Shorts Block
Discovery
Art House • Friday, 2 p.m. / Saturday, 7 p.m. (88min)
Gloria Talks Funny
(18min)
Director: Kendall Goldberg
California
When struggling voice actress, Gloria, discovers her agent failed to tell her that her claim-to-fame cartoon is being remade, she sets her sights on reprising her role as the famous BioBoy.
Cells
(12min)
Director: Raymond Wood
Atlanta
When a reputable doctor finds himself being held captive by a group of masked intruders, he struggles to understand their motives while being forced to answer why billions of dollars go wasted each year in the name of medical research.
Crossing Fences
(17min)
Director: Annika Pampel
United States
1974, a young East-German couple is desperate to leave their restricted, communist lives behind and attempts to escape into the West on a hand-made boat across the Baltic Sea.
The Patron
(20min)
Director: Lionel Auguste
France
Antoine comes back home and finds his girlfriend in bed with a stranger. The lover quickly leaves but the expected argument doesn’t take place. Instead, a strange manipulation begins …
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