INDIE SHORT FEST

“La Llorona” (“Ser mujer”) is an interdisciplinary art project to raise awareness for feminicides in Mexico. A group of artists, researchers, teachers, mothers, activists, and journalists from Netherlands and Mexico concerned about this situation, where involved in its making, to support change.
Direct by Adriana Ronquillo (Mexico)

A FaceTime abduction leads Keith on a hysterical hunt to find his friend’s killer. FaceTime starts as a light-hearted Black gay comedy about two friends and a misleading kidnapping turns it into a suspenseful psychological thriller.
Directed by Delius Doherty (USA)

A woman reveals how she built an increasingly close relationship with her eccentric mother-in-law. But what is the truth of the matter, and who is telling it?
Directed by Dana Offenbach (USA)

Inspired by Emma Lazarus’s famed poem welcoming immigrants to the United States, this experimental video short captures small moments of humanity within the quotidian carriage of the NYC subway. Titled in reference to a computational “for” loop, the video poem speaks to the holding pattern we occupy and take passage through—equal in our anonymity, hurriedness and small sufferings. Amid this current era of nationalist scapegoating, we persist in the quiet ethos of multiplicity. We (us) are greater than US in the lived experience of equality and freedom.
Directed by Jess Irish (USA)

A typical sibling relationship, full of comedic rivalry and heartwarming moments, as two sisters wait to board a plane to Chicago.
Directed by Poppy Shaw (USA)

“I think therefore I am,” says Descartes’s thotonic skeleton of the past. Tetrastatum is the ultimate test of Descartes’s philosophical truth. We are transported through the tunnel of institutionalized insanity as helpless voyeurs perceiving existence through Smith’s eyes as a non-matter image freely flowing in all space-time universes. Dr. Smith’s complete mental meltdown takes us on a dualistic journey as a “Time Smith” exploring the meaning of reality and the human psyche.
Directed by Dr. Richard and Tim Smith (USA)

The cinematic piece follows a troubled young woman fighting for her life after being trapped in her world where danger seemingly lurks around every corner — and her own dark, downwardly spiralling impulses may be her only real enemy as she struggles to find her path to escape and recovery. 
Directed by Davey White (Canada)

“F*ck U! In the Most Loving Way” is a short documentary film that follows a group of talented feminist activists as they stage a controversial DIY national feminist art exhibition during the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign. See what a collective of feminist artists, curators, gallerists and academics learned from organizing an art exhibition in San Francisco over a seven-month period that culminated with the historic Women’s March of January 21, 2017.
Directed by Mido Lee (USA)

After years of living independently, a blocked toilet forces Marie to move (temporary?!?) back to her Nonna’s house. Will Marie be able to reconnect with the family she’s kept at arm’s length or will she simply go mad at Nonna’s with the 5 am wake up calls and the nightly four-hour dinners?
Directed by Angela Pezzano (Australia)

An in depth look at the history of the sport of curling in America, from it’s beginnings to victory at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Korea.
Directed by Jesse Wachter (Canada)