Best Short Films of 2013

A team of filmmakers receive an unexpected call while documenting The Cosmonaut, a film about Soviet lost cosmonauts, in Latvia and Lithuania.

Harmon and Wendel are two WWII concentration camp escapees chained together at the wrist. Their run for freedom is halted when they mistakenly step on a land mine. Unable to run and bearing a mutual animosity toward one another, an unexpected bond soon emerges - A bond that unites them as they await their fate.

June is afflicted with dementia, and is falling backward through her life. As she slips in and out of her younger selves she no longer recognizes her devoted husband, George. When June's dementia propels her to a dangerously irrational runaway attempt, George must take the backward fall with her to protect the woman he loves and keep their love alive.

In this guerrilla short film, Brian, an obnoxious film reviewer, receives a scary phone call from his number one fan.

The life and times of Rip Murdock, a washed up 1950s and 60s B movie star

Henry, a great concert pianist, has his life thrown in turmoil the day the love of this life, Maria, disappears mysteriously. He'll then discover the inevitable verdict of life.

Two lives cross in an isolated Bolivian village: a disgruntled American doctor looking to leave, and a Bolivian salt miner who's just been stabbed in the hand.

Hope Spears, a young American Journalist in Paris, is obsessed by a reclusive poet, though she herself is nearly a hermit. When she cannot find him, she is forced to leave Paris. Her last 24 hours are marked by surprise, intrigue, despair and a final embrace of the banalities of a daily life we cannot predict.

Crossing the punishing desert of the American West, Native American Civil War veteran Four Winds is overcome by his demons and collapses on the desert floor. As his body struggles for life, his spirit struggles to move beyond the horrors of war. Brought into a border town and saved from death by the benevolence of a desert guide, Four Winds discovers that while away his family has been murdered by the same racist Capt. Flemming who sent Four Winds Native American D Company on a suicide charge to their deaths. Encouraged by his new mentor to again embrace the ways of his people, Four Winds cleanses himself in preparation for a return to town and a final confrontation with the sadistic Captain Flemming.