Awards Contenders: Live Action Shorts
by IMDb-Editors | created - 19 Nov 2015 | updated - 19 Nov 2015 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Ave Maria (I) (2015)
15 min | Short, Comedy
The silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.
Director: Basil Khalil | Stars: Maria Zreik, Huda Al Imam, Shady Srour, Ruth Farhi
Votes: 1,368
2. Bad Hunter (2013)
14 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Young man BAHOZ goes hunting in rural Kurdistan. He witnesses the rape of a young woman by an older man. He chases the man away and helps the woman to mend her clothes so she can conceal ... See full summary »
Director: Sahim Omar Kalifa | Stars: Naima Abdo, Saban Dosky, Farzad Hasani, Ahmed Mohammed
Votes: 103
3. Bis Gleich (2014)
20 min | Short, Drama, Romance
An unspoken connection between two elderly neighbors, who share a daily ritual but who have never actually met, deepens when they face the inevitable...together.
Director: Benjamin Wolff | Stars: Gertrud Roll, Horst Westphal, Julia Richter, Philippe Brenninkmeyer
Votes: 153
4. Contrapelo (2014)
PG | 19 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
A proud Mexican barber is forced to shave the leader of a drug cartel. As he faces the man who is destroying his country, he is confronted by a difficult decision: to become a killer, or to let this man continue to kill.
Director: Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer | Stars: Art Bonilla, Eduardo Roman, Brian Gomez, Hugo Medina
Votes: 347
5. Day One (I) (2015)
PG-13 | 25 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
On her first day in Afghanistan, an interpreter for the US Army is forced to deliver the child of an enemy bomb-maker.
Director: Henry Hughes | Stars: Layla Alizada, Navid Negahban, Lexi Pearl, Bill Zasadil
Votes: 827
6. Everything Will Be Okay (2015)
30 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like every second weekend, but after a while Lea can't help feeling that something isn't right. So begins a fateful journey.
Director: Patrick Vollrath | Stars: Simon Schwarz, Julia Pointner, Marion Rottenhofer, Daniel Keberle
Votes: 1,424
7. The Free Man (2014)
PG | 30 min | Short, Crime, Drama
He is an ex-con who tries to turn over a new leaf by working at a laundry store. She is a young woman with physical disability and is taken in to help out in the store since her parents ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Quah | Stars: Cincin Jao, Ming-Shuai Shih, Ming-shiou Tsai, Chih-Keng Chuang
Votes: 70
8. Shok (2015)
21 min | Short, Drama, History
The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war.
Director: Jamie Donoughue | Stars: Lum Veseli, Andi Bajgora, Melihate Qena, Luan Kryeziu
Votes: 2,833
9. Stutterer (2015)
PG | 12 min | Short, Drama, Romance
A man whose lush inner thoughts are rendered mute by a crippling stutter feels isolated from the world despite a flourishing online relationship.
Director: Benjamin Cleary | Stars: Matthew Needham, Chloe Pirrie, Eric Richard, Richard Mason
Votes: 3,297
10. Winter Light (2015)
PG | 29 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
When an aging college professor confronts two hunters trespassing on his property, he begins an escalating battle of wills that will test his faith in everything he holds dear. Adapted from... See full summary »
Director: Julian Higgins | Stars: Raymond J. Barry, Vincent Kartheiser, Q'orianka Kilcher, Josh Pence
Votes: 63
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