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Little Grey Bubbles
2019 | USA | 14 min.
Shorts and Sweet
Bijou by the Bay
Thu, Aug 1, 2019 3:00 PM
This bundle of fun narrative shorts is overflowing with charm, sincerity, and personality, and it offers empathetic and relatable stories with which we can all identify as humans living in this crazy world. On January 13, 2018, middle aged couple Larry and Penny are enjoying a relaxing vacation in Hawaii when their phones light up with a potentially world-ending message in 40 Minutes Over Maui. Amelie feels out of place when her favorite cousins brings a lover to their family reunion for the first time in Little Waves. Little Grey Bubbles offers a poignant interpretation of internet friendships, when Kim attends the funeral of her best friend Marlon—a man she’s never met. Revel in some drunken family drama in Stepdaddy. And in Westfalia, a couple embarks on an epic road trip in an attempt to gain more followers after their Instagram rivals' fame explodes overnight.
Kim and Marlon were best friends, despite the fact they’d never actually met. The unlikely pair, her a young woman thriving in New York City and him an older married man in a small town in Canada, communicated exclusively online. Just before he died, he sent her a message that said he had something really important to tell her. He never got the chance. In an effort to find out what it was, and to get a deeper sense of the friend she lost, she travels to his small-town home to attend his funeral.
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