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Search 2018, Narrative Short films by title (35)
ACT OF TERROR, AN
Dir: Ashley Paige Brim, United States, 16 min, 2017, Narrative Short
The true story of Virginia Christian, a 16-year-old African American girl accused of murder in the Jim Crow South. ... more »
ASIAN GIRLS
Dir: Hyun Lee, Australia, 6 min, 2017, Narrative Short
CHAN is a Chinese factory worker who lives alone. Every night, she suffers from horrific nightmares involving the woman in the apartment next door, a Japan ... more »
ATLANTIC CITY
Dir: Miguel Alvarez, United States, 15 min, 2018, Narrative Short
Pony and Junior are two south Texas drifters - brothers in spirit, if not blood. The two come at odds when Junior refuses to help Pony find his estranged m ... more »
BABS
Dir: Celine Held, Logan George, United States, 12 min, 2018, Narrative Short
An estranged son discovers an alarming purchase made by his late father. ... more »
BEFORE THE FALL
Dir: Kamelya Alexan, United States, 11 min, 2016, Narrative Short
In the midst of the American Civil War, a young boy named Thomas, determined to cure his dying mother, wanders into the woods motivated by a mythical story ... more »
BIOPHILIA
Dir: Marina Michelson, United States, 11 min, 2017, Narrative Short
When an animal dies under her watch, an isolated new farmer is pushed to prove her worth. ... more »
BONOBO
Dir: Zoel Aeschbacher, Switzerland, 16 min, 2018, Narrative Short
When the elevator of their public housing breaks down, the fates of Felix, a disabled pensioner, Ana, a single mother struggling with her move and Seydou, ... more »
CASUALTIES
Dir: Holly Voges, United States, 11 min, 2018, Narrative Short
CASUALTIES is the story of James, a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD. Haunted by the trauma of the past, he struggles to know what is real in the presen ... more »
COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO
Dir: Reema Sengupta, India, 15 min, 2017, Narrative Short
In a country where marital rape is not a legal crime, it took a lot for Smita to escape an abusive marriage. She lives in a one room apartment in Mumbai, e ... more »
DUVALL ET AL.
Dir: Youthana Yuos, United States, 20 min, 2017, Narrative Short
DUVALL hates most people. Wheelchair-bound, he's cared for by his nurse MERCEDES and lives with his sad-sack son, NELSON.When Nelson suddenly commits suici ... more »
EL ASTRONAUTA
Dir: Manuel Trotta, Venezuela, 24 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Beto, a sophisticated man, returns to his remote hometown with the goal of bringing his senile father to a care home in the city. But his father, Don Alfre ... more »
ELISA
Dir: Kristina Kean Shtubert, Germany, 15 min, 2016, Narrative Short
'Elisa' portrays the claustrophobic and extremely painful relationship between nine year old Elisa and her mother. At night, Elisa scratches herself raw. T ... more »
FACING MECCA
Dir: Jan-Eric Mack, Switzerland, 25 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed's assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife. Together they stumble into a bewildering f ... more »
FAITH
Dir: Tatiana Fedorovskaya, Russia, 15 min, 2017, Narrative Short
An old widower, a former radio operator, perceives the flashing bulb as his late wife's messages. The love of his life will never die, even when the lights ... more »
FIGHTER
Dir: Bugsy Steel, England, 7 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Ten minutes before a boxing match, a teenage boxer with downs syndrome fights for his right to get in the ring. ... more »
GOODBYE, BROOKLYN
Dir: Daniel Jaffe, United States, 9 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Struggling with New York living, Dana Schapiro decides to move, saying goodbye to a neighborhood that can barely remember who she is.... ... more »
MONTANA
Dir: Michael Schwartz, United States, 14 min, 2018, Narrative Short
In the woods surrounding Flathead Lake, Montana, a troubled psychiatrist experiments with unconventional methods while struggling with her own traumatic pa ... more »
MORNING HAS BROKEN
Dir: Olga Chajdas, Poland, 15 min, 2017, Narrative Short
The main character, a woman, stabs her husband dead and drowns the daughter. Quietly, no emotions. She goes to bed only to wake in the morning and discover ... more »
MUST KILL KARL
Dir: Joe Kicak, Canada, 12 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Everyone has "that" friend - the one who shows up uninvited, drinks all your booze, and hits on your girlfriend - who we all secretly hate and wish would j ... more »
OKAASAN (MOM)
Dir: Kana Hatakeyama, Japan, 18 min, 2018, Narrative Short
Guilt, old resentment, distance, loss, and love simmer quietly in this story of a mother and a daughter, brought together after the daughter returns to her ... more »
PARTHENON
Dir: Frank Mosley, United States, 14 min, 2016, Narrative Short
A naked body moves a stranger to empathy. PARTHENON is a slippery, dizzying provocation on art, control, and perception. A recipient of the 2015 Oak Cliff ... more »
PECULIAR ABILITIES OF MR MAHLER, THE
Dir: Paul Philipp, Germany, 29 min, 2017, Narrative Short
East Germany, 1987: The special investigator Mahler is said to have paranormal abilities. The police assigns him to solve the case of the 6-year-old Henry ... more »
SACRILÈGE
Dir: Christophe Saber, Switzerland, 14 min, 2017, Narrative Short
The money has gone missing in the mosque of Saint-Etienne. Saoud, the gang leader is suspected. ... more »
SCORPION´S TALE, THE
Dir: Jhosimar Vasquez, United States, 22 min, 2017, Narrative Short
The Scorpion's Tale is a story of death, revenge, jealously and greed. The perfect killer sits on death row awaiting his fate. But when someone from his pa ... more »
SCRATCH
Dir: David Valero, Spain, 20 min, 2017, Narrative Short
This is JM's life, a young DJ with a cognitive disability, which makes his live unaware of a marginal world surrounding him. One night he will witness a be ... more »
SERVING JOY
Dir: Martin Sharpe, Australia, 14 min, 2017, Narrative Short
The table is set, the roast is cooked to perfection, and the soufflés are rising as high as Joy's blood pressure for the most important dinner party of her ... more »
SWEET MADDIE STONE
Dir: Brady Hood, England, 23 min, 2016, Narrative Short
15-year-old Maddie Stone rules her school yard under the protection of her family name. But after discovering her notorious father has been arrested, she h ... more »
TWO SECONDS OF SILENCE
Dir: Felipe Sanz, Spain, 16 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Javier is an exemplary pianist, admired by the jury. Isabel plays following her feeling, praised by the audience. The two pianists will meet in a final and ... more »
UNDER MOM'S SKIRT
Dir: Sarah Heitz De Chabaneix, France, 12 min, 2017, Narrative Short
In a small Florida town, a young French woman goes with her mother to a routine medical check-up to act as her interpreter. However she is taken by surpris ... more »
UNDERNEATH
Dir: Palle Lindqvist, Sweden, 11 min, 2017, Narrative Short
A young couple are about to have sex . But he wants to try something else. What exactly does "reversed roles" imply? A short study in how stereotypes a ... more »
UNNATURAL
Dir: Amy Wang, United States, 26 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Desperate to escape his past, James, a reclusive teenager moves into a new town with his strict parents. He is eager to fit into a new high school and befr ... more »
UNTITLED SHORT FILM ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE
Dir: Nicholas Colia, United States, 17 min, 2017, Narrative Short
A comedy about a WASPy female yuppie who feels so guilty about gentrifying her Brooklyn neighborhood that she overcompensates by trying to befriend the Ind ... more »
UPROAR
Dir: Ludovico Di Martino, Italy, 14 min, 2017, Narrative Short
In a hamlet near Rome that overlooks the sea, two young boys divide their time between petty thefts and football games. Their crimes are still full of the ... more »
WALE
Dir: Barnaby Blackburn, England, 22 min, 2018, Narrative Short
An 18 year old youth offender is trying to start his own business as a mobile mechanic. But enterprise isn't so easy when you're a young, black male with a ... more »
WIDOW'S LAST, THE
Dir: Vanessa Perdriau, England, 22 min, 2017, Narrative Short
The Widow's Last is a Historical Drama, set in Ireland during the third year of The Great Hunger. It tells the story of Kathryn Healy, a hardened peasant f ... more »