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Retirement Plan

Time is something we are all after… but we also love to postpone things for that elusive moment when “we’ll have time”. In director John Kelly’s (FernRetirement Plan, protagonist Ray dreams of everything he’ll be able to do once he retires....

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Skin Flick

Fasten your seatbelt, baby – but not because this ride is fast. Speed implies control, and Skin Flick does not believe in control. It swerves, it kicks, it sparkles, it devours.

The final short of this year’s Gobelins lineup arrives on-screen like a neon fever dream: a high-octane 2D spectacle dripping with retro gore, queer desire, and enough camp...

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Few films encapsulate the pregnant possibility of short-form storytelling better than We Were the Scenery. It is stuffed with potent strands of storytelling and inquiry, and yet, in its restraint, it veers dangerously close to satisfying none of them. It alternates between a daughter’s archaeology of her heritage, the reminiscences of refugees, an anti-war polemic,...

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In Acapulco, one of the most famous tourist spots is La Quebrada, a towering cliff from which divers jump into the sea below. The La Quebrada Cliff Divers, formed in the ’30s, has passed down its deep passion for diving through generation after generation. In Las voces del despeñadero (Voices from the Abyss), writer/directors Irving Serrano and ...

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Bereft after her husband’s death, Marianne sees the commercial for a new machine that offers the impossible: a chance to reunite with him. Consumed with grief, the dream machine seems to be the only thing that will help her, even if it means bending the metaphysical rules behind it. S/W alum Jimmy Marble ( href="https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2020/05/22/if-y...

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