Slamdance 2018: Narrative Shorts
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- DirectorSevgi EkerStarsSirin ErensoyYasemin ErensoyHasan KurunThe iron gate keeping an old man's peace gets opened.
- DirectorMohsen KhodabakhshiStarsNazli GorganiMani SherafatShahed SherafatA boy wants to take a photo with Abbas Kiarostami...
- DirectorRichard VanStarsNezih LopezShaquita LopezAndrew LushAfter being unable to find a sitter, an aspiring actress must take her 3-year-old son to an audition.
- DirectorJordan Michael BlakeStarsJordan Michael BlakeStephanie AllynneCanyon CanaryA Christmas movie about family, the apocalypse and an immaculately pregnant man.
- DirectorEwen WrightStarsJulia AksSkyler AlexanderQuinn BladesA potentially psychosomatic white man, a woman stuck in a vortex of mansplaining, and a young black man confronted by the racial disconnect of society each try to make sense of their lives as their worlds are set on an inevitable collision course in this surrealist comedy.
- DirectorKevin IsoDan PerlmanStarsKevin IsoDan PerlmanKareem GreenDan and Kevin, longtime friends, adjust to their evolving surroundings in the community of Flatbush, Brooklyn. A raw comedy of city life, Flatbush Misdemeanors explores two friends seeking to climb out of their heads and connect with others. Made on zero-budget, the first installment of Flatbush has received critical acclaim, becoming Oscar-qualified after winning the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the 2018 Florida Film Festival. Critics have called it "funny, smart, inventive and constantly surprising" and "street-level filmmaking at its finest."
- DirectorDaniel JaffeStarsPierre BarthelemyRobert BolchuneNikita ChaudhryStruggling with New York living, Dana Schapiro decides to move, saying goodbye to a neighborhood that can barely remember who she is....
- DirectorTannaz HazemiStarsJason BoggsDrew CananVera ChernyA house robbery in suburbia goes awry and leads to a showdown between the victims and the robbers.
- DirectorGabrielle DemersStarsMarie BabbiniDaphné GermainEmanuelle is training on her stationary bike but she can't get her mind off the image of Laura. The more she pedals, the more her memories turn to desire.
- DirectorAshley BriggsStarsMoa NilssonAdam StålhammarPeter HildénA doctor blunders forward. An artist forces progress. Cold air creeps. Industry grinds forth. Crude inky marks delineate Anna's torso. Will she find her voice? Balancing an often outrageous yet tender manner, Katalysis examines the remaining obstacle for the male gender; its quest for maintaining control over thought in the new scientific era of early 20th century, explicitly regarding the female body, - the last dark continent. An Anton Chekhov period-drama adaption of the short story "Anyuta" constructed with brave experimental forms that include a singular usage of each shot, an abandonment of continuity norms and a very allowing shot-by-shot cinematographic discipline.
- DirectorLisa BirkeA sweater, lovingly and arduously knit by a mother, incrementally unravels as her daughter treks her way across Canada by foot.
- DirectorAmanda Lovejoy StreetStarsMolly ParkerRosemarie DeWittMiriam KatzBoth motivated by loss, a clinical psychologist and a regional shopping network host collide in a televised confrontation.
- DirectorJack AthertonStarsFreya AisbittKate CoatesGavin DrummIn a city for the first time Ben wakes up in the middle of the night to find his bed empty. The Red Man watches him from a storm drain as he rollerblades through an unfamiliar nightscape searching.
- DirectorEmily Ann HoffmanStarsEmily Ann HoffmanCraving companionship, a woman leaves a voicemail late at night. Objects take on new meaning in a lush world of gendered icons.
- DirectorFrank MosleyStarsLily BaldwinTallie MedelThiago MartinsA naked body moves a stranger to empathy. PARTHENON is a slippery, dizzying provocation on art, control, and perception.
- DirectorBrock NeilsonThe artist re-enters a childhood space as an adult and is struck by the haunting tone of the setting and by a memory from the past.
- DirectorErwan CadicStarsEva BalducciSteven DagrouLandry Kotarski
- DirectorDusty MancinelliMadeleine Sims-FewerStarsJesse LaVercombeMadeleine Sims-FewerA dysfunctional couple with a penchant for twisted sexual fantasies fight to stay together as their relationship crumbles over the course of a day.
- DirectorDan RoeStarsClaire LucidoSam Waddell"That Thing," a short film by Dan Roe, follows Tabby (Claire Lucido), who is taken by surprise when her date Patrick (Sam Waddell) abruptly reveals an odd bedroom quirk. She's initially put off, but over the course of this micro-farce she finds herself feeling a little ambivalent, even intrigued.
- DirectorSherren LeeStarsPrince AmponsahKrystina BojanowskiJesse LaVercombeA black male burn-survivor and amputee goes on a date with a regularly-abled man for the first time since his accident.
- DirectorMorgan McGlothan
- DirectorForest Ian EtslerSébastien SimonStarsHachi KasugaTetsu KonoHwajin LeeAn embittered sexagenarian musician embarks upon a journey which becomes the outward manifestation of his inner landscape.
- DirectorHenry JiningsStarsTim PlattLiba VaynbergEvan and Marceline go back to her place after a date. Hilarity ensues.
- DirectorBehnam AbediStarsMajid AghaKarimiMehdi FarizehMajid NorouziTaste of rejection always has been one of my fears and this time i tried to achieve to this feeling in a movie. i liked to make a simple story about rejection and wait to see how could be the reaction of someone who is in banishment and Suppression ?