BEST OF SHORTS Film Festival - Jan. 15/16 event
Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Independent, Short Films
See the Full Lineup of Films:
HOT LUNCH, 8min., USA
Directed by Kevin Mejia
A meal is a luxury in the world of Hot Lunch.
DRIFT, 1min., Veitnam
Directed by Thy Nguyen
In the ceaseless flow of traffic's embrace, a cinematic reverie takes place.
LITTLE MONSTER, 5min., USA
Directed by Damaris Huffaker
A monster tries to scare kids, but is surprised when no one is afraid of him. It turns out that it is Halloween and everyone thinks the monster is wearing a costume. An energetic girl named Jessie befriends the grumpy monster and helps him experience how fun Halloween can be.
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THE EMPTY FULLNESS, 4min., Italy
Directed by Silversnake Michelle
"The Empty Fullness" is a song along with a short film, exploring the theme of bulimia and of relation with food as a filler of a sense of emptiness. That is how something pleasant and vital can become a strong obsession, turning into something dangerous. Silversnake gets full of food and the food, in turn, slowly devours her. After all, you never meet with your own kind, but only with their shadows.
GET ALONG!, 4min., Germany
Directed by KIDS 'N TRICKS
At young koala Fred's home, there are often fights between his brothers and his father. When it gets noisy again, Fred runs crying to the playground, where he sees the lion girl Lizzy and the duck Mika. But the two soon leave the playground and Fred finds a coin in the sand. Mika realizes that she has lost her coin. Now they can't buy ice cream anymore. Back at the playground, they find Fred who has found that very coin. Lizzy wants to get the coin back....
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PINK WALLS, 5min., USA
Directed by Dylan Warrington
Based on a True Story: A 15 year old transgender youth decides on whether to read a poem he wrote to a group of school peers, revealing his true self.
A PSYCHEDELIC JOURNEY, 12min,. India
Directed by Jaimil Joshi
In the day and age when traveling is the new fad, there’s a trip that everyone should refrain from. Yes, it’s a trip that one goes upon by consuming intoxicating substances. The trip of drugs and other such chemicals takes control over one’s mind and creates hallucinations. It starts with a hint of attraction, be it because of the influence of one’s immediate peers or that of social media. It always starts with the thrill of ‘trying’ it and experiencing the much-hyped and unknown, which usually turns out as a trap. The trip forward mostly goes downhill from attraction to experimentation, followed by hallucination and ultimately subjugation. All that looked like a mere attempt to experience the ecstasy often turns one into a slave of the substance. Unless the light of external support and internal will to come out it is strong and determinant enough, backed with a lot of effort.
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