Author: Indie Short Fest

This dark comedic piece wrestles with the idea of love and gender-roles. Are men really only after one thing and do women really still believe in love? Who is corrupting whom at this point? Story: Tommy is a romantic at heart but his love life just doesn’t seem to take off. So he finally visits Stella, a once-renowned beautiful and empowering “love-doctor”, only to find a now alcoholic, disheveled and cynical woman, who is trying to convince him that love does not exist. The question remains just who is the Greater Fool in this brief but thought-provoking encounter?
Directed by Julia Strassmann (UK)

A coming of age story revolving around Riley, a young man who suffered childhood trauma, and his battle with his second life as a criminal.
Directed by Jordan Lavery (Canada)

A desperate farmer runs into trouble after he steals blood ivory from a gang of international terrorists.
Directed by Tom Whitworth (Kenya)

In the crime capital of the world, LAPD officer Morgan was having a just another “regular” bad day in the line of duty. Or not.
Directed by T.J. Yoshizaki (USA)

This short experimental text film is a meditation on the private, the personal, and the human. Collapsing boundaries between interior selves and exterior lives, “the sunshine that i love so painfully close” takes an intimate look at several years of one woman’s diary entries, exploring interiority and communication using mental health as lens and landscape.
Directed by Katie King (USA)

This one of a kind truck has been running, unrestored, since 1924. See the story of how Tom Tierney found this beautiful piece of history.
Directed by Konnor Tierney (USA)

A man is interested in dating his neighbor but learns about the effects of aging and is surprised by the outcome of his efforts.
Directed by Charlie Kam (USA)

“Family Day” is a powerful short film about a mid-twenties woman (Kelly O’ Connell) who is finishing up her third stint in rehab at Greenbrier Rehab center in Dobbs Ferry, NY. In the final days of her three months stay, her mother and loving stepdad (Brenda and Richard) come to visit for Family Day. What ensues is unexpected and revealing. Kelly’s sobriety is tested in a myriad of ways by dealing with an avalanche of her mother’s past pains and fears. This looking glass view of sobriety and family dysfunction is compelling and relatable to all.
Directed by Harry O’Reilly (USA)

Yanyan, a Chinese teenage girl, who finds out that her father David had an affair and decided to divorce with her mother. Yanyan deeply loves her family, and she doesn’t want her parents to divorce. So she hides the truth from her mother and tries to solve the family crisis by herself. Just when Yanyan thinks the risk is settled and her family returns to normal, she finds out that her father betrayed the family again. Yanyan finally realizes that she can’t change her father, she persuades her mother to separate from her father and end this unhappy marriage.
Directed by Siyuan Chen (USA)

An overburdened social worker fights to bring justice to a mother and her unborn child.
Directed by Gabriel P Braden (USA)