Watch Today's Festival: Best of COMEDY Shorts Film Festival
Remember to Write Me, 13min., USA
Directed by Yannie Yiyang Gu
"Remember to Write Me" is a short film that traces the love story between my grandparents, who maintained their relationship through a decade-long separation from 1969 to 1979 caused by Cultural Revolution, a traumatic historical and social upheaval that happened in China. They kept a promise to write each other every week until their final reunion. The film uses five selected and narrated letters, voice-overs, archival materials, and footage of their daily life to observe my grandparents’ enduring connection as a form of spiritual refuge sustained across distance, time and historical rupture.
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Má Má & me, 12min., USA
Directed by Kristine Liang
This documentary follows a young filmmaker, Kristine, as she reunites with her family to weave together the story of her grandmother's life. Suffering from late-stage dementia, her paternal grandmother, "Má Má (嫲嫲),” can no longer conversate and has lost the bulk of her memories. Yet, the urge to preserve, celebrate, and honor Má Má’s experience and sacrifice feels imminent. This film focuses on Kristine's memories of Má Má, as well as her family's perspectives and understandings of their shared history and Chinese culture.
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A BRIDGE ACROSS, 22min., Canada
Directed by Tash Baycroft
A Bridge Across follows John MacIntyre, a construction manager whose life shifts after a tense encounter is unexpectedly defused by a simple moose hide pin. Drawn into the values behind The Moose Hide Campaign, he begins a personal journey toward understanding masculinity, respect, and responsibility.
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