SHORTS FROM AWAY

Monday, July 11 3:00 P.M. | RR3

Friday, July 15 6:30 P.M. | RR1

A Place In Blue

South Korea 2021 - 9 minutes, in Korean with English subtitles

Director, Screenplay: Seung eon Yi

Animators: Seung eon Yi, Eujin Kim

Voice Actors: Seoin Shin, Seung eon Yi

A girl is searching for her mother in a grocery store and in a forest. At the end of the forest, she encounters passages from her mother’s life.

Home For Us

Belize, USA 2022 - 5 minutes, in English

Director: Madison Hoffman

Terry Garbutt, a cruise tour guide in the Monkey River, must now contend with international cruise lines coming into his waters and reckon with how this will change their livelihoods once again.

LYDIA EMILY’S LAST MURAL

USA 2021 - 21 minutes, in English

Director: Christoph Green

Lydia Emily, a mural artist who is living with progressive Multiple Sclerosis, paints her last mural in downtown LA.

Mellow

Australia 2021 - 3 minutes, in English

Director, Producer: John Tsiavis

Some people choose to be an activist, for others, it’s an ongoing fight for survival. This is a ‘moving portrait’ of Mellow, a trans, non-binary activist in Los Angeles. The story of moving out of darkness into the light, turning hardship into positivity.

Mover

USA 2021 - 10 minutes, in English

Director, Screenplay: Jackson Eagan

Producer: Nabil Elbehri

Cast: Tilly Evans-Krueger

Exploring heartbreak and healing through dance, over the course of a dreamlike apartment move.

Presence

Iran 2021 - 19 minutes, in Persian with English subtitles

Director, Screenplay, Producer: Ehsan Mokhtari

Cast: Pooyan Mokri, Anahita Eghbal Nejad

Saman is a recently unemployed architect looking after his ailing mother. When he is accepted to a post doctorate scholarship in Italy, he must reckon with his relationship with his mother as her condition worsens.

Sinking Sun

USA 2021 - 12 minutes, in English

Director, Screenplay: Kayo Gorden

Producer: Isabella Jackson

Cast: Brianna Liu, Josh Nobida, Kazumi Aihara

Tamiko returns home to the family farm to deal with the death of her mother and the ghosts of the past.