INDIE SHORT FEST

Riding With The Rabbi

“Riding with the Rabbi” is the story of two most uncommon people, Sam a good old southern Jewish “boy” and Rabbi Stan, a misplaced mohel. Brought together by a chance encounter at a bus stop, the two develop an incongruous friendship.
Directed by Yvette M. Hochberg (USA)

An Extraordinary Journey

Ding Guanjia, a student who graduated from Gao San, is bent on freedom, while his father is a very strong and strict person. Ding Guanjia, who has always been in a high pressure, is unwilling to accept his father’s choice. He has always lived with a tenant. Named Liu Seike, he longed for Liu Seike’s free and happy personality, liked his lifestyle, and was curious about the film. He went to Tibet with Liu Seike, but Liu Seike was leaving, Ding Guanjia was forced to repeat the remarks. He chose to break free from the state of high pressure and forced to try to go straight to Tibet with Liu Seike. Can they reach the heart?
Directed by Ding Yi (China)

Broken Souls

Priscilla Smith’s sanity is tested when she is separated from her beloved husband Adolph who is called for military service in Afghanistan. Left to raise their only child Sophia alone, Priscilla struggles with self-esteem issues and hopelessly uses prescription drugs to help her cope with the emptiness she feels in a community that has lost its men to war and prisons. 
Directed by Sanelle Sibanda (USA)

Exposure

As a young couple fights for survival in the harsh California desert, they confront the choices that brought them to a crossroads in their relationship.
Directed by J.D. Funari (USA)

The Last Story

Abhinav Sharma a young story writer in New Delhi lives alone with his lavish life. His carrier is at his peak as a brainstormed Crime stories. His stories became fame for the magazine company AUTHOR. Meanwhile there is a serious and brutal crime rising up in the streets of New Delhi. A well-mannered and Perfectionist Killer roaming around and Killing people with a similar pattern. But Abhinav doesn’t care about anything. There are some other writers also who want to be at Abhinav’s place but it’s not there time, which results jealous and anger. Abhinav has everything in his life but his everything becomes the problem for him. He gets insulted in an event by a person who blames him to be that Serial killer and that is really shocking for Abhinav. Somehow Abhinav manages to come over with the trauma and makes the connection between himself and that killer and that gives him a shock Abhinav finds that someone is killing people in the way he used to write in his stories. So he planned to catch the killer he’s totally filled with fear and that’s it, in the same night Abhinav is killed in his house, and according to forensic doctors and CBI Officers Abhinav was the serial killer but the mystery still remains when the Next Murder held in the City.
Directed by Himanshu Kesharwani (India)

Calamity Falls

After the sudden death of her parents, a young girl finds a portal to an alternate world in which they are still alive and must choose whether to live with them or stay with her brother.
Directed by Hadley Hillel (USA)

EXT

In the snow-covered ruins of 24th century Toronto, AEGIS, a humanoid war machine, leads a team of five robot-bound digital-humans into the real world (aka the “E-X-T”) to retake an enemy-occupied server installation vital to the survival of their digital homeworld.

During an attempt to ambush a large pack of enemy controlled war-drones, AEGIS recalls an interrogation with the enemy’s founder, an extremist named KYM MINAMOTO…AEGIS’s mother.

As AEGIS fights for her life in the real world, she recalls the emotional fight for her identity in the INT (the digital world), as she and her mother argue over the true nature of humanity and inclusion of digital-persons within it.
Directed by Adrian Bobb (Canada)