51 short films will screen across eight programs (and some will appear before feature films) at the 2013 Hamptons International Film Festival.
HIFF 2013 is proud to present eight programs of short films, including the Golden Starfish Award competition shorts (already announced; view them here); short films presented with New York Women in Film and Television; a Student Short Film Showcase; and eight short works to be shown before feature films.
Without further ado, the short films of HIFF 2013…
Joke’s On You
TO LEECH (UK)
North American Premiere
Director: Stephen Leslie
In contemporary times, it can be best to settle arguments like in the olden ones… at 12 paces.
CRUSH 472 (UK)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Jess Scott-Hunter
While waiting in line at a coffee shop a man spies the woman of his dreams…again.
MYSTERY “MISTERIO” (Spain)
New York Premiere
Director: Chema Garcia Ibarra
I had two dreams in my life: having cats and traveling into space. However, I’m allergic to cats.
RED CURTAINS “RODE GORDIJNEN” (NETHERLANDS)
North American Premiere
Director: Richard Valk
To spruce up their lackluster relationship, a husband redecorates their apartment. His wife is pleased, but soon her pleasure gets out of control.
FOOL’S DAY (USA)
Director: Cody Blue Snider
A fourth-grade class bands together to cover up their horrifying prank-gone-wrong before their D.A.R.E officer shows up for his weekly lesson.
A LETTER HOME (USA)
World Premiere
Director: Markus Walter
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever told your parents? Whatever it was, this was worse.
Connections
WALKING THE DOGS (UK)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Jeremy Brock
When Queen Elizabeth’s (Emma Thompson) guard takes her Corgis for a walk around Buckingham Palace, an intruder (Eddie Marsan) breaks into the monarch’s room for a chat.
A POET LONG AGO (USA)
World Premiere
Director: Bob Giraldi
Based on a story by Pete Hammil, two friends from Brooklyn grammar school reconnect and realize the impact they and their work had on each other.
DOTTY (NEW ZEALAND)
World Premiere
Director: Mick Andrews
On her bed in a run-down nursing home, a stubborn old woman struggles to send a text message to her daughter.
ACROSS GRACE ALLEY (USA)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Ralph Macchio
A young boy struggling with his parents’ divorce seeks solace in his infatuation with a captivating woman he discovers through a neighboring window.
THE OPPORTUNIST (USA)
North American Premiere
Director: David Lassiter
Over the span of one night, a charismatic social shape-shifter invades a party and becomes everyone’s best friend and possibly their worst enemy.
New York Women In Film And Television: Women Calling The Shots
DINER EN BLANC: THE WORLD’S LARGEST SECRET DINNER PARTY (USA)
New York Premiere
Director: Jennifer Ash
Bustling cities, incredible locales, fantastic food, and thousands of diners dressed completely in white materialize for the largest secret dinner party in the world.
BEN: IN THE MIND’S EYE (USA)
Director: Iva Radivojevic
Ben is a diagnosed schizophrenic. He wants you to know what it’s like in his head.
#SLUTWALKNYC (USA)
World Premiere
Director: Therese Shechter
Relive the huge, global, grassroots anti-rape movement in all of its empowering, shocking, and controversial glory.
EVA (USA)
World Premiere
Director: Stephanie Ahn
What would your 10-year-old self make of you now?
ONE LAST HUG (…AND A FEW SMOOCHES) THREE DAYS AT GRIEF CAMP (USA)
World Premiere
Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky
Oscar nominee Irene Taylor Brodsky’s unflinching documentary profiles a unique camp, where grieving children find comfort in one another to deal with their pain.
The Edge Of The World
JONAH (TANZANIA/UK)
Director: Kibwe Tavares
A mythical fish leaps out of the water. Two friends snap a photograph. The island and their lives are forever altered.
THE SWIMMER (UK)
US Premiere
Director: Lynne Ramsay
A long swimmer journeys through the waterways of Britain set to the country’s seminal music. This short won the 2013 BAFTA for HIFF alum Lynne Ramsay.
RHINO FULL THROTTLE “NASHORN IM GALOPP” (GERMANY)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Erik Schmitt
A young man uses art to reshape the city around him in search of its soul, but a beautiful tourist overtakes his mission in this imaginative love story.
LOST THOUGHTS (USA)
World Premiere
Director: Jeff Scher
An experimental short about memory, with images conjured from the haunting 1944 piano Sonata #7, Variations and Fugue on a Hebrew Folk Tune, by Victor Ullmann.
OH WILLY… (BELGIUM/FRANCE/NETHERLANDS/LUXEMBOURG)
Director: Emma Da Swaef
Returning to the nudist camp where he grew up, Willy stumbles into a life wilder than anything he could’ve ever imagined. Winner of over 80 awards internationally.
A STORY FOR THE MODLINS (SPAIN)
Director: Sergio Oksman
A forgotten suitcase contains the mystery of a little-known character actor from ROSEMARY’S BABY, whose life is stranger than the fiction he acts in.
Student Short Films Showcase
PISTACHIO MILK (USA)
US Premiere
Director: Avram Dodson
Love finds a way in a busy Indian neighborhood.
STAY (USA)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Brandon Zuck
When Ash is hired to deliver a suitcase to an old houseboat in the Florida Keys, he decides to invite his ex-boyfriend along for the ride. He never mentions the real reason for the trip.
LAMBING SEASON (USA/IRELAND)
New York Premiere
Director: Jeannie Donohoe
An American woman travels to the Irish countryside in search of her long lost father. She finds her path full of sheep, secrets, and shenanigans.
REZA HASSANI GOES TO THE MALL (USA)
New York Premiere
Director: Sara Zandieh
A trip to the mall for a recent immigrant leads to confusion and misunderstanding in this cultures-clash dramedy that looks at one man’s struggle to acclimate to a brave new world.
THE WHITE SEAGULL (USA)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Max Strebel
A dark fantasy about an old woman reflecting on her childhood , when a seagull hatches in her belly.
Passion & Outcry: Documentary Shorts
SLOMO (USA)
Director: Josh Izenberg
Like the best cliché, a depressed and frustrated doctor abandons his stressful career for a pair of rollerblades and the freedom of a California boardwalk.
DECEMBER 25 (USA)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Wendy Dent
A woman writes and rewrites a Christmas letter to her father. Each draft reveals a new truth.
THE FLOGSTA ROAR “FLOGSTAVRALET” (SWEDEN)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Johan Palmgren
Each night, students gather in the Flogsta dorms to scream about whatever ails them, from broken hearts to bad grades to stolen food.
I LOVE HOOLIGANS (NETHERLANDS)
North American Premiere
Director: Jan-Dirk Bouw
A football hooligan wears the love of his team on his sleeve, but is forced to hide his other true love.
THE BATTLE OF AMFAR (USA)
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Two-time Academy Award®-winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman tell the story of two very different women––icon Elizabeth Taylor and scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim––who joined forces to create America’s first AIDS research foundation.
Take Flight: Shorts For All Ages
THE BLUE UMBRELLA (USA)
Director: Saschka Unseld
In the midst of a downpour, a blue umbrella falls in love with another colored red. Stunningly realized in 3D from Pixar Animation.
GET A HORSE! (USA)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Lauren MacMullan
When Mickey Mouse is separated from Minnie, he must use every trick up his sleeve to get her back in this groundbreaking 2D and 3D animated short from Disney Studios.
FEAR OF FLYING (IRELAND)
Director: Conor Finnegan
A small bird is afraid to fly, but with winter approaching and everyone flying south, he must face his fears… for the most part.
WOODY (AUSTRALIA)
New York Premiere
Director: Stuart Bowen
Dreaming of being a concert pianist may seem futile when you’re a wooden doll with paddles for hands, but Woody won’t give up without putting his best hand forward.
MISS TODD (UK)
New York Premiere
Director: Kristina Yee
Inspired by a real person in 1909, this stop-motion musical tells the story of one Long Island woman’s urge to fly and her perseverance to see it through.
A CAUTIONARY TAIL (AUSTRALIA)
New York Premiere
Director: Simon Rippingale
A little girl (Cate Blanchett), born with a tail that expresses her emotions, discovers the pleasures and difficulties of being different in this striking 3D animation.
Shorts Playing Before Features
THE BRUNCHERS (UK)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Matt Winn
A couple (Tom Burke and Game of Thrones’s Natalie Dormer) tries to tackle the London brunch scene, but getting a seat is harder than deciding what to eat.
FLO (USA)
Director: Riley Hooper
Nothing can stand in the way of feisty New York sexagenarian photographer Flo Fox from getting the perfect shot. Not even multiple sclerosis, lunch cancer, or visual impairment. Not anything.
BALANCE “DE BALANS” (NETHERLANDS)
US Premiere
Director: Mark Ram
When an anchor gives way, two mountain climbers are forced into a balancing act to avoid certain death.
COACH (USA)
Director: Bess Kargman
Hall of Fame basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer proves both on and off the court what it means to be the best.
I THINK THIS IS THE CLOSEST TO HOW THE FOOTAGE LOOKED “ANI CHOSEV SHE’ZE HACHI KAROV LE’EICH SHE’HAZILUM NIRAA” (ISRAEL)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Yuval Hameiri
Objects come to life, in a desperate struggle, to produce one moment that was lost.
TODAY (USA)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Phillip Montgomery
What if you were responsible for over four million people, but you struggled with even the most menial of tasks? This is the extraordinary tale of Dr. Pankaj Parekh.
HALEEMA (GERMANY)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Boris Schaarschmidt
A pregnant mother and her two young children are on the search for water and safety from the ruthless Janjaweed in the desert heat of Sudan.
SKINNINGROVE (USA)
Director: Michael Almereyda
Unpublished photographs bring a forgotten English fishing village and its unique inhabitants back to life.
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