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98 min.
THE EXECUTION OF SOLOMON HARRIS
Directors: Wyatt Garfield, Ed Yonaitis – USA - 9 minutes
When the equipment breaks down in an electric chair execution, delivering a non-lethal jolt of electricity that leaves the prisoner screaming in pain. Protocol and routine fail to provide a resolution, and the warden has to cope with the human dilemma that falls into his hands.
LES VULNERABLES
Director: Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt - Congo, USA - 14 minutes
In French and Swahili with English subtitles
A coming-of-age story about a schoolboy who tries to prove his manhood to his once-famous, now-handicapped father by helping him smuggle goods over the border between Congo and Rwanda. It follows the journey of Stewart, a puny teenager who must push his father in a wheelchair through the streets of a vibrant Congolese town in order to reach the border.
SOFT
Director: Simon Ellis - United Kingdom - 15 minutes
A short film about fear, as a father and his son are independently terrorised by the same gang of youths. In order to preserve his fragile sense of masculinity, Dad is forced to deal with problems that he hasn't had to face since leaving school.
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Director: Josh Brolin - USA - 16 minutes
An inmate escapes prison to reunite with his daughter and searches for her murdered mother in order to ultimately exhume her body and give her a proper burial.
CHIEF
Director: Brett Wagner - USA - 21 minutes
In English and Samoan with English subtitles
Semu Fatutoa drives a taxi in Honolulu, Hawaii. Once he was a village Chief in Samoa, but tragedy compelled him to cover his tattoos and flee his home. Now he drives in circles, slowly forgetting his old life.
COSMOS
Director: Clayton Hable - USA - 23 minutes
In Russian with English subtitles
During the fall of the USSR in 1991, a lone Cosmonaut circles the earth in space Station Mir. without communication and unaware of his country's collapse, some will call him the last Soviet Citizen.
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