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CAAMFest 2015

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.


  1. Lahaina Noon

    Christopher Kahunahana / Shorts / USA / Experimental, Short / 15 mins
    Lahaina noon is a day when the sun passes directly overhead, causing shadows to recede until disappearing. On this day in Hawai'i, four lives are irreparably changed by the phenomenon.
    Plays In:
    TALES OF TOMORROW (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 13, 2015 9:40 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    TALES OF TOMORROW (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 15, 2015 2:40 pm Not Available


  2. Leftover

    Eui Yong Zong / Shorts / Canada / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 18 mins
    LEFTOVER follows a family of North Korean refugees living hand to mouth in Canada. Blending documentary and fiction, LEFTOVER adapts from the real life experiences of the participating actors. Thematically complex, LEFTOVER shares haunting memories of an oppressive regime, as they come back to life in the present. Winner of Manulife Student Film Award (Toronto Film Critics Association).
    Plays In:
    THE HOME PROMISED (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 15, 2015 12:10 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    THE HOME PROMISED (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 17, 2015 5:45 pm Not Available


  3. Liquidity, Inc.

    Hito Steyerl / Shorts / Gemany/USA / 2014 / Short / 28 mins
    In this alternately absurd and poignant provocation, liquidity is metaphor, linking financial malfeasance to environmental disaster through the central character of financial advisor-turned-mixed martial artist Jacob Wood. As DIY CGI effects entertain the screen, militant meteorologists, shock-proof portfolios, cloud systems and Bruce Lee’s mantra “be like water, my friend” intervene to reveal a cosmology of interlocking ideological systems.
    Plays In:
    PLAYTIME (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 15, 2015 5:00 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    PLAYTIME (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 16, 2015 5:20 pm Not Available


  4. Mama Tang

    Cathy Tang / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 10 mins
    In an innocent story of an immigrant mother trying to reconnect with her son, Mama Tang struggles to find a place of her own in his San Francisco home. Even when making her son’s favorite Chinese food, her search for acceptance is hard to find.
    Plays In:
    FAMILY TIES (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 14, 2015 2:40 pm Rush Only

    Plays In:
    FAMILY TIES (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 18, 2015 7:10 pm Not Available


  5. Miss Guidance – EP 4: Persevering

    Matthew Breault / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 5 mins
    In this episode of the webseries MISS GUIDANCE, our hero Nilly resists attending the mandatory school staff "Quarterly Luau," only to find that she has a very good reason to go after all.
    Plays In:
    FALLING (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 14, 2015 9:40 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    FALLING (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 16, 2015 9:30 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    FALLING (SHORTS)

    New People Cinema
    March 20, 2015 9:20 pm Not Available


  6. Moving to the Cloud

    Laura Hyunjhee Kim / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Short / 2 mins
    Digitalism might not be so friction-and-effort free, as demonstrated in this playful, hyper-colored, bubble-bursting intervention from San Francisco-based video artist Kim.
    Plays In:
    PLAYTIME (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 15, 2015 5:00 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    PLAYTIME (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 16, 2015 5:20 pm Not Available


  7. My Beautiful Resistance

    Penny Baldado / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Bay Area Connection, Documentary / 8 mins
    Penny Baldado, owner of Oakland, CA’s Café Gabriela, originally moved to the United States to live as an out lesbian, because she felt that she couldn’t do that in her native Philippines. Her status as an undocumented immigrant becomes an obstacle as she attempts to establish her American life.
    Plays In:
    OUT/HERE (SHORTS)

    Castro Theatre
    March 15, 2015 12:00 pm Not Available


  8. My Father, Francis

    Casey Mecija / Shorts / Canada / 2013 / Documentary, Short / 12 mins
    Artist and filmmaker Casey Mecija reveals her love for her father’s practice in transforming recycled materials into beautifully, sculptured objects. This story is deeply rooted in the hard work it took for her father to provide for their family in dynamic and functional ways.
    Plays In:
    FAMILY TIES (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 14, 2015 2:40 pm Rush Only

    Plays In:
    FAMILY TIES (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 18, 2015 7:10 pm Not Available


  9. My Hot Mom Gandhi

    Reena Karia / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 5 mins
    Driving around San Francisco, an Indian American couple try to plan a funny, relevant and provocative party costume. Funny, relevant, and provocative in and of itself, the film brings up the question, “Are drones funnier than white face?”
    Plays In:
    FLIPSIDE (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 14, 2015 12:15 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    FLIPSIDE (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 18, 2015 9:25 pm Not Available


  10. N. King

    Kali Kasashima / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 10 mins
    Kalany is a young guy, trying to get ahead in this world with a little help from his friend. But when their job goes violently awry, tensions force him to see a different point of view and choose what kind of person he wants to be.
    Plays In:
    FLIPSIDE (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 14, 2015 12:15 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    FLIPSIDE (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 18, 2015 9:25 pm Not Available