Shorts
They may be short, but they pack a punch! One of the gem’s of festival is it’s imaginative and talent filled shorts program. This year, emerging and established filmmakers converge, bringing films that highlight love and loss, complex family dynamics, issues of home and land, and visions of the future. Whatever your taste, there is bound to be a short for everyone.
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100 Crushes Chapter 6: They
Elisha Lim / Shorts / Canada / 2014 / Documentary, Gay/Lesbian, Short / 2 mins
Winner of Best Emerging Artist at the Inside Out 2014 Toronto LGBT Film Festival, filmmaker Elisha Lim recounts her roommate finding delight in one word that truly identifies them. This eventually opens up a new kind of freedom where the gender binaries are no longer strictly set.
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2050: A Room of His Own
Juhee So / Shorts / USA / 2014 / 8 mins
Jack Grey, ID number J5AE 11811, waits for bureaucratic machinery to finish the process of his self termination. In the meantime, he seeks solace in thinking of a mother he never had and what his life might have been outside the confines of four walls.
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After Us
Philip Wang / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Experimental, Short / 10 mins
Nothing can make you lower than a bad breakup, until by inches you slowly make it out of your funk. From Wong Fu Productions comes a blueprint for how to get over the one who wasn't "the one."
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Cambodia 2099
Davy Chou / Shorts / Cambodia / 2014 / Short / 20 mins
Phnom Penh of the present is about to make way for the city of the future. Friends Sotha and Kavich are making preparations of their own, and both are set to go on a very long journey. From the director of GOLDEN SLUMBERS, CAMBODIA 2099 captures young lives in a country in flux.
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China: Land of My Father
Felicia Lowe / Shorts / USA / 1979
Lowe meets her paternal grandmother for the first time, learns about the country her father left behind and looks at the impact of families separated by war and emigration.Precedes: Chinese Couplets
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Cold Spring
Shiyan Feng / Shorts / China / 2014 / Family / 25 mins
After leaving his family 20 years in the past, a father suddenly finds his daughter about to be married and struggles with his emotions after realizing she wasn’t going to invite him. While attempting to quickly reconnect with her, he must learn how to take care of his 12-year-old son.
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Comfort Girls
Eugene Lee Yang / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Culture, Drama, Horror, Music Video, Narrative, Short, Social Issue, Women / 5 mins
Part music video, part diatribe, COMFORT GIRLS is definitely not for the faint of heart.
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Curtains
Jenyu Wang / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Short / 3 mins
From this Chicago-based artist comes an opening provocation for attention and tension, where the ripples of an anticipatory stage curtain are the main attraction.
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D.Asian
Sarah Smith / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 9 mins
In 4th grade, everyone wants to fit in somewhere. For an endearing boy named Daniel fitting in means defying expectations, by having the best Hello Kitty collection, getting attention from the class’ cutest boy, and proving that he really is Asian.
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Dandekar Makes a Sandwich
Leena Pendharkar / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 8 mins
Anyone who has worked customer service knows, it is always the pickiest and persistent customers that are the worst to help. As Dandekar shops for sandwich ingredients in a grocery store, the resulting product is quite worth the effort.
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