A Living Sculpture (United Kingdom)

Director Diane Chire

Narrative Short

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Francesca, a horn player and music composition student is contemplating the pros and cons of continuing a relationship with Nick, an artist. A Living Sculpture explores and dissects the problematic idea of the female muse in the 21st century.

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Shorts Block 5

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  2:30 pm PST

A Woman (Azerbaijan)

Director Tahmina Rafaella

Narrative Short

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A woman navigates the trappings of both conventional and modern female roles over the course of one day in Baku, Azerbaijan

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Shorts Block 1

Date: Thursday, Sept. 17

Time:  12:00 pm PST

All That You Love Can Be Carried Away (USA)

Director Thad Lee

Narrative Short

A salesman's love of bathroom graffiti may save his life on a cold, Nebraska night. Based upon a short story by Stephen King.

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Shorts Block 2

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  2:00 pm PST

And I Need A Haircut (USA)

Directors Staci Roberts-Steele

Narrative Short

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The true feelings and secret thoughts of a messy, stressed out woman.

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Shorts Block 6

Date: Sunday, Sept. 20

Time:  12:00 pm PST

Asalto Chido (Mexico)

Director Ricardo Garcia-Nateras

US Premiere

Narrative Short

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The day has finally come André and Jose, two best friends will try to get the budget to achieve their film. The way they will choose to made it is not clearly the best one. Taking the easy way without previous knowledge it will make them doubt on more than one occasion.

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Shorts Block 3

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  5:00 pm PST

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Ava's Dating A Senior! (USA)

Director Frederic Da

​West Coast Premiere

Narrative Short

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Silas is a Freshman in High School, and loves Ava, a girl in his grade- but she is dating a senior...

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Screening with Feature Revolution Launderette

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  7:30 pm PST

Between (USA)

Director April Simmons

World Premiere

​Documentary Short

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Between focuses on several middle schoolers that tell their stories enclosed within a suburban landscape.

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Shorts Block 5

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  2:30 pm PST

Buck (USA)

Directors Elegance Bratton and Jovan James

Narrative Short

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Caught in the throes of a depressive fugue, young Lynn resorts to debauchery to find joy — only to discover that happiness is a much more complicated proposition.

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Screening with Feature Pier Kids

Date: Sunday, Sept. 20

Time:  6:00 pm PST

Cabin Stories (USA)

Director Craig Tovey

US Premiere

Episodic​

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Sketches shot in one location, Private Street Presents: Cabin Stories.

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Shorts Block 1

Date: Thursday, Sept. 17

Time:  12:00 pm PST

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Shorts Block 2

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  2:00 pm PST

Cage Match (USA)

Director Bryan Lee

Animation Short

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A businessman enters the elevator for another day at work...

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Shorts Block 2

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  2:00 pm PST

Cool For Five Seconds (USA)

Director Dani Wieder

​Narrative Short

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When Colleen reunites with her estranged sister, things don’t go exactly as she planned.

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Shorts Block 3

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  5:00 pm PST

David Henry Nobody Jr. (USA)

Director Keith Aronowitz

​Documentary Short

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An incredibly talented, off the wall artist let's us into his bizarro world which reflects his thoughts on the current and insane state of affairs.

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Shorts Block 3

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  5:00 pm PST

Ding Dong (USA)

Director Suki-Rose

West Coast Premiere

Narrative Short

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A hollow chat between friends is suddenly interrupted in this uncanny mobius short.

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Screening with Feature Tapeworm

Date: Sunday, Sept. 20

Time:  3:00 pm PST

Follow Me (Israel)

Director Elinor Nechemya

​International Premiere

Narrative Short

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It’s party night, and volunteering at a youth hotline is Omer’s typical excuse not to show up. When he finds out tonight may be his last chance with the girl he fancies, he decides to carry the call center into the night.

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Shorts Block 1

Date: Thursday, Sept. 17

Time:  12:00 pm PST

Hors-Champ (France)

Director Julie Marboeuf

Documentary Short 

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Summertime somewhere in Normandy. A popular searesort with beaches, a port, a fairground and a ferry. Young men with dark skin, who have come so far, dream of the English
coast.

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Screening with Feature The Wind. A Documentary Thriller

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  10:30 am PST

Huntsville Station (USA)

Directors Chris Fillippone, Jamie Meltzer

Documentary Short

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Every weekday, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block.

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Screening with Feature Democracy on the Road of Saveh

Date: Sunday, Sept. 20

Time:  10:00 am PST

In The Still Night (France)

Director Jean-Baptiste Braud

​Narrative Short

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Heartbroken, Matthew, an American art curator, wanders daydreaming through a maze of artworks in his hotel in Tokyo. That is, until he has a surreal encounter.

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Shorts Block 5

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  2:30 pm PST

Kiko's Saints (France)

Director Maniel Marmier

Narrative Short

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Kiko, a Japanese illustrator on assignment in France, gets suddenly overwhelmed by a strange inspiration, while she realizes she's been spying on a gay couple on the beach next to the chapel where she's working. Obsessed by such a vision, she will spy on those men and draw them secretly. This will slowly push her towards an encounter that will change her life and breaks her social rules.

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Shorts Block 1

Date: Thursday, Sept. 17

Time:  12:00 pm PST

Kokokids of Paris (France)

Director Alexia Colette

Narrative Short

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Two young girls get away in a dreamy adventure until they face the harsh reality surrounding their lives and that of more and more kids in Paris.

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Shorts Block 6

Date: Sunday, Sept. 20

Time:  12:00 pm PST

Lastday (USA)

Director Szu-Wei Chen

Narrative Short

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As work continues on the border wall, a Chinese sex worker in New York gets surprising news from her visiting lover.

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Shorts Block 3

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  5:00 pm PST

Le Coup des Larmes (France)

Director Clément Bancel

​Narrative Short

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Florence is an actress. Preparations for her new role will challenge her in a way she could never have seen coming...

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Shorts Block 4

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  12:00 pm PST

Love at 48 (USA)

Director Thomas Southerland

World Premiere

Narrative Short

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A second date turns personal for a middle-aged couple during a hike in the woods.

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Shorts Block 5

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  2:30 pm PST

Lover (Iran)

Director Mohammad Soraya

Narrative Short

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Can a forest warden kill a wolf? Yes, if he is a lover.

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Screening with Feature Residue

Date: Wednesday, Sept. 16

Time:  7:00 pm PST

Marriage Counseling for Friends: Episode 1&2 (USA)

Director Tamera L Fields

Episodic

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Kimia and Nick go to marriage counseling to deepen their platonic friendship.

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Shorts Block 5

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  2:30 pm PST

Mason (USA)

Director Oliver Shahery

West Coast Premiere

Documentary Short

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This cinéma vérité film explores the life of Mason Watson, a five-year-old boy from Fort White, Florida. As the short observes not only the playful but also the harsh ways his grandparents treat him, it illustrates how love can be expressed in complicated ways.

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Screening with Feature Feather and Pine

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  8:00 pm PST

Melancholy Hunters 2 (USA)

Director Ethan Mermelstein

​World Premiere

Narrative Short

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Fed up with feeling melancholy, a struggling documentary filmmaker returns to his childhood home to find the root of his emotions. Using himself as bait and his 10-year-old cousin as an emotions tracker, the man attempts to hunt and kill his melancholy.

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Shorts Block 3

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  5:00 pm PST

Nero (Switzerland)

Director Jan-David Bolt

​North American Premiere

Narrative Short

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Sometimes saving the world can be a sweatful job. Nero knows that each one of us has to find a way to contribute or we will certainly all be doomed.

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Shorts Block 4

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  12:00 pm PST

Now 2 (USA)

Director Kevin Eskew

​Animated Short

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The well-springs were deeper and less detectable, deeper and shallower both, look at billboards and matchbooks, trademarks on products, birthmarks on bodies, look at the behavior of your pets." Don Delillo, Underworld

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Shorts Block 5

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  2:30 pm PST

On Task (USA)

Director Alex H. Rafi

Documentary Short

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What would happen if the food and drink in your refrigerator could come alive, move and speak? What would the dynamics be? This stop motion animated short film will tell you with humor and creativity!

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Shorts Block 2

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  2:00 pm PST

Passing Through (USA)

Directors Jonathan Hwang, Erik Harty

Documentary Short

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Tim Musso shares his ideas on living an intentional life through the lens of a printmaking artist and as an advocate of natural beauty.

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Mojave to Mammoth

Date: Thursday, Sept. 17

Time:  2:30 pm PST

Ravage (USA)

Director Marcus Nobreus

Narrative Short

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A broken man with a dark past enters a church in search of vengeance and redemption, wanting to confess to a murder. His confessor unknowingly walks right into a trap and a past which he cannot escape.

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Mojave to Mammoth

Date: Thursday, Sept. 17

Time:  2:30 pm PST

Rio (Russia)

Director Zhenia Kazankina

North American Premiere

Narrative Short

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Paulina and her friend Nadia work in a small hotel in the northern town near the border. Once a stranger arrives at the hotel.

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Shorts Block 6

Date: Sunday, Sept. 20

Time:  12:00 pm PST

Roseline Like in the Movies (USA)

Director Sara Bourdeau

Narrative Short

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Under the spotlights, Roseline is a major actress. While she is about to play the biggest role of her prolific career, fiction and reality interlace to shine a light on a deep dark secret.

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Shorts Block 2

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  2:00 pm PST

Sinful Pleasures (Iran)

Director Mehdi Fard Ghaderi

Narrative Short

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It's a dairy farm full of flies and cockroaches and cows! Dairy farm worker is a mute boy and dairy farm boss is a dumb old man! While everything goes on terribly shitty same as usual, entrance of an unknown woman changes the relationship between the worker and his boss and they make dangerous decisions about each other.

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Shorts Block 4

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  12:00 pm PST

Take It and End It (Greece)

Director Kirineos Papadimatos

US Premiere​

Narrative Short

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A veal has to be slaughtered by a butcher. But this veal is different than the others. It’s his ‘child’.

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Shorts Block 6

Date: Sunday, Sept. 20

Time:  12:00 pm PST

The Fourfold (Canada)

Director Alisi Telengut

Animated Short

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Based on the animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, the film is about the indigenous worldview and wisdom: Nature is the homeland of human being.

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Shorts Block 4

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  12:00 pm PST

The Rain Poncho (USA)

Director Andrea Rosen

​West Coast Premiere

Narrative Short

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Lesbian moms, Kitty and Rita worry that their 15 year old daughter has a secret boyfriend. They wrestle with the anxiety, hormones, and hip hop of it all.

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Shorts Block 3

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  5:00 pm PST

The Starr Sisters (USA)

Directors Beth Einhorn, Bridey Elliott

Documentary Short

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Patte and Randa Starr are fun experts. After overcoming a dark past, these sisters are committed to living out the childhood they never had.

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Shorts Block 5

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  2:30 pm PST

They Won't Last (USA)

Director Portlynn Tagavi

Narrative Short

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After attending their friends' perfect wedding, Christine is forced to consider the future of her own relationship when her hopeless romantic boyfriend Alex proposes. When Christine is unable to say yes, Alex makes it worse by giving her an ultimatum: either get engaged or break up right now.

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Shorts Block 2

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  2:00 pm PST

Touch (Israel)

Director Nir Berger

North American Premiere​

Narrative Short

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A love story in the digital age. Adele, a 17-year-old internet troll, flirts with a like-minded boy. But then he asks to see what she looks like.

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Shorts Block 4

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19

Time:  12:00 pm PST

Tryphon & Pharaïlde (France)

Directors Ramzi Casimir & Edgar Verstraete

US Premiere

​Narrative Short

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Between Tryphon and Pharaïlde things are not easy. During a wander in a forest looking for a stagg, an unexpected event will change everything.

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Shorts Block 1

Date: Thursday, Sept. 17

Time:  12:00 pm PST

Urges (USA)

Director Angela Stempel

​North American Premiere​

Animated Short

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Unleash your urges! Let them take care of you.

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Shorts Block 3

Date: Friday, Sept. 18

Time:  5:00 pm PST

Wash (Sweden)

Director Kiggs Carlsson

Narrative Short

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Being a mother is supposed to be joyful. Being a child is supposed to be fun. Having a family is meant to be life-affirming. But nothing in this home is like it's supposed to be. WASH is a short horror film about the worst fear a parent can have.

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Screening with Feature Marlene

Date: Thursday, Sept. 17

Time:  8:00 pm PST

Wild Game (Czeck Republic)

Director David Payne

​Narrative Short

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Jane is about to have a beautiful weekend in the mountains with her boyfriend. That's what she thinks - but instead of her boyfriend, three uninvited guests show up at her doorstep and they're not going away... it's getting dark, a contest begins and Jane happens to be the grand prize. There's only one person who can help her.

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Shorts Block 6

Date: Sunday, Sept. 20

Time:  12:00 pm PST

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