Night of Shorts: 5

April 13th, 2024

Featured 11 shorts films

Sold out, 350 guests

Another exciting round of Night of Shorts! Our little festival keeps growing and growing. We sold out yet again, with 350+ people in attendance this time.

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Night of Shorts 5:

Decoding Ancestral Knowledge

Directed by Ruth Lichtman & Sharon Shattuck

Hawaiian microbiologist Kiana Frank takes us to a sacred fish pond and explains how traditional knowledge and microbiology can work together to help us understand how to care for and manage the land.

NIGHTCRAWLER

Directed by Spencer Tsang

A grandfather and grandson duo scheme of ways to feel alive again.

Parachute

Directed by Katherine Tolentino

Chinese exchange student Wendy is struggling to adapt to her new American life.

Somewhere Only We Know

Directed by Min Thu Ta

What starts as a heist film turns into a surreal-romantic-comedy-drama as one of the robbers falls in love with the home they are robbing.

La Luz - Strange World

Directed by Vanessa Pla

Pla collaborated with Bay Area band, La Luz on their recent single “Strange World”. Inspired by the band’s idea of including a newspaper that predicts the future which predicts the past- the band is set to take over the universe by going through a magical fridge.

Welcome to the Stables

Directed by Nathaniel Garofalo

An unsuccessful writer abuses his relationship in order to inspire stories for his upcoming book.

White Noise - French Cassettes

Directed by Syra McCarthy

A continuation of the French Cassette’s previous film - ‘Medium Horny’, our resident sad boy discovers the material pleasures of a party planet didn’t cure the loneliness. He tries to escape the alien world, only to be thrust into the complex cycle of love.

Other shorts screened but aren’t available yet include…

Eat Flowers

Directed by River Finaly

NEA

Directed by Alex Ulises & Nelson G. Navarrete

Puppet Man

Directed by Andrew Fuchs

Stokely-Amir: An Artistic Odyssey

Directed by Theo Hollingsworth