Shorts Attack in August 2024

7 Films in 110 minutes – with german subtitles

The Sundance Film Festival took place in January in Park City, Utah (USA) and stands for the unique potential to tell stories. The program offers a mix of fiction, documentary and animated films that are funny, sad, inspiring and full of strong characters.

The Programm:

ESSEX GIRLS
Yero Timi-Biu
England
Live Action – 15 min
Highschool-Girls
After an incident at her high school pulls her into the orbit of the only other Black girl in her year, “Essex Girl” Bisola is plunged into a journey to discover a whole new side of herself.

BUG DINER
Phoebe Jane Hart
USA
Animation
7 min
Animals …
A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.

THE MASTERPIECE
Alex Lora Cercos
Spain
Live Action – 20 min
Grotesque
Leo and Diana, a wealthy couple, meet Salif and Yousef, two scrap dealers, at a recycle center. Offering them more junk, Diana invites them to their mansion.

ALOK
Alex Hedison
USA
Documentaryfilm – 18 min
Self-development
Filmmaker Alex Hedison delivers a compelling portrait of her friend, Alok Vaid-Menon, the internationally acclaimed, non-binary, author, poet, comedian, and public speaker.

DREAM CREEP
Carlos A.F. Lopez
USA
Live Action – 13 min
Bondage thriller
A couple awakens in the night to sounds emanating from an unlikely orifice. Cast: Ian Edlund, Sidney Jayne Hunt. World Premiere. Available online for Public.

PATHOLOGICAL
Alison Rich
USA
Live Action
17 min
Lies
A woman who’s a pathological liar wakes up one day to discover her lies have become true. This deeply confuses.

PISKO THE CRAB CHILD IS IN LOVE
Makoto Nagahisa
Japan
Live Action – 18 min
Identities
Pisko’s father is a crab while her mother is human. Pisko falls in love with her teacher but is heartbroken when he leaves her because she is half-crab. Pisko finally finds love.

Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 260 of Shorts Attack!