INDIE SHORT FEST

In response to a severe nationwide famine, the government allows non-productive citizens to be eaten.
Directed by Sotiris Petridis and Tania Nanavraki (Greece)

A short comedy about ageism, acting and when your past catches up with you.
Directed by Norm Lang (USA)

After the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991 presidential and oppositional forces confronted on the main avenue of the capital Tbilisi. Gia is a soldier of oppositional forces during this civil war. He needs to get medicines for his ill son. Meanwhile, he occasionally meets a schoolfriend, who fights for the interests of presidential forces.
Directed by Giorgi Tavartkiladze (Georgia)

A woman was living in a village with her two small kids. The thieves want to rob her cattle but she finds it out.
Directed by Mirabbas Khosravinezhad (Iran)

“Kid, the Moon,” a short drama, about a teenage boy living with his alcoholic father. After Alex gets locked out of the house believing no one to be home, he hears a noise coming from inside the house. Alex’s father, Ron, comes storming out of the house and brings Alex to a liquor store.
Directed by Justin Portaro (USA)

A promotional video for Semboku, Akita, Japan visualizing a samurai keeping watch over the beautiful Semboku region.
Directed by Katsuya Satoh (Japan)

“Finley” is a cheerfully energetic horror short following the shenanigans of a wooden puppet as he tries to kill a group of college kids who have moved into his house.
Directed by J. Zachary Thurman (USA)

Directed by Ed Hannigan (USA)

The world’s foremost pseudo-intellectual, Prof. Anita Wrest from Boynken U., lectures on the much maligned douchebag. This is an interactive, multimedia lecture featuring audience participation.
Directed by E. Philip Brown (USA)

After his lover dies, a writer teaches a class to mysterious locals in a small town. 
Directed by Rebecca Reyes (USA)