Shorts Block • Seeking Wisdom

Gloria

(12min)

Director: Edward Hicks
United Kingdom

Fresh out of prison Reena is keen to put everything behind her, but can she change and ignore her old life?

4 Tempos

(7:30min)

Director: F·bio Santos
Portugal

An aspiring dancer sees her career in jeopardy after an unfortunate turn of events.

Drifting

(6:40min)

Director: Samuel Galloway
Australia

Dreams on Sale

(9:30min)

Director: Vlad Buzaianu
Romania

In a world where people are able to record, buy and sell dreams, many are starting to lose the ability of dreaming. Dreams have become a new form of art and a commodity for the rich class.

Recursion

(14:50min)

Director: Joel Benjamin
United States

A marooned astronaut and his bestial companion wander a strange land until one day they come across something truly mysterious that could forever put a rift in their friendship.

I Am God, and Severely Underqualified

(15:30min)

Director: Theo Gee
United Kingdom

A screenwriter is faced with the daunting notion that he is simply someone else’s character.

Memory Hospital

(18:20min)

Director: Pedro Paulo de Andrade
Brazil

Patients from different backgrounds and each telling their own story will spend one night full of thrills and dreams at the mysterious “Memory Hospital”.