Global Shorts
Experience stories from around the world, from the comfort of your capital city. From the bold to the intimate, we’re certain that this globe-trotting collection of dramatic shorts will stay with you long after you leave the theater.
*NOTE: This program contains a film with the Content Warning: Sexual Abuse
-
DATE
Saturday, April 5, 2025 -
TIME
8:30 PM -
VENUE
Impression 5 Expansion -
TICKETS
$5
A Summer’s End Poem
Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer.
-
DIRECTOR
Lam Can-zhao -
YEAR
2024 -
RUNTIME
15 Minutes -
LANGUAGE
Chinese, Min Nan -
COUNTRY
China, Switzerland
Pentaclub (The Club of Five)
The year is 1968. Five teenage boys dream of running a movie theater in which they will not show pro-war films. One summer afternoon Giò, Delfo, Max, Ricky and Paolo learn to become trusted friends, indispensable to one another. A coming-of-age, adventure film about friendship, one with small but large rebellious acts that signal the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood. *** A group of friends, who met in the 1960s, was essential to the film’s production. In fact, the production design and costume departments were entrusted by the director to lifelong friends with whom he shared his early experiments with 8mm film whilst the screenplay was written by the director and his wife. Therefore, Pentaclub is a film about friendship, both on the screen and behind the scenes. Other departments were handled by professionals.
-
DIRECTOR
Roberto Strazzarino -
YEAR
2023 -
RUNTIME
25 Minutes -
LANGUAGE
Italian -
COUNTRY
Italy
Cow Killer
Naser’s sick cow is about to die, but it lives due to Khazar’s (his granddaughter) wish for it to be healed. Naser recognizes this as a miracle and goes after other sick cows, along with Khazar, to repeat the miracle.
Das Feuilleton: Seemann (Sailor)
Music video for the song “Seemann (Sailor)” of German band “Das Feuilleton”: A strange TV cooking show turns into a battle. No one wants to be cooked, right?
-
DIRECTOR
Thadeusz Tischbein, Robert Amarell -
YEAR
2024 -
RUNTIME
5 Minutes -
LANGUAGE
German -
COUNTRY
Germany
Maraschino Cherries
Pending an eviction from their landlord, a brother and a sister have no choice but to take matters into their own hands to come up with the money and stay out of the streets.
-
DIRECTOR
Vincent Paquette -
YEAR
2023 -
RUNTIME
19 Minutes -
LANGUAGE
French -
COUNTRY
Canada
Father’s Son
*CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Abuse*
Yotam Regev, a teenage boy and the son of the town’s successful Mayor, has to choose: to tell the truth about his father, or lie and succeed him.
-
DIRECTOR
Nadan Pines -
YEAR
2023 -
RUNTIME
24 Minutes -
LANGUAGE
Hebrew -
COUNTRY
Israel
Check out other upcoming events
- Sat, April 5 3:30 PM
- Impression 5 Expansion
- Sat, April 5 8:30 PM
- Stage One
- Sat, April 5 3:30 PM
- Stage One
- Sat, April 5 1:00 PM
- Impression 5 Expansion
- Sat, April 5 8:30 PM
- Central United Methodist Church
- Sat, April 5 3:30 PM
- Central United Methodist Church
- Sat, April 5 10:30 PM
- Central United Methodist Church
- Sat, April 5 6:00 PM
- Stage One