Runtime
00:19:58
Country of Production
USA
Submitted by
Christina Harding
Synopsis
Bill falls in love at first sight with a beautiful woman in a jazz club. She plays hard to get with him through her seductive wit, but Bill charms her and proves himself worthy of her attention. It appears that a romance is in bloom until Bill discovers there’s eyes watching his every move. He’s in a notorious mobster’s bar hitting on his girl. He must decide if this woman is worth risking both of their lives for a brief moment of passion in this charming film oozing with classic Hollywood Noir from the golden age of cinema.
Category
shorts narrative
Runtime
00:17:00
Country of Production
Germany
Submitted by
Alexander Bergmann
Synopsis
They see each other for the first time in a library. At a second meeting they notice that they have the same interests and needs. Their initial conversation develops into an intense discussion. Everything revolves around a mysterious book which offers wisdom from an ancient time. Based upon their past experience, they have a difference of opinion about the book’s message, which leads to a fundamental disagreement among them. They go their separate ways for the time being. Eventually they begin to acquire a better understanding of each other’s position. Forced to face their own doubts and misgivings, they begin to understand how their different approach to life complements each other. They learn to let go of the past and confidently look to the future.
Category
student 1st-12th grade
Submitted by:
Alvaro Riccardo Valente
Runtime:
17 minutes
Country of Production:
USA
Synopsis:
Based on an oral history from the W.P.A. Writers, Tobacco Burn is a story set thirty-five years before the Civil War at the height of American slavery. Our story follows a slave community on a Kentucky tobacco farm as they struggle with the arrival of a brutal overseer. When two of the enslaved weigh the complexities of killing the man, each develop a different understanding towards violence, acting on which could cost all of them their lives.
Category:
shorts narrative
Runtime
00:13:56
Country of Production
Germany
Submitted by
Cate Smierciak
Synopsis
Claire arrives from Paris to her new home in Berlin in search of adventure and a new life, only to be met with a cold flatmate and a sterile white-walled room. Left alone to unpack, she decides to go out on her own and ends up at a local dive.As Claire nervously sits by herself at the bar, a regular engages her in uncomfortable conversation, but the tension is broken when an attractive young man interrupts them, pretending to be her boyfriend to shake the old drunk.After a friendly chat, the man excuses himself and Claire heads home. But when she runs into trouble on her way, she is forced to find the strength and confidence she’s lacked all evening.
Category
shorts narrative
Runtime
00:11:14
Country of Production
Australia
Submitted by
Edward Lyons
Synopsis
When a troubled man on a cliff top is on the verge of committing suicide, he is interrupted by a young vivacious woman. Through a series of heart wrenching flashbacks he reveals to her how he killed his wife. As he tries to come to terms with his grief, the woman offers him hope in a manner he never expected.
Category
shorts narrative
Runtime
00:21:06
Country of Production
USA
Submitted by
Sean Mitchell
Synopsis
Washington D.C., 1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC,) stands in session. Film director Herbert Biberman sits in the witness chair. When asked, “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” Biberman refuses to answer. Chairman Thomas responds with a verbal lashing and has Biberman arrested. In an outer room, Bertolt Brecht, wife Hellie, and 4-year-old daughter Barbara sit and wait. Brecht wears a Chairman Mao style jacket while Hellie tries to get him to change into a suit. “You should wear the costume of your interrogator,” she says. “This is not a performance, Hellie,” Brecht responds. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, the second to last witness, approaches Brecht to talk some sense into him. Trumbo is concerned that Brecht, a well-known Marxist, will revoke his past and spit on his work in order to stay out of jail. Brecht, obviously torn about what to do, provokes Trumbo by responding “Survival first, morals later.” As Brecht enters the hearing room, Chairman Thomas cites the other ten witnesses’ later to become know as the Hollywood Ten for contempt of Congress. The committee’s grandstanding, the audiences’ thirst for blood, and the photographer’s bulbs flashing in a surreal light display make an impression on Brecht. He turns to his translator and muses, “This isn’t interrogation; it’s theater!” As he approaches the witness chair, Brecht must choose between betraying himself and his friends, and jail. Or will he find a third option?
Category
shorts narrative
Runtime
00:15:00
Country of Production
USA
Submitted by
Alexander Kohnstamm
Synopsis
An overworked lawyer, Kent, is given a tragic case that involves a grieving father, Greg. Kent connects with Greg, and because of Kent’s new understanding of fatherhood, he reexamines his life.
Category
shorts narrative
Submitted by
Sandra Capra
Runtime
8 minutes
Country of Production
USA
Synopsis
Carrot Cake is a story about a 97 year old father wanting to meet with his daughters and their families to share some important news.
Category
short documentary
