Am usually hard to convince to pick shorts over features, but this collection was like a little bag of candy. Triggering reflections on the notion of time and flashing of questions (43,000 FEET), on the perils and speed of social media interactions (SCREENSHOT), on unconventional competition (RUNG), on the sexual expectations from a man's and woman's perspective (CAFE REGULAR CAIRO), on revisiting a place you left behind (GABI), on a surprising way to execute a breakup (DOUBLE OR NOTHING), on the stylized safecrackers (PITCH BLACK HEIST).
For additional descriptions of these mini gems, I take the liberty of borrowing from the TFF program:
"In Rung, after a cathedral bell ringer passes away, his spot on the bell-ringing choir is up for grabs and two women find themselves in an unlikely competition for the coveted position. A couple's relationship goes through its first big test in a crowded spot in Café Regular Cairo. GABI is a sassy, sexy, and strong Puerto Rican woman, but an unexpected family death forces her to return to her native homeland, confronting a place she thought she had left behind. When a man brings his eight-year-old son to a soccer game and the ticket price is higher than he expected, he is desperate not to disappoint the boy in Bad Gones. In Screenshot Kate meets an old friend through Facebook and discovers just how unfriendly a place the internet can be. On his way to a statistics conference, John Wilkins is the victim of a freak accident, sucked out of a plane when an emergency door fails mid-flight at 43,000 Feet. Clark and Becca leave a bar after a night out with friends, and when they pass a homeless man on the street Clark gets an idea in Double or Nothing. Liam and Michael are professional safecrackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe of its contents, but there's a catch—a light-activated alarm system impels the men to embark on a Pitch Black Heist."
