Friday, June 17, 2005

Toronto Short Film Festival - Part Deux

Celebrity Short's Program - what a great couple of hours -


Keep Right - Public enemy #1 (Ewen Bremner - "Trainspotting") and his arch-rival, (Lance Henriksen - "Aliens") up the ante in this high stakes game of cat and mouse. Complete with cars and guns, a Scottish accent, existentialist ambiguity and a green dumpster.

The Little Things - After a failed suicide attempt, Claire (Alisen Down - "Da Vinci's Inquest") has nothing better to do than go to work. During a cigarette break, she meets Simon (Ioan Gruffud - "King Arthur"; "Horatio Hornblower"), a man with a few issues of his own.

Milo 55160 - Heaven's loneliest bureaucrat Milo, played by Patrick McKenna ("Traders"; "The Red Green Show"), meets Will, a boy who is struggling to stay alive on earth. When Will disappears, Milo embarks on a journey through the afterlife that changes him forever.

Spelling Bee - Charlie Sheen is a guest judge at the Spelling Bee to end them all, in this riotous send-up of the high stakes and high pressure world of words. Can you spell i-n-a-p-p-r-o-p-r-i-a-t-e?

Pigeon - WWII is raging and a train offers one man his final chance to escape the certain horrors that await him. Based on a true story, Michael Lerner ("Barton Fink") and Canadian treasure Wendy Crewson ("Sex Traffic", "What Lies Beneath") star in this emotionally affecting film.

Notting Hill Anxiety Festival - Charlotte (Julie Delpy - "Before Sunset"; "Waking Life"), a beautiful young woman who appears to have everything, is contemplating leaving it all behind in this fanciful fairytale.

News for the Church - Andrew McCarthy directs this powerful tale of hypocrisy and misfortune, as a boy and a young woman (Nora-Jane Noone - "The Magdalene Sisters") living in a small village both struggle to maintain their dignity, only to meet with shocking results. Based on a short story by acclaimed Irish writer Frank O'Conner.

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