Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
“Limbo” is a short film that is a part of a project by the director. It involves both photography and film. The project tries to make a critic of modern humanity and relationships, how senseless we have become by using toy body parts and plastic dolls.
Directed by Gokce Erenmemisoglu (Turkey)
Two members of Generation Z expound on their values and habits as they redefine minimalism in a world of consumption, technology, and information overload.
Directed by Isabelle Levent (USA)
There is a girl from another world which he can’t reach there. However, he would like to give everything he has to reach her place.
Directed by Gorkem Tekdal (USA)
Faced with possible separation from her daughter, Rosa decides to give up the life that she has built for them in the US and self-deport to Canada. Since January 2017, roughly 25,000 undocumented immigrants have crossed into Canada seeking asylum from arrest and deportation in America.
Directed by Israel Brooks (USA)
On her way home, Dawn gets lost after a mysterious blast of light, leaves her to face the unthinkable.
Directed by Shari Hamrick (USA)
“Honey” is a short film about a Riley, a young girl obsessed with insects, who unable to accept the death of her mother decides to preserve her in a bathtub of honey.
Directed by Adam Robinson (UK)
When a young entrepreneur’s incredible success in the music industry is interrupted by the financial crisis, things may not have ever been as they seemed. At a time when America needs its job creators more than ever, can the guy get off the street and back on his feet in time to save generation unemployed?
Directed by Kurt Kubicek (USA)
A man who lives alone in a house and only contacts with an operator receives a call from a stranger.
Directed by Arad Nemati (Iran)
India was under colonial rule when Nobel laureate and nationalist, Rabindranath Tagore felt impelled to create an educational institution which would be rooted in Indian ethos.
Directed by Anita Gurnani and Selina Sen (India)
So far, a season under the predominance of several different approaches on the relations between gay community and society, and the presence of the forest as a strong cinematographic and metaphorical element of drama and tension.
A very compelling and challenging set of works.
Richard’s dreams are haunted by visions of his deceased little brother. He tries to use Lucid Dreaming to get closer, but as he does, he realizes that a sinister imposter awaits his slumber, leeching off every anguished memory. Soon, his waking life and dreams become blurred into one inescapable nightmare.
Directed by Jack Barrie (UK)
In the not too distant future, an alien race has come to our planet with the intention of helping us create a utopia. But change is not easy, and sacrifices will have to be made. What would you be willing to do to save the species?
Written by Joe Wakefield (USA)
Jonathan Doge, known as Dog, is a Vietnam Vet MWD Handler and retired K9 Sheriff with a guilty secret. He returns to his hometown after ten years only to sniff-out an underground crime ring. When he pokes his snout in their show business, they try to put him down. He recovers in secret until he is once again who he was trained to be. Redemption through revenge for all the right reasons.
Directed by Lawrence Whitener (USA)
When Jessie decides to get help from Euthanasia due to her incurable cancer, she wants her family’s full support. She invites family and her closest friends to a last big dinner where her plan is to pay tribute to life. But instead of support, she meets sad and angry people whom she has to explain herself for.
Directed by Alexander Lönn (Sweden)