Bus 44 – Award-Winning Short Film

On the outskirts of a small town, a bus driver and her passengers encounter highway robbers. “Bus 44” carries a universal theme that travels across all boundaries and societies, trespassing the dark side and bright side of human behavior.

Bus 44 – Award-Winning Short Film

Bus 44 DIRECTOR’S COMMENTS:

I have always been interested in social psychology and wanted to do a film about how people react under certain stressful circumstances. The story attracts me not only because it has an interesting plot with a twist, but mostly because the underlying theme is even more haunting than the events that take place. I intentionally made this film with a certain ambiguity of time and place — this story could have taken place anywhere in the world. Making films about people and human nature attracts me because I feel that people around the world have much more in common than they do differences. “Bus 44” carries a universal theme that travels across all boundaries and societies, trespassing the dark side and bright side of human behavior.

Bus 44 Review

Jo Lusby, City Weekend Magazine:”Bus 44 is one of those rare films that have all the ingredients of a truly great movie… The story is complete, and the self-restraint obviously needed to not spin this out into a longer piece is admirable. It is well paced, intriguing, and defies any viewer to not react to the underlying message of the movie.”

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -Richard Buckminster Fuller

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” -St. Francis of Assisi

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”– Dalai Lama

What did you think about Bus 44? Did you know Bus 44 is based on a true story? Does that change your experience of Bus 44?

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