The festival opener, and I get the impression it's a typical SXSW type of movie.

Made in Austin, by local brothers David and Nathan Zellner, for very little money, and connected with the "mumblecore" movement (as much as anyone associates themselves with it), David plays a balding 40-something loner with a sad, droopy moustache who's a loser in every sense. He's just been dumped by his wife, he's been demoted at work, and to cap it all, he's lost his cat, Goliath.

His attempts to find it play like a mundane silent comedy. He composes a "missing" flyer on his computer (cropping his ex out of the photo, deleting a zero from his $200 reward at the last minute) and wanders the streets with his electric can opener, hoping Goliath will come running.

In one pathetically poignant scene, he attaches one of his flyers to a helium balloon he finds and releases it into the sky - it sinks into the middle of the freeway and is hit by speeding cars.

As was Goliath, it eventually transpires, which proves to be too much for our distraught protagonist. His decision to focus his rage on a local sex offender makes for an uncomfortable climax, but it's generally amusing and well-handled, if a little slight for its length.