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In only minutes, these films immerse you in fully realized narratives that leave a mark.
International Shorts
Island of Freedom
Mumu
International Shorts: Connect/Disconnect/ Reconnect TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 111 MIN.
SUN OCT 2 TUE OCT 4
5:45 PM 1:00 PM
IN08 IN08
Bye Bye
Plastic Killer
International Shorts: Family Ties
International Shorts: Having a Bad Day
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 108 MIN.
SAT OCT 1 MON OCT 3
6:00 PM 1:45 PM
PETR JANUSCHKA, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2022, 27 MIN.
It’s 1981 in Czechoslovakia, and a young man surprisingly reunites with his teen love on board a charter flight to Cuba.
The Ceremony LISLE TURNER, UK, 2021, 10 MIN.
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 107 MIN.
IN08 IN08
BASILE VUILLEMIN, FRANCE/BELGIUM/SWITZERLAND, 2022, 20 MIN.
On the way to the airport a teen girl jumps from a moving car to flee a sex trafficking abduction; while she escapes, she records it all on a stolen cell phone.
At the end of an unsuccessful fishing trip, a small trawler’s desperate captain and crew ultimately agree they have to do something risky, but potentially lucrative, to change their fortune.
MO SHA, CHINA, 2021, 25 MIN.
The six-year-old daughter of a deaf-mute couple frustrates her father, who believes she can hear and speak.
Baby
OST ABHICHOKE CHANDRASEN, THAILAND, 2021, 20 MIN.
A perfectionist scoring assistant on a horror film rush job becomes convinced she is being haunted by a spirit from the movie she’s working on.
CRISTINA SÁNCHEZ SALAMANCA, COLOMBIA, 2022, 15 MIN.
Starfuckers
The daughter from a man’s first marriage feels left out and misunderstood at a birthday celebration for her younger stepsister.
ANTONIO MARZIALE, USA, 2021, 15 MIN.
Ellie FERNANDO BONELLI, SPAIN, 2022, 20 MIN.
An intimate evening between a film director and an escort is disrupted when a familiar face arrives.
Judy, Judy, Judy JESSICA MCGAUGH, USA, 2022, 7 MIN.
The Cormorant
Nest
Marianne
JAMES HUNTER, AUSTRALIA, 2021, 9 MIN.
JULIEN GASPAR-OLIVERI, FRANCE, 2021, 17 MIN.
An isolated father haunted by his child’s cries of hunger takes up work as a timber feller, only to find operations halted by a mysterious alarm coming from deep in the woods.
A woman gets interviewed by a young journalist for her heroic act of saving children, but she’s a moody and reluctant participant.
Magnified City ISAKU KANEKO, JAPAN, 2022, 12 MIN.
In a ruined city, a wandering Magnifying Glass Human encounters a secret society of Projector Humans with grand plans to reconnect to the past in a surviving mountaintop theatre.
IN08 IN08
The Silent Ones
Written by Iman Qureshi, The Ceremony is a searingly honest take on non-binary marriage, with a twist.
A mother and son live in a secluded house on an isolated island, where memory merges with the present, intertwining two moments of their lives—youth and maturity.
5:45 PM 1:30 PM
ANDREAS VAKALIOS, FILI OLSEFSKI, GREECE, 2022, 16 MIN.
An emergency room nurse arrives late for work after being involved in a serious car accident and soon has to make life or death choices involving a loved one.
LUBNA PLAYOUST, FRANCE, 2021, 23 MIN.
MON OCT 3 WED OCT 5
My Name Is Anti
Mumu
Island of Freedom
6:30 PM 1:00 PM
MAYA YADLIN, ISRAEL, 2021, 15 MIN.
A Different Place On a clandestine date, a 40-something woman battling with her identity embarks on a journey of rediscovery that she cannot ignore nor fully encompass.
WED OCT 5 FRI OCT 7
Killing Ourselves
A man who left his native Normandy to build a bigger life for himself in Paris returns to his hometown, where he runs into an old flame.
SOPHIE BLACK, UK, 2022, 14 MIN.
International Shorts: Morality Plays
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 114 MIN.
IN08 IN08
A film student and her family drive to the desert to shoot a scene for her latest film, but things quickly deteriorate and nothing goes as planned.
AMÉLIE BONNIN, FRANCE, 2021, 25 MIN.
The Lone Wolf
Further and Further Away POLEN LY, CAMBODIA, 2022, 24 MIN.
A young Bunong woman and her older brother spend one last day in their rural Cambodian village before a move to the city in search of a more prosperous life.
A menopausal woman wakes up in the midst of a hot flash, and everything just goes downhill from there.
Censor of Dreams LÉO BERNE, RAPHAËL RODRIGUEZ, FRANCE, 2021, 18 MIN.
For many nights, The Censor and his team have been moderating a woman’s dreams to keep them in safe territory. Tonight, nothing happens as planned.
Plastic Killer JOSE POZO, ANDORRA/SPAIN, 2022, 21 MIN.
Amparo lives in an old abandoned haberdashery in the centre of Madrid. Her only companion is Carmela, a plastic bag whom she considers her daughter.
Solar Eclipse ALIREZA GHASEMI, RAHA AMIRFAZLI, FRANCE/IRAN, 2021, 15 MIN.
A teen girl and her two friends and are off for an afternoon in the largest park in Teheran to photograph a rare total solar eclipse.
A Moral Man PAUL AND SIMON WADE, UK, 2021, 19 MIN.
A right-to-die evangelist must wrestle with his faith and morality when his latest client turns out to be not what she claimed.
For Real ERNEST LOREK, POLAND, 2022, 19 MIN.
A young man’s house party takes an unexpected turn when his gangster neighbour breaks into his apartment.
Perspective ALAA ALGBURI, IRAQ/JORDAN, 2021, 10 MIN.
A symbolic examination of how men treat women in most of the Middle East from a young woman’s perspective.
The Lone Wolf FILIPE MELO, PORTUGAL, 2021, 24 MIN.
A talk show radio host has chosen emotions as his theme for tonight’s show, which proves surprisingly banal until he gets a call from an old friend.