• Talk of the Town

    90 minutes |

Word gets around fast in these stories about small communities, where it’s hard to avoid your neighbors and everyone knows your name.

Short Films

Bastard

A young man's devotion to his mother is tested by the sense of shame hanging over their home in a small village in Azerbaijan.

Blackwood

A novelist and her teenage son face their own unique challenges over the course of a day, finding recognition and respect difficult to come by in small-town Australia.

Excess Will Save Us

Paranoia strikes a small village in the north of France as a terror alert is set off under mysterious circumstances.

Nooreh

Nooreh is an eight-year-old girl who lives in a Kashmiri village on the India-Pakistan border. One night she discovers that the frequent gun battles that rage near her home only happen when she sleeps and stop when she’s awake.

Truck Slut

A lonely, gay 13-year-old reflects on his complicated love for his volatile sister, the night she humiliated him, and her disappearance from their small, Southern town.

film details

Running Time: 90 minutes

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