Best of the Month
Best of the Month: March 2024
Palpable chemistry, unshakable tension and eye-opening revelations all feature in our Best of the Month picks for March 2024
Dark Comedy
Grant Curatola
East End
The sordid details of a vicious crime are recounted and remixed through the rumor mill of a community gripped by paranoid fear and morbid curiosity.
Festival
2011 GoShort Film Festival Online Program Part 1
It may not be Sundance or Cannes, but out of Nijmegen, Netherlands, the GoShort International Film Festivalan exciting, young European Short Film Festhas put together a rather nice online program in support of it's 3rd edition next month. From now until March 31st, the festival will be showing 10 short films on its website, ranging from 2min to 7min30.
Fantasy
Patrick Bouchard
The Subject
An animator dissects his own body, extracting memories, emotions and fears that will nurture his work.
Drama
Anna Maguire
Your Mother and I
Based on a short story by Dave Eggers, Johnna's dad talks too much, and Johnna herself lives inside her head. 'Your Mother and I' looks at the small moments that belie the larger tensions between families and generations, whilst Johnna's dad recounts all the ways he and his wife changed the world. Or so he says.
Documentary
Josh Koury & Myles Kane
We Will Live Again
The unusual and extraordinary operations of the Cryonics Institute, a facility that stores human beings at below-freezing temperatures in cryopreservation.
Dark Comedy
Jason Jeffrey
A Teachable Moment
Henry lies at the side of the road, bleeding out from a gunshot wound. A young mother with a bizarre sense of "appropriate" uses the situation as a teachable lesson for her 6 year old son.
Comedy
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Terry Tate Office Linebacker
A retired NFL linebacker is recruited by a corporate firm to maintain order in their office, in this classic short mockumentary from the writer-director of Dodgeball.
Drama
Tyler Rabinowitz
Catalina
A queer man reunites with two of his childhood best friends for a weekend camping trip. Set against the backdrop of Catalina Island's enchanting shores, this short film explores the fuzzy and intimate boundary between straight and gay male friends.
Action
Danny Madden
Confusion Through Sand
The SXSW-featured followup from the team behind "Notes on Biology and "Euphonia". A nineteen year old finds himself alone in a hostile desert, scared as hell, and trained to react.
