Denver Film Festival: Shorts Lineup
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- DirectorDavina PardoHolocaust survivor Eva Schloss preserves her story interactively so that she will be able to tell it forever.
- DirectorSergio FalchiStarsAntonio ToccoDavide FalchiUwizeymana CostaAn old rude fisherman meets a refugee girl.
- DirectorBahman ArkBahram ArkStarsDavoud NourpourA man who wants to pass the border, disguises himself as a ram.
- DirectorNathan TruesdellStarsMary AllenBig ChuckLil JonThe city of Cleveland was abuzz on September 27, 1986. Over 1.5 million balloons were about to be released at once, breaking the world record. What could go wrong?
- DirectorEkaterina FilippovaOnce the birdie met a hippo. They became friends and have built a lovely house together.
- DirectorNiki Lindroth von BahrStarsSven BjörklundMattias FranssonCarl EnglénA dark musical enacted in a market place, situated next to a freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.
- DirectorBritt RaesStarsBraden LunsfordMadison ReevesRudi RokA tragic comedy of a sweet little girl, who grows up to be a crazy old cat lady.
- DirectorTravis LindnerJustin TyrrellStarsNathan LundTimmi LasleyNate GustBefore he opens his new restaurant, a desperate chef seeks constructive feedback from his friends.
- DirectorDina FiasconaroStarsAya CashJenn HarrisWill RogersIn a surrealist take on a 1950s commercial, a bored housewife attempts to spice up her marriage by preparing a delicious meatloaf for dinner. What emerges from the kitchen is "The Queen of Meatloaf" incarnate, who proceeds to invade the homes of consumers and wreak havoc on the commercial set.
- DirectorJessica KingdonYiwu International Trade City is the world's largest market, selling cheap goods wholesale in a city south of Shanghai. The fake flowers, toys, pens and alarm clocks traded in Yiwu eventually end up in dollar stores across the planet, but I focus on the people who sell these goods that we take for granted. As a character study of the market itself, the film peers into the lives of those who run this global trade. The sellers, full of life and individuality, live against the uniformly oppressive backdrop of their livelihood. A somber man painstakingly counts tiny metal parts on his desk in a pen shop. A business lady sweet talks one of her customers, peppering him with insults and compliments, but in between the buying and selling, vendors all find different ways to pass the time in this gigantic mall. A mother yells at a group of young boys, berating them for losing a toy. A man in a suit hums along to a haunting song waiting for a customer as the clocks he is selling tick away. Two young siblings play a video game while lazily eating KFC from the bucket, licking their fingers. While these stories seem small and insignificant, in the context of the film, the dialogue and actions take on new weight and meaning, elevating the quotidian to a realm of discovery.
- DirectorNanna Kristín MagnúsdóttirStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonRagnheiður Ugla Ocares GautsdóttirAgla Bríet GísladóttirA single father wants to fulfil his young daughter's wish to throw a slumber party for her friends, but it turns out to be more of a challenge than he thought due to the rules of modern society.
- DirectorGeoff MarslettStarsAbby AndersonPaul GordonKaitlin MaestesA WEDDING, CELL PHONES, RIFLES, BEER & DEER. Sometimes getting married means giving up your old friends; sometimes it means not making new friends; most of the time it means passing up new loves. Hopefully it's worth it. In this tragic romantic comedy the couple's losses are a little more literal. When their pre-wedding hunting trip in the mountains spins out of control the happy couple struggles to make everything right again.
- DirectorJason A. KesslerStarsJonathan FlandersKatie KohlerEman EsfandiA Hollywood script reader comes across a script that may or may not lead to the horrific death of anyone who passes on it.
- DirectorRoseanne LiangStarsMarsha YuenJacob TomuriDavid T. LimIn an aging private hospital, a single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician's oath when violent gangsters storm in to stop a crucial operation.
- DirectorMahdi FleifelStarsAtef AlshafeiJalal QaniryThymios KoukiosAlone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.
- DirectorMark BorchardtStarsMark BorchardtU.F.O. BobSheldonMark Borchardt turns his camera on the UFO Daze gathering in Dundee, Wisconsin, where he finds an abundance of fascinating characters, a mystic landscape, and the paradox between empirical evidence and extraterrestrial longing. Featuring luminaries who claim to be in direct contact with the aliens themselves, this film offers an objective vantage point for its subjects to outlay their beliefs unhindered by censorious reasoning. If anything, this documentary will keep you on your toes and your eyes to the skies.
- DirectorStacey SteersEdge of Alchemy is the third film in a trilogy examining the psychological terrain of women's inner worlds. In this handmade film, assembled from over 6,000 collages, the actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are lifted from their early silent features and cast into a surreal epic with an unending of the Frankenstein story and contemporary undercurrents of hive collapse. Music by Lech Jankowski (Brothers Quay). Edge of Alchemy received major funding from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Creative Capital Foundation. "Edge of Alchemy is the epitome of Stacey Steers' unique vision of collaged re-examination animations, an uncanny way to carry on in the great tradition of surrealist cinema. Max Ernst would refer to Lautréamont's sewing machine and umbrella to define the structure of the surrealist painting as 'a linking of two realities that by all appearances have nothing to link them, in a setting that by all appearances does not fit them.' I would add, making it all feel so seamlessly inevitable and inexplicably right...the 'feeling of form', as Suzanne K. Langer might have put it..." (Phil Solomon)
- DirectorOlga OsorioStarsTeo GaliñanesÓscar GaliñanesRicardo de BarreiroSummer of 1982. Teo claims he has found a wormhole. His brother Óscar does not believe him - at least not for now.
- DirectorRory StewartStarsLynsey BeauchampOliver KennedyJuliet KnightAfter a chance encounter with a grieving old friend a charismatic Spiritualist attempts to prove the virtue of her beliefs, but all does not go as planned.
- DirectorDario OrtegaStarsMaya OrtegaNick HollandGeoff MarslettAn Assassin with a near perfect College Basketball Playoffs bracket deals with the obligation of the job and the distractions of being a sports fan.
- DirectorCharlie ShackletonStarsCaspar SalmonA search for the truth behind a fishy tale.
- DirectorRobert BeaversBased on the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, a look at the artist's life and work in Florence.
- DirectorLaura MossStarsElizabeth AshleyJimi StantonJordyn DiNataleA coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Ted Bundy's execution in 1989.
- DirectorQiu YangStarsShuxian LiFrank SunYaning DingIn a nameless Chinese city, a mother with her daughter missing refuses to go gentle into this good night.