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I am a Big Ball of Sadness and I Want to Throw Myself from Your Roof
Drama / USA / 10 min.
Three New Yorkers meet at a party and amidst the banal party chatter reveal their inner woes. Or do they? A poignant - sometimes funny - and all too recognizable portrait of how small talk and pretension mask what's really going on in people's lives.
Director: Chris Tyler
Producer: Jen Taher, Chase Vorhees
Writer: Ken Urban
Cast: Jen Taher, Brian McManamon, David Bernstein, Dan Cozzens, Dan Hermann
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El Doctor
Drama / USA / 12 min.
The drama follows an undocumented day laborer in Arizona, the family that hires him, and the storm of fear that ensues.
Director: Heather de Michele
Producer: Jude Roth, Reena Dutt
Writer: Jude Roth
Cast: Luis Deveze, Jude Roth
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Hotel Pennsylvania
Drama / USA / 27 min.
Naïve and determined, Gunnar comes from Iceland to New York City to find his voice, his story and his destiny. He has no social security number, but a dream. Gunnar is silently observing the crowd, taking pictures of strangers and flirting with a waitress who has betrayed her dream in order to survive. Attending English language classes, Gunnar gets soaked in the world of people seduced by the American dream.
Director: Marc Raymond Wilkins
Producer: Benjamin David Hoffmann, John Seabright, Isabelle Haag
Writer: Lani-rain Feltham, Arnon Gruenberg
Cast: Darri Ingolfsson, Ken Forman, Tiffany Rachelle Stewart, Lorena Martinez
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Palim Palim
Comedy / Switzerland / 23 min.
A group of synchronized swimmers are robbed, two teenagers fail their suicide attempt, a musician is waiting for a ominous suitcase transfer, a failed businessman stands on the brink
of despair and a hallucinating hotel owner finds a sports bag left behind. In an abandoned motel on a country road, the paths of six protagonists cross each other, without really meeting.
Director: Marina Klauser, Pia Hellenthal
Producer: Tunje Berns
Writer: Marina Klauser
Cast: Beat Schlatter, Volker Zack Michalowski
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Ben's Morning
Drama / USA / 11 min.
A depressed but talented hair stylist screws up his job and loses his only friend while eviction looms. Life looks bleak, but his own imagination helps him discover optimism.
Director: Tsyen Shen
Producer: Jackie Lin
Writer: Tsyen Shen
Cast: Rory Kulz, Kourtni Beebe
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Shelved
Animation / New Zealand / 6 min.
Even robots get bored in dead end jobs, until they realize they are about to be replaced by humans! A clever comedy comes out of nowhere, shot in one day with actors replaced by animated robots.
Director: James Cunningham
Producer: James Cunningham, Oliver Hilbert
Writer: Kathryn Burnett
Cast: Simon McKinney, Stephen Papps
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The Pussy
Comedy / USA / 10 min.
New York City, 2009. A Saturday afternoon is full of potential, but not when you leave it up to The Pussy. As indecision and ambivalence threaten to ruin the day, an emerging adult is forced to acknowledge that it may be too late to save his relationship.
Director: Dan Shapiro
Producer: Lotfy Nathan, Dan Shapiro
Writer: Dan Shapiro
Cast: Dan Shapiro, Jillian Eichler
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