Short Program 8 - College Film Competition

Short Program 8 - College Film Competition

Running time: 113 mins

Student filmmakers represent the auteurs of the future, pushing boundaries and challenging the conventions of style and storytelling. This collection examines relationships, loneliness and isolation, self-discovery, environmentalism, gentrification, family, and death in truly deep and thought-provoking ways.

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A routine workday turns ugly for this bumbling lumberjack, as he unwittingly wanders into a forest full of vengeful plant life. Will Louie Lumberjack escape the wrath of horrifying carnivorous trees…
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A swimmer on the verge of perfection. Inspired by The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
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Haunted by a dead rape victim, a working class African-American father must decide whether to turn his only son into the police or delete the only evidence of the assault.
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As the long-time caretaker of 80,000 deceased at the San Francisco Columbarium, Emmitt Watson cannot help but see life while in the midst of death.
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A simple, domestic love story about a man who takes his skin off for his girlfriend, and why it probably was not the best idea...
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SAID is an exiled Moroccan young man who works in Mexico, in the maintenance department of a hotel.
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An elderly couple who runs a hospice for dying animals calls into question the ethics of pet euthanasia through the struggles of two disabled, old dogs at the facility.
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A fish-headed freak escapes the circus where he was trapped his whole life, in search of his real home. When he is lost and desperately needing water, an adventurous girl comes to his rescue and…
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A Chicano man endures the loss of his community in the San Francisco Mission District.
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A U.S. war veteran with PTSD has trouble adjusting to life back home.
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Sara, a small-town teenage girl with a dead-end existence who finds short-lived hope when she falls in love with the new pastors luminous daughter.
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Timmy II is a fast-paced absurd comedy about an American robot with a human heart who has an identity crisis. To avoid being discriminated against for being a robot, and to undermine his father who…
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