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Douglas Horn 18 min. | Comedy | USA
Tired of wasting
time on relationships that break up when one person discovers something they
can’t stand about the other, Everett decides to reveal every terrible habit,
attitude and hang up on the first date. Shockingly, women don’t respond as he’d
hoped... until he meets Brinn, who’s willing to play his game and try for FULL
DISCLOSURE.
Geno Andrews
A recluse, John
Wheeler gets set up on a blind date with a blind woman. During the course of
this magical dinner, Jillian teaches John to see this night through the eyes of
his heart.
Christian Remde | When blue-collar
Henry orders a beer in a snooty wine bar, he offends everyone and has to defend
himself and the woman sitting next to him.
Julie Anne Meerschwam 19 min. | Drama | USA
A story about
the rise and fall of a friendship between a little girl and her imaginary
friend.
When 5 year-old
Nelly’s mom passes away she creates “Celamy”, an imaginary friend, to help her
cope with her loss. For years the two girls are inseparable. But once Nelly
becomes a teenager, it becomes obvious to Celamy that she’s no longer needed,
in fact that she’s in the way. So now it’s up to Celamy to choose: should she stay like she wants to or leave so that Nelly can grow up?
Tim Loane
A young protestant girl in Derry wants to be a RIVERDANCER but her grief-stricken father has to be convinced. [L]
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Javier Fesser
Binta, a little girl from Senegal, tells us about the everyday life in her village, the importance of education for girls, and about her father’s great idea to make the world a better place.
Aaron Schneider 40 min. | USA | Drama
Based on the story by William Faulkner, Two Soldiers tells the inspirational and stirring tale of two brothers pulled apart by war. Set in 1941 on the eve of WWII, Faulkner’s poignant coming-of-age story takes us on a young boy’s heroic journey to reunite his family and do battle with the world that has torn it apart. [L]
Josh Staub 9 min. | Animated | USA
Created in its
entirety by first-time filmmaker Josh Staub, The Mantis Parable is the charming tale of a humble caterpillar trapped in a bug
collector’s jar and in need of a helping hand.
Matt Pinder 9 min.| Comedy | Scotland
Seven-year-old
Sammy is convinced that he has been bitten by a poisonous snake. He spends the
afternoon diagnosing what he believes to be the first signs of his impending
death. Can his father come to his rescue?
Melina Sydney Padua 3 min. | Animation | Ireland
A new strain of a disease that could be dangerous to livestock herds is being discussed on the radio. A cow listening to the show naturally gets a bit worried about the topic.
Kirk Weddell 19 min. | Comedy | UK
A touching comedic tale about an Irish Pigeon Racer, Seamus Kerrigan, who gets embroiled in an International drug trafficking plot to smuggle drugs over to Ireland from Holland using carrier pigeons.
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Ruairi O’Brien & John Kennedy 2 min. | Comedy | Ireland
Teeth is a short “last laugh” tale of two old friends, their teeth and a series of events that leaves them lost for words.
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Klaus Härö 111 min. | Drama | Finland (English subtitles)
During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. Mother of Mine tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom.
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Dan Ireland 08 Min. | Drama | UK/USA
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
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Full Disclosure
Jillian’s Vantage
The Wine Bar
Celamy
Dance Lexie Dance
Binta and the Big Idea
The Mantis Parable
Snakebite
Agricultural Report
Dutch Bird
Teeth
Mother of Mine
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
