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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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Alter Ego
France, 2008, 21 min.
Esther and Nadir have both used the internet to help their floundering love lives, but their unexpected realities leave little room for romance.... 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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Arithmetic Lesson
USA, 2009, 17 min.
Seven year-old Gracie's mother lies dying in a hospital with her husband by her side. A Taiwanese au pair, hired to provide daily care for Gracie, feels more inclined to offer comfort to Gracie's dad. Boundaries are blurred and lines crossed, as Gracie seeks answers far beyond her young years.... 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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A Bike Ride
USA, 2009, 13 min.
A young girl reconciles the fast moving life around her from the front of her dad's bike, allowing for an ever-changing daily landscape to soften the harsh realities of grown-up lives.... more
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Billy
Australia, 2009, 7 min.
Spurred on by his teacher, a young student throws his gay parents into a tizzy when he announces that he's decided what he wants to be when he wants to grow up.... 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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Broken Time
Israel, 2009, 25 min.
Anxiety-ridden Daniel arrives home every day from school at exactly the same time to answer his mother's phone call. She arrives exactly one hour later. Except on this day in Tel Aviv, a terrorist attack has changed all the rules.... more
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Brotherhood
USA, 2008, 11 min.
Jared arrives home from his sophomore year in college to find his older brother, Kief, hell-bent on driving him home from the bus stop. The short trip encounters more snags than either anticipated, but sometimes it's the destination, not the ride, which matters.... more
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The Cello
Canada, 2008, 20 min.
Does lust drive passion, or is it the other way around?... 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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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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The Curiosity of Penny Parker
Canada, 2009, 6 min.
A children's nursery rhyme takes on a whole new meaning in this delightfully dark tale about a little girl and her cell phone addicted mother.... more
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Dish
USA, 2009, 16 min.
As Emo kids Israel and Louie wander their East Los Angeles neighborhood dishing about their high school classmates, Louis' boasts about his sexual escapades cause Israel to decide he's got some catching up to do.... more
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French Guiana
France, 2008, 13 min.
Ten year-old Ying is sent to the city to buy medicine for his sick grandmother. By the time he heads back home night has fallen, but his way is illuminated by a sudden ball of fire appearing in the sky and soaring high above towards the heavens.... more
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Gargoyle
South Africa, 2009, 26 min.
At a Johannesburg school, a gifted young student and his idealistic teacher confront the racial and societal divide that permeates the day-to-day life of people living with the remnants of a colonial past.... more
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Gloria & Eric
USA, 2008, 17 min.
It's New Year's Eve and neither Gloria nor Eric is having a good time at the party. One is heartsick, the other just tired of having grown up and grown old. But their unlikely alliance is a tonic for them both, as long as they can make it through the night.... more
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Good Advice
Sweden, 2008, 14 min.
Facing the imminent arrival of a new baby bother, young Rasmus decides that the only solution to his parental predicament is to run away from home. But first, he must make a tape giving his new brother a little advice.... 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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Homecoming
Singapore, 2008, 16 min.
Returning home to Singapore from an extended trip to Barcelona in preparation for his mandatory military enlistment, a young man finds himself changed by his experiences in the gay life of the vibrant Spanish city.... more
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Immersion
USA, 2008, 14 min.
Ten year-old Moises has just immigrated to California from Mexico. Although he doesn't speak English, he studies hard and is a whiz at math, so he hopes to do well on his first test. But rules and apathy conspire against his success.... more
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Kavi
India, 2008, 18 min.
This award-winning short explores the story of young Kavi, a boy toiling with his family in a slave labor camp in contemporary India, forced to pay his father's debts through backbreaking work in an outdoor brick factory.... more
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Last Illusions
France, 2008, 30 min.
Set in 1968 against a backdrop of the student riots in Paris, this haunting story follows rebellious young Isabelle, who pursues revolution even as she is about to learn that she is not prepared to accept revelations about her own father's unconventional world.... more
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Legacy
Australia, 2008, 16 min.
Two young brothers share a final morning together before one, on leave from the army during WWII, leaves to return to the front and almost certain death.... more
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Lessons in Self-Defense
USA, 2008, 13 min.
A divorced father (Molina) and his resentful daughter share a transcendent moment of understanding when she comes to visit him on the pretext of needing money to take a self-defense course.... more
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Lick
USA, 2008, 6 min.
Bobby, an enthusiastic third grader, has to touch everything -- old gum under his desk, dirt, twigs, even brain matter.... more
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Little Mutinies
USA, 2008, 19 min.
A trailer mom with two teenage daughters finds the crossroads of rebellion, sibling rivalry and motherhood more than a little chaotic. Starring the iconic Guinevere Turner (Go Fish, American Psycho, "The L Word").... more
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Love Does Grow on Trees
United Kingdom, 2008, 10 min.
It's 1989, and 13-year-old Danny has just discovered porn magazines and girls. Now it's a tough choice between the two, considering the embarrassment that goes with both.... more
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The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
USA, 2008, 26 min.
Christopher Lloyd and John Lithgow lend their voices as two of the key characters in this uplifting special effects-laden story of a young girl who sets off in search of her long-lost father after the untimely death of her beloved mother.... more
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Magellan
USA, 2009, 18 min.
Scrawny seventh-grader Magellan has his sights set on a friendship with the beautiful and popular Tiana. They both have deeply held secrets that may bond them together, unless Magellan works up the foolhardy courage to ask her to the Spring Dance.... more
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Master of His Domain
Singapore, 2009, 8 min.
One young boy's search for privacy is fraught with well-meaning interruptions from his dead grandparents.... more
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Megatron
Romania, 2008, 15 min.
Winner of the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at Cannes, this engrossing short tells the story of a mother and son who travel to a nearby town to visit her ex-husband on his son's birthday.... more
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Miracle Fish
Australia, 2009, 18 min.
Winner of multiple awards at this year's Aspen Short Fest, this haunting story of a lonely young boy revolves around a gift from his father that ends up saving his life.... more
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Mokopuna
New Zealand, 2009, 11 min.
Young Mary is drawn to a little boy in her class who seems to have an unusual and fascinating life.... more
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My New Toy
Australia, 2008, 4 min.
Young Josh desperately wants the new toy he's been longing for, and asks his parents if they'll buy it for him. They make him earn chore money to buy it for himself, but when the big day arrives, the toy turns out to be not exactly what his parents had in mind.... 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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Protect Me from What I Want
United Kingdom, 2008, 14 min.
19-year-old Saleem has desires that run counter to his strict Muslim upbringing. But when he encounters a sexy, working class guy while he waits for a bus one night, those same impulses begin to outweigh his reluctance to take the plunge.... more
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The Queen
USA, 2009, 8 min.
A young man's wildest prom fantasy comes true when as he's left alone to close up his mother's dry cleaning shop just as the desperate prom queen shows up with her hunky boyfriend after hours in need of some help.... more
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Russel Fish: The Sausage and Eggs Incident
USA, 2009, 9 min.
Dropping out of his phys-ed class where he's harassed by jocks, Russell learns that he won't get into Harvard without a credit, unless he manages to pass the Presidential fitness test. So he enlists the aid of his faithful pal to attempt the impossible.... more
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Short Term 12
USA, 2008, 22 min.
This Sundance and Aspen Jury prize-winner about the symbiotic relationship between the staff and patients of a treatment facility for juveniles is a vividly moving story about coming to terms with hopes and occasionally dashed dreams.... more
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A Son's War
Czech Republic, 2009, 26 min.
A young Czech Jew is forced to choose between his freedom and his mother's honor, as the Nazi's tighten their grip on the city of Prague while the war rages on in Europe.... more
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The Stars Don't Twinkle in Outer Space
United Kingdom, 2008, 10 min.
In this prize-winning short from the recent Venice Film Festival, a young boy's fantasy about a trip to a strange planet in a rocket ship morphs into a different kind of trip altogether as reality sets in.... 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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Ten:Thirtyone
USA, 2008, 19 min.
Tommy, a 17-year-old girl from Queens, is distraught to learn her beloved dog is in a shelter in upstate New York. Needing $3,000 to save him, Tommy makes the desperate choice to go to her estranged alcoholic grandmother for help.... more
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This Way Up
United Kingdom, 2008, 8 min.
A little boy's misunderstanding and his mother's address book contribute to a heavenly journey.... more
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Tic Tac Toe
France, 2008, 11 min.
Five-year-old Antoine doesn't understand why his sister, Lucie, isn't in her room any more.... more
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Transit
United Kingdom, 2009, 7 min.
A young boy, landing at a busy airport with his parents on the way home from an overseas trip, has a chance encounter with a prisoner being deported to an uncertain fate in a country where he's considered an enemy of the state.... 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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