Shorts Program 5: Letting Off Steam

Short Program 5 Letting O

Running time: 111 mins

When pressure builds and tensions mount, sometimes you have to turn the release valve. The following seven shorts show ways in which people let it all go, from street thugs and clergy, to young women on the move and bereaved owners and parents. The films show how release, be it sexual, emotional, or metaphysical, can change, save or destroy lives. Whether they?re from Austria, Mexico, the UK, Northern Ireland or the US, each film gives off noise and heat as the issues come to a boiling point.

Warning: These films contain heavy adult content and may not be suitable for younger viewers.

Dead Dog - dir. Edward Jeffreys (United States)
Eiko - dir. Christoph Kuschnig (Austria)
The Hour of Death (La Hora de la Muerte) - dir. Manuel Alejandro Anell (Mexico)
Love You More - dir. Sam Taylor-Wood (United Kingdom)
Rip and the Preacher - dir. Michael Lennox (United Kingdom)
Twoyoungmen, UT - dir. Sam McConnell (United States)
Water Pills - dir. Blake Sennett (United States)
Part of Shorts Program 5: Letting Off Steam. A pill popping, emotionally off balance stage mother tries to break her daughter in to the film and tv business. Fortune strikes when they get a screen…
Part of Shorts Program 5: Letting Off Steam. When a man's dog goes missing he sets out with his girlfriend to confront his worst fears.
Part of Shorts Program 5: Letting Off Steam. Itinerant handyman, Alex, is no stranger to life on the road. But his life takes a sharp turn when Lili, a mysterious young hitchhiker obsessed with sex…
Part of Shorts Program 5: Letting Off Steam. A has-been radio personality spends the later years of his career hosting an midnight radio horror show he has no respect for. Callers tune in and relate…
Part of Shorts Program 5: Letting Off Steam. Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' in the summer of 1978.
Part of Shorts Program 5: Letting Off Steam. A fire and brimstone street preacher is confronted by an armed and fiercely angry young street hood. Within seconds the conflict escalates out of control…
Part of Shorts Program 5: Letting Off Steam. High school senior Will Oberlain sneaks into Salt Lake City?s only gay bar with a bad fake ID. He?s surprised and smitten when he meets a cute bartender…