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Love and Other Malfunctions

Q&A with director Christine McCarthy following screening.

Bathing and the Single Girl

Directed by Christine Elise McCarthy

A comedic look at the horrors of dating – and bathing with – younger men.

Q & A with Christine Elise McCarthy following the shorts Program

Cataplexy

Directed by John Salcido

Sydney Sanders suffers from cataplexy, an unusual medical condition in which he is literally paralyzed when he feels love. Rather than take that chance, he relies on impersonal sexual encounters to meet his physical needs – until one night he is embarrassed to discover the call girl at his front door is an old friend.

Love is All You Need?

Directed by K. Rocco-Shields

Love is All You Need?” tells the story of Ashley, a young teen who is raised by the ‘picture perfect all-American family’ in the suburbs of California – with two moms, two grandpas, two uncles, and a little brother. But Ashley has a problem – she has a crush on a boy at school, which is against everything this world has ever taught her. Ashley lives In a world where the terms “gay” and “straight” are switched, this young girl must face the fact that she is straight in a gay world. This undeniable attraction to the opposite sex causes her to be the constant target of verbal and physical abuse until she is driven to a tragic end.

Noreen

Directed by Domnhall Gleeson

Two policemen get more than they bargained for on a house-call in Athmuck, Co. Offaly. When Frank and Con find a dead body in a local cottage, what began as a routine call-out becomes an opportunity for life lessons, relationship advice and musings on the basics of detective work. Both men are alone. Both men are idiots.

Touch

Directed by: Jen McGowan

Logline

An ode to city life, TOUCH explores the universal themes of isolation and need for community when two strangers make the most important connection of their lives while waiting for a train.

Environment

Busily on our ways, preoccupied with our own worries and checklists, normally the most we can offer another human being is a cursory glance, a stiff nod, a brief smile.  Every day, millions of people pass one another by, mostly unaware of the other’s existence.

“… semolina from the deli, oranges for the game… ‘a bomb exploded…’ where?” …ugh, if he would just shift his stupid newspaper… just slightly, c’monn…there you g- shit, the train!”

A true human connection is rarely ever made.  But they do happen to us all and when they do, they are fleeting but deep, sometimes forever changing.  And we are reminded of how much we share in common with the strangers that surround us.