Short 'n' Sweet Masterpiece

Producing a good short film is a challenge. Due to the limited time available to convey the message, it is essential to strike the right balance between providing enough plot details and allowing for a smooth gradual flow of the story. The short film "The Secret Number" directed by Colin Levy does this beautifully. It has a brilliant screenplay that rivals feature length Hollywood productions and although only 13 minutes long it feels like you watched a full movie at the end of it.

Here is the full short film, enjoy!

Official site : http://secretnumber.colinlevy.com/

Here is the plot summary of the movie in case you missed a few points during the first viewing. 

A psychiatrist meets with a patient of his who is a mathematician and claims to have found a "secret" integer between 3 and 4. He calls this integer "bleem". The psychiatrist dismisses this claim saying that it violates common sense. Although the mathematician insists that this number lies in another dimension which is not perceived by us, the psychiatrist still refuses to believe that he is sane and instructs the attendant at the mental institution to lock up the mathematician. That night the psychiatrist dreams of an accident that occurred when he was a child where an old man was hit and killed by the car he was travelling in. The following morning he goes to the mental institution and finds out that the mathematician is not in his cell. It is also seen that the mathematician has performed loads of calculations in search of the secret number. It is implied that the mathematician was successful in finding this secret number and in doing so he gained access to a hidden dimension which allowed him to travel through time. In the final scene it is seen that the old man hit by the car when the psychiatrist was a child was this mathematician, and the pen he used to do the calculations on the wall and some jellybeans which were with him are seen fallen on the road.