The Sampler

Sit back and enjoy some of the best and most vibrant short films from New Zealand and around the world. This collection provides a great way to sample what Show Me Shorts is all about. The films feature a lost donkey, a stolen moon buggy, a history lesson, a hijacked car, and a reluctant gnome. Well-known local actors Alison Bruce, Miriama McDowell and Jeffrey Thomas feature in the films, along with singer-songwriter Finn Andrews and Hollywood players Jason Schwartzman and Jake Johnson.

Estimated total run time: 109 minutes.
Rating: R13 Violence, drug use, offensive language, rape themes & content that may disturb. Contact your cinema for details.

(Select cinema for times and tickets…)Antarctica – Scott BaseArrowtown – Dorothy BrownsAuckland Central – Rialto Cinemas NewmarketChristchurch – AliceColville – Colville Hall, Colville RdDevonport – The Vic DevonportDunedin – Rialto Cinemas DunedinGisborne – Dome CinemaGreat Barrier Island – Barrier Social ClubHamilton – LidoMatakana – Matakana CinemasNapier – MTG Century TheatreNelson – Suter Theatre, Suter Art GalleryNew Plymouth – 4th Wall TheatrePicton – Endeavour ParkRussell – Cinema KororarekaTauranga – Rialto Cinemas TaurangaThames – Embassy CinemasTitirangi – Lopdell HouseWaiheke Island – Waiheke Island Community CinemaWaikaia – The Lodge 223Waikanae – Shoreline CinemaWanaka – Rubys CinemaWellington Central – Light House CubaWhangarei – Whangarei Film Society

Amerigo and the New World

Documentary, 14 mins, France

Dir/Writ: Luis Briceno, Laurent Crouzeix

Prod: Jérémy Rochigneux, Manuel Labra

America was not really discovered in 1492, yet soon after that date the name Amerigo started being used in relation to the American continent. This documentary explores the fake news around the fake discovery.

Nefta Football Club

Comedy, 17 mins, France

Dir/Writ: Yves Piat

Prod: Damien Megherbi, Justin Pechberty

In the south of Tunisia, two football-fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border with Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.

Walk a Mile

Drama, 16 mins, New Zealand

Dir/Writ: Judith Cowley

Prod: Sarah Anne Dudley

A grumpy old man lives next door to a noisy family, who he hates. All he wants is peace and quiet, but when something happens to his neighbours he realises how much he cares about them.

Rū

Thriller, 16 mins, New Zealand

Dir/Writ/Prod: Awanui Simich-Pene

Writ: Sebastian Hurrell

Prod: Lindsay Gough

A pregnant woman must fight for her life when she inadvertently becomes the victim of a violent initiation.

Memory Foam

Drama, 15 mins, New Zealand

Dir/Writ: Paloma Schneideman

Prod: Elspeth Grant

As a middle-aged married couple shop for a new bed, they begin to realise their bed might not be the only thing they’ve outgrown.

One By The Venom – Finn Andrews

Music video, 3 mins, New Zealand

Dir/Writ/Prod: Alexander Gandar

Writ: Finn Andrews

Prod: Tom Augustine, Amanda Jane Robinson

A vignette-style music video for Finn Andrews’ powerful ballad `One By The Venom’, which is all about the various ways one might end up meeting one’s maker.

Korte Kuitspier
(Short Calf Muscle)

Comedy, 13 mins, Netherlands

Prod: Trent

An absurdist black comedy about Anders, who is different. But he doesn’t know that. Yes, he’s also gay, but that’s not the point here. There is also this thing that others see but he doesn’t. Dir/Writ: Victoria Warmerdam

To Plant a Flag

Comedy, 15 mins, Norway

Dir/Writ: Bobbie Peers

Prod: Ruben Thorkildsen, Henrik Hofstad

In preparation for the moon landing in 1969, NASA sent a team of astronauts to the lunar landscapes of Iceland. Their high-tech training mission soon discovers what obstacles one can meet when facing… an Icelandic sheep farmer.

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