Filmmakers in attendance.
It’s more than a lyric in a Dave Matthews song – it’s the name of a short film program line-up! More importantly, it defines the emotional rhythms and themes reverberating through these films; each featuring mysterious forces that attract and repel us, sometimes affecting disparate beings in the most unlikely ways. – Faroukh Virani
Co-presented with Community Partners: Silent River Film Festival
An imaginary biography of Yanyu Dong’s mother who, in her youth, dreamed of being a Bollywood dancer.
When Wyatt’s girlfriend Rainey awakes up from a year-long catatonic state, he discovers that their relationship may not be as stable as he thought.
An African-American teenager must sneak out of his girlfriend’s house without getting caught by her cop-father.
A high school misfit with severe OCD forms an unlikely bond with a popular classmate through a shared passion for music and dance.
A half-real, half-imaginary romp through a rich, stylized whirlwind world of Asian nightlife in America.
TIDES is a glimpse into a family’s attempt to repair their estrangement with an outing to the beach.
A mother dreams and hallucinates about her daughter, trying to cope with her loss.