Événement

PBIFF, Sun April 6, 8:30pm, Shorts Block 12

2014 Palm Beach International Film Festival
at the Lake Worth Playhouse's Stonzek Theatre

Sun April 6, 8:30pm
Shorts Block 12, 76 min

ELLA'S WEDDING DAY, Director: Dana Lerer
It's Ella's wedding day. The sky is blue, the guests are on the way, but something feels wrong. An unexpected encounter with a strange bell boy makes her question her choices and forces her to explore new frontiers with herself as a last act of freedom and control before her marriage takes place.

SHELTER, Director: Jeffery Scott Fowler
The Enemy has infiltrated the Green Zone. Escaping capture, John Doyle mounts a pocket of resistance to save the remaining civilians while rescue forces attempt to locate him. No one can be left behind.

TOBACCO BURN, Director: Justin Liberman
Based on an oral history from the W.P.A. Writers, TOBACCO BURN is set thirty-five years before the Civil War at the height of American slavery. When two of the enslaved weigh the complexities of killing their overseer, each develop a different understanding towards violence, acting on which could cost all of them their lives.

J-1, Director: Geoffrey Guerrero
Every Summer young college students from Eastern Europe and Russia come to America through the J-1 Visa Program issued by the U.S. State Department. When Oksana meets her J-1 Sponsor in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, she soon learns her initial job offer no longer exists and she is forced to dance at a strip club for little to no pay.

DOWNSIZING (NEDBEMANNING), Director: Kristian Landmark
Downsizing follow the couple Maria and Olav's struggle to become parents in a reality where the international community has agreed on reducing the planet's human population. Like everyone else, they must go through a lengthy application process in order to obtain a permission to become biological parents. They are both stunned when the board's response is negative. However, Neither Olav or Maria is willing to give up on their dream of having a child.