Fall ‘16 Archive

As iFF you can't fall forward!

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  Beside Oneself

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  Director: Karolina Specht
  Synopsis: One day, She notices that something strange is going on with Him... "Beside oneself” is a short animated film about the confrontation between ideas and reality. Do we live with real people, or only how we imagine them?
  Country: Poland
  US Premiere

  4:52
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  Butterflies

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  Director: Adnan Zandi
  Synopsis: A mother is desperate to find a private space to feed her baby. Unlikely heroes come to her rescue!
  Country: Iran

  3:11
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  Enter the Cowboy

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  Director: Jack Hansen
  Synopsis: A lone Cowboy searches for his lost brother to avenge the death of their father and sensei - killing every desperado in sight to reach his goal. This mixed-genre satire combines old Italian spaghetti westerns (including the trademark off-dubbing) with chop-saki Bruce-ploitation.
  Country: Denmark
  New York Premiere

  13:10
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  Fish

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  Director: Saman Hassenpuor
  Synopsis: An elderly couple and their pet fish live in an apartment; when the wife attempts to change the fishbowl’s water, she discovers they’ve run out of water. With an unexpected source of help from her husband, she finds a resolution.
  Country: Iran

  3:24
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  How Many Farts Measure a Life?

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  Director: Nate Dern
  Synopsis: A young woman is presented with a book containing the statistics of her entire life in this comedy from Nate Dern, a senior writer at Funny Or Die. The film is based on a piece from Dern’s upcoming 2017 humor collection, In Case Of Fire, Use Stairs.
  Country: United States
  New York Premiere

  12:40
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  Inventor Mouse

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  Director: Hashmat Farid
  Synopsis: A father and son set up a repair stand at the side of a deserted road running along a brook. Their only source of light is a torch with batteries that are all but empty. The son comes up with a better solution.
  Country: Afghanistan

  15:26
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  Our Wonderful Nature -The Common Chameleon

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  Director: Tomer Eshed
  Synopsis: In this narrated animated short film, the feeding habits of the common chameleon are detailed and examined (as never seen before).
  Country: Germany

  3:32
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  The Quantified Self

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  Director: Gleb Osatinski
  Synopsis: When well-meaning parents turn self-tracking into a family religion, the consequences fall outside the quantifiable. Starring Nando Del Castillo, Maggie Fine, Charlotte Ruley and Madeleine Ruley.
  Country: United States

  15:37
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  Second Skin

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  Director: Charlie Manton
  Synopsis: A girl who believes she's too ugly to be seen wears a cardboard box as her second skin. Starring Lauren McCrostie (featured in Tim Burton’s 2016 film, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children) and Louis Partridge.
  Country: England

  20:21
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  Shy Guys

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  Director: Fredric Lehne
  Synopsis: Two strangers confront one of the most perplexing and insidious scourges to afflict mankind - all while standing at neighboring urinals. Featuring Reed Birney (House of Cards; 2016 Tony Award winner for The Humans) in the directorial debut of character actor Fredric Lehne.
  Country: United States

  8:16