Sunday, Fiction Shorts Christi Hille Sunday, Fiction Shorts Christi Hille

Third Kind

Earth has been abandoned for a long time now and the human race has found refuge in outer space. Three archeologists return to Earth to investigate where a mysterious five-tone signal is coming from.

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Sunday, Indiana Reels Christi Hille Sunday, Indiana Reels Christi Hille

clarity.

Is it possible to escape the feelings that trap us in our minds? Is it possible to know which way to go? Perhaps, the journey starts from within. “Because there is only light and hope in my world and you belong rooted beside me.”

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Sunday, Fiction Shorts Christi Hille Sunday, Fiction Shorts Christi Hille

Violet

Just before the wedding ceremony, Azi notices that her sister’s wedding rings are lost. She tries to find a solution before the groom’s family finds out. Shot in Iran, this film never received permission to be screened in the filmmaker's home country.

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Henet Ward

Halima, a Sudanese henna painter, goes to prepare a young Egyptian bride (Basma) for her wedding. Under the watchful eyes of Halima's daughter Ward, the encounter between the two women grows from complicity to suddenly unveiled tensions.

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Changing Room

A teenage girl in Iran is a model unbeknown to her traditional and religious father. At her sister’s wedding, her father finds out about her job. The girl, who has spent her income to help her sister get married, realizes that her sister has exposed her to her father. The father scissors her long hair, but she tries to continue her career with her new style.

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Sunday, Unscripted Short Christi Hille Sunday, Unscripted Short Christi Hille

Temper

What do we all have in common? In the landscape of life, Temper explores the emotional trips of the human condition. Through a series of street interviews and deeper dive portraits, New Yorkers share their feelings and experiences on love, loneliness, addiction, motherhood, identity, connection, and purpose.

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Harbor

When Adèle, an English teacher, spontaneously lets a young 15-year-old migrant illegally board a ferry for England with her class, she is far from grasping the importance of her gesture and its consequences on this overnight trip.

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Networking Lunch

Networking Lunch is a short comedic film about a woman who agrees to meet up with her ex for lunch. It stars Kimberly Michelle Vaughn (Second City) and David Pasquesi (VEEP, Angels & Demons) and was written and directed by Melissa McGlensey.

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Feminist Theory and How It Relates to the Patriarchal Dividend

Esperanza and Cameron, a young lesbian couple, want to go out for a peaceful drink. Esperanza has just returned to their progressive home in Los Angeles after a visit to her not-so-progressive hometown. But a series of events involving some less-than-respectful people leaves us all wondering...can they go anywhere without being propositioned?

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Don’t Try This Alone

Commanded by the matriarch of the family to quit smoking cigarettes, Benny and Kevin embark on separate missions to stop the habit. As they each struggle to employ various schemes to kick the habit, they realize they can only tackle this massive task together. But as they team up to get rid of their addiction once and for all, the temptations to return to their old ways prove to be harder to resist. Soon things begin to spiral further and further into the wrong direction, leading this father and son duo down a path they may regret.

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Sunday, Student Work Christi Hille Sunday, Student Work Christi Hille

Speak Only Good of the Dead

Speak Only Good of the Dead is a science fiction/drama short film in which a lovesick mathematician discovers that EPICAC, the military supercomputer he works with, is actually sentient. After teaching EPICAC about love & poetry, he attempts to use the machine to win the heart of his beautiful co-worker, Pat Kilgallen, by claiming EPICAC's poetry as his own.

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