>>> American Shorts
25.10.2024 | 21.15
OH, CHRISTMAS TREE
dir. Katie Aselton
USA 2024 (11 min)
16 year-old Claire and her father Ben try to recreate a few of their favorite Christmas traditions.
BORDER HOPPER
dir. Nico Casavecchia
USA 2024 (14 min)
Laura, a Latinx filmmaker, lands a life-changing career opportunity when she’s hired to direct a Super Bowl commercial for a video game. The catch? The shoot is in Europe, and she can’t travel due to her immigration status, a secret she’s kept from her employers. This creates friction with her husband Jorge, whose Green Card depends on hers. Laura decides to apply for a complicated emergency travel permit to take on the job. Her reality takes a surreal turn as she starts having hallucinations of a nightmarish video-game world. When immigration services deny her the travel permit, she finds support from Jorge to accept the job, even if it means risking their immigration status.
JANE AUSTEN’S PERIOD DRAMA
dir. Julia Aks, Steve Pinder
USA 2024 (13 min)
England, 1813. In the middle of a long-awaited marriage proposal, Miss Estrogenia Talbot gets her period. Her suitor, the dashing Mr. Dickley, mistakes the blood for an injury, and it soon becomes clear that his very expensive education has most certainly missed a spot.
THE EIGHTH DAY
dir. Jonah Weinstein
USA 2024 (10 min)
Noah and Jonah are gay Jewish husbands and new parents to a baby boy. When Noah and Jonah’s parents arrive at their home expecting a traditional bris for their grandson, Noah and Jonah are forced to reveal that they had something very different in mind for their son: no circumcision.
DYNASTY AND DESTINY
dir. Travis Lee Ratcliff
USA 2024 (6 min)
Kanesha Jackson is a third-generation barrel racing champion. She’s training her thirteen-year-old daughter, Kortnee, to follow in her and her grandmother’s footsteps.
MERCI, POPPY
dir. Hanna Grey Organschi
USA 2024 (15 min)
Cy is the kind of boss who expects his Klonopin hand-delivered, his sandwiches prepared with vegan mayo, and for his assistant Poppy to know these things like the back of her hand. After an aforementioned Klony hand-off at Cy’s beach house, Poppy joins Cy and his neighbors for an impromptu cocktail hour. She confesses that she’s dissatisfied with her life, humiliating Cyrus in front of his fancy friends, and forcing a conversation about a promotion that’s been caught in her throat.