Tribeca 2018: Short Films
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- DirectorCatherine K. LeeA Juilliard-trained violinist's unwavering pursuit for harmony by North and South Korean musicians at their heavily militarized border.
- DirectorMax LoweThe story of three U.S. veterans traveling back into the mountains of Iraq on a mission to heal wounds and experience the country and its culture without the shadow of war.
- DirectorDomee ShiStarsSindy LauKai LiSharmaine YeohA Chinese-Canadian woman suffering from empty nest syndrome gets a second shot at motherhood when one of her handmade dumplings comes alive.
- DirectorPatrick WaldropStarsGabor CsupoFrank Zappa
- DirectorPhil BroughStarsLeigh HartElla WilksJulian Brough
- DirectorEd BellPierce FreelonJonathan HalperinThe first in a series of animated musicals that tell the racial history of America.
- DirectorLiam Saint-PierreStarsMike MarzMark ZabawaMark, a 60 years old fledgling storm chaser recently diagnosed with lung cancer, sets out across the Midwest with his friend's nephew in search of his first and possibly last tornado, before the two month storm chaser season comes to an end.
- DirectorLouise BagnallStarsFionnula FlanaganNiamh MoylesLucy O'ConnellAn elderly woman drifts back through her memories. She exists between two states, the past and the present.
- DirectorKim A. SnyderIn the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took the lives of 20 first graders and their teachers, local clergymen Father Bob Weiss receives a letter from a fellow priest in Dunblane, Scotland, whose community suffered an eerily similar fate in 1996. From across the Atlantic, the two priests forge a poignant bond through the shared experience of trauma and healing.
- DirectorPaulo PatrícioA short experimental/documental animation based on a real conversation between a mother and her 3 years old daughter that recovers from a cancer.
- DirectorTimothy McGrathStarsCorbin BernsenLuna BlaiseAutumn BrowneFrom the survivors of Aurora and Columbine mass shootings, an in-depth, compelling, and inspirational look at overcoming tragedy.
- DirectorMark C. SmithTwo adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.
- DirectorTony C. JannelliRobert PietriStarsJon VellanteAn animated short about the Velvet Underground's first gig in 1965 in front of a crowd of shocked kids at a suburban New Jersey High School.
- DirectorPaul StoneStarsPete ValleeA 960-pound Elvis impersonator is absolutely convinced he is Elvis Presley's secret love child.
- DirectorAndreas KesslerStarsSven GielnikTine KieflSimon KluthSince a few years the violinists Ari and Ron are a couple. As they both get the invitation of an orchestra to audition for the solo part they get into direct competition . Their mutual trust is put on a hard test when Ron gets an temptating offer from the conductor of the orchestra.
- DirectorPatrick WaldropStarsGabor CsupoFrank Zappa
- DirectorAndrew CohnDeep within Trump's America, a camp of destitute truck drivers confide their anxieties, frustrations and fears to the chaplain of a Midwest mobile chapel.
- DirectorSam JohnsonStarsFionn O'SheaJessica BardenNathalie Armin15-year-old Kyle believes he can save his dying older brother with a plant he's found at the back of a garden centre. Problem is, there's a shadowy government agency out to destroy it first.
- DirectorTravis BibleStarsChris O'SheaRichard KohnkeDarnell TrotterA man in a time loop must work with his brother to prevent a catastrophic fire.
- DirectorJustine BatemanStarsRae Dawn ChongBre BlairSeana KofoedA progressive elementary school's "parenting class" takes an unexpected dramatic turn.
- DirectorMaurice O'BrienIn 1984 a tiny anonymous Tipperary village was thrust in to the world's spotlight when US President Ronald Reagan arrived to visit his ancestral home. It was said that Ballyporeen would never be the same again...
- DirectorIrene TaylorStarsJenni AlpertDon LogsdonAfter being taken away from her birth parents as a baby by the state, and adopted out of foster care at age 4, singer-songwriter Jenni Alpert (AKA Cami) decides to go searching for her birth father. After weeks undercover on the street of LA, she finally finds him: homeless, addicted, and running from the law, yet a musician, just like her.
- DirectorBastien AlexandreStarsCaroline DhavernasCharli BirdgenawSam Ashe ArnoldOphelia is a whip-smart 12-year-old girl who must solve a vexing problem: she's never been kissed. There are several candidates in her class, but none have Tommy Lemenchick's smile. Baiting him with the hottest new videogame, Ophelia manages to get Tommy on the old family couch and claims her coveted prize. But, Tommy has more than a nice smile; he also has a big mouth.
- DirectorRiess HillAmy HillChris RiessStarsJoan AndersonJames DiLulloHula Girl is the untold story behind one of the biggest fads in modern American history. At 94 years of age, Joan Anderson has waited 60 years to prove that "a gentleman's handshake " was hardly a deal and it's time to set the record straight.
- DirectorAndre AndreevStarsMilton GlaserA short film about the creator of the infamous I Heart NY logo and his struggle to find love for the city in a trying time.
- DirectorIvana HucikovaSarah KeelingGrace RemingtonGrowing up in the 60's in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra's world was artfully framed by her mother's Super-8 camera. Today, still living in the same place, she edits together sequences gaining insight into the challenges of her mother's life and the importance of her vision and archive.
- DirectorLaura GroombridgeStarsTim PhillippsMirko GrilliniLaura Jane TurnerA man tangled in the violent criminal underworld of bare knuckles fighting pursues a misguided attempt at redemption.
- DirectorJocelyn StamatStarsMarisa TomeiMinnie DriverPaulo CostanzoA physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.
- DirectorJesse AtlasStarsAngela LewisMustafa ShakirBradley FisherIn this emotionally-charged sci-fi thriller, a soldier jumps from body to body, but her hardest mission is coming home.
- DirectorHarry IsraelsonStarsLola KirkeJack Henry RobbinsHorace DoddAndy panics when Alice, her fiance, gets bitten by a snake.
- DirectorHelen O'HanlonStarsTom ContiMiriam MargolyesDixie EgerickxAt the turn of 20th Century, at a boardinghouse in Paris, a young girl's life is changed by the arrival of a mysterious man, whom she discovers is a wire walker. Based on the much loved, Caldecott Medal winning book, starring Tom Conti, Miriam Margolyes and introducing Dixie Egerickx as 'Mirette'.
- DirectorJudith TongStarsLee Min XinZhang ZhirouTwo young sisters, Pamela and Abigail, decide to run away from trouble at home to build a cardboard house together. However, reality soon catches up with them and threatens to put an end to their escapade.
- DirectorLenar KamalovStarsZakhar PrilepinOleg ChernovGleb KornilovA separatist fighter in the Donbas region of Ukraine with the nom de guerre Cat is assigned phone duty. The task is not as easy as it may seem.
- DirectorJames BortStarsDorothée GilbertAntonia DesplatPierre DeladonchampsEmma is about to be the new Ballerina. But something upsets her. A secret. A secret liable to undermine what she has spent a whole life on.
- DirectorClaire FowlerStarsJulie BaroodyLeslie BibbHana ChamounA female Lyft driver has to navigate the night shift in NYC while waiting to hear life or death news from Syria.
- DirectorJoshua CarlonStarsSaul MorozAs a teenager in 1950 Brooklyn, all Saul wanted to do was hang out with his friends and go to the beach. Instead, he got roped into a dangerous new job, and Saul got in a little over his head.
- DirectorJean PesceStarsMichael ArgentieriVince BandilleMatthew CasuccioWhen a girl finds out she is being evicted from her Brooklyn apartment, she elicits the help of some gangsters. A dark comedy and true story starring Tony nominee, Sarah Stiles.
- DirectorRichard RaymondStarsTatiana MaslanyTom CullenMike TagueSet during the Great American Eclipse, this is a story about the sacrifices we make for love and the intensity of a looming moment that can change everything.
- DirectorPaulo PatrícioA short experimental/documental animation based on a real conversation between a mother and her 3 years old daughter that recovers from a cancer.
- DirectorAndrew BowenStarsJohn AsherAndrew BowenDrew CurtisTHE 716TH is a wildly fun, sci-fi adventure short film about a pair of unlikely heroes: two insubordinate non-automated combat medics and their admirably brave but poorly conceived, at times comical attempt to rescue a pair of injured infantry soldiers.
- DirectorCharlie SchwanStarsEllie DubinSpencer FlynnCharmar JeterIt's 1978, an unstoppable asteroid is heading directly for earth, and Samuel just wants to get laid before it's too late.
- DirectorAtara FrishStarsShir AbramovGili Beit-HalahmiRavit DorFinding a special love letter in her locker, will make Noa struggle between a safe restrained world, and her urge to feel, at least for a brief moment - loved.
- DirectorSteve KennyStarsTom DoranBarry WardLiam DoranA 'Back To The Future'-obsessed traveller boy strives to finish building his own DeLorean replica before his family are evicted from their halting site.
- DirectorJimmy MarbleStarsNika de CarloCarly Foulkes1990s. Los Angeles. The Future Is Repeating Itself. Oh My God.
- DirectorJohannes MueckePatrick SturmStarsTanja PetrovskyMichael SmulikWhen hard-bitten ranger Kira is sent out on another patrol mission, she discovers a mysterious, large object in the vastness of Antarctica. Little does she know that inside this object waits a lethal trap not only for her, but for mankind.
- DirectorCaroline IngvarssonStarsSelma Modéer WikingSofie NilsaskLivia LiedholmBased in true events; three young girls arrive at the airport after a long night of partying during a parent-free trip to England. But a naive joke in the wrong place shatters their friendship.
- DirectorRachel MyersStarsAnne AroneMurray AxelrodShirley AxelrodShabbat dinner gatherings for these Jewish senior citizens is at the Wendy's Fast Food restaurant where they say prayers and light candles over hamburgers and fries.