CELEBRATE LOVE WITH DC SHORTS & SWEETS!
DC Shorts is celebrating Valentine’s Day with a collection of four relationship-themed showcases, from hilarious to heart-crushing and every emotion in between. Whether with a group of friends, in a happy coupling, or flying solo, enjoy a great time with DC Shorts + Sweet snacks and an open bar at the romantic Miracle Theatre in the trendy Eastern Market neighborhood.
Tickets are $15 per showcase. Save $15 with the Film Lovers Pass – $45 for all four showcases! Each showcase runs 90 minutes, and is appropriate for ages 18+.
Weather Cancellation Policy: A weather cancellation is decided on the morning of the scheduled program. Weather cancellations will only be made for extremely severe weather conditions. Please check our Twitter and Facebook feeds the morning of for updates.
Schedule of Events
Fri., February 15, 2019 — 7:00pm: “This Is Love” Showcase Buy Tickets
Fri., February 15, 2019 — 9:00pm: “Love Hurts” Showcase Buy Tickets
Sat., February 16, 2019 — 8:00pm “Love Lies Bleeding” Showcase Buy Tickets
Sat., February 16, 2019 — 10:00pm “No Love Lost” Showcase Buy Tickets
"This Is Love" - Friday, Feb. 15 2019 - 7:00pm Buy Tickets

Kubrick By Candlelight
18 Minutes • Comedy/Historical • Ireland
In 1973, Stanley Kubrick went to Ireland and brought the whole goddamn British Army. A light hearted romantic comedy set behind the scenes of the filming of Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. Narrated by Brian Cox.

Three Pages
15 Minutes • Drama • Canada
An unassuming middle-aged accountant learns he has only weeks to live. Rather than tell everyone, Martin determines to learn the three pages of a Bach adagio for piano he’d abandoned as a child. That accomplished, he performs the piece for his wife and friends, completing his life and thanking those who brightened it along the way.

The Hateful Date
8 Minutes • Comedy • Australia
What if two people on first date were completely honest with each other?

The Favor
16 Minutes • Comedy/Drama • South Korea
In the middle of the night, a father wakes up his son and asks him an awkward favor.

Bonboné
15 Minutes • Romance/Drama • Palestine
The film revolves around a couple in Palestine as the husband is serving time in an Israeli jail. Where physical interaction in the jail is prohibited, the anxious couple decide to smuggle semen out of prison and give birth to a child. There follows a series of events pushing their trial to the edge, will they be able to meet their objective?
"Love Hurts” - Friday, Feb. 15, 2019 - 9:00pm Buy Tickets

okaasan (mom)
18 Minutes • Drama • USA
In rural Japan, a mother and daughter attempt to reconnect after dealing with the loss of a loved one the previous year.

The Outer Circle
13 Minutes • Drama • United Kingdom
Midway through a grueling Orthodox conversion, Daniel and his fiancée Katherine are eager to gain the blessing of his intimidatingly large and loud Iraqi Jewish family. At their annual Rosh Hashanah feast, Katherine’s natural elegance and ‘English English’ heritage immediately endears her to them, but it soon becomes apparent that beneath the warm and welcoming atmosphere, some are not ready as others to accept her.

Abroad
10 Minutes • Comedy/Drama • USA
Living in New York City, a Lebanese couple struggle to achieve their shared dream of breaking into the entertainment industry due, in part, to the typecasting of Middle Eastern actors.

The Last Dance
8 Minutes • Sci-Fi/Drama/Romance • United Kingdom
In the not-too-distant future, an old man works alone in his garage – click-click-clicking the hours away on an old desktop computer. His name is Hugo, and he’s making something…something great. Today, the not-too-distant future will become the not-too-distant past.

Giveaway
6 Minutes • Drama • USA
A man officiates his friends' wedding while realizing his feelings for the bride.

The Shadow of the Bride
11 Minutes • Drama/History • Italy
During the Second World War, a young bride plunges into the depths of the Mediterranean in search of her beloved.
"Love Lies Bleeding" - Saturday, Feb. 16, 8:00pm Buy Tickets

Lovffice Relations
7 Minutes • Comedy • Peru
There are offers where you just can’t say no. Luis Alberto and Julia are stocked in routine, their relationship is closer to a business relation than a romantic one. Luis Alberto has a way out, or at least that’s what he thinks.

The Freedom Procedure
12 Minutes • Sci-Fi/Drama • USA
David goes to a seminar to have a procedure done that eliminates the ability to fall in love, but first he must pass a series of tests.

InstaFriends
10 Minutes • Satire/Drama • USA
In Silicon Valley, two newlyweds celebrate a picture perfect wedding. The toasts and dances carry late into the night, but things aren’t what they seem. In a place where everything can be reinvented, even the happiest day of your life is only an app away.

My First Time
3 Minutes • Comedy • USA
An unexpected comedy with an unreliable narrator, My First Time tells the tale of the mourning of a first love.

Bloom
7 Minutes • Dark Comedy • Australia
When Andrew comes home from a weekend away and finds a single rose petal in his bed, he becomes convinced that his girlfriend has cheated on him.

Florida-Montreal
16 Minutes • Dark Comedy • Canada
Mom breaks up with Dad while on vacation in Florida and flies back to Montreal. The kids, Jonathan and Florie, two immature, immoral, and impressionable twenty-somethings, only have a few hours to figure out how they’ll welcome her back.

The Likes and Dislikes of Marj Bagley
14 Minutes • Animation/Documentary • USA
In this innovative documentary, a family recreates itself using stop-motion animation. The film tells the lifelong struggle of Marj, the matriarch of the Bagley clan, to find happiness. Marj battles infidelity, broken noses, dysfunctional relationships, giant birds, and a fateful game of cards.
No Love Lost - Saturday, Feb. 16, 10:00pm Buy Tickets

The Theory of Sleep
20 Minutes • Drama • Spain
Hypnotist David Leclerck has the best live show in the country. Tonight is the last big gig of the season. It is supposed to be the usual grand finale, but everything turns into a catharsis that David will execute accurately, sacrificing himself before his audience and dragging everyone down. Everyone.

Forever Eddie
12 Minutes • Dark Comedy • United Kingdom
A jaded housewife takes matters into her own hands when her slobbish husband mistreats her precious dog Eddie.

Wandering Eyes
15 Minutes • Thriller • USA
The lives of two seemingly disconnected couples, each with an unapologetic cheating spouse, come together in a twisted tale of betrayal and revenge as all four cross paths in an unexpected way.

Gypsy’s Kiss
9 Minutes • Comedy • United Kingdom
Judith is alone. A widow with a distant son, she's takes life as she finds it. Devoting her life to her late husband Fred and her son wasn't easy, but she never sought thanks and never complained. So every year she marks the anniversary with a pilgrimage to his grave, and every year she's reminded just how much Fred meant to her.

March Fool
14 Minutes • Dark Comedy/Drama • Canada
Struggling with depression, Louis is dragging himself out to his despicable brother's birthday party with his despicable sister. When he finds out that they are planning a prank on him for April Fools' day while still in March, Louis takes it a little too much on a personal level.
Buy Tickets
Buy your tickets online. Tickets at door are subject to availability.
SPECIAL PRICE: Save $15 when you buy a Film-Lovers Pass (see all four showcases!).

Directions/Map
MIRACLE THEATRE
In the “heart” of Eastern Market, The Miracle Theatre is a 340-seat theater that offers pristine HD projection and unparalleled sound.
Metro/Walking
Miracle Theatre is just two blocks on 8th Street after exiting to the right out of the Eastern Market Metro Station on the Blue Line.
Driving
Limited metered street parking is available. The Theatre is located off of the 8th Street SE exit on 395.
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