Dallas International Film Festival: Shorts Lineup
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- DirectorSai SelvarajanStarsParker BazeJaya GuptaSidney RichmondAudible Static is the sound you hear when love meets panic. Luckily, there's a way to find your voice in the last days of analogue.
- DirectorMatt WolfStarsWalter NaegleBayard Rustin was the organizer of the March on Washington and one of the leaders of the civil rights movement. In the 1980s Bayard adopted his younger boyfriend Walter Naegle to obtain the legal protections of marriage. In this intimate love story, Walter remembers Bayard and a time when gay marriage was inconceivable. He reflects on the little known phenomena of intergenerational gay adoption and its connection to the civil rights movement.
- DirectorMeat DeptDavid NicolasLaurent NicolasStarsConrad VernonSteve LittleWilliam FichtnerDave, a NASA astronaut, and his co-pilot, a genetically-engineered intelligent melon, yes a melon, are preparing for the launch of the first-ever expedition to Mars.
- DirectorLewis RoseStarsAmir BoutrousAndy LindenWaj AliAbout Yossi, a charismatic Kosher butcher who loses his job, cannot find work at other Kosher butchers, and therefore decides to pretend to be Muslim in order to get work at a Halal butchers.
- DirectorAdam RoffmanTwo people stumble upon the mother lode of movie memorabilia in the most unexpected of places.
- DirectorJessica KingdonYiwu International Trade City is the world's largest market, selling cheap goods wholesale in a city south of Shanghai. The fake flowers, toys, pens and alarm clocks traded in Yiwu eventually end up in dollar stores across the planet, but I focus on the people who sell these goods that we take for granted. As a character study of the market itself, the film peers into the lives of those who run this global trade. The sellers, full of life and individuality, live against the uniformly oppressive backdrop of their livelihood. A somber man painstakingly counts tiny metal parts on his desk in a pen shop. A business lady sweet talks one of her customers, peppering him with insults and compliments, but in between the buying and selling, vendors all find different ways to pass the time in this gigantic mall. A mother yells at a group of young boys, berating them for losing a toy. A man in a suit hums along to a haunting song waiting for a customer as the clocks he is selling tick away. Two young siblings play a video game while lazily eating KFC from the bucket, licking their fingers. While these stories seem small and insignificant, in the context of the film, the dialogue and actions take on new weight and meaning, elevating the quotidian to a realm of discovery.
- DirectorShola AmooStarsAshley ThomasPhoebe BoswellElisa LasowskiAn evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.
- DirectorChris McInroyStarsAddison BillingsleyMichael DalmonSam EidsonA metalhead gets passed down a satanic guitar that riffs to shreds.
- DirectorAlberto VázquezStarsJosep RamosMireia FauraAngel BernardiAn existentialist ironic dark tale about the sins of society and of human relationships presented in a traditional fable setting.
- DirectorEsteban Arrangoiz JulienStarsJulio César Cú Cámara
- DirectorRoseanne LiangStarsMarsha YuenJacob TomuriDavid T. LimIn an aging private hospital, a single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician's oath when violent gangsters storm in to stop a crucial operation.
- DirectorMartin EdralinStarsMandy May CheethamHailey KittleJustin LeRoy14-year-old Emma struggles to hide her alopecia, a condition of rapid, unpredictable hair loss. Fighting a futile battle against her changing appearance, her only hope is acceptance.
- DirectorMario FurloniKate McLeanStarsJosiah ZaynerA bio-hacker seeks to cure himself by swapping his microbiome with a donor's, a controversial and dangerous technique.
- DirectorJessica BeshirStarsYussuf Mume SalehElias Shagiz Adonay TesfayeFor over 35 years Yussuf Mume Saleh journeys at night to the outskirts of the walled city of Harar to bond with his beloved hyenas.
- DirectorUgla HauksdóttirStarsJohanna DayJordyn DiNataleCarl LundstedtAdapted from the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning short story by Mary Hood, How Far She Went takes an unflinching look at family, personal sacrifice, and the lengths we will go for those we love.
- DirectorAndrew FitzgeraldStarsAngela TrimburCleopatra ColemanColin WoodellA young woman incurs the wrath of the internet after inadvertently becoming a viral sensation.
- DirectorFabio PalmieriStarsCyrille KaboreEach year 40.000 people from Africa, Asia and Middle East, try to enter Europe. They flee from war, persecution and poverty. Since the ways by land have been interrupted, they board overloaded vessels and face a dangerous and often deadly voyage across the Mediterranean.
- DirectorLewie KlosterAcademy Award nominated documentary filmmaker, Christine Choy, undergoes an adventure of wild proportions when she accidentally illegally smuggles cigarettes.
- DirectorGraham CantwellStarsClara HarteDean QuinnLeah McNamaraThe film tells the story of Lily, a girl with a secret, on the cusp of becoming a young woman.
- DirectorTim MasonStarsCayne CollierEd FlynnMegan KellieWriter/Director Tim Mason pulls the curtain back on the glamorous world of advertising in this short comedy about a voiceover actor trying to nail the right tone for a pair of indecisive ad creatives selling a fictitious children's ice cream brand. Or is it a short tragedy about a pair of ad creatives trying to coax the right tone out of a distracted voiceover actor?
- DirectorCatherine LicataStarsGeoff MarslettDoug SilbertAkasha VillalobosWhen a couple's cat goes missing on a cross-country move, their relationship is tested.
- DirectorHenrik MoltkeLaura PoitrasStarsRami MalekMichelle WilliamsA top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to TITANPOINTE, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA documents, Project X reveals the inner workings of a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan.
- DirectorEric SchumanStarsJocelyn HillenJoceyln HillenNicolina MarraRuss lives and works at a motel with his parents. When a seemingly sick girl and her mother come through, Russ becomes fascinated and tries to befriend the girl.
- DirectorJim CummingsStarsRae GrayWaymond LeeMatt MillerCrystal robs a liquor store-it goes pretty OK.
- DirectorLaurel ParmetStarsArin MacLaineEllie YorkeAlexandra GirelliniAmanda struggles to keep something inside, as she spends the day taking pictures of her best friend.
- DirectorVishnu VallabhaneniStarsJantel HopeKhemari JacksonMaria MabraKayla has saved up money to go back to college after taking care of her younger brother for a year. All her preparations might be for nothing when her mother comes home after leaving a substance abuse clinic, while bringing home a shady friend. Kayla matriarchy is questioned as she's forced to make a choice between: her family or her future.
- DirectorChristopher LaMarcaThrush invites the disconnect to our auditory experiences outside of urban landscapes and the lack of sensual, unmediated connection to wild places.
- DirectorJames M. JohnstonStarsDestinee StewartChris GardnerCharlie ParkerA woman tries to go about her day and one of her coworkers gets in the way.
- DirectorKristy Guevara-FlanaganStarsDanyi DeatsA forensic exploration of our cultural obsession with images of dead women on screen. Interspersing found footage from police procedural films and television shows along with one actor's experience of playing the part of a corpse, the film offers a meditative critique on the trope of the dead female body.
- DirectorDaniel PfefferStarsDarlene MonroeLucas MonroeJoshua RiveraSuspicious his brother is stealing from him, Lucas goes on a search through town to confront the problem.
- DirectorPaul CabonStarsMaël Adjei-RousseauLili MaffeisBeing a bald man sucks. Knowing you'll become one is worse.
- DirectorJarrod R.F. HacheyStarsAngel BustardTrent McGuiganWilliam Sinclairan examination of the space between a medical student and his common law lover. The emptiness of endeavor and the loneliness of being surrounded by people.
- DirectorJeanne PaturleCécile Rousset
- DirectorRory Waudby-TolleyStarsGary PillaiKen SmartA documentary filmmaker interviews a gifted spiritual healer, exploring the inner mind, the fabric of the universe, and the nature of reality itself, through the sacred art of animation.
- DirectorSpela CadezStarsAndrej NahtigalKarin KomljanecGregor ZorcA badger lies motionless on a local road. A police patrol approaches the body in the dark. They soon realise that the animal is not dead; the badger is dead drunk! When the police attempt to drag the creature off the road, he wakes up and things take a strange turn.
- DirectorNadja AndrasevA woman is being watched every day by the neighbor's cat, as she takes care of her exotic plants. Their perverted ritual comes to an end when the cat disappears. Next spring a peculiar stranger pays her a visit.
- DirectorJosh ShaffnerPortrait of Los Angeles service industry worker.
- DirectorJulia PottStarsAshley BoettcherCedric The EntertainerJustin FelbingerOscar wants his Summer Camp experience to be normal, so he and his best friend Hedgehog have a BFF Sleepover.
- DirectorJennifer ZhengSome things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.