2015 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Short Film Selections
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- Published on Friday, 06 March 2015 14:08
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Interference – Narrative program
Some are futuristic, others fatalistic, but always expect the unexpected in this group of shorts.
Set in post-apocalyptic Manhattan where even the air we breathe has a price, oxygen dealer Winston Willis faces off with a mysterious buyer who seems to know Winston's darkest secret in Grow. It’s the dark year 2024 when a shaman is sent on a mission to convert the soul of a giant battle colossus in The Shaman, and faces a deadly psychological confrontation in the Netherworld.
In Warning Labels, co-workers at the Center for Disease Control meet for drinks only to discover that love is the most hazardous thing of all. A Mighty Nice Man is the haunting story of a day in a young girl's life when a kind stranger comes to town. It can be tough to be a kid if you're not part of the gang in Foul, especially for this ten-year-old girl on a winter day in Norway.
In Listen a foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A recruit in a military drone program arrives at a remote diner, and is faced with an unexpected chain of events in Nostradamus.
· Grow, directed by Micah Levin, written by Chris Basler. (USA) - World Premiere.
· The Shaman, directed and written by Marco Kalantari. (Austria, Japan) - World Premiere.
· Warning Labels, directed by Jennifer Morrison, written by Jenelle Riley. (USA) - World Premiere.
· A Mighty Nice Man, directed and written by Jonathan Dee. (USA) - World Premiere.
· Foul, directed and written by Rune Denstad Langlo. (Norway, Mexico) - North American Premiere.
· Listen, directed by Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni, written by Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni. (Finland, Denmark) - New York Premiere, Narrative
· Nostradamus, directed and written by Thomas Ikimi, co-written by Joshua Banta. (USA) - World Premiere.
