7 Short Films | trt 73 min
The trappings of youth and bittersweet lessons of the heart come alive in this program of seven short films about childhood, romance, growing up, and letting go.
HOW TO EAT YOUR APPLE
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29081666[/vimeo]
Director ERICK OH
USA | 2 min
There’s an apple, how are you going to eat it?
THE LAST MARBLE
Director MANJARI MAKIJANY
India | 8 min
In the bustling streets of India, a nine-year-old street kid makes things out of metal scrap and junk. This heartwarming short takes us on his adventure to find the last piece, a marble, to complete his precious creation.
COMRADES
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/31220601[/vimeo]
Director PAOLO BITANGA
USA | 8 min | English
Fourth-graders Ronald and Diego are best friends and comrades in a roleplaying war-game until betrayal blurs the lines between real and make-believe.
MOTHER’S MILK (SUA ME)
Director ANDY DEJOHN
USA | 18 min | Vietnamese w/ES
Anh is a young girl living in the Vietnamese countryside with her mother and little sister. When Anh’s mother falls ill, she must learn to cope with her new found duties and take care of her ailing family.
BLEACHED
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/17138437[/vimeo]
Director JESS DELA MERCED
USA | 14 min | English, Tagalog w/ES
Swayed by the prospect of attention from both her image-obsessive mother and a cute boy, Lenny, a Filipino-American girl, concedes to using a skin lightening cream at the price of her identity.
THE HOMECOMING QUEEN
Director RAMMY PARK
USA | 12 min | English, Korean w/ES
In her oppressively small Korean-American community, 17-year-old Grace’s affair with her classmate’s father cuts too close to home. When her rebellion implodes, she must choose between secret guilt or revealing the truth.
SHANGHAI LOVE MARKET
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHQEsazK66k&list=UUo_BZ8B8eu2OGz7tp2gPc0w&index=1&feature=plcp[/youtube]
Director CRAIG ROSENTHAL
China/Singapore | 9 min | Mandarin, Shanghainese w/ES
Every weekend in Shanghai’s famous Peoples’ Park, parents hang posters to match their unwed children. But when true love is at stake, sometimes even the best-laid plans have a peculiar way of coming undone.
THE TELEGRAM MAN
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/53060785[/vimeo]
Director JASON KHEHTIE
Australia | 14 min | English
Adapted from a short story by John Boyne, the award-winning author of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, this short demonstrates how war inexorably spreads beyond the battlefield to a rural Australian town.