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26, Best Korean Girl
Brazil, 2009, 8 min.
Besieged with phone calls from her mother who's trying to match her up with a suitable mate, a young Korean woman deals the pressure in her own unique way.... more
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Abuelo
USA, 2009, 15 min.
When 12-year-old Emily loses her mother, the last thing she wants is her grandfather caring for her. He's old, doesn't even speak English and seems to think he's in charge.... more
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Act As If
USA, 2009, 18 min.
Harvard women's basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith teaches her players to "act as if" they can overcome any obstacle to achieve their goals. Now, the winningest coach in Ivy League history must apply this philosophy to her own harrowing fight against cancer.... 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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Arioi Women
Australia, 2008, 16 min.
Mid-16th century Tahiti sets the stage for this mythic story of a young girl who yearns to dance as part of the privileged Arioi Tribe. The magical movements of the dancers mimic the rhythms of the earth, nature and Woman, but now an extraordinary sacrifice is expected.... more
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Before the Sea
USA, 2008, 8 min.
A father and son share the space on the family fishing boat, but not necessarily the dreams.... more
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The Big 1-0
Canada, 2008, 17 min.
A landmark birthday seems pretty straightforward for Morris who steals a TV and paints it pink for his daughter, Erin. It's a little more complicated for Erin. For one thing, she's dressed in black and selling her gifts at a yard sale. For another, she stopped liking pink years ago.... more
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Blossom
Netherlands, 2008, 25 min.
Unable to speak with others, Afanai makes her living crafting jewelry she sells on the internet, relying on her friendly mailman to take her post each day. When he becomes ill, Afanai's life grinds to a frightening stop as she desperately tries to face the world outside.... more
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Blue-Eyed Mary
USA, 2008, 13 min.
Free-spirited tomboy Johanna is far more interested in the neighbor boy than she is in her aunt's life lessons. But her distractions are about to cost her more than a few undone chores.... more
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Cabaret Kadne
Spain, 2008, 5 min.
Otto and Lola are two cabaret artists for whom the show is everything.... more
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Cigarette Candy
USA, 2009, 13 min.
When a young marine just back from a harrowing tour of duty in the Middle East is forced to play the roll of hero at a homecoming party thrown in his honor, he finds himself attracted to a rebellious young woman who appears to be a kindred soul.... more
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The Clockmaker's Revelation
Mexico, 2008, 5 min.
A room comes to life with the fantastical imaginings of the clockmaker as she diligently works on constructing her own sense of time and space.... more
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Day-In Day-Out
Brazil, 2008, 17 min.
A wife moves through her days, each the same, in anticipation of her husband's company.... more
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Desert Wedding
USA, 2008, 14 min.
When her bouquet turns up missing on her big day, Marissa, an excited bride-to-be, turns into a raging bridezilla -- until an unexpected event suddenly puts her petty concerns into stark perspective.... more
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Domestic Flight
United Kingdom, 2008, 17 min.
Belittled by her husband and ignored by her daughter, sweetly tempered Edie finds a little ray of sunshine in the unexpected discovery of just who exactly her family is.... more
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Emilia Eckle
USA, 2009, 7 min.
Lovely Emilia finds bookish Tom to be charming and delightful. If he keeps his glasses on, he feels the same way about her. Their first date a hit, it does seem to be true love -- at least, until the awkward moment after the good-night kiss.... more
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Escape
Germany, 2008, 21 min.
A woman is trapped, awaiting new horrors to follow those she's already endured. She seizes upon on a terrifying escape route, risking everything for freedom.... more
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FOUR
Australia, 18 min.
In the freewheeling, anything-goes era of the swinging 70's, Kit and Diana decide to spice up their lives through a little sexual experimentation with their new neighbors, but amusingly unexpected complications arise.... more
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Holy Water
Puerto Rico, 2009, 11 min.
Katerina, whose hormones are boiling over, finds herself drawn to her close girlfriend Carmen, who seems to be even more interested in her in return. But on the night of a class party, Katerina is forced to make a choice between what's expected of her and what she truly wants.... more
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In Between
Canada, 2009, 8 min.
Late at night, Leila convinces her brother to let her run the family convenience story by herself. Apprehensively he agrees, but demands she call him if anything unusual happens -- which tonight means she should be calling a lot.... more
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Invasion
Australia, 2008, 15 min.
A woman is brutally attacked inside her house by a stranger. She escapes with her life, but the kindness of others is nearly more than she can bear.... more
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Lash
Australia, 2008, 5 min.
What if you live your whole life in one day and that day is today? Celina confronts this question, as she relives past lives in which she and her lover Olisa shared a forbidden love in the midst of a hostile world.... more
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Love and Other Red Spot Specials
Australia, 2008, 6 min.
Cecilia is beloved by the unseen Evan via a supermarket surveillance camera. But this one-sided romance won't satisfy Cecilia for long.... more
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Love...and the Space Between
Australia, 2009, 14 min.
Elie has lost her lover Diana, whose ghost hovers around in hopes that Elie won't sink into a well of despair at her passing, but instead finds a way to get on with her life and find another mate. Their mutual friend Jak is only too happy to help.... more
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Lucha
USA, 2009, 15 min.
Set in 1982 against the backdrop of the insurgency in El Salvador, Lucha traces the plight of two women in love whose only respite from the battles raging against their oppressive government is the solace found in each other's arms.... more
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The Monday Before Thanksgiving
USA, 2008, 20 min.
A successful woman (Dern) who is perfectly satisfied with her single status starts to have doubts about her own happiness when the concerns of her family and friends begin to seem overwhelming.... more
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Off Season
United Kingdom, 2008, 12 min.
A windswept beach offers solitude and quiet, but a father needs more than that to help his son understand the nature of loss and finality.... more
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Once Upon a Crime
USA, 2009, 11 min.
What's the story behind this courtroom drama about a hard-boiled lawyer seeking to bring charges involving the promotion of child abuse, pedophilia and necrophilia against a seemingly innocent young woman?... 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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Orange Peel
USA, 2008, 15 min.
Orange Peel heads to London with a risky plan to achieve all her dreams and desires.... more
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The Purepecha: Poorest of the Poor
USA, 2009, 27 min.
The Coachella Valley's notorious Duroville trailer park is home to many Purépecha, a Mesoamerican people with a proud and ancient history. This is the story of their struggle to maintain their community in the face of the government's attempts to close the park down.... more
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Red Flag
USA, 2008, 11 min.
Frustrated by a series of bad blind dates she's been set up with by friends, Tracy decides she's done with romance for a while. Then one day on a walk through the park, she meets a guy who seems to be Mr. Right.... more
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Sex & German Grammar
USA, 2009, 14 min.
Sister Rachel has a bad habit of showing up just at the wrong time, and this time it's when her sister and boyfriend are engaged in their odd lovemaking ritual: learning German grammar while trying to concentrate on the erotic game at hand.... more
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Streak
USA, 2008, 16 min.
When one young woman (Rumer Willis) rejects the obsessive calorie counting of her gym-rat girlfriends, she finds her salvation in an unusual form of expression. Directed by Demi Moore.... more
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Swings and Roundabouts
Australia, 2008, 9 min.
Two unlikely souls find their attraction mutual and symbiotic.... more
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T.
USA, 2008, 6 min.
In a forbidding future world, two young lesbian lovers who have been deprogrammed by an uncaring police state find each other before being threatened with separation once again.... more
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Tell
United Kingdom, 2008, 3 min.
A young woman explains what she will, and won't, allow into her life.... 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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This Life
Australia, 2008, 9 min.
The paths of three individuals from vastly different walks of life intersect with startling results when a young man's frustrations spill over into an incident that reflects the alienation he feels. Danny Glover plays an ailing, elderly widower in this riveting drama.... more
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The Wake
Australia, 2009, 7 min.
When the well-meaning but hopelessly inappropriate best friend of his older brother shows up at the wake for his just-departed father, young Charles finds an unlikely -- and unintentionally amusing -- companion in his hour of need.... more
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Whose Dog Is It Anyway?
USA, 2009, 11 min.
When her pregnant sister is forced to give up her beloved pooch Willy because of a move to a new apartment, Emma -- not a dog person by nature -- agrees to adopt him despite her misgivings.... more
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Wild Like Ego
USA, 2008, 17 min.
17 year-old Kelly is smart, funny, rebellious and very, very horny. Sexy Ego is older, louder, a little dim, and ready to bounce out of town to LA. But Kelly's conservative family, who would love for Ego to be gone for good, have one last hold on her before she can escape too.... more
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Young Love
Australia, 2008, 7 min.
Erno struggles to run, clutching his stomach and wincing in pain with each step as he traverses a deserted farmland. Even in tortuous pain, it seems clear it is not safe for Erno to stop but what's he running from?... more
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