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
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DATE
Saturday, April 5, 2025 -
TIME
8:30 PM -
VENUE
Impression 5 Expansion -
FILMS RUNTIME
113 Minutes -
TICKETS
$5 -
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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DIRECTOR
Nadan Pines -
YEAR
2023 -
RUNTIME
24 Minutes -
LANGUAGE
Hebrew -
COUNTRY
Israel
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