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The opening image of Molly immediately tells us that writer-director Darius Shu has an eye for the unusual. Inside a launderette, a small fish swims within what appears to be a washing machine converted into an aquarium. It is an attractive visual in its own right, but over the course of this 23-minute romantic drama, the significance of that little fish becomes increasingly ...

“After dinner I sit by the window, watching. It’s been going on for months now.”

Those opening words immediately establish the peculiar domestic world of The Idea, an eight-minute short directed by Henry Chastain and adapted from Raymond Carver’s short story of the same name. Melora Walters plays a woman who has developed an unusual nightly routine. Rather than sett...

There is an undeniable excitement in meeting someone for the first time and gradually discovering the person behind the initial impression. Likes and dislikes emerge, histories are exchanged, similarities are discovered and differences become apparent. Perhaps most exciting is the uncertainty over whether this chance encounter could become something more. Writer and director ...

The Worth of Life announces its intentions before its story has properly begun. An opening card explains that the documentary we are about to watch was completed at Tyler’s request, followed by another urging anyone struggling with suicidal thoughts, depression or their mental health to speak to somebody rather than suffering in silence. It immediately establishes both the se...

The moment a child first truly understands death can be surprisingly difficult to define. It does not necessarily arrive through the death of a relative or some dramatic family tragedy. Sometimes it can come from something much smaller, and Miles Marti’s seven-minute short Tears of Knowing finds its story in precisely such a moment, using the death of a classroom guinea pig t...