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Shorts

Check out what today’s Asian and Asian American filmmakers are exploring in this wild cinematic garden of shorts – from teen heartbreaks, nature’s unruly revenge, and uncanny duplicates. Special highlights include the return of a Japanese animation legend and a special program of four exciting experimental visual artists.

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SHORTS: ANIMAL INSTINCTS

Program SHORTS: ANIMAL INSTINCTS Two- and four-legged encounters, the winged and the wondrous. These short films from Taiwan feature animals to track…

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SHORTS: ANIMATION PRIX FIXE

Program SHORTS: ANIMATION PRIX FIXE A veritable tasting menu of talent from stop motion to cyanotype schematic quilts. Fill up on animation’s delights…

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SHORTS: CALL TO ARMS

Program SHORTS: CALL TO ARMS A flurry of hands, a swing of arms. Nine thrilling shorts that experiment with performance, reenactments, the fine…

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SHORTS: DARK & FABULOUS DAYS

Program SHORTS: DARK & FABULOUS DAYS Murderous and decadent good times swirl with psychedelic basement vibes. A plucky office worker fighting off zombie coworkers,…

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SHORTS: DIASPOROUS

Program SHORTS: DIASPOROUS Diasporous. When diaspora is not a straight line, but a skin. Permeable, breathing, living, flowing with the exchange…

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SHORTS: HEARTLOCK’D

Program SHORTS: HEARTLOCK’D Baked into the fevered pulse of America’s heartland and the dusty sweat of the landlocked, these four riveting,…

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SHORTS: passenger princess dies by self-driving jaguar.

Program SHORTS: passenger princess dies by self-driving jaguar. When bots and avatars commingle with flesh and bone. Stories of simulations, AI, clones, reenactments, and images-unfound yet…

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SHORTS: QUEERLY EVER AFTER

Program SHORTS: QUEERLY EVER AFTER Suburban angst. Threesome dilemmas. Pulsating raves. A collection of unapologetic stories celebrating the diversity of the queer experience.

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SHORTS: REEL VOICES

Program SHORTS: REEL VOICES This year’s 11 filmmakers from our Reel Voices documentary filmmaking program break binary boundaries with varying explorations of…

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SHORTS: REENTANGLINGDISENTANGLING

Program SHORTS: REENTANGLINGDISENTANGLING Whether twisted like tea or fingers entwined, these stories snag, warp, and unravel around messy visceral, lingual, or…

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SHORTS for Shorties!

Program SHORTS for Shorties! A family-friendly blend of films featuring cute animals, courageous youth, and a legendary Hawaiian queen to inspire the…

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SHORTS: SIDEQUEST

Program SHORTS: SIDEQUEST Sometimes the real lore happens in life’s smaller missions. A lyrical selection of stories that take place in…

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SHORTS: SORRY TO THIS MAN

Program SHORTS: SORRY TO THIS MAN Stories that navigate the art and artifice of apology - as immigrant shield or ceremonial act, a father/son…

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SHORTS: SWEET FANTASY BB

Program SHORTS: SWEET FANTASY BB Kitch cartoons bobbing up and down, AI triplets stretched out in limos, mermaids gorging on each other, BTS…

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SHORTS: TERRA UNFIRMA

Program SHORTS: TERRA UNFIRMA Like a hangry, mighty-morphin Mother Nature, these shorts put the wild in wilderness, and consider the mysteries of…

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SHORTS: YOUR BRIGHT FUTURE

Program SHORTS: YOUR BRIGHT FUTURE One girl’s battle to be a soccer superfan. A Lizzy McGuire-inflected meet-cute. College-applying mania gone too far. These…