Shorts Block • Love

Counting Backwards

(31min)

Director: Sean De Sparengo
United Kingdom

A mother smothers her daughter due to her own horrific past, but when her best friend opens up to the daughter the tensions are relieved and clarity brings closure.

Hansel + Gretel

(3:30min)

Director: Soyeon Kim
South Korea

An abstract visualization of Brothers Grimm’s tale, ‘Hansel & Gretel.’

Santa Muerte

(10min)

Director: Tim Richardson & Michael Kouroubetes
United States

Two lovers find themselves between two worlds during the celebration of the Day of the Dead.

Rye Manhattan

(6:30min)

Director: Michael Goldburg
United States

What happens when a young man is waiting for his dream date…at the wrong bar! In the vein of Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours,” RYE MANHATTAN is a charming, fast-paced comedy from the award-winning filmmakers of WHAT’S EATING DAD? about how finding the right person in the world of modern dating is tough.

I Scream Your Name

(26min)

Director: Oskar Rosetti
Switzerland

Nicolas lives in a retirement home and gets bored more and more every day. At night, he calls sexual services for homosexuals by phone to cheat his loneliness. The coming of a new lodger, Daniel, will shake up his life.