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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Lahaina Noon
Christopher Kahunahana / Shorts / USA / Experimental, Short / 15 mins
Lahaina noon is a day when the sun passes directly overhead, causing shadows to recede until disappearing. On this day in Hawai'i, four lives are irreparably changed by the phenomenon.
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Leftover
Eui Yong Zong / Shorts / Canada / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 18 mins
LEFTOVER follows a family of North Korean refugees living hand to mouth in Canada. Blending documentary and fiction, LEFTOVER adapts from the real life experiences of the participating actors. Thematically complex, LEFTOVER shares haunting memories of an oppressive regime, as they come back to life in the present. Winner of Manulife Student Film Award (Toronto Film Critics Association).
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Liquidity, Inc.
Hito Steyerl / Shorts / Gemany/USA / 2014 / Short / 28 mins
In this alternately absurd and poignant provocation, liquidity is metaphor, linking financial malfeasance to environmental disaster through the central character of financial advisor-turned-mixed martial artist Jacob Wood. As DIY CGI effects entertain the screen, militant meteorologists, shock-proof portfolios, cloud systems and Bruce Lee’s mantra “be like water, my friend” intervene to reveal a cosmology of interlocking ideological systems.
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Mama Tang
Cathy Tang / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 10 mins
In an innocent story of an immigrant mother trying to reconnect with her son, Mama Tang struggles to find a place of her own in his San Francisco home. Even when making her son’s favorite Chinese food, her search for acceptance is hard to find.
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Miss Guidance – EP 4: Persevering
Matthew Breault / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 5 mins
In this episode of the webseries MISS GUIDANCE, our hero Nilly resists attending the mandatory school staff "Quarterly Luau," only to find that she has a very good reason to go after all.
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Moving to the Cloud
Laura Hyunjhee Kim / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Short / 2 mins
Digitalism might not be so friction-and-effort free, as demonstrated in this playful, hyper-colored, bubble-bursting intervention from San Francisco-based video artist Kim.
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My Beautiful Resistance
Penny Baldado / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Bay Area Connection, Documentary / 8 mins
Penny Baldado, owner of Oakland, CA’s Café Gabriela, originally moved to the United States to live as an out lesbian, because she felt that she couldn’t do that in her native Philippines. Her status as an undocumented immigrant becomes an obstacle as she attempts to establish her American life.
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My Father, Francis
Casey Mecija / Shorts / Canada / 2013 / Documentary, Short / 12 mins
Artist and filmmaker Casey Mecija reveals her love for her father’s practice in transforming recycled materials into beautifully, sculptured objects. This story is deeply rooted in the hard work it took for her father to provide for their family in dynamic and functional ways.
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My Hot Mom Gandhi
Reena Karia / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 5 mins
Driving around San Francisco, an Indian American couple try to plan a funny, relevant and provocative party costume. Funny, relevant, and provocative in and of itself, the film brings up the question, “Are drones funnier than white face?”
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N. King
Kali Kasashima / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 10 mins
Kalany is a young guy, trying to get ahead in this world with a little help from his friend. But when their job goes violently awry, tensions force him to see a different point of view and choose what kind of person he wants to be.
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