Eagle
Directed by: Jose Acevedo
Written by: Jose Acevedo
United States, 2020 RT: 8:50
Edgar, a high school senior in Brooklyn, gets good news
The Body
Directed by: Adam Weber
Written by: Adam Weber
Australia, 2020 RT: 11:55
The Body is a 12-minute Crime/Comedy short film Written and Directed by Adam Weber. Inspired by the likes of Guy Ritchie (Snatch), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), and The
Coen Brothers (Fargo), this dialogue-driven Aussie film follows two very different men on a crash course in body disposal technique during one eventful night in the middle of the countryside.
The Art of Survival
Directed by: Gregory Armstrong
Written by: Gregory Armstrong
USA, 2019 RT: 19:16
When Alice meets Jason - an Idaho state cop with a Boy Scout’s charm and passion for preparedness - he seems like just the kind of solid, family-oriented guy who can rescue her from aimlessness and poverty. As Alice slides into a “prepper” identity (of Jason’s making), he eagerly teaches her everything he knows about surviving the end of civilization. But when his doomsday mentality gives way to a dangerous, obsessive paranoia, Alice must use the very skills she learned from Jason to save herself and their unborn child. Moving fluidly between past and present, this taut dramatic thriller is at once
Kaddish
Directed by: Razid Season
Written by: Razid Season
USA, 2019 RT: 14:30
In 1943, a young Ashkenazim namely Akiva risks a journey through Miechów in Poland in order to fulfill his obligation of honoring his deceased mother on the anniversary of her death. He gets arrested by the Nazis and finds one of his known elderly Rabbi in Nazi custody. The rabbi, who has lost his entire family in the Holocaust, is hoping to escape Poland for the Promised Land. They become able to escape from the Nazis. His journey is accompanied by Rabbi so that Akiva can visit his mother’s grave and perform a Jewish ritual.
Alma's Pond
Directed by: Roger Lay, Jr.
Written by: Judith Reeves-Stevens
USA, 2020 10:00
Margaret is a frustrated twelve-year-old who’s run away to her Aunt Alma's mountain cabin to escape her parents’ constant arguing. When she arrives, her caring aunt helps Margaret realize that things are not always what they seem. Together the two unravel the mystery behind an occurrence that haunts their past and is as heartbreaking to Alma as it is to Margaret. Based on best-selling author Bruce Coville’s popular YA short story, The Thing in Auntie Alma’s Pond.
The Odyssey of Cleve Eaton
Directed by: Kevin Webb
Written by: Kevin Webb
USA, 2019 RT: 3:54
A surreal animated journey with musician extraordinaire Cleve Eaton, proving that music can be a salvation for both musician and audience.
Colleagues
Directed by: Aleix Massot
Written by: A.D. Johnson
USA 2020 RT: 12:32
A clandestine meeting is taking place between a man and a woman in a dimly lit bar. Their identities and the nature of their meeting is unknown. Although after everything is revealed; this nebulous meeting turns into a dance between good and evil. The quintessential protagonist and Antagonist vie for control in this outlandish short film. Colleagues unapologetically push the limits and deliver a unique comedic punch.
Bumpy Rhodes
Directed by: Patrick Coleman
Written by: Patrick Coleman
USA, 2019 RT: 16:40
KENDRICK DRESDEN helps in a scheme to score drugs with his best friend DARRIN “BUMPY” RHODES, who is triggered to get high after finding out his girlfriend is his half-sister the day before his final drug test and parole hearing. 13 months sober, Darrin “Bumpy” Rhodes has worked diligently to sustain his sobriety since his release from jail. Bumpy’s dedication and commitment to his new way of living have given him the gumption and discipline to enter into a healthy and loving relationship with MALINA, the woman of his dreams. Bumpy is in love and loves life.
Archimetric
Directed by: Jose Luis Serzo
Spain, 2019, RT: 15
ARCHIMÉTRIC tells the story of a character who lives on the outskirts of a village in La Mancha, whose house is a wagon-runner, surrounded by chickens and some of his artistic references, such as Malevich, Hugo Ball, Tristán and Zara.
ARCHIMÉTRIC works as a metaphor of the impossible, of a labyrinth full of monsters that prevent us from doing what we "believe in", what we "want to do", and that perhaps, without knowing it, are really helping us to crystallize what is important, reach that work, managing to make his own life a work of art.