Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
“Sharecrop: Delta Cotton” features stories from the life of Sylvester Hoover, who was born into a cotton sharecropping family in the Mississippi Delta in 1957. Hoover recounts his family’s struggles to access education and voting rights. He also paints a vivid picture of daily life and the unrelenting toil of even the young children on cotton plantations.
A meditation on the rough violence and surprising beauty of the fight game as it is played in Africa.
Directed by Sean Kernan (USA)
This new American satirical comedy features sex, murder, recycling, and heartbreak in a small seaside town— all the while taking you on a nostalgic, genre-bending journey through the tv shows you know and are embarrassed to love.
Directed by Morgan Gould and Nate Trinrud (USA)
A socially awkward college freshman is determined to win the most important debate competition of his life.
Written by Sophie Wang (Canada)
On the verge of graduating college, an ambitious pre-med student is verklempt after a friend commits suicide and his plans for post-graduation fall apart. He deals with it the only way he knows how, to destroy the life of his notoriously difficult professor and seek solace from his friends.
Directed by Alexa Tariff (USA)
What would you do to get a job? The staff at Blown Away take their work very seriously. Yet, if there’s a promotion, things can be dangerous…
Directed by Sadie Duarte (Spain)
This has been a wonderful season with powerful award-winning projects and amazing newcomers. Also with projects from countries for the first time represented in ISA competition as Andorra, Chile, and Malta.
Hugo, the worst god in a “God Company” gets a case from Ron that he wants to be killed by the one he hates most.
Directed by Yyuqing Zhang (USA)
An off-kilter young man constructs a time machine to impress his female coworker with the intention of taking her to the future.
Directed by Elliott de Neve (USA)
Even though “God Came ‘Round” was based on the song and has the purpose of illustrating it, the image is so strong and carries such narrative that sometimes it even takes the spotlight from the song.
A heartbroken man travels into the past for a second chance at a failed relationship.
Directed by Chad Eric Smith (USA)
Two homeless young adults get rescued by an apparent good Samaritan. But when the said Samaritan offers them salvation via working in his criminal business, the two must make a choice as to whether or not to join in his ranks or forgo it for the sake of what is right but risk an uncertain future as a result.
Directed by Travis M. Baker (USA)
A man who feels isolated and has lost all hope, stands on Waterloo Bridge, contemplating his fate. A stranger seeks to intervene. She can’t stop him but she can’t walk away.
Directed by Annette Westwood (UK)
A couple is going through a difficult period. Still, they recall their minds fragments of their happiness. To revive their relationship they decide to go back where their love blossomed and decide to give it a try in a last desperate attempt. Will they find their lost love or will it be the end?
Directed by Raffaello Sasson (Italy)