thwarted by another, more charming and handsome than he.... more
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Mite
Germany, 2008, 5 min.
In this twisted pastiche of live action and animation, a young man brings his grandmother home from the hospital to find her apartment has a few more inhabitants than he had anticipated.... more
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Multiple Choice
Australia, 2008, 5 min.
Three, too-smart-for-their-own-good students try to outwit their professor during final exams.... more
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My Treat
USA, 2008, 4 min.
Two female friends are out to lunch when an argument breaks out about who will pay the bill.... more
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One of Those Days
United Kingdom, 2008, 14 min.
A clerical error has dull and predictable Howard Whittam (Derek Jacobi) and his wife caught in a bureaucratic nightmare on Judgment Day.... more
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The Problem with Pets
United Kingdom, 2008, 13 min.
When Monica's mom's new boyfriend, Dr. Dick, comes to stay for the weekend, unsettling things begin to happen to Monica's menagerie of pets.... more
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Road Kill
USA, 2009, 5 min.
A young boy tries to hitch a ride from the wrong person.... more
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SIMULACRUM®
USA, 2009, 12 min.
Frustrated at work and in love, and hoping to launch his long-held dream of writing a novel, Micky orders up a clone to take his place while the real Micky finally starts in on his novel. Things don't turn out quite the way he'd planned, as the clone turns out to succeed beyond Micky's wildest dream... more
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Sprinkles
USA, 2009, 10 min.
Apoplectic when her beloved dog dies suddenly, a woman enlists the aid of her best friend to dispose of the body, unable to cope with the chore herself. What she doesn't count on is the unorthodox way her friend has of dealing with the request.... more
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Sticky
Switzerland, 2008, 8 min.
Now that his wife has finally left him, a man and his best friend have lots to talk about as they sit in a steam room discussing what led to the break up. Maybe a steam room is not the best place for confessions?... more
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Styx
Scotland, 2008, 7 min.
A man seeks to escape the cavernous realm of Limbo by crossing the great River Styx to the afterlife. The only problem is, the man who ferries people across in his boat will only accept exact change for the trip.... more
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The Taxidermist
United Kingdom, 2008, 22 min.
An unusual elixir has extended the life of all the pets in the desolate village of Gibworth. This is good news for the pet food shop owner, but not so good for the taxidermist next door.... more
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This Is Her
New Zealand, 2008, 12 min.
The anatomy of a relationship is strikingly examined in painstaking detail as a family's history unfolds onscreen.... more
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Werewolf Trouble
USA, 2008, 7 min.
Ryan is a werewolf. Horrified to wake up one morning only partially transformed, Ryan calls upon his two yahoo roommates for help, but they really don't have his best interests at heart.... more
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The Williams
France, 2008, 14 min.
When a guy asks his demented friend William to look after his dog -- also named William -- while he's on his honeymoon, he doesn't reckon with the complications that might arise from putting two such twisted souls together.... more
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