Crime Spree - Show Me Shorts Film Festival

Keep the getaway car running. We’re heading out to uncover the mysteries and personalities behind a series of crime capers. This collection of short films will have you gripping your seat and reaching for more popcorn. Take a wild ride with us through bank robberies, bicycle thieves, a haunting and a kidnapping gone awry.

Total length: 105 min

Rating: M Violence, offensive language, nudity, suicide & content that may disturb

The Films are:

Quello Che è Mio (What is Mine)

Heist, 19 mins, Italy

Four terminally ill men travel through Sardinia, Italy pulling off one heist after another. They seek a legacy to leave behind.

Dir/Writ: Gianni Cesaraccio

Prod: Fabio Donatini, Chiara Nicoletti

Spook

Drama, 18 mins, Norway

A frustrated man caring for his chronically ill mother vents his feelings by dressing up as a dead colonel to spook the local townspeople.

Dir/Writ: Nils Johan Nesse

Writ: Jamie Turville

Prod: Cathrine Wespestad

World Premiere

Day Job - Soft Plastics

Music Video, 4 mins, New Zealand

The daily grind of the nine-to-five breeds a murderous intent in this music video from Soft Plastics.

Dir: Stella Reid

Prod: Laura Robinson

The Ballad of Maddog Quinn

Western, 15 mins, New Zealand

An unlikely outlaw wreaks hell across a dusty dystopian wasteland on a wild quest to save what is held most dear.

Dir/Writ/Prod: Matt Inns

Stag Hunt

Thriller, 7 mins, New Zealand

A kidnapped man is taken to a remote forest where he is taunted by his inept captor, and pushed to the brink.

Dir/Writ: Peter Hansen

Prod: Nikhil Madhan

World Premiere

Same Old

Drama, 15 mins, Canada

One bad night for a New York City delivery driver.

Dir/ Writ: Lloyd Lee Choi

Prod: Anthony Zhai Yang

Ultraveloci

Action, 19 mins, Italy

Dodo, a 50-year-old man suffering from a form of partial paralysis that limits his motor skills, finds himself alone for the first time having to defend the family workshop.

Dir/Writ/Prod: Davide Morando, Paolo Bonfadini

Prod: Irene Cotroneo

World Premiere