The Nashville Film Festival (NaFF), presented by Nissan, announced all short films for the 46th Nashville Film Festival, April 16 – 25th at Regal Green Hills Cinema.
“We have a really strong group of shorts this year,” said Brian Owens, NaFF Artistic Director. “They tell amazing stories that really leave an impression. Not only do you want to watch them, but you want to walk away and tell people about them.”
The 188 finalists were chosen from nearly 1,800 short film entries submitted from countries around the world. The films range in length from 3- 39 minutes, and cover a variety of genres.
“A successful short film can really help jump start a career,” said Ted Crockett, NaFF Executive Director. “Shorts are often the first step to creating a powerful full-length feature. We can’t wait to show these to the world – they’re helping make this festival the best yet.”
Winners in the animated, narrative and documentary shorts categories are automatically qualified for Academy Award® consideration. The Nashville Film Festival is one of only 17 festivals in the world that are automatic qualifiers in these three categories.
Animated
9:30 AM | Alfonso De La Cruz. Mexico.
8 Bullets | Frank Ternier. France.
A Good Man | The Rauch Brothers. USA.
Bath House | Niki Lindroth von Bahr. Sweden.
Beach Flags | Sarah Saidan. France/Iran.
Bear Story | Gabriel Osorio. Chile.
Bendik & the Monster | Frank Mosvold. Norway.
Between Times | Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter. Netherlands / USA.
Day 40 | Sol Friedman. Canada.
Dustin | Kristina Jaeger. Germany.
Lava | James Ford Murphy. USA.
Little Cousteau | Jakub Kouril. Czech Republic.
Lune | Toma Leroux, Patrick Delage. France.
Man on the Chair | Dahee Jeong. France.
Migration | Fluorescent Hill. Canada.
Palm Rot | Ryan Gillis. USA.
Pineapple Calamari | Kasia Nalewajka. UK.
Serenity | Jack Dunphy. USA.
Seven Red Hoods | Léo Verrier. France.
Silent | Limbert Fabian, Brandon Oldenberg. USA.
Still Born | Åsa Sandzén. Sweden.
Storm Hits Jacket | Paul Cabon. France.
Teeth | Daniel Gray, Tom Brown. Hungary / United Kingdom / USA.
The Last Resort | Stephanie Blakey. United Kingdom.
The Last Viewing | The Rauch Brothers. USA.
The Nature of War | The Rauch Brothers. USA.
The Numberlys | William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg. USA.
The Oceanmaker | Lucas Martell. Belize / USA.
The Present | Jacob Frey. Germany.
The Video Dating Tape of Desmondo Ray, Aged 33 & 3/4 | Steven Baker. Australia.
Timber | Nils Hedinger. Switzerland.
Trampoline | Maarten Koopman. Netherlands.
Two Films About Loneliness | Will Bishop-Stephens, Christopher Eales. United Kingdom.
Walk the Dog | Sonja Rohleder. Germany.
World of Tomorrow | Don Hertzfeldt. USA.
Documentary
{THE AND} Marcela & Rick | Topaz Adizes. USA.
Andrew and Wendy | Josh Aronson. USA.
Autofocus | Boris Poljak. Croatia.
Buffalo Dreams | Maurice O'Brien. United Kingdom.
Cailleach | Rosie Reed Hillman. United Kingdom.
Call of Duty | Matt Lenski. USA.
Collinsville Trade Day, 1988 | Charles Keener, Jason LaRay Keener. USA.
Crooked Candy | Andrew Rodgers. USA.
Curt | Brendan Hearne. USA.
Every Day | Gabe Spitzer. USA.
Hotel 22 | Elizabeth Lo. USA.
I Thought I Told You to Shut Up! | Charlie Tyrell. Canada.
It's Better in Italian | Jordan Ledy. Italy / USA.
La Vie en rose comme dans les films | Christophe M. Saber. Switzerland.
Life After Pi | Scott Leberecht. USA.
Little Questions | Virginia Abramovich. Canada.
Midnight, Three & Six | Joe Callander. USA.
Object | Paulina Skibi?ska. Poland.
Once There Was a Cigar Box | Alexander Conrads. Germany / USA.
One Year Lease | Brian Bolster. USA.
Papa Machete | Jonathan David Kane. Haiti / USA.
Red Alert | Barry Avrich. Canada.
Shipwreck | Morgan Knibbe. Netherlands.
Showfolk | Ned McNeilage. USA.
Spearhunter | Luke Poling, Adam Roffman. USA.
The Little Deputy | Trevor Anderson. USA.
The Queen | Manuel Abramovich. Argentina.
The Sound Man | Chip Duncan. Kenya / USA.
The Sweet Spot | Shelby Hadden. USA.
Tomgirl | Jeremy Asher Lynch. USA.
Experimental
(null) | Michael Lange. Germany.
130919 A Portrait of Marina Abramovic | Matthu Placek. USA.
Foreign Bodies | Nicolas Brault. Canada.
Play Within a Play | Yasmijn Karhof. Netherlands.
sexy | Kurdwin Ayub. Austria.
That has been bothering me the whole time | Arash T. Riahi. Austria.
That's the Clouds | Brett Whitcomb. USA.
The Dragon Is the Frame | Mary Helena Clark. USA.
The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Tree | Joana Pimenta. Portugal / USA.
Trafo | Paul Horn. Austria.
Graveyard Shift
Alone | Didier Philippe. France.
Anal Juice | Sawako Kabuki. Japan.
FestEvil | Paul Taylor. United Kingdom.
Get Better Boss | Henry Kaplan. USA.
Good Samaratin | Jeffrey Reddick. USA.
Grave Shivers | Brent Sims. USA.
Larry Gone Demon | Matthew John Lawrence. USA.
Milk! | Ben Mallaby. United Kingdom.
On Dark Paths | Paul Helin. Finland.
Peripheral | Megan Mulrose. USA.
Primrose Lane | Nick Phillips. USA.
Narrative
A Hole in My Heart | Mees Peijnenburg. Netherlands.
A Million Miles Away | Jennifer Reeder. USA.
A Single Body | Sotiris Dounoukos. Australia / Greece / France.
All the Pain in the World | Tommaso Pitta. United Kingdom.
All We Share | Jerry Carlsson. Sweden.
Amazon | Marianne O. Ulrichsen. Norway.
Answers | Michael Goode. USA.
Bienvenidos | Javier Fesser. Spain / Peru.
Chain | Eicke Bettinga. Germany.
Child K | Roberto De Feo, Vito Palumbo. Italy.
Clown Service | Tig Notaro. USA.
Daytimer | Riz Ahmed. United Kingdom.
Dead Hearts | Stephen W. Martin. Canada.
Dog Bowl | Gordy Hoffman. USA.
Eleven | Abigail Greenwood. New Zealand.
everything & everything & everything | Alberto Roldán. USA.
Fixed | Burleigh Smith, Codey Wilson. Australia.
Followers | Tim Marshall. Australia / United Kingdom.
Forever Over | Erik Schmitt. Germany.
Grand Zero | Kevin Oeser. USA.
Grey Bull | Eddy Bell. Australia.
Hole | Martin Edralin. Canada.
I Want to Dance Better at Parties | Matthew Bate, Gideon Obarzanek. Australia.
I'm in the Corner with Bluebells | Ako Mitchell. United Kingdom.
In the Still of the Night | Erich Steiner. Austria.
Knightsville | Aly Migliori. USA.
Mulignans | Shaka King. USA.
Myrna the Monster | Ian Samuels. USA.
No Look Dunk | Dan Samiljan. USA.
Oh Lucy! | Atsuko Hirayanagi. Japan / Singapore / USA.
Pink Grapefruit | Michael Mohan. USA.
Pony Place | Joost Reijmers. Netherlands.
Rabbit | Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. USA / France.
Russian Roulette | Ben Aston. United Kingdom.
Sahara | Juanan Martínez. Spain.
Saturday | Mike Forshaw. United Kingdom.
Share | Pippa Bianco. USA.
Shotgun | Maverick Moore. USA.
Slap | Nick Rowland. United Kingdom.
Somebody's Mother | Mandy Fabian. USA.
Spring | Tania Claudia Castillo. Mexico.
Stop | Reinaldo Marcus Green. USA.
Superior | Erin Vassilopoulos. USA.
The Bridge Partner | Gabriel Olson. USA.
The Chicken | Una Gunjak. Croatia / Germany.
The Huckster | Nacho Ruipérez. Spain.
Tzniut | David Formentin. USA.
Wild Dog | Mees Peijnenburg. Netherlands.
Yes We Love | Hallvar Witzø. Norway.
Student
Bear | Pascal Floerks. Germany.
Border Patrol | Peter Baumann. United Kingdom / Germany.
Carry On | Yatao LI. China.
Day One | Henry Hughes. USA.
Embrace | Murad Ali. United Kingdom.
Greenland | Oren Gerner. Israel.
Skunk | Annie Siverstein. USA.
Stay Awake | Jamie Sisley. USA.
The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometer 375 | Omar Elzohairy. Egypt.
Wire Cutters | Jack Anderson. USA.
Tennessee First
Achmed's Burial | Travis Slagle. USA.
Burt's Eye View | Eric Staples. USA.
Coffee | Kevin McNulty. USA.
Contrary to Likeness | Motke Dapp. USA.
Daddy's Little Girl | Chad McClarnon. USA.
EXPOSED Chapter 1: The Global Epidemic | Mo Scarpelli. USA.
First Time | Hilary Bell. USA.
Four Horseman | Lynn Edwards, Paul Cain. USA.
Futureman | Patrick Sheehan. USA.
How I Got Made | Tracy Facelli. USA.
Jake Plays First Base | Josh Harrell. USA.
Merry Death Collector | Ben Murphy. USA.
Muddy Pond | Tyler Jones. USA.
Nashville in Harmony: Ten Years of Using Music to Build Community | Steven C. Knapp. USA.
Night Run | Ben Dongarra. USA.
SandorKraut | Ann Husaini, Emily Lobsenz. USA.
Springtime in the Sorrowing Hole | Joe Hemphill. USA.
Summer Haze | Blake Holland. USA.
Teppanyaki | Matthew Fisher. USA.
Tethered | Kevin McNulty. USA.
The Department of Signs and Magical Intervention | Melissa Sweazy. USA.
Trying Not to Explode | Dave Dorsey. USA.
Usetocould | Drew Maynard. USA.
Wander Woman | Tyler Evans. USA.
Web Series
24HR Records | Brad Cash. USA.
Bounty Momma | Wendy Keeling. USA.
Casting Room | Matt Baram. Canada.
Greetings! From Prison | Matthew Byori Mann. USA.
HelLA | Rory Uphold. USA.
Plant | Andrew Nielson. USA.
Wallflowers | Kieran Turner. USA.
Young Filmmaker
2 by 2 | Ruby Drake. USA.
KERS | Alexia Salingaros. USA.
Miles Away | Lily Lizotte. USA.
Minimum Max | Joshua Ovalle. USA.
Finally Here | Carolyn McDonald. USA.
Poet Against Prejudice | Faiza Almontaser. USA.
Roadblock | McKenna Grace Martin, Christian Whitemore. USA.
Sofia | Jason Phillips, Brandon Chase. USA.
Sophia | Lukas Dong. Sweden / USA.
Stranded | Clio Gervitz. USA.
The Lonely Life of John Holloway | 2014 Watkins Pre-College Camp. USA.
Nashville Film Festival (NaFF), April 16 – 25, 2015, presented by Nissan North America, brings the world to Nashville in a 10-day celebration of film. NaFF celebrates the diversity of the human vision by curating diverse program segments. Founded in 1969 by Mary Jane Coleman, it is one of the oldest film festivals in the U.S. As an Academy Award Qualifying Event, NaFF garners notice from the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, MovieMaker Magazine, IndieWire, Variety, Billboard, New York and Script Magazine.
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