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MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival: You Be the Judge!Discover your inner film critic by casting your vote for Best Film and Best Actor in the 28th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival screening Sept.25 – Oct. 5 at the MV Film Center. You’ll join film lovers in over 500 venues across the globe gathering to see the Ten Finalist in this year’s event. With past finalists garnering Oscar nominations and short films continuing to move into the Hollywood mainstream, come see this entertaining program featuring the best short films in the world today! Ballots supplied upon entry.
The MANHATTAN SHORT Final Ten are:
EM & SELMA GO GRIFFIN HUNTING (USA) / Directed by Alexander Thompson / 18:00 Minutes
A tale of mothers and daughters and the fantastical beasts they hunt. Love hurts.
AL FRESCO (SPAIN) / Directed by Ignacio Rodó / 8:00 Minutes
Large space in a dream apartment. Unbeatable location. Ready to move in. Plenty of light.
CHASING THE PARTY (USA) / Directed by Jessie Komitor / 14:00 Minutes
Seventeen-year-old suburbanites Melissa and Stephanie fantasize about becoming “IT” girls in the Lower East Side party scene circa 2007. Their dreams come crashing down when the photographer they idolize is the one to lift the veil.
PARADISE MAN (USA) / Directed by Jordan Michael Blake / 12:00 Minutes
Paradise Man’s obsession with golf is waylaid when his mother has an accident, causing him to look deeply within himself.
WE HAVE SINNED BEFORE YOU (ISRAEL) / Directed by Ifat Nener Orgad / 19:18 Minutes
A game designed to pass the time on Yom Kippur brings up secrets and difficulties that could tear the Dagan family apart.
I HAVE MY REASONS (UK) / Directed by Mikey Altoft / 15:00 Minutes
Amanda is just 8 years old when a singular incident shapes the rest of her life.
OVARY-ACTING (NORWAY, UK, SWEDEN) / Directed by Ida Melum / 12:24 Minutes
Stuck at her sister’s baby shower, Eva, a thirty-something woman, is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs, Ovy.
BEYOND SILENCE (NETHERLANDS) / Directed by Marnie Blok / 17:00 Minutes
Two women, two generations, one shared trauma. One has been silent for over thirty years, the other for ‘only’ a year and a half. Where one retreats further into silence after a confrontation, the other is finds the courage to break it.
ZODIAC (BELGIUM) / Directed by Hans Buyse / 14:50 Minutes
Two old friends on a fishing trip encounter drifting refugees in distress at sea.
PASSARINHO (MEXICO) / Directed by Natalia García Agraz / 12:00 Minutes
Two teenage girls try to meet their favorite soccer player but the plan is threatened when one of them gets her first period.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
79 Beach Rd, Vineyard Haven, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02568
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