Edgar Takes the Cake(1920)

The Victory of Charity(de)

A music professor facing redundancy and a serious hoarding habit is pushed to extremes when he discovers his girlfriend has given a treasured 1960s band jacket to charity. He enlists a young ambitious musicologist to accompany him on a mission to retrieve the jacket.

TreatsforBeasts(en)

This short film begins with the character Chauncey (a puppet made of sex toys resembling a mouth and hands with a sock for a body) rolling around in a babies’ rolling chair and watching obscure cartoons and shows on TV. They have satirical, comedic, religious, and disturbing overtones... but to Chauncey and his Dad, this is normal. After a while of the cartoons and Chauncey eating a sausage and then throwing it up, the cartoons inspire Chauncey to ask a series of philosophical questions to his Dad. The questions involve what happens after death, the meaning of life, and Chances asking about his identity and why he’s different.

Punching(en)

In a gritty underworld, a young man with a broken brain is lured into an underground fight tournament, where he must win to save his brother.

Meu amigo que trabalhou com Manoel de Oliveira, que fez 100 anos(pt)

Otherhalf(en)

After his legs walk out on his body a man visits a therapist to find a way to put himself back together.

Here, Prince(en)

Joe Penner as a incompetent crown prince in the middle of a revolution.

Wrongorilla(en)

Jack Haley joins the circus.

Max a un duel(en)

Max, the celebrated fun maker, is shown in another of his amusing playlets. His fiancée, ere she marries him, insists that he prove himself a hero by fighting a duel. Max has difficulty in finding an opponent whom he can defeat and his adventures constitute a comedy which is a scream from start to finish.

Max émule de Tartarin(fr)

Max relates to Mona, staying for the winter sports in Switzerland, that he killed a magnificent bear on the previous day, but that the dogs ate it, skin and all; but for that, concludes Max, Mona should have had his skin. Mona is sceptical, and insists that Max shall shoot another bear.

The Ballad of Kyle T. MaGatt(en)

Aided by powers from a little red hat / A deplorable fellow named Kyle MaGatt / Goes hunting for Covid to save the economy / To become the hero Americans should see. / But will he succeed in this arduous task? / Or will he be forced to wear a mask?

Cascarita de plátano(es)

A group of teenage soccer players are abruptly interrupted by four boys who arbitrarily want to take over the field where the girls train every day, in the process the teenagers take over the field trying to deprive the young teenagers of the space where they train. The boys insist, the women do not allow their inclusion and propose a bet. The game begins, the girls see themselves dominant in soccer, at the end of the sporting confrontation, the boys lose and in consolation the girls offer to kiss them, revealing in the end that all of them are actually boys.

Bread(en)

In an alternate food-themed reality, the brash Detective Alfredo crosses former friends and enemies in an attempt to retrieve a stolen heirloom, The Bread, over the course of one chaotic night.

Peach Melba(en)

Two unusual people make contact in German at a London coffee house.

El Atlas contra el mundo(es)

Beto wants to steal the world. He will think of all kinds of plans until he can do it. Who will he give the world to when he gets it?

Premier Amour(el)

Two loners meet for the first time. Their dogs interact. Perhaps they do, too.

T.G.I.F.(en)

Short comedy based on a Second City sketch.

Doughnut(en)

Things turn sour when an amateur improv class meet for the first time after one of the group misjudges the situation. https://shortoftheweek.com/2021/11/22/doughnut

Max amoureux de la teinturière(fr)

Max is in love with a pretty girl, and one evening pays a stolen visit to his sweetheart's, whose father, a successful dyer, has to leave by a late train for the provinces...

Un pari original(fr)

Max and his wife each blame the other for a nagging tongue. Max offers to bet his wife fifty pounds, even money both ways, that she will be the first to speak or make a sign after the acceptance of the bet. His wife accepts the wager, and the two young people allow their flat to be burgled rather than move or murmur. Max sits out the ordeal in agony, up to the time the burglar attempts to kiss his wife. Then, with a yell, he rises to punch the burglar's head. There is joy in the punch, but less in the drawing of the check.

Le duel de Max(fr)

Max is in love with a charming girl, who also is already affianced to another. Does Max despair? Never. The debonair gentleman sets his wits to work to frustrate his rival's little game, and though he meets with several rebuffs in the end he is successful. Even then the rival, on the eve of his wedding, tries to turn the tables on Max, and very nearly succeeds, but with the little lady's help Max finally wins. The story is full of quaint and whimsical humour, which culminates in some exceedingly funny scenes before a mirror, in which Max sees strange visions.