Shorts Program 7: Breaking Through

Short Program 7 Breaking

Running time: 109 mins

Ranging from the sweet slapstick of a hapless magician, to the quiet dignity of an elderly farmer or the ethereal beauty of a desert landscape, the following six thought-provoking films are about breaking through barriers and not giving in to age, lack of talent, or fear. The beauty of music will help overcome the grim pasts of two musicians who are able to converse through melodies between their apartment wall?while a decaying building is no match for the mental walls its inhabitants put up around themselves, cutting off all personal contact.

Green Door - dir. Semi Chellas (Canada)
Instead of Abracadabra - dir. Patrik Eklund (Sweden)
On Earth As It Is in Heaven (Sur la terre comme au ciel) - dir. Hervé Demers (Canada)
The Tangent (La Tangente) - dir. Vincent Vesco (France)
The Wall - dir. Michael Lloyd Green (United States)
X to Y - dir. Matt Sobel (United States)
Part of Shorts Program 7: Breaking Through Green Door peers into the interwoven and discontented lives of five characters under one rotting roof and behind one decaying green door.
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Part of Shorts Program 7: Breaking Through Tomas is a bit too old to still be living with his parents, but his dream of becoming a magician leaves him with no other option.
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Part of Shorts Program 7: Breaking Through When his loving wife passes away, a retired 82-year-old farmer is relegated to a retirement home. The looks of those around him seem to silently condemn…
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Part of Shorts Program 7: Breaking Through A young man washing his car offers an attractive woman a ride wherever she wants to go. The two set off on a journey with no plans and no direction, but as…
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Part of Shorts Program 7: Breaking Through A New York City cellist, plagued by years of unbearable guilt, seeks solace in an impassioned violinist living in an adjacent apartment.
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Part of Shorts Program 7: Breaking Through With 6.6 billion people on earth, how do the right two find each other? Imagine a world in which our unborn children control our romantic destiny.
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