Metro Cinema Society: EIFF: International Shorts 2

EIFF: International Shorts 2

108 min,

Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things (UK): Two 20-something best friends feel like they've been 'hit by a car' when one confesses a deeper love for the other. (12-mins.)

Cheeese... (Austria): A Kurdish family is waiting for help from American troops during the Iraq War -- in the basement of their collapsed house. Bombs are falling down around them. But somehow they keep stay in touch with their own, seemingly insignificant world, with all it's small challenges. (12-mins.)

Irish Twins (USA): Born within a year of each other, Michael and Seamus Sullivan have become very different men -- just how much becomes apparent on the night of their father's funeral.

Ransom (Taiwan): Cheng, a janitor, works on the train's final shift -- at midnight. There were four dramatically different passengers in the cabin. Their interaction seemed strange to him. Cheng makes up his mind to uncover what it is they're hiding.

Rob Tim Tom (Australia): Robert Smith is an autistic man who likes sewing, trains, babies and listening to white noise. But he also possesses an amazing creative talent...

Vartan LLP (USA): One of the most powerful and successful businessmen working on Wall Street is shaken to his core by one phone call.

Glory At Sea (USA): A group of mourners, heaved from the depths of Hades, build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea.