Dignity
Director: Pat Battistini
Dramatic Shorts
25 min.
United States
"Dignity" is a love story between a woman and her family. However, the family's strength is tested when a moral decision must be made.
Gentle Wind
Directors: Marta Arjona, Maite Blasco
Documentary Shorts
8 min.
Spain
A young student becomes frustrated by realizing that she knows the names of many battles and fronts of the Spanish Civil War but knows little about the feelings and emotions of those who lived through the conflict. This leads her to continue researching and discovering the "War Ballads" that will take her on a personal journey that she will want to share with the world.
Heirloom
Director: Michael McCallum
Horror Shorts
7 min.
United States
A con man will do anything to get a valued necklace away from it’s owner and to his buyer. But there’s more to the heirloom than he knows.
Lethia
Director: Melinda Winhold
Dramatic Shorts
7 min.
United States
A college student, Lethia finds herself on a very quiet, empty campus, but why?
Madame
Director: Kerry Muir
Horror Shorts
8 min.
United States
Part Grimm’s fairy tale, part tone-poem, & part Borgesian riddle, "MADAME" tells the story of a young girl's miseducation at the hands of her dubious, criminally-minded foster mother.
The Patrolman
Director: Søren Viuf
Dramatic Shorts
16 min.
United States
It’s another slow day for the Nebraska Highway Patrol. After the friendly fire death of his brother, veteran patrolman FRANKIE has been struggling to avoid burnout on the job. One day, as he breaks in his new partner TERRY, all hell breaks loose at the local roadhouse and Frankie ends up in a high-speed pursuit of a stolen police cruiser on a stretch of highway near the S. Dakota state line. With the radio, Frankie is able to talk to the perp, only to find out that it’s his dead brother Billy… or is it?
As they approach the State Line, Frank can go no further, legally or emotionally. He must make a decision - Duty or Family?
Plastics
Director: Kip Calendine
Dramatic Shorts
7 min.
United States
On her way to a job interview for a plastic pollution non-profit, a woman's inner monologue laments society's failure to be more environmentally responsible until an unexpected event changes everything and forces her to get quiet with her own conscience.
Teodoro
Director: Esteban Roel
Comedy Shorts
21 min.
Spain
It is the morning after Valentine's Day.
Sole is being accused of the alleged sexual abuse of Teodoro, her teddy bear. Graciela, her maid and friend, is the one who reported her to the police.
Agents Justi and Roque must find out what happened in Sole's house the night before and which of the two women is really responsable since Graciela has also become a suspect.
But the plot thickens with the tug-of-war between the two women.