Play Pretend (2024) short film review
Two friends, Mia and Teo, meet up one evening and, over a glass of wine, debate the philosophy of love and life in Sophie Dominique Parea’s Play Pretend.
Two friends, Mia and Teo, meet up one evening and, over a glass of wine, debate the philosophy of love and life in Sophie Dominique Parea’s Play Pretend.
After Isaac’s long-term girlfriend is killed, he struggles to continue with his regular life. Visited by Ava in a dream, they both go on a journey reliving their relationship in Michael Winter’s animated short, Life Eternal.
Two former high school sweethearts reconnect after decades apart, embellishing their current lives to impress each other in James Dubbeldam’s “Never Too Late.”
When Kevin’s curiosity gets the better of him, he ventures onto the dark web—but how safe are we, and how deep does the rabbit hole go? This is director and writer Michael Cooke’s Curiosity.
An elderly man with dementia has to deal with his illness and the everyday dysfunction of his family in Seemonta Halder’s “Chimera”.
When Becca loses her spark, she hides away in her flat with only her AI hub MAIA for company. MAIA begins to take this responsibility towards Becca a little too seriously in Will Jewell’s Wired.
The spirit of a murdered king gives a young boy a cloak of Miracles to raise him from the dead. But the boy soon discovers that working miracles is not as easy as he imagined in Lewis Critchley’s “The Lost Mantle of Elijah”.
A young baseball player has his dreams of pitching for a Little League travel team derailed by a devastating injury on the field in Lee Cipolla’s family drama Rally Caps.
An orphan boy joins a young photojournalist on a journey of self-discovery to find his mother through the wild beauty of Laos in Joshua Trigg’s debut feature film “Satu Year Of The Rabbit.”
A lonely young man introduces his new girlfriend to his parents and they immediately hate her for no reason in Patrick VanZandt’s debut feature Addy Daddy.
A group of ghost hunters spend the night at the spookily active Hotel San Carlos in Phoenix, Arizona, well-known for having a mysterious and frightening past in Ghostly Secrets of Hotel San Carlos.
A big-eared bull tries to protect his father’s magical crystal from being stolen by three sneaky snakes in Tiny and Big Pinely’s short animation The Bull and the Crystal.