Shorts: Life Stuff
September 6, 2010 No CommentsScreening: Tuesday, Sept 7 at 10:00am (Muvico Baywalk 20)
Total Runtime: 97 mins
Little Odessa (13 mins — USA)
A series of events introduces a frustrated cab driver into a dangerous world he doesn’t quite understand. Although he thinks he can handle anything, this time he may be in over his head.
Bridge (13 mins — USA)
A young woman, Val, shows up at her mother’s rural Vermont home for a visit and finds a ‘for-sale’ sign on the front lawn — and her mother missing. When a stranger repeatedly calls the house looking for her mother, Val’s concern grows. Searching for clues to her mother’s disappearance, Val discovers that her mother is drowning in credit card debt and that the house is in foreclosure. These disquieting revelations lead to another — this one, immeasurably more devastating for Val.
Over the Fence (30 mins — Finland)
Sixteen-year-old Tomi trusts no one and does his best to protect his little sister Aino from the dangers of the world. But Aino is changing, fast. Because of his own fear of loneliness, Tomi tries to stop his sister, but he will eventually find out that you cannot control another person by force.
Shui (14 mins — Singapore)
A tragic story of a newlywed young couple, and life was humble in a rural fishing village. Frustrated with their unchanging poverty, Ah Shui is forced to work as a labourer in a foreign land, leaving hapless Ah Shan behind. Unable to contain their disparate frustration, Ah Shui and Ah Shan, oceans apart both choose to end their lives.
Tenner (12 mins — United Kingdom)
TENNER is a powerful coming-of-age drama, unfolding through an act of revenge.
HOMER, a seemingly dysfunctional teenager who lives with his eccentric bong-smoking grandfather, JOLLY. HOMER is holding a vendetta against local shop-owner PARDIP. A surprise twist in the story sees him attempt to deftly escape an electronic tagging curfew, and reveals why this campaign of attacks may be justifiable revenge…
Bloody Crumble (15 mins — France)
« BLOODY CRUMBLE » tells the story of three conmen contracted by the Albanese mafia to steal a large sum of money. But before they can deliver the precious stash, they get held-up and looted themselves.
Having put their own lives on the line for this robbery, our three heroes manage to kidnap the guy who double-crossed them and intend to have him reveal where the money is hidden.
Unfortunately, due to a regrettable blunder, the hostage dies with the secret.
That’s when two unusual grannies knock on their door…and manage, before they know it, to seal their destiny.
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