NARRATIVE SHORTS
NARRATIVE SHORTS
AFTERMATH
Filmed at beautiful Arcosanti, AZ, Aftermath is a contemporary cinema dance depicting the aftermath of sexual assault. Watch as the main character encounters rage, disgust, shame, and finally solidarity with other survivors.
ALIENS BLOW
A group of college kids soon find themselves being infected by life sucking alien leaches. They try to reach safety while not knowing who is a human or an alien.
ALL THE THINGS I NEVER SAID
Jordan copes with numbness and feeling lost after a heartbreaking tragedy.
AURORA
CHARLOTTE, 22, a recently-graduated composer who feels insecure about singing in public finds herself unexpectedly smitten by AURORA, 22, her star performer classmate. Charlotte is soon devastated by the discovery that her feelings are unrequited. This erodes her confidence and heightens her confusion about her sexuality, which she must overcome in order to find her own voice.
THE BANQUET
Won Jin, as a child, was abused while living at her aunt’s house.
Upon returning home, she has to care for her mother, who is unable to care for herself.
However, as if denying the long, long time she spent enduring pain, her aunt Jung Won, the manifestation of her trauma, visits her house.
In front of Won Jin, news about weight loss medication that turns people into zombies plays.
Won Jin, looking at these people no better than zombies, begins to focus on the news.
BEVERLY EVER AFTER
On the night he plans to propose, a young scientist experimenting with time travel gets a visit from his future self...and his bitter future ex-wife.
THE CAN
A broken-spirited Tim struggles to navigate love and loss, only to find the extraordinary beauty of life from an ordinary can.
CANARY TOMATO
Fefi works on a tomato farm with the other workers. One morning, she starts having erotic thoughts about her colleague Mari. The suffocating atmosphere of the greenhouse supports the anxiety Fefi suffers as she does not understand this new desire.
COUPLE
An ugly woman, a lookism man, a love story between two people.
DEATH BY KING CAKE
Daisy Moreau’s dream is to become an actress and her goal is to get into a Performing Arts School. She must present her family background to the admissions director which may be a challenge - considering Daisy’s family history which includes professional wrestling, blackmail, and a deadly plastic baby.
THE ERRAND
When a young girl hitchhiking is picked up by a stranger, who ends up taking whom for a ride?
FLASHBACK
FLASHBACK is a message of hope through the eyes of a female combat veteran returning home from deployment into the arms of her true love.
FRIA
The lonely janitor of a vacation apartment complex finds the body of a girl floating in the pool.
GIRL TREE
Felix is trying to finish his last work, a sculpture born from the dead trunk of an almond tree. The hours pass between the loneliness and his artistic frustrations until, out of nowhere, a little girl appears.
GRIMOIRE
A broken lone gunslinger hunts the creature responsible for the death of his wife and children with the help of an ancient magical Grimoire.
GUILT
Two women come face to face to discuss the burden of guilt placed on the innocent in sexual assault.
HANGING BUDDY
A female-to-male transgender patient is stunned when the newly-attached male organ begins speaking his own mind.
IN THE SUMMER WHEN I COME BACK
1987. Ruben is a 10 year old kid who’s grown up playing in the streets of his village. He spends his afternoons with his grandmother Rosa at his parents’ house. Rosa tries to protect his grandson from the dramatic reality that is secretly whispered at home.
JUSTIFIED
Michael, A victim of domestic violence, must endure the justice system after being falsely accused.
KORE
Young woman addict struggles with her addiction.
LLODRIGONS
The hate and desperation that Joanet feels towards his father for having forced him to hunt a rabbit, leads him to raise the shotgun against his progenitor.
THE NEXT TO LAST SUPPER
A husband has his faith tested when he and his wife join her bitter, terminally-ill father for lunch.
OVARYACTING
A young man must face his fears to make a personal purchase.
PLUM LOGIC
After an unfortanate biking accident Guy's ex-Olympian grandfather is reincarnated as a plum. In his plum form, Guy's grandfather sends him and his two friends on a quest to retrieve his missing bike light and uncover the real reason he lost the 1964 Olympics.
PRICE OF LOVE
Two fumbling criminals pull a con on a wealthy girl.
PURPLE HEART FOR EFFECT
In 1985 a retired Japanese American war veteran tells his Grandson his hardships and the part he played in world war 2. His travels from the relocation camp in Arizona to the dark mountains of France on a rescue mission to save a lost battalion all to prove his allegiance to the United States of America.
This is a personal story about my grandfather Masatsugu Uyeda. In 1943 he was relocated to Poston, AZ and later volunteered to fight the Nazi’s in a segregated army unit the 442nd.
RIVALS
A boy named Jack has big dreams to become a great lawman. But at every turn he is challenged by a boy named Lawrence. Their rivalry continues into adulthood. Who will become the next legend?
SENTANI
During high school, Yeon Hwa is traumatized by the death of her mother Hwa Ran, who died during a gut (a Korean shamanistic exorcism) due to an evil god.
As an adult, Yeon Hwa has a child with Jun Hyuk, and on her way to the residence of Jun Hyuk’s mother, Soon Hee, she gets a strange gut feeling
Yeon Hwa, with her strong divine power, realizes that Jun Hyuk and his mother Soon Hee conduct yeommaesul (an Eastern black magic incantation, considered one of the darkest of its kind) and are worshipping an evil god and falls into danger due to Soon Hee, but manages to escape from Soon Hee’s house with her strong force.
SHE’S FINE
A vet tech tolerates her possessive new roommate, Caroline, until she must fight for her life after discovering the bloody secret behind Caroline’s eccentric art.
THE SOUNDGUY
Set during present time in Phoenix, AZ, explore the world of a live sound guy. Long nights, overworked, underpaid, underappreciated, and constantly disrespected. “The Soundguy” is a dark comedy about the inner workings of doing live sound at a dive Metal bar.
USED
A police officer questions a teenager involved in sex trafficking urging her to flip on her physically and emotionally abusive pimp.
THE VEGETABLE GARDEN
Enric, a catalan octogenarian, wanders along a regional highway in search of tomatoes, while hitchhiking he comes across Ricard, a middle-aged man who has returned to live in the old town of his partner's grandparents, seeking to get away from the big city. The initial differences are left behind through the process to the intimacy of two generations so far apart, but united by compassion.
THE WORLD’S WORST PORN FILM
What was supposed to be a historic porn movie shoot turns into a disaster.