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Film Lovers of Martha’s Vineyard can unite with an audience of over 100,000 film buffs in over 300 cinemas across 6 Continents during this week when the MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival screens at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center.
MANHATTAN SHORT announced the Final 10 for its 22nd Annual Short Film Festival, a worldwide event taking place in over 400 cinemas across six continents between September 26 and October 6, 2019. MANHATTAN SHORT is the only event of its kind in which the Final 10 will be shown simultaneously across the world during a one-week period, with the Best Film and Best Actor awards determined by ballots cast by the audiences in each participating cinema.
Each audience member gets to vote for their favorite short film and actor/actress of the competition and participate with other film-goers from around the world on selecting the winners.
The 10 finalists of short films are…
NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB
Directed by: Yves Piat
Country: France
Time: 17:00
Synopsis: In Tunisia, two football-loving, young brothers find a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border with Algeria. But why is the animal wearing headphones over its ears?
DEBRIS
Directed by: Julio Ramos
Country: USA
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.
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.
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.
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.
MANHATTAN SHORT is not a touring Festival; rather, it is an instantaneous celebration that occurs simultaneously across the globe, bringing great films to great venues and allowing the audiences to select their favorites.
If the Film Festival experience truly is about getting great works in front of as many eyes as possible, MANHATTAN SHORT offers the ultimate platform — one that sees its films screened in Sydney, Mumbai, Moscow, Vienna, Cape Town to cinemas in all fifty states of the United States and beyond.
MANHATTAN SHORTS founder Nicholas Mason