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In-Person Shorts Program Four

Date: Sep 23, 2023
Starts: 20:50
Ends: 22:50
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In-Person Shorts Program Four

Regal Battery Park

Regal Battery Park

Room: Screening Room
102 North End Ave
New York, New York 10282
United States
An eclectic mix of great short films: narratives, documentaries, animations, and music videos.

Schedules and Screening Blocks are subject to changes.

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Wendy Wendy

Wendy

Wendy can see the exact way she wants things to go in her head, but when she opens her mouth everything seems to fall apart. So, when she develops a secret crush on Cassie, the lead actress in her middle school production of Romeo & Juliet, the stakes are higher than ever. Can she summon up the courage to let Cassie know how she really feels? Or is the risk of humiliation just too high?
10 minutes
Danceable Danceable

Danceable

Who does dance belong to? Danceable weaves together portraits of three dancers with disabilities: Lark, a deaf performer; Janpi, who uses a wheelchair; and Marci, a teacher with Down syndrome. They reject societal limits imposed on them, and through dance, interviews, and archival materials, we learn of each performer's journey. They reveal the struggles of growing up disabled, how they found dance, and why they love it. Their journeys exemplify how dance can serve as a tool for healing, liberation, and building community as they share their passion through teaching.
22 minutes
Among Us Among Us

Among Us

Among Us is a cut paper stop motion animation about Monsters. Like monsters throughout human cultures, Monsters embody my fear and anxiety around the ever-present abuse and horror in the concurrent political, environmental, and social unraveling that we are bearing witness to. Like the real-world monsters who perpetrate horror and destruction my monsters are not frightening to look at, it is their actions that make them monstrous.
8 minutes
Bloom Bloom

Bloom

Reserved RAQUEL and socialite SHAY are two polar opposite 14-year-old friends who share one thing in common– the desire to leave lame Augusta. They sit confined to Shay’s porch on a humid summer day in 2004, yearning to get into something. When they're invited to a birthday party later that evening, Raquel is hesitant, but Shay convinces her to tag along. Throughout the day, their friendship is tested until it comes to a boiling head on the dance floor. On this adventure of a day, they discover a rude introduction to the bittersweet pains of adolescence, navigating friendship, and building community.
14 minutes
Woman Meets Girl Woman Meets Girl

Woman Meets Girl

As cocktails lead to revealing conversation, chemistry builds between Annabelle, an awkward in her own skin, forty-two-year-old woman and Tessie, an extroverted, eighteen-year-old sex worker. A surprising moment soon introduces the possibility of deeper connection.
17 minutes
Therapy Express Therapy Express

Therapy Express

Superhero EVA and sidekick ALEX arrive just as SHIRAN, an acting student, is being assaulted by her professor and mentor AMOS. Eva and Alex grant Shiran what most victims can only dream of- revenge.

This seemingly positive twist, however, brings out the real struggle for each character, causing them to turn against each other in what becomes an ultimate battle of values.

Trauma is power.
18 minutes
Rear Rear

Rear

When a teacher leaves bruises on a child, an objecting mother unintentionally starts a debate on the use of school corporal punishment in her southern black community.
20 minutes
Dancing Amid Fire, Rising Above Ruins Dancing Amid Fire, Rising Above Ruins

Dancing Amid Fire, Rising Above Ruins

Tara is a little girl from Iran's Kurdish ethnic group. Life and death are intertwined in her life. When their mothers visit the graves of loved ones lost in state violence, war and bombing after Iran revolution in 1979, she and her friends play hide and seek in the graveyard back stones and trees. Tara receives a fantastic gift for the New Year, the red shoes she has always desired. She dances joyfully and adores shoes so much that she sleeps with shoes. The bombs and conflict intensified the following morning. Tara loses her shoe companion as she and her family seek refuge in shelters. 42 years later, Tara is now a grown woman who lives in Norway with her young daughter. Many women and men gathered in front of Norway's parliament, cutting their hair in solidarity with the Iranian women's movement in 2022, and singing the slogan "woman, life, freedom." Tara goes to a shopping center with her little daughter after the march, and her daughter chooses the exact shoe that Tara lost 42 years ago. Tara purchases shoes for her. Tara has spent many years attempting to provide her kid with everything she has been denied in her country as a girl. She survived to just give a better life to her daughter in a free and democratic society.Tara is a little girl from Iran's Kurdish ethnic group. Life and death are intertwined in her life. When their mothers visit the graves of loved ones lost in state violence, war and bombing after Iran revolution in 1979, she and her friends play hide and seek in the graveyard back stones and trees. Tara receives a fantastic gift for the New Year, the red shoes she has always desired. She dances joyfully and adores shoes so much that she sleeps with shoes. The bombs and conflict intensified the following morning. Tara loses her shoe companion as she and her family seek refuge in shelters. 42 years later, Tara is now a grown woman who lives in Norway with her young daughter. Many women and men gathered in front of Norway's parliament, cutting their hair in solidarity with the Iranian women's movement in 2022, and singing the slogan "woman, life, freedom." Tara goes to a shopping center with her little daughter after the march, and her daughter chooses the exact shoe that Tara lost 42 years ago. Tara purchases shoes for her. Tara has spent many years attempting to provide her kid with everything she has been denied in her country as a girl. She survived to just give a better life to her daughter in a free and democratic society.
6 minutes
Free (Asatoma Mantra mix) Free (Asatoma Mantra mix)

Free (Asatoma Mantra mix)

Women are magical, cosmic, life-giving beings. As the ancient Sanskrit Asatoma mantra suggests, when we are led to our truest nature—our eternal self (soul), we are liberated from the limits and judgements of the physical world. We are unbreakable, untameable. We are Free.
7 minutes
One weekend One weekend

One weekend

“One weekend” could be defined as the visual description of ‘ghosting’ someone. This short film reminds us that ‘virtual’ is not an antonym for ‘real.’
7 minutes
Good Grief Good Grief

Good Grief

After Amber's father passed away, nothing was really the same. Co-workers, friends, and even family don't seem to really understand her grief. Feeling isolated and searching for closure, Amber decides to spread her father's ashes off of a sea cliff. However, things don't exactly go to plan when she has an awkward meet cute, the one person who truly understands her grief.
8 minutes

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