Dramatic Shorts - Executive Director's Picks

Join Grand Cinema Executive Director Philip Cowan for some of his favorite short films he has seen over the last year.

Uncradled | United States | 13 | Kyle Beckwith | A young mother packs up the last box, a life never lived.

Bark | United States | 10 | Deanna McDaniel | A brokenhearted young man answers the call of the forest where he finds passage into a new realm.

Just the two of us (Toutes Les Deux) | France | 20 | Clara Lemaire Anspach | Alma knows it. If her mother persists in not taking the new treatment offered to her, she will die. She therefore has only one idea in mind: to make her change her mind as they both drive towards the south of France.  Once last mother-daughter journey in which Alma will have to find the strength to let her mother go... 

The Third Bedroom | United States | 23 | Kathryn Van Buren | On a gloomy winter trip to help her father prepare their ancestral beach house for sale, little Isla illuminates some of the darkness that haunts the family tree.

The Family Circus | United States | 18 | Andrew Fitzgerald | A Vietnamese-American family's plan to cover up a drunk driving accident begins to unravel when their emotional baggage spills out in front of the police.