S02E09: All In The Family

Shorts 9: All In The Family

Complexities with the relations

Sun Sept 15, 215p, 93 min

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Matilde’s First Day (Il primo giorno di Matilde)

Rosario Capozzolo

Italy 10 min

Today is Matilde’s first day of school. Her father Claudio has some advice for this important day. 

Las Lobitas, Los Angeles

Brynn Antaran

USA 20 min

Volatile teen Angel is enraged with the path of her obscure life in a desolate desert town. She and her two best friends, Jimena and Noely, loiter on society’s fringes and isolate themselves from their peers. On her eighteenth birthday, Angel begins receiving crystal visions of her estranged father, who appears as a bike-riding spirit of the American highway. He leads her into a dangerous romance with the city of Los Angeles, a place she comes to believe is her only salvation.

and you let her go

Alexa Jade Houle

Canada 10 min

A young woman travels through time and grief as she visits her suicided sister’s room.

Every Grain of Sand

Amanda Spencer

USA 11 min

Tarra Riggs (The Help, Oscar nominated DeKalb Elementary, Independent Spirit Award nominee for Ballast) stars as Mae, a woman who thinks she has it all: her dream job, a beautiful home, and all the Jimmy Choos her closet can hold. But when her sister (Regina Williams, Independent Spirit Award Nominee for Life & Nothing More) falls ill and the medical bills take every penny she has, she has to reevaluate what is really important to her.

Evie

Mike Peebler

USA 11 min

Fifteen-year-old Evie Beekins has been kept from the world all her life. Raised on a compound in a cult-like rural community where her days are completely controlled and utterly routine, one day her parents drive her to a courthouse and inform her that today is her wedding day, whether she wants it to be or not. Facing her potential groom, Evie searches for a way to escape the suffocating fate being forced upon her by her mother, father, and a willing judge.

My Mother, Myself and I

King Yaw Soon

USA 8 min Local

My Mother, Myself, and I is a Chinese coming-of-age short film consisting of four acts. Each act is a long take capturing the brief but intricate interaction between a single-mother and her son at the ages of 5, 10, 20, and 25 years old. These four mother-son moments offer a glimpse into their relationship and how it evolves across the years as they tread lightly on the issue of traditional Chinese family values and the social taboos of sexual infidelity and homosexuality.

Salam

Claire Fowler

USA 13 min

A female Lyft driver navigates the night shift in New York City while waiting to hear life-or-death news from her family in Syria.

Skogafoss

Niels Bourgonje

Iceland 10 min

While on vacation with his girlfriend, Gijs receives a phone call from his mother, that reveals her troubled mental state and their complex relationship.