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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The Seed of Need
Manuel Roman / Shorts / China, France, USA / 2014 / Short / 19 mins
Jingjing has traveled the world in search of a meaning to her life. In cities like Paris, Rome and Las Vegas, she finds romance and intrigue. Only when Jingjing releases the trappings of her life does she find what she was looking for all along.
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Sex, Politics, and Sticky Rice
Tina Takemoto / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Documentary, Short / 8 mins
From protests to potlucks and even three-ways, filmmaker Tina Takemoto sheds light on an overlooked aspect of LGBT history. Stories are told and experiences are recounted from five of the first generation of Asian Pacific Islander queer activists from the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s.
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SHORT SHORTS (SHORTS)
Shorts / 90 mins
CAAM is proud to partner with one of Japan’s premier film showcases: SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL. Started in 1999, SSFF’s mission is to shine a light on the art of short filmmaking. With prestigious screenings all around the globe, from Malaysia to Mexico, we are thrilled to present these new Japanese storytellers.In This Program: In The Tree House, An Innocent Beat, A Soccer Story, Stroboscope, Two Juliets of Verona
SHORT SHORTS (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 14, 2015 5:10 pm Not AvailableSHORT SHORTS (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 19, 2015 5:10 pm Not Available
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Snipers in the Trees
Curtis Choy / Shorts / USA / 1985 / Experimental, Short / 12 mins
Curtis Choy’s (FALL OF THE I-HOTEL) early free-wheeling experimental shorts are a portrait of a vital San Francisco arts scene and a blistering, tongue-in-cheek comic assault on all those powers that (still) need checking. In seven wildly contrasting episodes — including “Burros at Taco Bell” and “Hip-Shaking C-Town” — race, cultural politics and place are skewered with Choy’s mondo-humor, where revolutionaries take a bao break, and macho men get down. Appearances by Janice Mirikitani, Lane Nishikawa, Marc Hayashi and more.
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A Soccer Story
Liliana Suizbach / Shorts / Japan / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 12 mins
Two football teams from Tokyo head to a football pitch by the sea in Kozu Island. During the match, a young player, Kazu, has to play against his hometown team. How will Kazu perform in front of his local community in such a situation?
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Stroboscope
A.T. / Shorts / Japan / 2014 / Comedy, Drama, Narrative, Short / 24 mins
During a location tour sponsored by Ibaraki Prefecture, Nagayama is mistaken for the acclaimed director Shinohara and taken onto a tour bus to mentor the young creators on board. Meanwhile, the real Shinohara chases after them.
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Tadaima
Robin Takao D'Oench / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 15 mins
After the closure of the US Internment Camps at the end of World War II, a Japanese American family returns home and must find the strength to rebuild both their house and family amidst the emotional and physical destruction caused by the war. Tadaima honors the legacy of Paul Takagi, 92-year old former internee, WWII veteran, Berkeley Professor Emeritus, and the Director’s grandfather. Starring Toshi Toda (LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, PEARL HARBOR) and shot on location in Santa Cruz.
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TALES OF TOMORROW (SHORTS)
Shorts / 77 mins
In a lifetime, technology can marvel us and then become obsolete; our intervening moments produce desolation or beauty, sometimes both at once. These films offer echoes of an ever-closer future filled with wearable tech, distant planets, mechanized bureaucracy and all-too-fallible humans just trying to find their way.In This Program: 2050: A Room of His Own, Cambodia 2099, Dead Meadows, Happy Fun Room, Lahaina Noon, Vimana
TALES OF TOMORROW (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 13, 2015 9:40 pm Not AvailableTALES OF TOMORROW (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 15, 2015 2:40 pm Not Available
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TNT (Always on the Run)
Roberto Reyes Ang / Shorts / Philippines, USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 23 mins
TNT reveals the plight of an undocumented Filipino immigrant chasing “the American dream” in New York City. Tony (Perry Escaño) attends school by day and works illegally by night, while living with an exploitative relative. Driven to his edges, Tony ultimately makes a decision that will change his life forever. Written and directed by Roberto Reyes Ang, TNT won “Best Ensemble Cast Award (International Film Festival, NY) and an IndieBravo! Award of Distinction (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
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To Sit With Her
Nicole Miyahara / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Documentary, Family, Short / 5 mins
Contrasting his complex relationship with his mother, Taiwanese-American transman, Leon Wu goes on a pilgrimage to rural Taiwan to visit his grandmother, who offers unspoken acceptance of his gender identity.
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