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Short Films Package
International Narrative Shorts Competition 1
Total Duration: 78 min
KASHISH 2023 is excited to present 5 films from Peru, Portugal, USA, Ireland and Jordan as part of the International Narrative Shorts Competition 1 program.
ALONE (Sola)
Dir: Séneca Claudia Dávalos
15 min | 2023 | Peru | Quechua, Spanish | World Premiere
After showing herself as she is, Luisa, who’s dedicated to crest traditional Andean textiles, is rejected by her nephew and her whole town. This leads to a series of events that will make her choose between recovering the only family bond she’s got left or choose herself in the process.
AN AVOCADO PIT (Um Caroço de Abacate)
Dir: Ary Zara
20 min | 2022 | Portugal | Portuguese | Asian Premiere
Larissa, a trans woman and Cláudio, a cis man, meet one night, in the streets of Lisbon. Two people, two realities, who dance their differences away till morning light. In challenge, in surprise, in awe and in recognition. An empowering story, free from violence and filled with light and hope for the better days yet to come.
HONEY & MILK
Dir: Dash Donato
14 min | 2023 | USA | English | International Premiere
As their 13-year relationship ends, Grayson and Alice spend a final weekend together to mourn, celebrate, and dismantle their domestic life before Grayson embarks on a journey of gender expansion.
Lambing
Dir: Katie McNeice
18 min | 2022 | Ireland | English | Asian Premiere
A young dad in rural Ireland must face his anxiety around gender and bullying when his baby is born intersex. In modern-day rural Ireland, David meditates on his own childhood the day before his son is born. He is so haunted by his father bullying him for being weak and effeminate on the family farm that he now doubts his own abilities as a father.
OUR MALES AND FEMALES (Wa Thakarina Wa Unthana)
Dir: Ahmad Alyaseer
11 min | 2022 | Jordan | Arabic | Asian Premiere
A father and mother are faced with the painful task of washing and shrouding their deceased transgender daughter. Shrouding is an Islamic religious practice that is deemed obligatory to carry out upon death. But when no one agrees to wash her and shame falls onto the family, how far is the father willing to go to make sure his "son" is washed?
