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Four independent short films comprise this quirky anthology. "Coriolis Effect" (1994) is an offbeat love story involving storm chasers. In the Oscar-nominated "Solly's Diner" (1979), a homeless man (Larry Hankin, who also directs) witnesses a holdup. "Looping" (1991) satirizes independent moviemaking. And the dialogue-free "Joe" (1997) features David Aaron Baker as a psychiatric patient searching for enlightenment.

With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.

A man and a woman have an awkward encounter at an indoor playground.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

A newly arrived guest of a Hollywood hotel charms and amazes the regulars, and they decide to invite him to their Christmas dinner.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the words "moose" and "cock" were to suddenly come together to form a new word? This hard-hitting short film probes the possibilities.

Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

Outside, the first sun rays break the dawn. Sixteen years old Catarina can't fall asleep. Inconsequently, in the big city adults are moved by desire... Catarina found she is HIV positive. She wants to drag everyone else along.

An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.

A boat builder and his family attempt to set sail in his handmade boat, 'The Damfino'.

A doctor unrelentingly tries to convince a phobic guy to come out of his isolation room.

This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive acorn.

Lili wakes her sister Victoria and insists that they both leave the house.

Two homeless Kurdish brothers see Superman in the town's first movie theatre and decide they are going to live with him in the US. It's a long, dangerous road in the hands of ruthless human smugglers.

When her father is suddenly diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, Sadie returns home to help her family care for him while struggling to accept the chaos within his mind, her family and herself.

In this town, since who knows when, rain has never stopped. Residents moved out to suburbs and high ground around. People’s memories are now deeply submerged. But into this forgotten rainy town sometimes, someone wanders.

An absurdest short film set in the roaring twenties that chronicles two brothers who are obsessed with stealing Marcel Duchamp's shovel back from their arch nemesis, a greedy, drunk, fat, perverted aristocrat.

A woman finds herself in unfamiliar territory when she is faced with verbal and physical abuse from her once loving beau.

David's 29th birthday also happens to be the day of his father's funeral. When David discovers that he shares that birthday with a Hollywood star, it begins to feel like his life is a series of missed opportunities. But that self-obsession threatens to destroy his relationships with his unemotional mother and disabled teenage sister when they need him the most.