Shorts Program 1

Various Directors // 93 mins
Saturday, May 14 @ 12pm
Featuring Q&A with writer/producer/star Alyssa Thordarson (After [A Love Story]), director Tom Krawczyk (My Duduś)

Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver - In 1982, the completion of Jim Jarmusch's sophomore film, Stranger Than Paradise, hinged on producer Sara Driver's willingness to smuggle one of the world's rarest and most controversial films across the Atlantic Ocean. Directed by Lewie and Noah Kloster.

Shark -  Follows the continuing adventures of Jack, who loves to prank. But in his latest relationship he may have finally met his match. Directed by Nash Edgerton. 

Deerwoods Deathtrap - 50 years ago Jack and Betty were hit by a train and survived. This is their story. Directed by James P. Gannon.

What Travelers Are Saying About Jornada del Muerto - Visitors and residents of the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico, site of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, contribute to the production of public memory as they offer philosophical reckonings, logistical advice, and plaintive texts after making "the journey of the dead." Directed by Hope Tucker. 

Recuperación de los Caídos - A lone man wanders a barren landscape on a foreign planet, salvaging items off of bodies that have fallen to the surface. Filmed under the advisement of Werner Herzog in Lanzarote, Canary Islands October 2021. Directed by Curtis Matzke. 

After (A Love Story) - A surviving couple works to begin healing the emotional and psychological wounds of a shared trauma. Directed by Clare Cooney. 

My Dudus - A Polish mother grieves when her only child leaves their home in the suburbs of Chicago to study in Poland. While her son is away, she finds a baby squirrel in her backyard and forges a unique and powerful bond with the animal, raising him as if he were her own child. Directed by Tom Krawczyk. 

Warsha - Mohammad is a crane operator working in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes in Lebanon. Away from everyone’s eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom. Sundance Jury Award winner for International Fiction. Directed by Dania Bdeir.