Skip to main content

CAAMFest 2015

All Films & Events

  1. Treasure Island

    Elizabeth Lo, Melissa Langer / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Documentary, Experimental, Short / 7 mins
    TREASURE ISLAND explores how children living in public housing on a former naval base have created fantastical stories about the real dangers they face due to the radiation buried beneath their homes. Ethical, class, and environmental issues in San Francisco begin to surface through this collision of fantasy and realism. Directed by local filmmaker Elizabeth Lo.
    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


  2. Two Juliets of Verona

    Ken Ochiai / Shorts / Japan / 2014 / 15 mins
    Verona Girls’ High School has been holding its legendary theater festival for 120 years. Julie and Yuri are competing with each other to appear as the star of the play. When they find out the school will become co-educational and a male transfer student appears, the battle intensifies.
    Plays In:
    SHORT SHORTS (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 14, 2015 5:10 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    SHORT SHORTS (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 19, 2015 5:10 pm Not Available


  3. Verses in Exile Ep. 1 & 2

    Masahiro Sugano / Cambodia / 2015 / 14 mins
    Verses in Exile is a web series in four parts that tells the tangled tale of Cambodia’s most famous contemporary poet prior to his deportation. With no choice but to be told entirely in a land his family fled, Kosal Khiev recounts his journey from refugee to troubled youth, from prison inmate to free roaming poet.

    Precedes: Tashi’s Turbine

    Precedes:
    Tashi’s Turbine

    New People Cinema
    March 19, 2015 5:20 pm Not Available

    Precedes:
    Tashi’s Turbine

    New Parkway Theater
    March 21, 2015 3:30 pm Not Available


  4. Vimana

    Faroukh Virani / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Short / 17 mins
    In the year 2021, India is on the verge of colonizing a new homeworld, but their advance team of astronauts remains suspended above the planet caring for their ailing captain. Once word comes from Earth that they are now the only hope for a fresh start, the remaining crew must make a terrible choice.
    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


  5. Winning Girl

    Kimberlee Bassford / Special Presentations / USA / 2014 / 69 mins
    Teenage wrestling and judo phenom Teshya Alo resembles a 500-pound sumo master on the mat at a paltry 125 pounds. The tenacious high-schooler has her eyes set on winning two world championships, if she does she would be the first to ever achieve such an honor.
    Winning Girl

    New People Cinema
    March 14, 2015 5:00 pm Not Available

    Winning Girl

    New People Cinema
    March 17, 2015 5:30 pm Not Available


  6. Woman In Fragments

    Quan Zhou / Shorts / China / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 20 mins
    Anne’s life is consumed by dancing, but she struggles to harness and evoke that passion. A family emergency strikes and suddenly she discovers strength unbeknown to her, in this poignantly cinematic mother-daughter story.
    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