Man's greatest challenge is how to deal with loneliness. Will a pet help? Or is laughter the cure?
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"The Mechanic" finds Jimmy Aubrey working at an auto service station. He obviously has no idea what he's doing and again and again, he messes up. Sometimes he's an idiot--sometimes the problems just happen.
A collection of six gay-themed short films about relationships and the pain of love, including: REQUITED (directed by Sal Bardo), BOYS LIKE YOU (directed by Daniel Armando), WE ONCE WERE TIDE (directed by Jason Bradbury), REVOLUTION (directed by Abdi Nazemian), THE IN-BETWEEN (directed by Alain Hain) and FROZEN ROADS (directed by Mark Pariselli).
This is a real corker. It starts off with a terrific routine with an erratic elevator. Lane's character, Johnny Jones, upon sight falls in love with Mary Craig (played by Kathryn McGuire who appears in a number of Lane comedies). The man who hopes to marry her is Henry Sharp played by Wallace Lupino; the title card introducing this character says" Henry Sharp – so mean he would steal a dead fly from a blind spider." Johnny agrees to do his father a favor by posing as his little boy of about 10 years old. The father had told the wealthy widow he hopes to marry that he was only 30 years old. Because of Lane's small stature this is more believable than most comedy routines that have an adult playing a child.
A sheltered teenage girl's life is turned on it's head when a mysterious gang of greasers swarm into her sleepy suburb and she falls in love with their tough, handsome leader Frank.
Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train station he proves his worth.
The world of Arthur suddenly was taken by assault by two strangers. Incapable to recognize the two figures presented in front of him, Arthur is trapped in his own chair. A delicate situation, where the intensity increases gradually to it's boiling point.
Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client.
A nine-year-old boy named Charlie McCarthy is sent by his teacher to an eye doctor. The lad has been complaining about headaches and has missed a lot of school. The doctor, with the help of a nurse, conducts an examination. They learn that when the boy isn't at school, he does a lot of fishing. In the course of the exam, the doctor recommends glasses, and Charlie convinces the doc to accompany him on a trip.
A man who still lives with his parents tries to realize his dream of becoming a magician.
A short by Diego Puertas.
Roland, an art store employees, day is interrupted by a man needing to use the store's washroom. This simple request is complicated by the store's strict 'employee only' washroom policy. A full bladder, an irrational man, and some company red tape suddenly has Roland's day take a dire turn.
One fence, four fans, and the game of their lives. This is a story about 4 men and a radio.
“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made to be projected on four screens at once, X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the four ends of the cross, War, Sex, Religion and Drugs, the double exposures, the colliding glimpses the eye barely recognizes, the skilful repetitions of themes, remind us that Sex is also the war of bodies, and the pope, the Drug of the people. And the story of this young man, shooting up in order to experience all the horror of the world in front of his TV set, reminds us that the heroin orgy is indeed the subjective locus of the monsters of the modern unconscious.” - Guy Hocquenghem
Hugh and Erwin were strangers when a chance encounter changed both of their lives over the course of 10 minutes. Hugh's skeptical sarcasm toward Erwin's peculiar fascination with quantum theory turns dead serious when Erwin provides answers to Hugh's inexplicable life.
A office security guard provides shelter for a beaten prostitute on a cold winter night. Neither of them predict that they would find a strange solace in each other.
In a city transformed by a diluvian cataclysm in the distant future, a young indigenous shaman woman's vision is strangely related to a similar vision of an old man's deceased wife across a vast span of time. In their visions the world's future shall be revealed.
A short by Martín Rosete.
Mr. Godoy teaches math at a Private High School's senior year. Stubborn and severe, Godoy lives a dull life defined by rules, but something is about to change.
With only minutes left to save her sister from ruthless captors intent on making an example, and armed only with her own fierce determination, a lone modern-day warrior marches directly into the line of fire.
