• Brief Encounters

Our most profound and memorable experiences occur in the shortest of time spans. These films examine the abiding impact of terse exchanges and fleeting interactions.

Short Films

AFTER DARK

On his way home one night, Kristian encounters a young woman in desperate need of help. He agrees to accompany her to the train station, but soon begins questioning her story.

BLUEBERRY

At a Burning Man-inspired festival in the Swedish woods, Oscar wakes up half-naked in the forest with an injured foot. After two days of despair, he encounters a berry picker and convinces her to help him return to the festival.

FÁR

A bird hits the window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to ignore nature or to react.

GUTS

Desperate for help, a woman in recovery asks an unlikely stranger on a dinner date.

I CAN’T BE SORRY

A woman waits at a diner to meet someone she's been waiting a long time to meet.

IN OUR OWN WAY

A man misses his chance to say goodbye to his dying brother.

SADNESS

Set against the unraveling milieu of late-’60s America, two people forge a connection through the mysterious ether of a radio signal.

SPEED QUEEN 51

Alone in a laundromat at night, two strangers realize they'll never see each other again and decide to trade secrets.

TWO WOMEN MAKE A LUNCH PLAN

Two women—who have neither seen nor heard from one another in quite some time—run into each other while out and about and make a plan to get lunch sometime in the future.

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