I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY, AND I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN/ U.S.A (Director: Keith
Snyder, 15 minutes)- I Love You, I'm Sorry, and I'll Never Do It Again is a short crime musical about
two thugs, one husband, one angry wife and three simple lines every husband should know.
THE PATTERNS TRILOGY/ Canada (Director: Jamie Travis, 9 minutes, 14 minutes, 19
minutes)- Last year, we opened our "Horizons" program with Patterns. This year, we bring that
film back along with the two shorts that conclude this utterly unique trilogy (in its US Premiere
as a complete trilogy). In Patterns, Pauline waits for a phone call, misses the phone call, then
takes a bath. In Patterns 2, Michael finds a mysterious package of Chinese food outside his door
and calls the woman he suspects sent it. In the concluding Patterns 3, Michael, having sent
Pauline paper airplane love letters all night, has a bad case of paper cuts. With damaged hands
and anguished hearts, Pauline and Michael reveal the details of their relationship through song
and dance.
THE SADDEST BOY IN THE WORLD/ Canada (Director: Jamie Travis, 14 minutes)-
Timothy Higgins, always picked last for the team, is The Saddest Boy in the World and even
birthday cake and musical chairs can't lift his spirits in this dark, dark comedy.
TAKE THIS JOB
Either you'll appreciate your job more or you'll be ready to give your boss the what-for after
seeing this collection of short films about the necessary evil of work and its impact on our
identities.
BREAD/ Guatemala (Director: Marcelo Bukin, 4 minutes)- In the moving documentary Bread we
meet Edwin and Edson, brothers who work with their father in a stone quarry. They share
their hopes for a future as their father fights to give them the education he never had.
HAPPINESS/ U.S.A. (Director: Sophie Barthes, 11 minutes)- One evening, after work, a Polish
immigrant buys a box of happiness in a strange store, but is unsure what to do with it in
Happiness, a deadpan comedy featuring Polish screen legend Elzbieta Czyewska.
THE LABORER/ Japan (Director: Darryl Knickrehm, 20 minutes)- A harried businessman has
the chance to take a step back and look at his life, only to see that it's all been too much work
in The Laborer.
NEVEL IS THE DEVIL/ U.S.A. (Director: Peter Craig, 12 minutes)- 2004 Grand Jury Prize
winner for Best Short Film ("The Climactic Death of Dark Ninja"), Peter Craig returns with
Nevel is the Devil, a comedy about a supervisor in a consumer products testing lab who must
interrogate two employees he suspects of pulling off a devilish prank.
PLAN F/ U.S.A. (Director: Casey Hayward, 23 minutes)- At the age of 20, Ed Marko went blind.
Plan F follows Ed at his auto-repair shop in this documentary about the necessity of reinventing
one's life when "Plan A" is no longer viable.
THE SUBSTITUTE/ Italy (Director: Andera Jublin, 15 minutes)- A class full of students
discover that there's something strange about The Substitute, in this clever comedy.
