Fearing the loss of his authority and job, a lonely emasculated high school custodian targets the school's new part-time employee: a poor refugee student.
Filmmaker Charlie Tyrell seeks to better understand his emotionally distant late-father through the personal belongings he left behind... including a stack of VHS dirty movies.
A delightful and innovative adaptation of a classic riddle, a chorus of voices attempt to investigate a puzzling suicide: A man gets off a boat. He walks into a restaurant and orders albatross soup. He takes one sip... pulls out a gun, and shoots himself to death. So...why did he kill himself?
A middle aged barber dreams of escaping his rough area and becoming a Dancehall star, but an encounter with a local drug runner brings up uncomfortable truths about his past and makes him consider his importance in the community.
While hanging a piece of art in her new home, a woman knocks a hole in her wall, revealing what might be another room. Her mind unravels as she wonders what could be on the other side. Part of our SXSW Shorts Week coverage. #SXSWshorts
With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers - Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi - step into the voters' shoes to narrow down the 45-title shortlists to their picks for the 15 short films that deserve to advance to the nominations round.
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - A bullied teenage girl leads an a cappella club on a trail of destruction against her high school enemies.
In the year 2025, a young man's superintelligent AI system tells him that he must go on a date or face certain suicide from loneliness.
Oscar Short-Listed in 2012, 9 Meter tells the story of Daniel, a 16-year-old who believes breaking his long jump records is keeping his dying mother alive. He sets out to make the most dangerous jump of his life.
