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    Documentary Kevin Staake

    Dieorama

    By day, she visits morgues, observes autopsies, and studies pictures of crime scenes. By night, she turns nightmarish imaginings into precise, red-splattered miniatures.

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    Drama Karimah Zakia Issa

    Scaring Women at Night

    As two strangers walk home late at night their fear forces them to flee one another, but as they try to escape, their worlds collide at an intersection forcing them to question who they’re afraid of and why.

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    Sundance 2011 Short Films Online: Program 4

    A new Thursday, a new set of Sundance shorts. This is the second of three batches of 2011 in-competition shorts that Sundance is sharing via the YouTube Screening Room, and the fourth of five short programs.

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    Romance Lorenzo Tardella

    Le variabili dipendenti (The Dependent Variables)

    (Currently Offline) In a dark, velvety theatre there is a first kiss between Pietro and Tommaso. When the lights come back on, however, the two students have different expectations of what might follow.

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    Interview: San Francisco Film Festival Shorts Directors

    Making a great short film requires a certain kind of alchemy; because there are no hard-set rules in regards to running time, subject matter, or even medium, filmmakers traverse a tricky path on the road to festival -- and online audience -- acceptance. I was lucky enough to sit down at the San Francisco International Film Festival with a few of the shorts filmmakers that were in attendance and get insight into their process, ask what lessons they learned on their latest productions, and find out what they believe makes a good short film.

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    NFB Playlist for the Ottawa International Animation Festival

    Tomorrow marks the beginning of this year's Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), North America's most prestigious outlet for artistic animation. In light of the "close, intimate relationship" the festival has had with the National Film Board of Canada, this playlist of 9 films from the NFB archive was collected for the occasion.

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    Drama Minhal Baig

    Pretext

    A young woman confronts her sexual assailant.

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    Experimental Mitch McGlocklin

    Forever

    Distinctively captured via Light Detection and Ranging equipment (LiDAR), this meditative short that played Sundance 2021 centers on a protagonist spurred to introspection when an AI algorithm denies his life insurance application.

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    Drama Zander Coté

    Tantrums

    Francis is a troubled teenager who manipulates his close ones in odd, uncomfortable ways.

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