Tribeca 2018: Short Films

A Juilliard-trained violinist's unwavering pursuit for harmony by North and South Korean musicians at their heavily militarized border.

The story of three U.S. veterans traveling back into the mountains of Iraq on a mission to heal wounds and experience the country and its culture without the shadow of war.

A Chinese-Canadian woman suffering from empty nest syndrome gets a second shot at motherhood when one of her handmade dumplings comes alive.

The first in a series of animated musicals that tell the racial history of America.

Mark, a 60 years old fledgling storm chaser recently diagnosed with lung cancer, sets out across the Midwest with his friend's nephew in search of his first and possibly last tornado, before the two month storm chaser season comes to an end.

An elderly woman drifts back through her memories. She exists between two states, the past and the present.

In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took the lives of 20 first graders and their teachers, local clergymen Father Bob Weiss receives a letter from a fellow priest in Dunblane, Scotland, whose community suffered an eerily similar fate in 1996. From across the Atlantic, the two priests forge a poignant bond through the shared experience of trauma and healing.

A short experimental/documental animation based on a real conversation between a mother and her 3 years old daughter that recovers from a cancer.

From the survivors of Aurora and Columbine mass shootings, an in-depth, compelling, and inspirational look at overcoming tragedy.

Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.

An animated short about the Velvet Underground's first gig in 1965 in front of a crowd of shocked kids at a suburban New Jersey High School.

A 960-pound Elvis impersonator is absolutely convinced he is Elvis Presley's secret love child.

Since a few years the violinists Ari and Ron are a couple. As they both get the invitation of an orchestra to audition for the solo part they get into direct competition . Their mutual trust is put on a hard test when Ron gets an temptating offer from the conductor of the orchestra.

Deep within Trump's America, a camp of destitute truck drivers confide their anxieties, frustrations and fears to the chaplain of a Midwest mobile chapel.

15-year-old Kyle believes he can save his dying older brother with a plant he's found at the back of a garden centre. Problem is, there's a shadowy government agency out to destroy it first.

A man in a time loop must work with his brother to prevent a catastrophic fire.

A progressive elementary school's "parenting class" takes an unexpected dramatic turn.

In 1984 a tiny anonymous Tipperary village was thrust in to the world's spotlight when US President Ronald Reagan arrived to visit his ancestral home. It was said that Ballyporeen would never be the same again...

After being taken away from her birth parents as a baby by the state, and adopted out of foster care at age 4, singer-songwriter Jenni Alpert (AKA Cami) decides to go searching for her birth father. After weeks undercover on the street of LA, she finally finds him: homeless, addicted, and running from the law, yet a musician, just like her.

Ophelia is a whip-smart 12-year-old girl who must solve a vexing problem: she's never been kissed. There are several candidates in her class, but none have Tommy Lemenchick's smile. Baiting him with the hottest new videogame, Ophelia manages to get Tommy on the old family couch and claims her coveted prize. But, Tommy has more than a nice smile; he also has a big mouth.

Hula Girl is the untold story behind one of the biggest fads in modern American history. At 94 years of age, Joan Anderson has waited 60 years to prove that "a gentleman's handshake " was hardly a deal and it's time to set the record straight.