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shareNarrative Shorts 9 brings together stories of courage, tension, and tenderness, each one revealing how people face impossible choices and fragile connections.
In Restraining Order, a woman who thought she’d escaped her abusive husband discovers how far control can reach. G.S.W. puts a paramedic in an unthinkable moral dilemma when the life she’s saving belongs to her child’s attacker. The Solution turns academic rivalry into psychological warfare as a professor refuses to be replaced by her gifted assistant.
From there, the tone softens but stays sharp. Forevergreen tells a gentle, animated fable about a bear cub and a tree whose friendship is tested by human waste. Consciousness revisits postwar Hungary, where a young filmmaker risks everything to resist a new regime. ADO follows a veteran drama teacher whose final day becomes a fight for survival and meaning.
The lineup closes with quieter notes: Say to You, a sweet story of young love and hesitation at an amusement park, and Ya Hanouni, a playful bedtime battle between parents competing for their baby’s first word.
Narrative Shorts 9 moves between the devastating and the tender, showing the full spectrum of what it means to be human under pressure.
Filmmakers will be present for a post-screening Q&A.
In this program
Restraining Order
Directed by Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit
Dori issued a restraining order against her violent husband but she didn’t imagine he would find a way…
G. S. W.
Directed by Jonny Durgan
A man is dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound when the paramedic treating him discovers he’s the perpetrator of a school shooting at her child’s primary school, which puts her in an impossible situation.
The Solution
Directed by John Klein, Steve Kniss
A math professor, rejected over and over again for publication, finds herself supplanted by her genius-level teaching assistant, and resorts to drastic measures to re-assert her authority.
Forevergreen
Directed by Jeremy Spears, Nathan Engelhardt
An orphaned bear cub finds a home with a fatherly evergreen tree, until his hunger for trash leads him to danger.
Consciousness
Directed by Attila Szvitek
1948, Eastern Europe. Three years after the end of World War II and the fall of the fascist regime, Hungary has descended into a communist dictatorship instead of democracy. A young female filmmaker takes a stand against the new regime while also seeking vengeance for the tragedy she endured under the previous one.
ADO
Directed by Sam Henderson
Ms. Hopkins, an aging African American woman, is a middle school
drama teacher on the verge of retirement. However, while finishing up her
final notes to a group of s who are about to perform Shakespeare’s
Much Ado About Nothing, she’s confronted by a new challenge that threatens
her life and the lives of her s. Her only hope lies within the memory of
the language of love.
Say to You
Directed by Nuodi A
During a trip to the amusement park with friends, Xiaode wants to invite his crush, Yeye, to ride the sky wheel alone. But he doesn’t know how to say it…
Ya Hanouni
Directed by Lyna Tadount, Sofian Chouaib
While the Mom and the Dad try to put their baby to sleep, a competition arises between them: who will manage to get the baby to say the first word?
