This year, Manhattan Short received 1250 entries from 70 countries from which 10 finalists were selected. These 10 short films will screen more than 1000 times in over 400 cities on six continents! The judges of these films are you, the audience. On entry to each venue, you will be handed a ballot card that allows you to vote for the best short film and actor. Your vote will then be sent to Manhattan Short’s headquarters, and the winner will be announced at ManhattanShort.com on Monday, October 7 at 10 am EST.
NEFTA Football Club
Director: Yves Piat
Country: France
Running Time: 17:00
Synopsis: In Tunisia, two football-loving, young brothers find a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the boarder with Algeria. But why is the animal wearing headphones over its ears?
Debris
Director: Julio Ramos
Country: USA
Running Time: 14:00
Synopsis: After a disastrous event on his construction site, Armando acts quickly to save his crew, but instead stumbles upon an unspeakable truth. Debris is an intense and visceral glimpse of the grim world of human labor trafficking.
Driving Lessons
Directed by: Marziyeh Riahi
Country: Iran
Time: 12:48
Synopsis: Local laws say Bahareh’s husband must accompany her to driving lessons so she and her instructor will not be alone, a task made more complicated when the two men don’t get along.
Tipped
Directed by: Alysse Leite-Rogers
Country: Canada
Time: 13:48
Synopsis: A waitress at an upscale restaurant reaches her tipping point with a table of difficult customers and concocts a special dish of revenge.
Sylvia
Directed by: Richard Prendergast
Country: United Kingdom
Time: 16:53
Synopsis: Our love affair with the automobile means that a car can feel like it is part of the family. Sometimes it’s more than that.
The Match
Directed by: Pia Andell
Country: Finland
Time: 15:38
Synopsis: Two middle-aged women turn a friendly game of tennis into an intense competition but stand united at the end of the match when they discover one thing in common.
This Time Away
Directed by: Magali Barbe
Country: United Kingdom
Time: 14:00
Synopsis: An elderly man lives as a recluse, haunted by his past and memory of the family he once had, until a non-human visitor arrives and disrupts his isolation.
Malou
Directed by: Adi Wojaczek
Country: Germany
Time: 14:00
Synopsis: Rejected by a famed dance school, Malou gets a chance to prove that she’s destined for a career as a dancer despite the odds seemingly stacked against her.
A Family Affair
Directed by: Florence Keith-Roach
Country: United Kingdom
Time: 13:08
Synopsis: When Annabelle wakes up alone in a stranger’s bedroom on her 30th birthday, she thinks the day cannot get any worse. But then Bernard walks in and he is not the man of her dreams.
At The End Of The World
Directed by: Fon Davis
Country: USA
Time: 13:08
Synopsis: In an apocalyptic future, a lonely government worker finds solace with a soldier during the last World War. But their future together is threatened when the soldier is sent back into battle.
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