CHICAGO Festival Shorts Best of - March 11/12 event
Today's Film Festival
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Comedy, Crime, Drama, Independent, Short Films
See the full lineup of films:
ORANGE BLUES 24, 5min., USA
Directed by Alyssa Dann
One man seeks refuge from the world's crazy in the arms of his muse -- the love of his life! Alyssa Dann has taken this tongue-in-cheek Blues piece and brought it to life in a charming manner.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-orange-blues
REVOLTE, 3min., Germany
Directed by Julia Klawonn, Alexander Resch
In 1932, the author Klara and the journalist Friedrich meet in the artists' bar „Luise" in Berlin. Klara is involved in the women's movement and wants Friedrich to help her print leaflets with the text: "Against the degradation of women by fascism". Friedrich is afraid…
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-revolte
Cheat Meal, 16min., USA
Directed by Drew Bierut
Suspicious that his girlfriend is cheating on him with her new personal trainer, Owen decides to take matters into his own hands. What he discovers is far more difficult to digest.
https://www.instagram.com/drewbierut/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-cheat-meal
The Litterbug, 9min., USA
Directed by Jesse Womack
Park Ranger Charlie and her young recruit Ranger Casey track down a serial litterer, the Litterbug.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28315183/
https://www.instagram.com/jessewoooooomack/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-litterbug
Rock Island Prison 1864, 7min,. USA
Directed by Joy Shannon
Guarding Confederate POWS in a Civil War prison, a runaway slave now Union soldier, desperately fights for power, or faces returning to slavery.
https://www.rockislandprison.com/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-rock-island-prison
For All I Know, 10min., USA
Directed by Sam Sabawi
An unexpected visit from her estranged daughter throws a pharmacist with OCD into a maelstrom of her darkest fears. As a buried history of postpartum intrusive thoughts resurfaces, she faces a harrowing choice: confront them or risk losing the chance to repair their broken relationship.
https://www.instagram.com/s_sabawi/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-for-all-i-know
Space Trash, 9min,. USA
Directed by James Jarosz
Short film and first installment of web series. A galactic garbage collector picks up a seemingly innocuous piece of space junk but it turns out to be more than he bargained for. This sci-fi action comedy will have you laughing, entertained and wanting more.
https://www.instagram.com/jimbrokenreelpics
Up Next in Today's Film Festival
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QUEER MONGOL, 16min., Mongolia, Docum...
Queer Mongol follows four characters over the course of Mongolia's LGBTQ+ Pride Festival, who embody a diversity of gender and sexual identities. The film is a meditation on queerness in the non-west and a nuanced glimpse into a nascent movement on the Central Asian Steppe.
Directed by Brandt Mi...
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SALT, 3min,. Germany, Fashion/Experim...
Salt tells the story of a group of people who shed their fear of the elemental forces of nature and instead rediscover the power of nature, returning more to their own roots.
Directed by Dominik Hill
Cast: Sophia Friesen, Marika Welling, Rachel Rep, Lotte Kleihaue, Aminata Sanogo, Nicola Müller...
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SAUDADE, 6min., USA, Dance/Experimental
A dancer faces a ghost of her past and has to come out victorious to find her true self once again.
Directed by Josie Hull
Cast: Gica Pucca, Constantin Augustinus Sieve
https://www.gicapucca.com/portfolio
https://www.instagram.com/gica.pucca/
