A Limine Director: Paulina Scepkova (Slovakia, 6 min.)
A poignant short about an elderly woman.
(program starts 4pm Saturday, Oct. 24, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Anxiety Director: Kiersten Myers (USA, 2 min.)
A young filmmaker explores this painful emotional state. (youth)
(program starts 11am, Sunday, Oct. 25, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Ant Director: Hassan Najmabadi (Iran, 1 min.)
A close-up look at a tiny critter.
(program starts 11am, Sunday, Oct. 25, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Anything Made of Paper Director: Brandon Ray (USA, 4 min.)
This music video of Bill Carter’s “Anything Made of Paper” is a fictional retelling of love, injustice, and hope. The song was written by Carter as a gift for his friend Damien Echols, who was unjustly put on death row as one of the West Memphis Three. (music video)
(program starts 2pm Saturday, Oct. 24, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Balloon Man
Director: Dodge Billingsley (USA, 9 min.)
A North Korean defector tries to adjust to life in his new South Korean home - and comes up with a unique way to reach those he left behind.
(program starts 2pm Saturday, Oct. 24, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Birds Gone Wild Directors/Producers: Chris Haley, Gary Appel (USA, 5 min.)
Relentless birds will stop at nothing to get what they want on a California pier.
An Iranian child collects copper wire to buy something very special. An excellent and rare cinematic glimpse of everyday life in a country often in the news.
(program starts 2pm Saturday, Oct. 24, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Death is a Salesman Director: Jason Miller (France, 3 min.)
The time has come, and Death is at the door - but our TV-watching, junk food-slurping hero is definitely not ready!
(program starts 11am, Sunday, Oct. 25, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Duality Director: Daniel Ruczko (USA, 13 min.)
In this eerie short, a young woman is terrified when she wakes up to find her phone contains photos of herself sleeping.
Brad Kittel of Luling, TX, envisions a world where beautiful, luxurious, tiny houses are built from roadside trash. He’s making it happen through hundreds of these little works of art - part of a vision of our planet’s future.
A portrait of three artists and the ways they perform gender. The film follows a Korean-American drag performer, a female opera singer from Shanghai who only sings male parts, and a clown from New York who performs burlesque. The artists contemplate makeup and drag, and doing and undoing gender.
A story about the love and connection between a man and his dog. This moving film asks: “How would you spend your last day?” and “Just who is the master?”
This beautiful dance film and its lovely lakeside setting are all the more remarkable for where they take place - Iran, where dancing is illegal. An act of artistic self-expression takes on a political dimension in this short. The filmmaker says, "In order to have a precious and truthful life, we need to have the courage to leave our comfort zone, ignoring anything that stops us from the truth, and enjoy the glory of being free and courageous."
(program starts 2pm Saturday, Oct. 24, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Interviews on an Irie Coast of Jamaica Director: Leyla Sharabi (USA, 13 min.)
Ponder the topics of God, philosophy, plants, and love in conversations with residents amid the striking vistas of a Jamaican coast. Q & A with director follows.
(program starts 2pm Sunday, Oct. 25, Greenbelt Arts Theatre)
Judgement Day Director: Todd Eric Valcourt (USA, 10 min.)
Even the most well-intentioned comments can be hurtful microaggressions. A humorous short film that explores the danger of making assumptions about strangers.
(program starts 2pm Saturday, Oct. 24, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Late Expectations Director: Laurie Arakaki (USA, 11 min.)
A young woman’s double life comes crashing down around her.
(program starts 4pm Saturday, Oct. 24, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Love at First Sight Director: Mark Playne (Spain, 14 min.)
A lonely young man’s increasingly creative attempts to gain the attention of the girl of his dreams.
A curious traveller stumbles into other people’s problems.
(program starts 11am, Sunday, Oct. 25, Greenbelt Arts Center)
People Like Us Director: Sarah Young (Malaysia, 9 min.)
Explores the plight of young refugees in Malaysia, and the obstacles and goals of one teen migrant who dreams big where opportunities are scarce. Are we as a human species ready to care about each other?
(program starts 2pm Saturday, Oct. 24, Greenbelt Arts Center)
The Red Thunder Director: Alvaro Ron (USA, 7 min.)
A young woman borrows her mother’s car and ends up somewhere very unexpected.
Torrents of Verbiage Director: Julian Towers (USA, 4 min.)
A haunting examination of a young man’s inability to stop speaking. (youth)
(program starts 11am, Sunday, Oct. 25, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Utopia 1.0 Director: Annie Berman (USA, 20 min.)
A thoughtful look inside the decaying online world of the game Second Life. Despite the opportunity to create any kind of society in a land that was a blank slate, this virtual reality was soon overrun with aggressive capitalism and the commodification of sex - sound familiar?
View trailer(program starts 2pm Sunday, Oct. 25, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Will I Scatter Away? Director: Emma Eisner (USA, 6 min.)
Danger threatens a man searching for himself in a dream-like landscape. A young filmmaker's experimental interpretation. (youth) (program starts 10pm, Saturday, Oct. 24, Greenbelt Arts Center)
Xboundary Director: Ryan Peterson (USA, 6 min.)
A mining boom in British Columbia and Alaska has damaged the lives and salmon-fishing industry of many in this remote region.
(program starts 4pm Sunday, Oct. 25, Greenbelt Arts Center)
