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Short Takes 2

Among Wolves
Directed by Zach Frankart
11 mins, USA
Among Wolves is a cross-genre action drama composed of equal parts spaghetti western and pulp film noir. After a brutal attack, everyday man Sam ventures into the criminal underworld determined to find a woman named Amy at any cost.

Crashing
Directed by Richard Lee
16 mins, USA
An estranged husband and wife find themselves spending one final night together to decide whether to stay together or end their marriage.

Game
Directed by Jeannie Donohoe
15 mins, USA
A new kid in town tests the limits at the high school basketball tryouts.

Good Guys With Guns
Directed by Jordan Ancel
5 mins, USA
What happens when too many good guys with guns try to stop a robbery but no one knows who the good guys are?

Father Daughter Dance
Directed by Mark Poirier
16 mins, USA
Because of his wifes newfound religion and his daughters recent ascent into teen-dom, Lee feels like an interloper in his own life.

Jonah
Directed by Michael Maschina
13 mins, Austria
Jonah was inspired by the events of August 27, 2015, when the Austrian police found the corpses of seventy one refugees abandoned in a lorry parked on the side of the street in Burgenland State.
Seventy two years earlier Europe faced the horror of more than six million Jewish men and women slaughtered by the madness of the Nazi-Fascist system.
Today, Europe is facing the biggest human tragedy since the time of World War II. The migrants that reached Europe in 2015 count more than one million. These people all share the desire to escape war and find a better life.

Nurse Me
Directed by Kezia Barnett
12 mins, New Zealand
Emerging from the seas dark folds, three lone figures are reborn into a post-apocalyptic world. The nurses bearers of solace, fetish and sexual power have been drawn back to the center, the vortex, to where it all began.