Shorts
Get ready for a feast of the senses! This year’s Shorts program is a buffet of tasty morsels that range from stories of finding your place and family bonds, to LGBTQ expression, the obstacles of love and the varying effects of anxiety.
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The Right Bank
Yvonne Li / Shorts / USA / 2016 / 12 mins
A young woman struggles to come out to her conservative mother. However, when her relationship with her girlfriend is put in jeopardy over the ongoing secrets and lies, she realizes that she must finally put her insecurities aside and finally be he honest with her mother.
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Sameer and the Giant Samosa
Faroukh Virani / Shorts / USA / 2016 / Narrative, Short / 5 mins
Sameer has a deep, obsessive love for samosas, just as long as they’re made by other people. However, this craze takes its toll and consumes him, ultimately driving his marriage down a path where there’s no turning back.Plays In:
FOR THE FAINT OF HEART – SHORTS
Roxie Theater
March 11, 2017 5:10 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets
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Semiotics of SAB
Tina Takemoto / Shorts / USA / 2016 / 6 mins
An oblique portrait of gay Japanese American actor Sab Shimono, whose work on stage and screen spans more than five decades. The grammatology of his career attests to conflicting lexicons of race, representation, and selfhood.Precedes: Re:Orientations
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Seppuku
Daryn Wakasa / Shorts / Hong Kong, USA / 2016 / 24 mins
SEPPUKU is a Japanese American cinematic folk tale that chronicles the ritual death and rebirth of Mari Yoshimori. It looks through the lens of a psyche molded through generations by the legacy of internment, a tragic event tucked away in the dark corners of America’s past. It’s a soul-searching journey to re-calibrate a spiritual compass and find new purpose in life.Precedes: Good Luck Soup
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Sit
Yoko Okumura / Shorts / USA / 2016 / Documentary, Short / 12 mins
At the age of 22, Shohaku found his purpose in life when he committed himself to the practice of Buddhism and was ordained as a monk. A generation later, his 22-year-old son Masaki struggles to find a purpose to devote his life to.
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Song On Canvas
Keo Woolford / Shorts / USA / 2016 / 15 mins
Keo Woolford director of THE HAUMANA Best First Feature at the 2013 LA Asian Pacific Film Festival illustrates a heartfelt tale of a painter finding his way. At the core the tale captures a relationship between a mother and her son which Woolford delicately directs in this reminiscent short.
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The Sounds of Coin Hitting Brass
Andrew Stephen Lee / Shorts / USA / 2016 / Narrative Fiction, Short / 14 mins
A young boy comes to comes to understand that his enigmatic father is a gambling drifter who loiters in laundromats listening to coin change machines that sound like casino slots.
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Speak Chinglish
Lila Yomtoob / Shorts / USA / 2016 / Short / 3 mins
Expectations and realities don’t quite match up during Jenna Lee’s awkward and hilarious acting audition.
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Sunday Dinner
Casey Beck / Special Presentations, Shorts / USA / 2016
Kwok Wai Chan (Willie) has cultivated a ritual out of making Sunday dinner, from early morning tea to shopping in Chinatown to the intricacies and timing of elaborately cooking the food from his childhood, sustaining a weekly tradition that now spans the generations.Precedes: Eat Chinatown
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Tag
Patrick Green & Steve Tirona / Shorts / USA / 2016 / Short / 6 mins
In a sketchy area of Boyle Heights, a young graffiti artist navigates the streets of Los Angeles to make her mark with her latest, spray paint creation. However, it’s all done at the risk of getting jumped, as she then must escape a bunch of guys who are after her.Plays In:
FOR THE FAINT OF HEART – SHORTS
Roxie Theater
March 11, 2017 5:10 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets
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