Nantucket Film Festival: Shorts Lineup

A father takes his two sons out on a trip to the desert to go hunting, but the results are not quite what he was expecting.

She had been architecture's celebrated young star, fearlessly perching her sculptural buildings on the cutting edge of form and function. After endless delays, she's finally ready to unveil the model for what will be her greatest design. It's perfect. And then, from the cover of Architectural Digest, she sees her own face staring back at her.

Mr. Sugar Daddy depicts the story of a man looking for a fresh start. Hans falls for young Andrej and is thrown into a game that does not allow any winner.

A Man who forgets to breathe while sleeping, he recently had a quarrel with his wife, she wanted to leave him and get divorced.

As a young child our protagonist is left by his mother and has to live with his violent father. He fights his way through adolescence and falls in love with the woman of his dreams and just as everything seems to be finally working out for him, a sudden event changes the course of his life forever. A story about how everything we love, everything we learn, everything we build, everything we fear, will one day be gone.

A young Bosnian refugee family ends up in a small village in the Netherlands after getting a residence permit in 1994. Absurd situations arise as they are trying to make this new world their home.

A man finds a family of strangers in his house and has an extremely difficult time asking them to leave.

A couple meets for a romantic dinner, but a minor medical mishap threatens to derail their night.

Narcolepsy, siblings, nudity, and senility.

On the east side of Detroit an 11-year-old boy, grieving over the loss of his best friend, encounters an artist who makes art out of abandoned objects.

The day after suffering a miscarriage, a young couple attend their local comic con.

A film festival assigns two directors the same hotel room, but one has a secret.

A new kid in town tests the limits at the high school basketball tryouts.

The Margaret Lambert Story is part of "Foul Play," a far-reaching original series that explores controversial subjects including religion, gender, and race within the context of sports and the Olympic Movement.

In 2014, 276 teenage girls came together for exams in Chibok, Nigeria -- by dawn, nearly all had disappeared and their school was burnt. Jessica, an escapee, shares her haunting account of a friendship violently interrupted by Boko Haram.

The most isolated Greek island is transformed from a sleepy tourist destination to an outpost for Syrian refugees.

The city of Cleveland was abuzz on September 27, 1986. Over 1.5 million balloons were about to be released at once, breaking the world record. What could go wrong?

A bio-hacker seeks to cure himself by swapping his microbiome with a donor's, a controversial and dangerous technique.

"Bedside Manner" focuses on standardized patients and the art of medicine. The film explores empathy and medical relationships through the practice of using medical actors to train student doctors. At the center of the film is the brilliant neurologist Dr. Alice Flaherty, who plays herself as a doctor, standardized patient and real patient. In addition to offering viewers a rare glimpse into the practice of training doctors, the uncanny medical simulations also reveal the tenuous boundary between the real and artificial. "Bedside Manner" invites reflections on empathy, medical relationships and personal medical histories.

On a 10-meter high diving tower, fear of taking the jump is pitted against the personal loss that would arise if you didn't dare. What do we look like when we hesitate and when we make a decision? What does it look like when we overcome our fear?

The tale of a curious fox who goes in search of an elusive whale. A journey of pursuit and longing.

A lot of strange, wonderful creatures can be found in a forest, and in this particular forest there is an unusually special sort. These creatures do not remember when they discovered that they like glitter and all things that shine, nor do they remember when they started to be called Moonwolves. What they are certain of is that they love lamps, coins, knights and armory, stars, and their best friends, the fireflies. But most of all, they love the moon. Every night the Moonwolves sit and stare dreamily to- wards it. One night, their longing grew so intense that they decide they couldn't just sit and stare at it anymore. They decide to go to the moon.

In the magic forest it is dark and cold; the fog so thick that not a single ray of sunlight shines through. The plants are withered and the lakes frozen, with nothing stirring anymore. A lone girl and a deer are wandering through this icy landscape. What are they looking for? Natia Nikolashvili has created a fantastical world as backdrop for a tale as fascinating and enigmatic as a dream, in atmospheric water colour.

Adapted from Andersen's tale, the film tells the fate of a young merchant who tries to sell matches. Unsuccessful, she finally burn them all. These moments of warmth accompanied by happy visions, culminating with the appearance of his deceased grandmother.

A Wall Street man employs a very melancholy, peculiar copyist to work in his office, a man called Bartleby who soon refuses to do any work because, in his calm yet defiant words, he'd prefer not to.