2000s Short Films

Comedy

The surreal fable of a young couple who moves to Tokyo in search of a future. While the boy's ambition is clear - be a movie maker- the girl drifts gradually apart. Both of them will be drowned in the imensity until the girl, feeling ...

The Technician

Comedy

A cable guy is called in to repair an old mans TV set. Once inside the clients home, the repairman realizes theres nothing wrong with the TV. Rather its the images broadcasted on the screen: wars, famine, illness and kidnappings, that are broken. Moved by ...

Shaking Tokyo

Romance

"Shaking Tokyo" is about an agoraphobic man, called hikikomori in Japanese. He sustains himself on pizza, living off of money left to him by his father. One day, he does the unthinkable: he makes eye contact with a pretty delivery girl — the first eyes ...

3×3

Comedy

A night watchman spends time on a basketball court throwing a ball into the basket. He has become an expert. He shows his abilities to a simple janitor, who also like him, is there all night. Directed by Nuno Rocha / Portugal / 2009

Children Lose Nothing

Poem

A cinematic poetry from Lituhanian auteur Sharunas Bartas. Segment of "Visions of Europe" omnibus film. Directed by Sharunas Bartas / Lithuania / 2004

Dans le noir du temps

Best Shorts, Drama, Experimental

"In the Darkness of Time", filmed by the ideologue of the French "New Wave" Jean-Luc Godard, represents an essence of visual reflection of the Time. Godard shows the audience a real Pandora's box, which seems to be hidden all the horrors of the world: the last ...

One Moment

Drama

Poetic, affectionate, lyrical, and elegy for actor Rudolf Hrusinsky composed of a wordless montage of slowed film footage spanning Hrusinsky's entire career that embodies the human experience: toil, rest, education, romantic love, rejection, desire, aging, frailty. A recurring interstitial black screen with the words "ten ...

When it Will Be Silent

Drama, Sci-Fi

In the aftermath of an apocalypse, a man's tragic loss leads him to an unequivocal decision. Directed by Dan Sachar / Israel / 2009

One Fine Day

Comedy

This film is basically about a farmer who travels a few miles to a dingy, remote country cinema to watch Kitano's Kids Return, only for the showing to constantly break down because of an inept projectionist (played by Kitano). Segment from “Chacun Son Cinéma” (To Each ...

Plastic Bag

Drama, Experimental

This short film by American director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it. Along the way, it ...

Hostage

Action, Drama

The Driver races to locate a kidnapped victim locked in the trunk of an abandoned car somewhere on the water's edge. Linked to her only by cell phone, the driver narrows in on her location in a desperate race against time and tide. A part of ...

Ticker

Action

The Driver finds himself in a dangerous, yet highly political situation; this time being pursued by a helicopter gunship while carrying a passenger with a suitcase... the contents of which will decide the fate of a nation. A part of BMW "The Hire" film series. Directed by ...

Chosen

Action

The Driver is carrying an Asian child who has been chosen for a strange ritual. He must drive him through a dark night in the city to get to a monk's house, while eluding several American cars out to get the child. A part of BMW ...

Where is my Romeo

Drama

Women in the cinema watching a film "Romeo and Juliet".. Segment from "Chacun Son Cinéma" (To Each His Own Cinema) collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. Directed by Abbas Kiarostami / Iran / 2007