Sukki's Story

AUSTRALIA - 2005

Sukki's Story reflects on Thomas Leung's changing relationship with his mother when he leaves Hong Kong to start his new life in a new country.

Directed by Thomas Leung

Tiny Magic

USA - 2003
Nick will make you believe in magic!
It is open mic night at a local club. Nick takes the stage. His performance is nothing less than amazing, captivating the audience as he makes a magic wand float around the room. The trick is no simple illusion, Nick has magical powers.
Later that evening, he sits at the bar as a beautiful girl named Michelle walks up and orders a drink. Soft spoken, Nick attempts to strike up conversation. They make small talk, building interest and energy. Nick attempts to be charming. He performs a simple card trick – I can guess your card. After a touching soliloquy about tricks and the possibility of real magic, he slowly and methodically makes his selection. He picks the wrong card! An awkward moment ensues, she amused and he embarrassed. Just then he looks at her quizzically, as if something is different. There is. Michelle’s earrings are switched!Not to be outdone, Michelle performs a trick of her own. She asks Nick to close his eyes. She gives him a simple kiss, which penetrates his very being. He savors the moment, then opens his eyes. She is gone. Scanning the bar, he sees that she has returned to her friends. Nick performs one final trick before he leaves, a charm Michelle will later discover.
The film ends in Nick’s rundown apartment. As Nick falls asleep the tale of his magical power and his true situation unfolds. It is an ending that can only be described as magical.
CAST
MATT MESLER
STEPHANIE CADMAN
REBEKAH BOISVERT
KATE LOCONTI
PETER CUMBO
REED RANKIN
LISA VITRANO
DAVID "POKEY" RAASCH
STEPHEN BRISCOE
BRIAN ROBERT TABERSKI
ANDREW BOORADY
KELLY CRANGLE
GERALD INGLUT
AMY INGLUT
CHRISTINA COURTIN
ENRIQUE OVIEDO
Directed by JOHN TAKACS

The Yes Men

USA - 2006
A man wakes up and finds himself in a dress but can’t remember what happened the night before. Will Bigham’s short is about a tyrant boss, who attempts to make light of waking in a dress by addressing his staff of employees with an ultimatum.Will Bigham won Fox's 'On the Lot' reality filmmaking competition with this short film.
CAST
Greg Collins
Lin Shaye
Fred Koehler
Travis Wester.
Directed by Will Bigham

The Parlor

USA - 2001
A group of people come together in an anonymous waiting room. All are wearing name tags. As they exchange small talk, though, we realize there's something odd: some of them are saying things about themselves that are clearly false, like the middle-aged man "Beth" and another middle-aged man hitting on a 14-year-old girl.

Jerry: Cool name.
Mandybear: Thanks.
Jerry: Do you like bears?
Mandybear: They're okay, I guess.
Jerry: Yeah. I think bears are definitely where it's at. So how old are you?
Mandybear: I'm 14. You?
Jerry: [Jerry is obviously a middle-aged man] I'm 15.
Mandybear: Cool.

CAST
Ian Vogt ... Skater
Reggie Lee ... Slappy Sue
Scott Alan Smith ... Jerry
Jan Hoag ... Bambi
Richard Riehle ... Beth
David Starwalt ... Schizo
Jesse McClurg ... Joey
Mariana Geschke ... Mandybear
Aaron Henry ... Freaker
Matt Hannigan ... Security Guard
Directed by Geoffrey Haley

City Paradise

ENGLAND - 2004
Gaelle Denis initially draws a gray, desolate picture of the metropolis, depicting it as an intimidating presence. And so it is with Tomoko, a young Japanese girl who comes to London to learn English. At first, she doesn't like it a bit there. She hardly even leaves the house. But that changes radically when, quite by accident, she discovers a mysterious, secret underground city below London, a place that's colorful and friendly. In the wake of this experience, she meets a lot of new friends, learns English and makes one wonderful discovery after another
CAST
Hiroe Takei
Robert Stevenson
Rachel Phillips
Katerina Athanasopoulou
Directed by Gaëlle Denis

Spider

AUSTRALIA - 2007

Straight out of Down-Under, explosive stuntman-editor-producer-writer-actor-director Nash Edgerton delivers his latest effort, "Spider", a 9-minute action-thriller that gives an all-new meaning to old Peugeots, stunning blondes and love-jokes. Just remember: it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

CAST

Nash Michod

Mirrah Foulkes

Directed by Nash Michod

Genesis and Catastrophe

USA - 2000
Should we slap the father or the mother--or the baby? The struggle for life is a double-edged sword in this gut-wrenching story, as a painfully difficult childbirth raises questions of fate, love and the meaning of humanity
In a squalid German hospital, an overworked doctor tends to the difficult childbirth of Karla. We learn that Karla has lost three previous babies, and her husband is pessimistic about the survival of this one. But both Karla and the doctor believe this one will survive unfortunately, it turns out."Genesis and Catastrophe" should be required viewing for all short filmmakers. With a perfect three act structure, pristine direction, eagle-eye cinematography, flawless editing, stellar performances, superb art direction, and dazzling producing, it is a masterpiece of the short film genre.

CAST
Connor Collins
Kenya De Rosa
Isabelle Flachsmann
Judith Griegossies
Nadja K. Rutkowski
Dieter Traier
Ulrich Trimpo
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman

Domination

TURKEY - 2007
It is year 2092 and vegetation is almost completely perished all over the world. A police team has just followed a suspect to a roof. There, they will learn a bitter truth that will affect all human race.
Domination is one of the biggest independent short movies ever made. A complete skyscrapper rooftop was built in a sport center and movie was shot in that set with blue screen background. Special effect team Dukkan-ul Hayal designed and prepeared a make up for our lead creature, a plant in the shape of a human. Then it took almost 7 months to finish the movies post production with striking visuals.
CAST
Özge Özberk
Şevket Çoruh
Nuran Eşici
H. Mücahit Pehlivan
Esra Şahin
Efe Erdoğan
Meriç Marşoğlu
Directed by Alican Serbest

Love is a Shotgun

AUSTRALIA - 2006
Some Love Never Dies. Literally. This horror film explores the hard decisions that must be made when we fall for the living dead. "Love is a Shotgun" won the best Zombie Film Award in A night of Horror International Film Festival in 2006.Beautifully shot and nice tight little package..
CAST
James Inabenet
Jennifer Howe
Directed by Jim Batt

An Angel's Mark

FRANCE -2004

A highly evolved civilization sends a space ship to a parallel universe. Oria, the female pilote, will discover that in fact, she’s travelled through the living body of a pregnant woman which turns out to be her awn in the parallel universe.

CAST

Marie-Christine Barrault

Christian Charmetant

Thierry Frémont

Héléna Noguerra

Directed by Christophe Reynaud

PART ONE

PART TWO

Hippocrate

TURKEY - 2007
Life always want us to make promises. One must keep his/her promises when s/he makes a promise like doctors do. Their oath aims to prioritize the patient’s well-beingto their own lives. However, there is something that is not said to them in life.
Mehtap goes to meet her lover, Emre, in their usual place. Something unexpected happens just as another meeting is about to end in happiness. Mehtap who has had an accident is taken to the hospital. The hospital corridor and operating room become the center of an exciting suspense, self-contradictions and turn into a place of examination where the oaths taken are tested.
CAST
Bülent Yıldırım
Sevgül Akbuz
Yılmaz Yiğiter
Tuğba Ece Şakar
Directed by Abdulbaki Yavuz

Father and Daughter

BELGIUM - 2000

A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide Dutch landscapes live through their seasons so the girl lives through hers. She becomes a young woman, has a family and in time she becomes old, yet within her there is always a deep longing for her father.

Written and Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit

Left Turn

ENGLAND - 2001
Horror is a genre that has been parodied to pieces and just about everybody has copied Alfred Hitchcock and John Carpenter, until there's nothing new under the bed.
Sean Ellis's 15 minutes of fright is beautifully choreographed and exceptionally well acted. The tension builds slowly. The storyline is innovative, the thrills unexpected. A sense of unease runs through the opening sequences and you don't know why. This is pure athmospheric cinema, nothing to do with shock tactics.
When the wife of an architect picks up an old woman in a yellow mac during a rain storm, there is something not right about her inability to communicate. She carries a big bag, which suggests woodshed nastiness.
Nightmares are made of this.
CAST
Lucy Russell
Andrew Tiernan
Una Brandon-Jones
Howard Ward

Directed by Sean Ellis

Bus 44

CHINA - 2001
On the outskirts of a small town, a bus driver and her
passengers encounter highway robbers. "Bus 44" carries a
universal theme that travels across all boundaries and societies,
trespassing the dark side and bright side of human behavior.
CAST
Gong Beibi
WU Chao
LI Yixiang
ZHOU Kui
Directed by Dayyan Eng

I'll Wait for the Next One

FRANCE -2002

A man enters a subway train and starts to speak: "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am sorry to bother you. Don’t worry, I’m not here to beg for money... Let me introduce myself. My name is Antoine, I’m 29... I recently read in a magazine that there are about 5 million single women in France... Where are they ? I’m looking for a lady aged between 18 and 55 who‘s also had trouble meeting someone in a conventional way and who wouldn’t mind giving a honest relationship with someone a shot..." "J’attendrai le suivant..." was nominated for the Oscar in 2003 and won the European Short Film Prize in 2004.

I'll Wait for the Next One sets itself up as a cute little comedy skit, and it delivers on that premise but also surprises you with an incredibly moving finale. Four minute comedies are not supposed to be as moving as this film is, it's funny, charming, and heartbreaking all at the same time, showing you your emotions in a combination that they are not generally found. I can't recommend this movie enough. By the end of the diminutive film you feel like you have known the characters for years, especially the lead man and the woman looking for love, probably because they so perfectly represent. The look on the man's face and the woman's face at the end of the film are brief moments of sheer performing brilliance rarely seen, especially in a short film, which itself is rarely seen. Seek this one out, you will laugh and you will cry, and most of all you will be moved.

CAST

Sophie Forte

Thomas Gaudin

Pascal Casanova

Directed by Philippe Orreindy

On Edge

USA - 1999

CAST
Doug Bradley

Charley Boorman

Beth Murray

Directed by Frazer Lee

This film is guaranteed to set your teeth On Edge. Based on the story by
renowned horror writer CHRISTOPHER FOWLER (Roofworld, Spanky, Soho Black)
On Edge tells the story of stroppy businessman, Thurlow, who goes to a dentists
without an appointment and is forced to wait. Fed up of waiting, Thurlow
wanders off, only to meet the enigmatic Doctor Matthews. Thurlow gets more
than he bargained for in the dental surgery, to the horror and surprise of
the receptionist, and the audience!

This story deals with one of the things that the human kind dislike the most : going to the dentist’s.The plot is mainly based on the actor skills of Doug Bradley whose performance is absolutely fantastic with contradictory emotions switches and
is both convincing by his attitude and the look in his eyes, but also both in
his charming and his threatening sides of his character.The camerawork is great too. Indeed, the camera is mainly fixed on Doctor Mathews so that we are put into the place of this poor Mr Thurlow.
This way of shooting also allows not to see what is happening until the director
chooses to show you, allowing the viewer to set his mind free and imagine
what happens… be patient… you’ll get to see that in time!Moreover, the characteristic noises at the dentist’s, that we all know about,
confirms the horror of the image that we all can imagine in our mind. All the
movie long, you suffer as much as that poor patient! Simple but successful!Horror also lays in the monologue established by Doctor Mathews, the patient
founding himself in the impossibility to answer. Here also, Doug Bradley is
absolutely marvellous and shows his great acting skills, outside of his
Pinhead part in the “HELLRAISER” series for which he’s very popular. The
scenario and the script are very well written and lead us, from a moment to
another, though dark humour or fear. All is well until the last scene I won’t
tell you about except that the make-up made by Bob Keen, another “HELLRAISER”
veteran, is outstanding and is worth being seen!!! The horror of the whole
short movie is at last visualized in this great scene! One thing’s for sure : after watching that, you’ll look at your dentist
differently!Finally, both industrial and metal music fans will enjoy the music both in
the prologue and the epilogue!

The Insane

ENGLAND -2006

John Vincent is a cop on a quest for vengeance. After finding his wife and unborn child murdered in his own home, he decides to dispense his own justice on the murderers creatures who have destroyed his life, which are now running amok in the city. Armed with only a crowbar and his wits, John takes to the city streets and takes out the insane hideous beings. By the end you will wonder who is the more insane, John or the creatures that made him?

CAST

Harry Evans

James Spofforth

John Altman

Jenny Scully

Directed by Mark Cripps & David J Ellison.

Night Shift

ITALY - 1987

Extracted from a popular tv series,this short deals with a lady taxi driver's trouble with a passenger .
CAST
Lamberto Bava
Asia Argento
Directed by Lamberto Bava

PART ONE

PART TWO

Spank

CANADA - 2003
SPANK” is a short film, set 6 years into the future. The Year is 2013. Advanced Technology has made it possible for people to interact with one another over the internet via means of a virtual hologram program. This Hologram Interface Technology (or H.I.T. as it's sometimes called) allows the public to live out their deepest fantasies from the comfort of their living rooms.
In this techno-future with a twist, a common domestic psycho-drama is not all it seems. Whether counseling session or virtual reality masochism, an enterprising therapist/technician makes an unexpected change in the program. We follow a day in the life of one young actor/therapist, Chavez (Blaze), as he takes us through a typical day of his work. Ashlin (Hopps), one of his long-time clients, is the first to log-on this evening. Usually, she gets Chavez to act as her husband the night she told him about her affair with another man. What she isn't prepared for, is that Chavez has a different scene he is going to play with her tonight, and Ashlin is in for some long-awaited news.......
CAST
Christian Blaze ... Chavez
Leslie Hopps ... Ashlin
Todd Hann ... Jarvis
Aubrey Arnason ... Amber
Damon Gregory ... Brian
Mare Shepherd ... Older Ashlin
Directed by Christian Blaze