San Francisco International Film Festival: Shorts Lineup
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- DirectorBen AstonStarsBec HillStewart LockwoodOli FentonLondon seems a little less lonely when Lucy meets a cosmonaut on chat roulette...Special Events
- DirectorWilliam CaballeroA character-driven hybrid short film about pint-sized elderly Latino Gran'pa leaving a series of humorous unanswered voice-mails for his grandson Davy. The project combines 3D printed, hand painted miniatures of Gran'pa with actual messages left on the directors phone by his real life Grandfather.Special Events
- DirectorDave MullinsWhen a toy-stealing bully ruins recess for a playground full of kids, only one thing stands in his way: the Lost and Found box.Master Classes
- DirectorFrancisca AlegriaStarsShenda RománLuis DubóCatalina SaavedraIn a small village in Chile, Emeteria (85) is visited by the ghost of her patrón, Teodoro. She believes he has come to take her to the afterlife, but he has more devastating news.Shorts 1
- DirectorGabriel AbrantesStarsJoana BarriosFrancisco CiprianoFilipe VargasA supercharged history of sculptor Constantin Brancusi's infamous 'Princess X'Shorts 1
- DirectorMario FurloniKate McLeanStarsJosiah ZaynerA bio-hacker seeks to cure himself by swapping his microbiome with a donor's, a controversial and dangerous technique.Shorts 1
- DirectorPatrick BresnanStarsTa'Questa BrowningChristopher Burgess Jr.Crystal BurgessEvery weekend, seventeen year old Chris and his family hunt rabbits during sugarcane field burning and harvesting in the Florida Everglades.Shorts 1
- DirectorCameo WoodStarsTamlyn TomitaTiffany HinesConnie Jo SechristIn the near future, a young animator is offered what should be her dream job, but, when she discovers the truth of the modern 'creative' process, she must make a hard choice about her passion for film.Shorts 1
- DirectorGeorge SikharulidzeStarsHrachuhi AmiryanGurgen AntonyanLuba AzatyanA young Armenian bride's relationship with her husband is put to the test the first day of their marriage when her mother-in-law interferes.Shorts 1
- DirectorJoe TalbotStarsSky ElobarJames BrooksJimmie FailsA forgotten man in Trump's America attempts to shift his fate with the perfect crime. Inspired by true events.Shorts 2
- DirectorNathan TruesdellStarsMary AllenBig ChuckLil JonThe city of Cleveland was abuzz on September 27, 1986. Over 1.5 million balloons were about to be released at once, breaking the world record. What could go wrong?Shorts 2
- DirectorChristophe LoizillonStarsMathieu AmalricRaphaël BouvetAlice ButaudShorts 2
- DirectorMohammad GorjestaniShorts 2
- DirectorLisa ÖstbergAgainst a backdrop of magnificent landscapes and epic tableaus, banal conversations take place between characters who are comically oblivious to their surroundings.Shorts 2
- DirectorTerence NanceStarsAminata M'BathieBadara NgomNaky Sy SavaneMarseille, today. Aminata works as a hairdresser in an Afro hairdressing salon, Badara works as mechanic. When they meet, their love story will change their lives.Shorts 2
- DirectorAlexander LahlVolker SchlechtStarsGabriele StötzerBirgit WillschützBased on interviews with former prisoners, this animated documentary provides a glimpse into the most notorious women's prison in East Germany. A film about political imprisonment and forced labor.Shorts 3: Animation
- DirectorStacey SteersEdge of Alchemy is the third film in a trilogy examining the psychological terrain of women's inner worlds. In this handmade film, assembled from over 6,000 collages, the actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are lifted from their early silent features and cast into a surreal epic with an unending of the Frankenstein story and contemporary undercurrents of hive collapse. Music by Lech Jankowski (Brothers Quay). Edge of Alchemy received major funding from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Creative Capital Foundation. "Edge of Alchemy is the epitome of Stacey Steers' unique vision of collaged re-examination animations, an uncanny way to carry on in the great tradition of surrealist cinema. Max Ernst would refer to Lautréamont's sewing machine and umbrella to define the structure of the surrealist painting as 'a linking of two realities that by all appearances have nothing to link them, in a setting that by all appearances does not fit them.' I would add, making it all feel so seamlessly inevitable and inexplicably right...the 'feeling of form', as Suzanne K. Langer might have put it..." (Phil Solomon)Shorts 3: Animation
- DirectorJose Luis GonzalezDano Johnson'Ensueño' centers around Ester Bolaños. Curious and intelligent, restless and slightly reckless, she is a teenager stuck in an isolated West Texas border town. Part of a larger narrative of Ester's life and her family, 'Ensueño' captures the ways in which even the most mundane of activities can be overrun by Ester's vivid imagination.Shorts 3: Animation
- DirectorJulia PottStarsAshley BoettcherCedric The EntertainerJustin FelbingerOscar wants his Summer Camp experience to be normal, so he and his best friend Hedgehog have a BFF Sleepover.Shorts 3: Animation
- DirectorVincent GallagherStarsMorgan C. JonesFrederick Butterfield has always been runner up to his twin brother Herman. When Herman, the older by a mere minute, becomes the world's oldest man, Frederick finally sees an opportunity to be first place.Shorts 3: Animation
- DirectorRajee SamarasingheA silent poem reflecting on the place of my mother's birth and her first traces on earth. A generational portrait of South Asian "makers" becomes a perceptual voyage into memory, experience, and touch.Shorts 4: New Visions
- DirectorEphraim AsiliExplores Ephraim Asili's relationship to the African diaspora, juxtaposing film shot in Hudson, New York, and Accompong, Jamaica.Shorts 4: New Visions
- DirectorAna Vaz"Há terra! is an encounter, a hunt, a diachronic tale of looking and becoming. As in a game, as in a chase, the film errs between character and land, land and character, predator and prey."Shorts 4: New Visions
- DirectorChenglin XieFather and daughter is my undergraduate work during my study in China Central Academy of Fine Arts. The total production cycle is bout half yearShorts 5: Family Films
- DirectorDave MullinsWhen a toy-stealing bully ruins recess for a playground full of kids, only one thing stands in his way: the Lost and Found box.Shorts 5: Family Films
- DirectorPatrick OsborneStarsNicki BluhmKelley StoltzEmma Grace EisenmannSet inside their home, a beloved hatchback, Pearl follows a girl and her dad as they crisscross the country chasing their dreams. It's a story about the gifts we hand down and their power to carry love. And finding grace in the unlikeliest of places.Shorts 5: Family Films
- DirectorLiam HarrisStarsBrian GilbertHamish Fint, a crotchety old man used to a life of seclusion inside his submarine balanced precariously atop a mountain, struggles to maintain equilibrium when an unwelcome visiting seagull rocks his world.Shorts 5: Family Films
- DirectorAude CuenodStarsEesaa WallerMatt CorbinKenedi CainOn the east side of Detroit an 11-year-old boy, grieving over the loss of his best friend, encounters an artist who makes art out of abandoned objects.Shorts 5: Family Films
- DirectorJulia PottStarsAshley BoettcherCedric The EntertainerJustin FelbingerOscar wants his Summer Camp experience to be normal, so he and his best friend Hedgehog have a BFF Sleepover.Shorts 5: Family Films
- DirectorJess ColquhounThe halcyon days of skateboarding are alive in rural South Africa. Indigo Skate Camp is home to the village's very first generation of skaters, who are growing up with a different outlook on life from their elders.Shorts 5: Family Films
- DirectorSebastian KleppeStarsAnna MillerA young woman is thrust into a life she never asked for by another woman desperate for companionship, but can she survive the first night?Shorts 6: Youth Works
- DirectorHannah GautreyStarsDoug BerryLewis CowanLes DowsonA group of people head to work, it's just their average 9 - 5 working day.Shorts 6: Youth Works
- DirectorCaleb WildStarsAaron BilloAlison ElkIsaac HollingsworthA teen aging out of the foster care system, scrambling to determine his future, is suddenly interrupted by the appearance of his biological father.Shorts 6: Youth Works
- DirectorNathan AmbrosioniStarsLuna BelanZoé AdjaniLaetitia RosierEmmy, an 18-year-old circus performer, wakes up after having been in a coma for a year. Like her body, her memory is only partially restored. With the help of her sister she will try to bring back the pieces of her life.Shorts 6: Youth Works
- DirectorElizabeth HewlettStarsElizabeth HewlettA personal look at a young woman discovering her Nicaraguan heritage.Shorts 6: Youth Works
- DirectorArthur Rodger 'Harley' MarananStarsAtul KhannaAnnika VelezAllene De CastroThe line between dream and reality is blurred when a sentiment-filled teenager invents a device (N.O.VI.S.) that reunites him with the long lost love of his past.Shorts 6: Youth Works