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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. 100 Crushes Chapter 6: They

    Elisha Lim / Shorts / Canada / 2014 / Documentary, Gay/Lesbian, Short / 2 mins
    Winner of Best Emerging Artist at the Inside Out 2014 Toronto LGBT Film Festival, filmmaker Elisha Lim recounts her roommate finding delight in one word that truly identifies them. This eventually opens up a new kind of freedom where the gender binaries are no longer strictly set.
    Plays In:
    OUT/HERE (SHORTS)

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


  2. 2050: A Room of His Own

    Juhee So / Shorts / USA / 2014 / 8 mins
    Jack Grey, ID number J5AE 11811, waits for bureaucratic machinery to finish the process of his self termination. In the meantime, he seeks solace in thinking of a mother he never had and what his life might have been outside the confines of four walls.
    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


  3. After Us

    Philip Wang / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Experimental, Short / 10 mins
    Nothing can make you lower than a bad breakup, until by inches you slowly make it out of your funk. From Wong Fu Productions comes a blueprint for how to get over the one who wasn't "the one."
    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


  4. Cambodia 2099

    Davy Chou / Shorts / Cambodia / 2014 / Short / 20 mins
    Phnom Penh of the present is about to make way for the city of the future. Friends Sotha and Kavich are making preparations of their own, and both are set to go on a very long journey. From the director of GOLDEN SLUMBERS, CAMBODIA 2099 captures young lives in a country in flux.
    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. China: Land of My Father

    Felicia Lowe / Shorts / USA / 1979
    Lowe meets her paternal grandmother for the first time, learns about the country her father left behind and looks at the impact of families separated by war and emigration.

    Precedes: Chinese Couplets

    Precedes:
    Chinese Couplets

    The Great Star
    March 14, 2015 7:00 pm Not Available

    Precedes:
    Chinese Couplets

    New Parkway Theater
    March 21, 2015 5:00 pm Rush Only


  6. Cold Spring

    Shiyan Feng / Shorts / China / 2014 / Family / 25 mins
    After leaving his family 20 years in the past, a father suddenly finds his daughter about to be married and struggles with his emotions after realizing she wasn’t going to invite him. While attempting to quickly reconnect with her, he must learn how to take care of his 12-year-old son.
    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


  7. Comfort Girls

    Eugene Lee Yang / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Culture, Drama, Horror, Music Video, Narrative, Short, Social Issue, Women / 5 mins
    Part music video, part diatribe, COMFORT GIRLS is definitely not for the faint of heart.
    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


  8. Curtains

    Jenyu Wang / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Short / 3 mins
    From this Chicago-based artist comes an opening provocation for attention and tension, where the ripples of an anticipatory stage curtain are the main attraction.
    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


  9. D.Asian

    Sarah Smith / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 9 mins
    In 4th grade, everyone wants to fit in somewhere. For an endearing boy named Daniel fitting in means defying expectations, by having the best Hello Kitty collection, getting attention from the class’ cutest boy, and proving that he really is Asian.
    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. Dandekar Makes a Sandwich

    Leena Pendharkar / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 8 mins
    Anyone who has worked customer service knows, it is always the pickiest and persistent customers that are the worst to help. As Dandekar shops for sandwich ingredients in a grocery store, the resulting product is quite worth the effort.
    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