A mumblecore short from writer/director Alexander Engel, Digits follows the attempts of a man to call a girl he just met despite losing the last two digits of her number. Shot in one small apartment, Keith speaks to a number of characters who aren’t the person he’s looking for as he works his way from 01 to 99. Telling a story of both humour and heart, Antonio Campos’s lead is a little pathetic and thoroughly relatable, but it’s the punchy narrative and pace of the editing that is particularly impressive, especially considering the minimal scope of the shoot. Next for Engel is a web-series called Dilemma, starring the lead actor from another short of his, Beardtown USA.

An aspiring New York City method actor, Paul (Alex Karprovsky) takes on a part-time gig, performing the symptoms of various illnesses for the student doctors at a local school. Though he’s overlooked for the stage and screen, instead Paul attracts the eye of the medical instructure, who himself has a flair for the theatric. Another interesting side-project for Girls‘ actor Karprovsky, Michael Tyburski’s Actor Seeks Role is a smart and gently comic short with ambitions beyond its micro-scale budget.

After months of preparation, last summer, Foster Huntington and a group of friends set out to complete a childhood dream, building an escape up in the trees. From breaking ground to completing the interconnected treehouses, skate bowl and hot tub-with-a-view in the Columbia River Gorge, Foster’s short, The Cinder Cone, follows their story. While some were professional carpenters, other learned on the job, but really this is a about a bond between friends, and making your life’s ambitions come true. Find out more about the project, plus a book which successfully found funding on Kickstarter, on the Cinder Cone site: www.thecindercone.com

Roller skating used to be all the rage, but you barely find people doing it anywhere anymore. However, with the scene making a comeback in San Francisco, director Daniel Soares speaks to the wonderful people who have started a new community on the west coast, talking about how they got into skating and how free they feel on eight wheels.

Inspired by the picturesque scenery of the Lake District, studio Art&Graft‘s in-house project, The Walk is a beautiful short film about the simple and steady pleasure of putting one foot in front of the other. With sound from Brains & Hunch, the short is calm and measured, about leaving it all behind and taking a walk through nature. The animation is stunning, bringing hand-drawn illustrations to life with calmness and maturity, and a colour palette that makes you want to get out there and smell the moss.

Living in slow motion while the rest of the world runs at regular speed, life can be tough for Leonard. Struggling to keep up in work and love, when Leonard discovers his office crush is getting transferred to another office, he must somehow figure out a way to get up to normal speed or risk losing her forever. Brilliantly played by Martin Starr (Silicon Valley, Party Down), how the filmmakers achieved the two-speed effect is a technical marvel, directed by Pete Livolsi.