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SHORT

by Idan Alterman

synopsis

Through personal interviews, conversation with teenage boys, meeting with experts and considerable humor and self exposure, Edan Alterman sets out to examine how height affects men who are shorter than others. Are shorter men funnier? Does short stature created tall character? Why do girls only want to date tall guys? And who do the short guys go out with? The film follows two short- statured boys who still dream of getting tall, and short- statured adults who have learned to live with a world that at times teases them but generally just blocks their view. Short is a personal, moving and entertaining documentary that will add a couple of inches to the ego of short people. "Short is just the film I was missing as a teenager. As the shortest kid in the class, I felt lonely and an outsider. I could only have wished that someone would have made a documentary about shorter than average people (5 foot 5, in my case) and answer the thousands of questions that tormented and frustrated me, but perhaps also made me who I am..." (Alterman)

international title: Short
original title: Namuch
country: Israel
year: 2005
genre: documentary
directed by: Idan Alterman
film run: 50'
screenplay: Idan Alterman, Yair Raveh
cast: Idan Alterman, Eran Zur
film editing: Idan Alterman, Halil Efrat
producer: Arik Bernstein
executive producer: Yariv Mozer
line producer: Yael Biron

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