‘Film Imitates Life’ Shorts

Struggling after a breakup, a young woman crafts elaborate fantasies of running into her ex, which her best friend helpfully shatters with doses of reality.

An imaginary friend (Jason Faunt) finds out his sole purpose is to bring happiness to his child, only to discover his child is a 90 year old man (Tom Skerritt) on his death bed

Claude, 70 years old, lives alone and compulsively buys lamps online, almost daily. An obsession that leads her to want, at all costs, a small Victorian porcelain lamp, a bit kitsch. But just when she thinks the deal is done with the saleswoman and she is about to brave the bad weather to go get it, the unthinkable happens: the object has been sold to someone else. Claude sees red. The lamp is hers and she is determined not to let it fall into the hands of other buyers, and consequently lose her chance to be around people, even briefly, in her dreary day.

A young man, disappointed in human relations, moves into a tower in the middle of nowhere. However the pleasant solitude gives in to dreams of intimacy, but perhaps for the last time.

Thomas, a timid clown who wasn’t funny enough to make it in entertainment, gets placed in a domestic help position for Jennifer, a woman who needs assistance managing the day-to-day as she works on a never ending to-do list. Thomas is good at taking orders, but his job performance begins to suffer once he ‘notices’ the abandoned children in Jennifer’s backyard.

When a young middle-eastern girl finds her grandfather dead, she is forced to grapple with the earthly rituals and spiritual loose-ends of loss.

On the last day of Ramadan, a disowned daughter takes matters into her own hands, kidnapping her bedridden grandmother from her parents’ house for one final trip to the beach.