LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Three estranged friends wake up in an odd location with no memory from the previous night and no idea how they got there. As they explore their surroundings looking for a way out, they are haunted by a mistake from their past.
Directed by Brett Salamin, Dominic Sarafa, Julia Stankiewicz, Fatimah Zeni, and Erin Brennan (USA)
An arthouse non-dialogue piece on the contrast between dying love and new love. A 17-year-old girl has to make a decision whether to leave her family forever and follow her newly found love or to stay and live through the pain of her parents dying relationship.
Directed by Matt Kaal (Australia)
“In Ancient Egypt, Sheut was the shadow. One could not be without a shadow, and a shadow could not be without a body.”
Luis is a sailor currently living and working on a cargo ship. A disturbing dream will lead him to start a journey into his past, in which he must relive his fears and memories in order to find himself again, facing his darkest part –– his shadow.
Directed by Teo Belton (Peru)
Olivia is an idealistic school teacher in a relationship with a lawyer who suspects she’s being unfaithful. The truth is, a night a week, Olivia transforms into her alter ego, Prince Of Persia, the local leading player the game, Invaders, a clandestine game played physically using the android from iconic Space Invaders, stuck in signposts in the streets, read as a QR code using a phone app to open missions, recharge lives and rise levels combating with martial arts techniques.
Olivia needs to accomplish a mission to rise up to level eight and gain access to play in Paris in the Continental league, however, she’s ambushed by two players, Atari and Pac-Man, who break the game’s rules to steal her mission and lives. In a jiu-jitsu pose, Atari and Prince Of Persia recognize themselves, what can jeopardize their real lives.
Upon game over for Prince Of Persia, she remembers why she started playing the game, to get over a heartbreak, what motivates her to fight her way back in the game so she visits Wallace, the Game-master, to finish her mission.
Directed by Marta Jiménez (Spain)
The world like I knew it was gone. Everything was dry, lean, harsh and collapsing. My brain was translating images of destruction and death. Only seeing traces of old habits remaining in ruins. Sometimes I could hear distant noises of social movements, like the radiations of a parallel universe evolving around me. But I it felt like too far away to be reached. What happened to these potentials? My mind was covered in sand and dust, slowly disappearing forever…
Directed by Etienne Perrone (France)
Indie Short Fest is pleased to announce the lineup of the January live screening on Friday, 18th, 6 pm, at the 1817 Film Studios in Burbank, CA
Life is full of running, distress and sadness if what is needed is out of reach!
Directed by Mohammad Amin Kamali (Iran)
At the same time that Elisa says goodbye to Heliomar, she meets the young Michel.
Directed by Renan Brandão (Brazil)
A little girl discovers her grandfather’s vintage film camera and suspects it might be haunted.
Directed by Shona Dutta Charlton (UK)
After an argument with his wife, things go from bad to worse for Peter as the simple task of disposing of a dead body gets increasingly difficult.
Directed by Matthew Diulus (USA)