My top 25 short films
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- DirectorPeter McDonaldStarsLisa AngoveNicholas HopeA man without his own half of the body is looking for the other half in the opposite sex. As for the integrity of his body, so for the sake of emotional healing.
- DirectorAlison MacleanStarsTheresa HealeyPeter TaitAnnagretta ChristianA woman finds something quaint in her kitchen sink and feels strangely captivated towards it.
- DirectorAnthony ByrneStarsVincent FeganJohn HurtFiona O'ShaughnessyWhen an Irishwoman stumbles across plans for a secret Martian invasion, her dream world turns upside down as she searches for the one man who can stop the "War of the Worlds" and bring peace to planet Earth: Che Guevara.
- DirectorKieran GalvinStarsBrett PartridgeGeorgia Potter-CowieMarilyn Van Der VolkLisa, a thirteen year old girl, is being sexually abused by her cello teacher. He also takes advantage of a young boy in his apartment building. On the day her beloved pet fish dies, Lisa tries to tell her mother about the abuse, but instead has to turn to the police. The boy in the building stabs the pedophile and he is taken to the same hospital where Lisa's mother is seeking redress for a wound she suffered looking for her daughter. A bleak, quiet, tortuous drama told with stark simplicity and power.
- DirectorCordell BarkerStarsCordell BarkerJennifer TorranceJackson BarkerRoger and Doris are a childless couple who get more than they bargained for when a strange child appears at their door one day.
- DirectorCraig WallaceStarsStephen ArbuckleBrian BannanJohn BregarTeen heavy-metal enthusiast, Todd, seeks dating advice from the Prince of Darkness, unleashing the fury of hell to win the heart of the head cheerleader.
- DirectorMarcus WagnerStarsSean WhalinAlissa DeanEric FrandsenJoey and Sarah are a couple of obnoxious kids who are out trick or treating on Halloween. The rude duo get more than they bargained for when they sneak into a sideshow attraction at a local carnival in order to check out the freaks inside.
- DirectorLeif TildenStarsSam RockwellMary McCormackEmma RobertsWhen Sampson and Delilah pack up for school like dutiful children, Mom and Dad employ their own adolescent diversions to try to keep them at home. A whimsical role-reversal story with enough love to go around.
- DirectorJonah KaplanStarsMarc MaronMicheline AugerNora ChassierA new form of urban angst rules this neurotic comedy about an inadvertent battle of wills between the sexes. The action begins on the subway, when Marc determines that the woman across from him likes his goods. The tension escalates as they both exit at the same stop and their progress continues side-by-side. His fantasy turns to terror as he realizes that she must think he's stalking her! Is he? Can he convince her otherwise?
- DirectorSalamo LevinStarsAndrew GurlandAl ThompsonNicole AlifanteA guy tells a shaggy-dog story to a restaurant crew on a ten-minute break. He takes us back to 1992: he's walking down a New York City street with two women when a Black couple asks for directions. This event leads a lecture from the two women, a memory from his Bar Mitzvah, a moral dilemma, a mugging, the loss of two pairs of glasses, an upbraiding from an optician, a basketball game, and running commentary from his co-workers in front of the restaurant as he tells the story. It and the break come to an end: has he made friends, advanced race relations, entertained?
- DirectorPhil RosenthalStarsBill ClintonMadeleine AlbrightHillary ClintonA tongue-in-cheek look at President Clinton's final days in office.
- DirectorTaika WaititiStarsRangi NgamokiHutini WaikatoTe Ahiwaru Ngamoki-RichardsSometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.
- DirectorChris LandrethStarsRyan LarkinChris LandrethFelicity FanjoyThe movie talks about the life of Ryan Larkin, a gifted Canadian animator of the late '60s and the early '70s.
- DirectorJoe NussbaumStarsMartin HynesLisa JakubJason Peck1967 film student George Lucas has writer's block trying to finish his "Space Wheat" script, until a beautiful fellow student with a familiar hairstyle teaches him that the best stories are in plain sight.
- DirectorStuart GrieveStarsEric BarlowPaul BlairJenny FouldsChaos ensues when a run down club is double booked by a country and western appreciation society and an Asian birthday party.
- DirectorEnda HughesStarsArdal O'HanlonTara CostelloJoe RooneyNorthern Ireland Sci-Fi comedy, made in the style of a 1950s B-movie.
- DirectorBrad PeytonStarsNadia LitzMaurice Dean WintJoshua CloseA darkly twisted comedy about a lonely dead girl who tries to bring herself back to life in order to make new friends.
- DirectorDirk BeliënStarsTom Van DyckEllen Van CutsemAza DeclercqOn a cold winter evening a young manager gets stuck in traffic on his way home from work. He takes his brand new mobile to call his wife, not knowing that by doing so he is about to cause irreparable damage.
- DirectorMoh AzimaStarsClint McCownMonica CortezRichard Hinojosa
- DirectorBen WestWhat will happen if matchsticks are living beings?
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsGrant MunroJean Paul LadouceurA surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
- DirectorRyan LarkinA cinematic portrait of people walking in their individual ways.
- DirectorMarv NewlandBambi is contentedly nibbling the grass, seemingly unaware of his impending encounter with Godzilla. What will happen when the two finally meet?
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsVincent PriceYoung Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.
- DirectorEd Gass-DonnellyStarsBarnita Domenico-RunningsSophie TraubIn 1970s South Africa, 10-year-old Lucy's black nanny is killed during a peaceful protest march. The insidious nature of racism is put on full display as the child attempts to convince the nanny's spirit that apartheid is good for her people.