Content from Shorts International

An ordinary man who is a big Bruce Lee fan falls in love with a girl.He needs to do something extraordinary for saving his girl from a gangster.

A Japanese family is confronted with the mother's disease. The profoundly symbolistic images of this short film show us how Yù and his father perceive the possibility of the death and how it affectsa young boy and his vision of life.

Jeff heads home to rest before cooking for an important person. When he is lured to a pool by an amorous mermaid, he has to choose between satisfying his libido or staying focused on the future.

We Were Once a Fairytale is a 2009 short film directed by Spike Jonze. It stars hip hop musician Kanye West.

A doctor struggles to bring his dying wife back to life.

Rape Card is a cautionary tale set in a chilling dystopian future where rape is legal. Frances tries to control her fate by planning her own assault, and targets a young boy who just got his rape card.

Tommy Willis is a boy of 10. Living in poverty and with a nagging hunger, he escapes to the wilderness one day to find solace. He stumbles across a lone, withering apple tree deep in the woods and is horrified by it's condition. It has been vandalized, cut into and the surrounding area littered with evidence of teenage indifference. He resolves to put it right, whatever be the consequences.

Mim has never ventured off her little hometown island. It's time to leap into the adult world, by getting pregnant, with deeply unpleasant consequences.

A short haunting tale of a life-changing day for Mr. Keller, a man who upon discovering the identity of his son's killer must then decide what to do as a consequence. Could you forgive the boy who killed your son?

A Black and Jewish biracial woman retraces her Jewish grandfather's history which brings her to Auschwitz. During her journey, she learns heart wrenching facts about where her family's from and how her grandfather escaped persecution.

Collective screening of the Academy Award nominated short films from the Animation category for 2009.