Join us for a mini film festival of Greg Langen's films! Langen is a local filmmaker and a member of the Rochester International Film Festival's Board of Directors. This compilation of short films is titled "A Short Trip Around The World." The total run time of all films is 80 minutes.

Here are more details about the short films that will be shown:

• "Two Balloons" (2019) | 9 min | Animated | USA | Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world, hoping to reunite.
• "Babel" (2022) | 9 min | Drama | Spain | Several people are in a situation in which they speak nonsense, only being able to verbalize a disjointed phrase
• "Him and Her" (2019) | 8 min | Animated Drama | Germany | What if a magical treehouse could illustrate our fantasies and desires - and our personal foibles?
• "Parting Shot" (2019) | 11 min | Drama | Turkey | A complicated yet humorous discussion unfolds as a man fumbles to explain his own loss at a funeral.
• "Thank You" (2021)  | 15 min | Drama | Russian Federation | Fast food worker Vatalik gets an incredible opportunity to get rich by becoming a bone marrow donor. 
• "An Unfinished Romance" (2010) | 10 min | Narrative Comedy | Australia | A romantic comedy about two strangers, two hookers. two paper boats and a whole raft of assumptions
• "Kino Ratten" (2020) | 10 min | Animated Drama | New Zealand | Rats commandeer the projector in a  pre-war German cinema and put on a show of their own.
• "How To End a Conversation" (2021) | 8 min | Drama | USA | A heartbroken man, unable to stop calling his ex, enlists a therapist to help him lift the weight of his past relationship off his shoulders...literally.

Join us again for more of Greg Langen's films on February 19 - click here for more information!