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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Ham Over Rice
Ying Liu / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Experimental, Short / 2 mins
In this pun-filled, rooftop-to-subway escapade, New York-based Liu deconstructs the Chinese myth of the legendary archer Houyi, who saves the world but loses his immortality. Animation, live action and a kaleidoscope of text connect the worlds.
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Happy Fun Room
Greg Pak / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Bay Area Connection / 14 mins
Out of the mind of comic book writer and filmmaker Greg Pak, HAPPY FUN ROOM is a feverish and colorful romp through the backstage terrain of a post-apocalyptic kid's show. This short is part of the fifth and final series of ITVS's FUTURESTATES.
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The Home Promised
Betty Xie / Shorts / Taiwan / 2014 / Documentary, Reality, Short, Social Issue / 19 mins
THE HOME PROMISED focuses on an urban neighbourhood on the brink of demolition – the Shaoxing neighbourhood in Taipei, Taiwan – whose story encapsulates the dilemma faced by a generation of Taiwanese torn between their ideological stance as mainlanders and the reality of losing their long promised home. Facing eviction, elderly residents of Shaoxing band together and find a home they never knew they had. Winner of Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival’s pitch competition.
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THE HOME PROMISED (SHORTS)
Shorts
Full of fierce truths and nostalgia, THE HOME PROMISED is elusive. Displaced Japanese internees, undocumented immigrants, children on Treasure Island, homeless people in Marin — all embody the search for home in these poignant shorts. Searching, finding and returning to THE HOME PROMISED.In This Program: The Home Promised, Hotel 22, Leftover, Reflections of Union Square, Tadaima, TNT (Always on the Run), Treasure Island
THE HOME PROMISED (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 15, 2015 12:10 pm Not AvailableTHE HOME PROMISED (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 17, 2015 5:45 pm Not Available
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Hotel 22
Elizabeth Lo / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Documentary, Short / 8 mins
As Palo Alto Bus 22 hurtles through one of the richest parts of the world, homeless people transform it into a temporary shelter. Directed by Stanford filmmaker Elizabeth Lo, HOTEL 22 documents the lives that have been displaced and disregarded by Silicon Valley - those who are forced to commit the most private act - sleep - in the most public of spaces: a shaky, humming bus hurtling through the heart of the tech boom...
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Hypebeasts
Jessica dela Merced / Shorts / USA / 2013 / Bay Area Connection, Narrative, Short / 19 mins
The slickest new kicks are just about to be released and young sneakerheads line up get them. Antsy to get a pair, a cut in the line pushes tensions to a outbreak. Produced by CAAMFest filmmaker, Marissa Aroy, HYPEBEASTS brings a pop-y focus on a youth subculture and its flaws.
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If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Already
Soo Hyun Chung / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Drama, Narrative, Short / 6 mins
A typical couple has a regular evening at home, eating dinner, watching TV, reading in bed side by side. Under the surface, however, everything is not well, and the tension only has one direction to go.
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In The Tree House
Tsuyoshi Nakakuki / Shorts / Japan / 2014 / Drama, Family, Narrative, Short / 20 mins
A disparate and estranged family whose independent lives fail to cross paths. That is until one day they make a sudden, out of the ordinary trip. This may sound like a common story but for this family it's one of great importance, as they are given the chance to reaffirm family bonds.
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An Innocent Beat
Kazuhisa Kotera / Shorts / Japan / 2014 / Drama, Narrative, Short / 19 mins
Children cannot go outside besides to attend school – that's the rule of this modern society, which has lost all sense of time. With no conception of what nightfall, seasons or time are, one day Natsuko decides to run away in order to discover a world full of changes.
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Jaya
Puja Maewal / Shorts / India / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 18 mins
Posing as a boy in a young gang lifestyle, Jaya finds a businessman who looks like the father who abandoned her. In this emotionally intense drama, she seeks his acknowledgement while reclaiming her own identity.
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