Hawaii International Film Festival: Shorts
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- DirectorVilsoni HerenikoStarsManeMaiya TSet in Hawaii, a traditional Tongan father wants her teenage daughter to discover her roots but she swears at him instead and exposes his hypocrisy as a Christian man.
- DirectorChien-Hung LienStarsShiou Yun ChangWilson HsuToday is Granny's 100th birthday. Her family members decide to throw her a grand birthday party, but Granny's birthday wish is different from what everyone expects.
- DirectorJohan StavsjöStarsElliot BakkejordIdun BakkejordJonatan Lewerth'Ensam Tillsammans' is the story of Joel who's life turns upside down when the person he wants to meet least in the world forces into his apartment. Joel has to face a past he strived to get away from. A film about growing up with bullying and letting go.
- DirectorMario RamosBathed by the Caribbean Sea and home to the second largest live coral reef in the world, Roatán, Honduras, is at once a popular island paradise destination for foreign tourists and a paradoxical land of beauty and misery, where it's own citizens cannot afford to meet their most basic needs. Brigade is a documentary about a group of Honduran doctors who are building their own sustainable health infrastructure to combat the country's dire lack of essential medical care. Through one surgeons's narration of his struggle to balance the freedoms and obligations that come with opportunity, Brigade takes you behind the scenery to a common reality of the places we love to enjoy.
- DirectorAndreas FeixWe follow a dinosaur in his last moments, in which he, in an inhospitable world, succumbs to the effects of fatigue and his injuries. With his last breath, his world of thought unfolds, and his last impressions merge with his memories to a very personal end.
- DirectorEkaterina Golubeva-PoldiStarsGalina PetrovaIgor SavochkinStasya MiloslavskayaWho knows which demons may be awakened by insolence or blind love?
- DirectorDress CodeDan CovertStarsMike CookThe Summer after 10th grade I spent two solid weeks with horrible horrible migraines, dizziness, blindspots and tunnel vision-I didn't know what it was... This is the story of my Coke Habit.
- DirectorHeng Fai HongStarsPak Hou WongHang-i ChuAfter a long day at work, Cai returns home as usual, only to find out that his mother who suffer from Alzheimer's, has disappeared. In vain, he looks for her everywhere. Worried and not knowing what to do, he posts an appeal for help on a social networking website. In one single night, his life is going to change.
- DirectorMomoko FukudaSeiko goes home to celebrate her father's second marriage. But a bride Seiko meets is not a woman, but her father wearing make-up. Seiko cannot accept it. But she gets knowing Father's love for family.
- DirectorRuohan XuA Chinese slow-food movement pioneer, Dai Jianjun, is dedicated to bringing back vanishing traditional Chinese culture in an era of rapid urbanization and industrialization. He runs an expensive farm-to-table restaurant in the city of Hangzhou, and uses all his profits to build a green utopia in a remote village 200 miles away, where migrant workers can stay home.
- DirectorRandall ChristopherStarsMark PinterSet in Argentina 1960, this true crime documentary follows secret agent Zvi Aharoni (Mark Pinter) as he searches for a mysterious man named Ricardo Klement. What he discovered in the remote outskirts of Buenos Aires would send shock waves around the world.
- DirectorMarie JamoraStarsCourtney BandekoMichael RoseteJon Viktor CorpuzIn this 1980s coming-of-age story set to pulsing hip-hop music, a Filipino-American teen discovers her identity through a budding talent for turntablism.
- DirectorJeannie DonohoeStarsRick FoxNicole Chanel WilliamsTye WhiteA new kid in town tests the limits at the high school basketball tryouts.
- DirectorJoosung SongStarsKim Joo-ryungJung-Woong KangEun-Jo LimHye-ri practices the armbar maneuver to fight against her drunk father's abusive behavior.
- DirectorMichele WestmorlandStarsLauren HuttonMichele WestmorlandThe documentary, Headhunt Revisited, follows Caroline Mytinger's unprecedented journey in 1926 to the 'Land of Headhunters' in the South Pacific to paint the rich cultural diversity of Melanesia. Over 80 years later Caroline's story inspires new generations of artists and non-artists alike about the importance of documenting culture and tradition.
- DirectorNathan FitchThe untold story of Micronesian citizens fighting America's wars. Through the personal odyssey of the Nenas, one family experiences the consequences of military service, as they represent a pristine Pacific island on the brink of economic collapse.
- DirectorAustin Osanai EverettStarsNohorai HartMason MasciangeloNick MasciangeloAfter a life long journey, a lone conquistador inches closer to his mythical destination within the South American jungle.
- DirectorDean HamerJoe WilsonStarsEva BaronJoey Joleen MataeleA brave young transgender woman sets off on a journey to become her true self in the conservative Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga - with a little inspiration from Tina Turner along the way.
- DirectorRamón RodríguezStarsEshan BayJustin AhedoA lonely teenager, new to the city, is forced out of his comfort zone one morning on the basketball court.
- DirectorWes HurleyNathan M. MillerStarsWes HurleyElena BridgesBenjamin JakupcakWes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his mother, a mail order bride, to Seattle to face a whole new oppression in his new Christian fundamentalist American dad.
- DirectorTim WorrallStarsEds EramihaTemuera MorrisonCian Elyse WhiteThe arrival of a trainer's daughter into the midst of backstage preparations before a boxing match threatens to destroy the relationship between fighter and coach.
- DirectorDinh ThaiStarsKevin David LinL.A. WilliamsDiamoniqueFirst place winner of HBO's Visionaries contest. In the culturally diverse world of Los Angeles, a young hustler navigates through various cliques while facing racism, danger and a moral struggle with his illicit occupation. And it's only Monday.
- DirectorTusi TamaseseStarsFrankie AdamsLagi FaraniBeulah KoaleWhen a father reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter, he is given a rare chance to reshape the future of his family in unexpected ways.
- DirectorCiara LacyOUT OF STATE is the story of outcasts, of native Hawaiian prisoners shipped 3,000 miles across the ocean to a for-profit prison in the desert of Arizona. In this unlikely setting, these men discover their fierce indigenous dances, inspiring two students to fight to turn their lives around upon release.
- DirectorTearepa KahiStarsPatea Maori ClubNgoi PewhairangiMaaka PohatuPOI E is the story of the creation of New Zealand's iconic song of celebration, the song that became the unofficial national anthem.
- DirectorDave WhiteheadStarsTaungaroa EmileDuane Evans Jr.Te Ahitaewa Hakaraia-HoskingSet in New Zealand in the 1970's, Possum is a tale of two young brothers who accompany their lumberjack father to a forest campsite. At odds with each other, the two hatch a plan to head into the woods and hunt for a notorious possum named Scar.
- DirectorYudho AdityaStarsChicco KurniawanJacob McCarthyGladhys Elliona SyahutariCaught between the traditions of his upbringing in rural Indonesia and his idealization of Western freedom, a teenager struggles with the expectations of imminent manhood.
- DirectorMatthew GelbYoung Cuban tobacco farmer and cigar maker, Hirochi Robaina, follows in his famous grandfather's footsteps as he fights climate change and torrential rains to bring in the harvest and preserve the 171 year-old family legacy. Directed by Matthew Gelb and produced by David Gelb.
- DirectorSébastien PetrettiStarsYassine FadelIlias BenalouaneA surreal comedy that portrays a society where police violence and invasion of privacy have become commonplace, normal, tiresome. The two impassive young boys are played by Ilias Bouanane and Yassine Fadel, whom we met recently.
- DirectorMounia AklStarsDaad AasliGladys Abou SleimanAdel ChahineUnder the imminent threat of Lebanon's garbage crisis, Hala, a wild child inside of a woman, is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.
- DirectorDianna FuemanaStarsFiona CollinsFreeda Fuelagi FuemanaShimpal LelisiA teenagers fantasy and a solo mum's reality collide, leaving both to grapple a system that don't know how they fit in.
- DirectorJared FlitcroftJack O'DonnellStarsEric MatthewsRobert LloydRuaumoko ToatoaA young, deaf, Maori boy defies isolation to grow from an undervalued youth into a proud young man.
- DirectorJoonha KimA man rides a taxi late at night. And the taxi driver offers chewing gum. He remembers the 'Drugged Gum' story by his mother. The taxi driver says 'Did you hear about those criminal taxi drivers?' He accepts the gum by repeated offer...
- DirectorNatasha TonkinStarsLisa DiveneyOne family's search for connection in a digital world.
- DirectorLala OpeniStarsKainoa MakuaLala Openi
- DirectorGuðný Rós ÞórhallsdóttirStarsEva Sóllilja EinarsdóttirAnja SæbergGuðrún ÁsmundsdóttirTwo young girls collect items for a raffle they say is in support of chronically ill children. Things don't go as planned when an elderly woman gets interested in their work.
- DirectorAinsley GardinerCasey KaaRenae MaihiStarsTanea HekeRoimata FoxNgapaki MoetaraA powerful, challenging story surrounding the tangi (funeral) of a small Waru boy who dies at the hands of his caregiver and how his death impacts the community.
- DirectorBunji SotoyamaStarsAtom ShimojôRyôji SugimotoYasuko TomitaA 17-year-old girl trying to be a sushi chef for her father
- DirectorWarwick ThorntonStarsTrevor 'Reg' AbrahamsAdam BriggsTimmy BurarrwangaWarwick Thornton investigates our relationship to the Southern Cross, in this thought-provoking ride through Australia's cultural and political landscape.
- DirectorBradley TangonanStarsAlexa BoddenCyndi MayoCyndi MayoAfter a tense encounter between her mother and with a CPS worker, seven-year old Rin is forced to choose between retreating to her imagination or facing a new reality,