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There’s nothing more important than family. With stories about mothers, fathers, grandparents, and siblings, these films follow familial relationships.
Shadow Brother Sunday
United States, English, 15 minutes
A down-on-his-luck musician returns home on the day of his younger brother’s movie premiere to steal his computer and sell it to the paparazzi.
Directed by Alden Ehrenreich
ba.ba
World Premiere, United States, English, Spanish, 24 minutes
After the recent passing of the family’s difficult and ornery patriarch, two sons and their father hesitantly confront complicated emotions as they search his home for personal items and possible heirlooms he may have left behind.
Directed by Ronald Baez
El Sofá
World Premiere, United States, Spanish, 9 minutes
El Sofá is a slow cinema short film that journeys through snippets, both mundane and extraordinary, lived in and within an Abuela’s couch. It is a meditation on the life around Abuela’s central hub and a subtle tribute to family, Abuelos, Latinidad, the passage of time, and life itself.
Directed by Maria Corina Ramirez
All Four Won
World Premiere, United States, English, 26 minutes
The troubled lives of four young brothers are put to the test when they become the unexpected new guardians of their baby sister. In the midst of their oldest brother’s return from the military, three brothers balance their responsibility to each other and themselves with their obligation to their new born baby sister. They party and celebrate the long awaited reunion without realizing the immediate danger one of the brothers has put them all in.
Directed by Nick Galarza
The Old Young Crow
World Premiere, United States, Japanese, Persian, 24 minutes
An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.
Directed by Liam LoPinto
