Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival

Sleepy Steve | Directed by Meghann Artes | 4 min. | USA, 2015. World premiere. 
A fuzzy bachelor has engineered his wacky morning routine with robotic precision.

How I didn't Become A Piano Player | Directed by Tommaso Pitta | 18 min. | United Kingdom, 2014. US premiere. 
Ted, 9 year old, is the clumsiest boy in the world. Desperately searching for his vocation, he cannot find anything he is good at. The breakthrough arrives the day his father comes home with an old monstrous piano. Ted has the revelation: he will become the next Mozart.

Rest Stop | Directed by Kate Herron | 11 min. | United Kingdom, 2014. World premiere. 
Everything changes one night for Meredith, a young backpacker desperate to find meaning in her life, when she meets a mysterious stranger in a dingy British service station...claiming to know her.

Golden Shot | Directed by Gokalp Gonen  | 9 min. | Turkey, 2014. World premiere. 
Rusty machines living in their small houses, imagine that the sun will come and take them to the sky someday. A small light, keeps them alive and dreaming. But one of the machines wants to see the sun itself and he has a plan for that.

AlieNation | Directed by Laura Lehmus | 6 min. | Germany, 2014.
An animation-short about puberty, based on real life interviews with teenagers.

A King's Betrayal | Directed by David Bornstein | 9 min. | US, 2014. New England premiere. 
A lonely, naive Pinata longs for a better life, and to find the meaning for his existence. It all seems to click when a young boy walks into his life and takes him home. But this new found relationship and sense of purpose has far more sinister undertones than the Pinata could ever imagination.

Basilisk | Directed by Nikolai Hamel | 13 min. | United Kingdom, 2015. East Coast premiere. 
With the discovery of a conceptual virus that has the power to kill, three terrorists holed up in an underground layer debate the effectiveness of their discovery until one turns it against the other two.

He and She | Directed by Marco Gadge | 16 min. | Germany, 2015. East Coast premiere. 
Thomas is on his way to a life that includes only himself and his girlfriend… but when she breaks up with him, the dream goes up in smoke.
Then he meets Annemarie at a lonely rest stop. As he tells the quirky old woman about his failed relationship, he comes to realize that, whatever happens, however dark and horrible things seem, there are always reasons to jump into life with both feet.

Mi ne mozhem zhit bez kosmosa | Directed by Konstantin Bronzit | 15 min. | Russian Federation, 2014.
Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.