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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Milton Ng / Shorts / Canada / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 12 mins
Chris is dealing with the worst breakup ever, and his nearly brother-in-law Kenny isn't helping, with his bits about different kinds of internet girls. What Chris really needs is to find his "next like," and he may be closer than he thinks.
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No No, Homo
Jerell Rosales / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 2 mins
So, you're at the movies with your crush. Is it a date? Only one way to find out.
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Odd Rumblings
Jun Cen & Gabriel Sedgwick / Shorts / USA / 2014 / 6 mins
The gorgeous, spare, wintry pop of Brooklyn, NY-based band Odd Rumblings animates the journey of a young woman who escapes institutionalized hibernation and escapes to the Arctic, where a snow monster might be the key to her past and future.
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Operation Marriage
Quentin Lee / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Bay Area Connection, Documentary, Family, Gay/Lesbian, Short / 9 mins
Based on Cynthia Chin-Lee’s children’s book of the same name, two children work together to get their mothers married before the passing of California’s Prop 8. Veteran director Quentin Lee’s OPERATION MARRIAGE, starring Mindy Cohn and Tamlyn Tomita, explores LGBT rights and issues through a child’s point of view.
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Ordinary Family
Hyunju Lee / Shorts / Korea / 2014 / Drama, Family, Gay/Lesbian, Narrative, Short / 24 mins
Su-young is anticipating going on her first vacation with her girlfriend, Young-mi. When she receives word from home that her father has been hospitalized, she must reluctantly visit her parents — and drag a not-at-all-satisfied Young-mi along with her.
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The Other Side
Akiko Izumitani / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 15 mins
Somewhere between “Taken,” “Infernal Affairs,” and a Jackie Chan film, this action-packed drama was made. The hero fights the bad guys, but the bad guy might want to be a hero as well. Brace yourself for this not-so-typical action flick.
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OUT/HERE (SHORTS)
Shorts / 78 mins
From a Filipino immigrant struggling with her undocumented status in the United States in order to live as an out lesbian to a child’s point of view on the much debated subject of marriage equality, these narratives and documentaries collectively broaden the scope of what it means to be queer.In This Program: 100 Crushes Chapter 6: They, Deconstructing My Depression, Distance Between, Finger Running, My Beautiful Resistance, Operation Marriage, Ordinary Family, Sex, Politics, and Sticky Rice
OUT/HERE (SHORTS)
Castro Theatre
March 15, 2015 12:00 pm Not Available
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PLAYTIME (SHORTS)
Shorts / 75 mins
In this collection of exuberant and wildly imaginative short works, global politics, mythologies and simple sensual encounters are the laboratories for playful visual and aural experimentation. Puns, image-rhymes, fabulous logic and transcendent moments of stillness are the ways through which these artists explore everything from the “cloud” to financial meltdowns to filmmaking itself.In This Program: Curtains, Ham Over Rice, Liquidity, Inc., Moving to the Cloud, Odd Rumblings, Raymond, Snipers in the Trees, Trails
PLAYTIME (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 15, 2015 5:00 pm Not AvailablePLAYTIME (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 16, 2015 5:20 pm Not Available
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Raymond
Nina Yuen / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Short / 11 mins
Daydreams and musings, life and the universe, and the name of every person he’s known who has died begin to draw a portrait of Yuen’s father, who ruminates while this New Jersey-based artist constructs a fragmented, inspired and poignant imagistic universe to match.
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Reflections of Union Square
Samati Boonchitsitsak / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Experimental, Short / 4 mins
This luminous short refracts light and shadow, using mirrors and translucent objects to illuminate a new view of San Francisco’s Union Square. Directed by Samati Boochitsitsak, REFLECTIONS ON UNION SQUARE won Best Experimental Film at CityShorts14, San Francisco.
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