2015 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Short Film Selections

NY – Double Espresso- Narrative program

Our popular New York narrative program returns with everyday life imagined – past, present, and future.

A movie theater usher in Early Sunday Morning has a chance encounter after hours. The Statistical Analysis of Your Failing Relationship examines a young man's probability of reviving his relationship with a young woman through statistical analysis.

When an asteroid in Let’s Not Panic threatens to hit New York, twenty-something Sadie embarks on a quest from Brooklyn to Manhattan to reunite with the man she loves – her therapist. In Blitz a father and son agree to a “winner takes all” chess blitz in order to settle a bet.

George and Lacy walk through the streets of Brooklyn and revisit their memories in George and the Vacuum. The deterioration of one cycle is the foundation for another in Wrapped, an exploration of time and change.

In Stop, a young man's livelihood is put to the test when the police stop him on his way home from practice. When a celebrated New York chef discovers an affair between his super-model wife and his best man in Best Man Wins, he devises a plan to deal with each of them.

·         Early Sunday Morning, directed and written by Yoonha Park. (USA) - World Premiere.

·         The  Statistical Analysis of Your Failing Relationship, directed and written by Miles Jay. (USA) - World Premiere.

·         Let's Not Panic, directed and written by Heather Jack. (USA) - World Premiere.

·         Blitz, directed and written by Faraday Okoro, written by Faraday Okoro. (USA) - World Premiere.

·         George and the Vacuum, directed by Chadd Harbold, written by Charlyne Yi. (USA) - World Premiere.

·         Wrapped, directed and written by Roman Kaelin, Falko Paeper, and Florian Wittmann. (Germany) - New York Premiere.

·         Stop, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, written by Reinaldo Marcus Green. (USA) - New York Premiere.

·         Best Man Wins, directed by Stéphane Dumonceau, written by Frederick Waterman, Stéphane Dumonceau. (USA) - World Premiere.

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