In this collection of short films, we explore intriguing worlds that are just one step from reality. We look through lenses of strangeness and meet amusingly unusual characters in odd settings: a puppet having an existential crisis, two Kung Fu masters on a date, an artist searching for the perfect thrift-store find, and a poet trapped in a society that frowns on talking. It’s an inventive reverie you won’t want to wake from.

Run Time: 99 min

Rating: R16 - Violence, offensive language, sex scenes, nudity & suicide themes.

Ningú Borda (Nobody Barks)
Absurd, 20m, Spain
Candela accidentally runs over her nephew’s dog and decides not to confess. She invents a legend about a pilgrimage of dogs and invites the boy to join the search.
Dir/Writ: Júlia Coldwell Serra
Writ: Bertran Esteve Garcia
Prod: Gerard Guilló i Bort

Meeting Your Maker
Puppetry, 18m, United States
A beloved puppet on a long-running children’s show faces an existential crisis just before the series’ milestone 300th episode.
Dir/Writ: Gregory JM Kasunich
Prod: Derek Tramont, Lee Sacks

埋單 (Let’s Settle This!)
Action, 13m, NZ
Elle and Winson are brought together by a dating app, or is it fate? After their date, they must settle the bill... and an ancient blood feud.
Dir/Writ: Jack Woon
Prod: Abba-Rose Vaiaoga-Ioasa, Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa

Ed’s Sun - Aidan Fine
Music Video, 6m, NZ
Music video for the song Ed’s Sun by Aidan Fine. Ed has spent years hiding from the sharp sting of the sun. Now he must escape and reconcile with his past.
Dir/Writ/Prod: Tom Grut
Writ: Aidan Fine, Ryan Gray-McCoy

Talk Me
Dystopian Romance, 20m, Spain, United States
In a world where sexual intimacy replaces words, a man must choose between a loveless marriage and a kindred stranger.
Dir/Writ/Prod: Joecar Hanna
Prod: María Belén Poncio, Patricia Picazo, Mai Batalla, Lina Badenes, Ana Camacho

Mr Adidos
Comedy, 17m, Australia
A quiet artist prone to outbursts finds himself caught in the orbit of two thrift-store-flipping twins.
Dir/Writ/Prod: Henry Stone
Prod: Georgia Noe

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