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shareFilmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A
Films of people trying to live together as family, at the risk of perishing together as fools. As these films take hold, what would you keep and let go? — Kirby Peñafiel
In this program
CHASING CLOUDS
Directed by: Candace Ho | 13 mins
A Taiwanese American woman is forced to confront the harsh reality of her mother’s dementia.
NIGHT & DAY
Directed by: Paolo Bitanga | 10 mins
A mother′s home comes alive once a year, when her many children return for the holidays and play on their piano.
RASPBERRY
Directed by: Julian Doan | 8 mins
Undertakers wait on a family’s final farewells, as one son struggles to say goodbye to his dead father.
RUWATAN
Directed by: Ernest Lesmana | 15 mins
Sri’s weekly routine is to accompany her mother during alternative therapy. Today might be their last visit.
SOAK
Directed by: Hannah Bang | 17 mins
A teenager tries to convince her runaway mother to return home.
SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE
Directed by: Jane Chow | 7 mins
In Los Angeles Chinatown, a lonely teenager tries to help her parents keep their seafood restaurant afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
ZONA
Directed by: Masami Kawai | 16 mins
In the near-future Los Angeles, where a drought has worsened, an old immigrant woman braves the city to search for water.
