Ashland Independent Film Festival: Shorts Lineup
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- DirectorMyrsini AristidouStarsAudrey GiacominiChryssa PlatsatouraTakis SpyridakisAthens, today. Seventeen-year-old, Aria working at the local kebab place, is waiting for a driving lesson with her father.
- DirectorDan GoldesA San Francisco activist puts her body on the line for causes she believes in.
- DirectorRyan NiemiLife in southern Oregon captured through time-lapse photography.
- DirectorLeonora LonsdaleStarsBillie PiperSinéad CusackPoppy PolivnickA gothic fairytale following three generations of women struggling with the aftermath of a divorce.
- DirectorImogen StraubStarsLauren Elizabeth TaylorAndrew Wayne MurphyDominique KnightAs a rising media personality lands a job in the city and meets the person of her dreams, she must struggle to overcome the darker side of her secret nature.
- DirectorAubry HollingsheadStarsEric SolisA lonely Sasquatch struggles with anxiety about the size of his feet, and his failed efforts to make friends with other woodland animals.
- DirectorNiki Lindroth von BahrStarsSven BjörklundMattias FranssonCarl EnglénA dark musical enacted in a market place, situated next to a freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.
- 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.
- DirectorAndrew JamesA Detroit minister rallies the community to shut down a drug house in an inspiring display of collective action. Observational, nonfiction cinema.
- DirectorDorian TockerStarsFred MayelianLaurel SteirBluebelle SaracenoOn the day of a father's unexpected death, six family members each seek ways to manage their grief. In the face of his sudden absence, the ordinary takes on heightened meaning.
- DirectorJulio O. RamosStarsTenoch HuertaKarren KaragulianHansel RamírezAfter a disastrous event on his construction site, Armando acts quickly to save his crew, but instead stumbles upon an unspeakable truth.
- DirectorSky HopinkaAn incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock.
- DirectorPhilippe De MontignieStarsClare BrunnerRob Saul
- DirectorEwen WrightStarsJulia AksSkyler AlexanderQuinn BladesA potentially psychosomatic white man, a woman stuck in a vortex of mansplaining, and a young black man confronted by the racial disconnect of society each try to make sense of their lives as their worlds are set on an inevitable collision course in this surrealist comedy.
- DirectorDavid FreidOriginally proposed as an international peace park with Mexico, Big Bend, Texas has a unique relationship with its southern neighbor. For the past 40 years, Mike Davidson has been ferrying tourists across the Rio Grande for a little taste of Mexican life - but now a great big border wall might divide the park.
- DirectorAlex BehStarsAlex BehJoe NunezSara PaxtonA chance online dating encounter brings two very different people together for an adventure through the Los Angeles night and an unexpected outcome - the possibility of true love.
- DirectorJeannie DonohoeStarsRick FoxNicole Chanel WilliamsTye WhiteA new kid in town tests the limits at the high school basketball tryouts.
- DirectorGilda BraschStarsDesmond MeadeFilmed in Tampa, during the 2016 presidential election, this verité short covers a day-in-the-life of civil rights activist and former felon, Desmond Meade. What begins as an upbeat day of faith in our democratic process, ends in a heartbreaking realization for Desmond - Jim Crow is not dead.
- DirectorJill SachsStarsMichael ChieffoKees DeVosLaine HannonAn idealistic father tries to save his old movie palace from foreclosure and regain the faith of his daughter.
- DirectorZach BandlerStarsMeg SteedleBruce DavisonSet on a remote stretch of stormy coastline, a hardened young woman agrees to dinner at the home of an aging recluse.
- DirectorChel WhiteStarsDomeka ParkerA '70s horror film is twisted into a timely parody involving a diminutive Donald Trump.
- DirectorWes HurleyNathan M. MillerStarsWes HurleyElena BridgesBenjamin JakupcakWes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his mother, a mail order bride, to Seattle to face a whole new oppression in his new Christian fundamentalist American dad.
- DirectorJames BlueStarsCarl RowanMarian AndersonJoan BaezA 1964 documentary film about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington.
- DirectorElizabeth LoR.J. LozadaThe impact of mass incarceration on a generation of youth is explored through an annual Mother's Day charity bus journey that take children from across California to visit their mothers in prison.