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Shorts that probe the soft spots of belonging-to and longing-for a place in the world.
In this program
Standing Above The Clouds
Directed by Jalena Keane-Lee
Matriarchal power shines in this fascinating doc featuring elder women and the next generation resisting the building of a telescope on the sacred Mauna Kea.
Kapaemahu
Directed by Dean Hamer, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Joe Wilson
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu chronicles the discovery of four stones in Waikiki Beach, stones who are also mahu, a group of third gender divine healers brought to Hawai’i from Tahiti. Told in Olelo Niihau, the only form of Hawaiian that has been continuously spoken since prior to the arrival of foreigners.
Alienated
Directed by Seok-Young Yang
A Korean undergrad in California explores body issues and their entanglement with family and being a student abroad.
The Mourning Papers
Directed by Negin Farsad
Niloo and Elham are undocumented Iranian American sisters living in New York City who hilariously grapple with how to grieve for a dad they have never known.
Big Happiness
Directed by Da Hee Kim
The uncanniness of adoption from the POV of the filmmaker, an adult Korean adoptee, navigating awkward dinner table conversations and the labor of finding yourself in uncharted personal territory.
Forget Alberto For Now
Directed by Beina Xu
Alberto keeps getting refused refugee status. Alberto also keeps refusing to participate in this film (about refugees).
Heading South
Directed by Yuan Yuan
Young spitfire Chasuna travels from the grasslands of Mongolia to the big city to visit her father for his birthday. To her surprise, her father is remarried to a Chinese woman which makes for a very uncomfortable party.
Kama’āina (Child of the Land)
Directed by Kimi Howl Lee
Blending fiction and reality, Mahina, a queer Native Hawaiian teenager is unhoused and navigates a life of stolen phones, candy bars hidden in Slurpee cups, and the enthusiasm of volunteers. That is, until she meets Auntie Twinkle and the radical miracle of Pu’uhonua o Wai’anae, a Hawai’i unlike anything we have seen.
SDAFF Mini Q&As – BE/LONGING!
Follow up your shorts screenings with a treasure trove of 10 minute mini Q&As with select filmmakers from SHORTS:…