Shorts Program: Around the World

(110 min)
Friday, June 27, 2025 4:15 PM
Shorts Program: Around the World (TheaterTwo)

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Shorts Program: Around the World (TheaterTwo)

Friday, June 27, 2025 4:15 PM

Basie Center Cinemas

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List of films included in this program:

The Architect of the Liminal

Director: Deb Ethier
Short Short
Experimental, Silent Film | Canada | 3 min

An artist struggles to find her way in this quirky and off-kilter micro short from Deb Ethier. Taking some inspiration from classic silent films, it combines super 8 footage with 2D/3D animation and motion graphics. …

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Demi-Demons

Director: Martin Gerigk
Narrative Short
Experimental, Animation | Germany | 17 min
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Demi-Demons is an essay film about the contradictions of contemporary existence, which separate us from our natural instincts, opening abysses within us. The glorification of the hermaphrodite, the hedonism of virtual realities, the search for …

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The Reach

Director: Luca Caserta
Narrative Short
Drama, Fantastic | Italy | 28 min
Italian with English Subtitles

Based on a short story by Stephen King. On Goat Island, elderly Stella Flanders must confront her past and the Reach that separates the isle from the mainland, in a journey between memories and love …

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A Boy Opens the Door

Director: Dragan Jovicevic
Qwik Qlip
Serbia | 1 min

One night, someone is knocking at the door of the little boy`s home.

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MARIA

Director: OLIVIER PANIER
Narrative Short
Belgium | 9 min
French with English Subtitles

Manuella wakes up after a drunken evening. To his great surprise, Maria disappeared. Panicked and hungover, she sets out to search for him through the town of Carpentras.

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A LIFE BET

Director: Marwan TINHOUGGA
Short Short
Dramedy | France | 2 min
French w/ English Subtitles
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As the game reaches its peak, a debate ensues between Amir and Seydou, while Franck, completely inert to the conversation, takes advantage of the situation. During this poker hand, both cunning and majestic, the discussion …

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Justin’s Addiction Story: No Family is Immune

Director: Jacob Surette
Documentary Short
Canada | 7 min

After she and her son battled addiction together for seven years, a mother keeps her promise to her 21-year-old son to keep spreading addiction awareness and the important message, in his memory after his death …

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Autumn

Director: jean-marie villeneuve
Qwik Qlip
France | 1 min

A little girl is thinking about her dad.

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LA PICCOLA BALLERINA

Director: Amanda Sant'Anna
Short Short
Italy | 5 min

A young dancer attempts to further their career abroad to escape the demons of their past.

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dystopia

Director: bellopropello
Narrative Short
Animation | Switzerland | 9 min

Soap bubbles infiltrate a robotic armaments factory. Subversiveness versus logical reasoning. Who will get the upper hand?

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Badmouth Grandma

Director: Timothy Blackwood, Producer: Maria Jorjezian
Narrative Short
Comedy | USA | 5 min
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Down and out comic John gets the opportunity of his life to headline a show at LA’s biggest comedy club. But there’s a catch, the show’s tonight and he’s only got 4hrs to prepare new …

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MOMENT OF WEAKNESS

Director: Shirah Levin
Animation, Narrative Short
Israel | 5 min
Hebrew with English Subtitles

After Carmel has caused a car accident that has left her friend Hannah permanently disabled, she makes the dramatic decision to fast on Yom Kippur despite having type 1 diabetes. Will putting her own health …

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Fiance Fake-Out

Director: Simone Kisiel
Short Short
Comedy, Romance | USA | 5 min
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Rachel is overworked, under appreciated, and determined to get a weekend off from the office. But a lie about a fake fiancĂ© becomes a bigger commitment than she expected when her pretend paramour turns out …

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Earth Mother

Director: Nati Levinger
Documentary Short
Israel | 13 min
Hebrew with English Subtitles

Avital, a mother of five, moves to live in a converted truck on South Mt. Hebron in order to establish a legal, but totally isolated, community farm. But the physical and emotional hardship make her …

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