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Programs

Listed here are all the Festival programs and events, in alphabetical order.


Shorts Programs

30 for 30: Coming Home

Program 30 for 30: Coming Home Intimate portraits of resilience. From preserving Aloha far from home to pioneering athletes, activists, and spiritual teachers who…
Animation Programs, Shorts Programs

An Emotion

Program An Emotion Moving drawings, moving people. Intimacy between intimate moments. Over time and underneath. Animated films exploring the real and…
Shorts Programs

APT: Advanced Parenting Too

Program APT: Advanced Parenting Too Relationships with parents are varied and each one unique. -A mom whose support can be counted on no…
Shorts Programs

At Crossed Roads

Program At Crossed Roads These stories stop at the intersection, and asks us to choose our way.
Shorts Programs

Borderlands

Program Borderlands Explore liminal worlds – those in-between realms where reality blurs, time shifts, and identities are in flux. Through…
C3

C3: Conference for Creative Content

Special Event C3: Conference for Creative Content C3 is a space for creative communities and industry leaders to converge through panels and conversations. C3 connects industry professionals to create...
Shorts Programs

Can I Borrow a Feeling?

Program Can I Borrow a Feeling? As long as we’ve been telling stories, tales of longing have been part of the human ethos. They…
Shorts Programs

Cinema Musica: (Un)Spoken Feelings

Program Cinema Musica: (Un)Spoken Feelings Kickoff LAAPFF 2025 during our Opening Night Party, and come watch MTV – VC style! Dive into music…

CINEMA MUSICA: FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY

Special Event CINEMA MUSICA: FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY Kickoff LAAPFF 2025 during our Opening Night Party, and come watch MTV – VC style! Dive into music…
Shorts Programs

Echoes From Beyond

Program Echoes From Beyond Journey through memory and the mysterious forces that shape our past and future. From indigenous cosmology to ancient…
Shorts Programs

From Visions to Reel: Living Legacy

Program From Visions to Reel: Living Legacy Welcome to your life: Google translate, pastries, dildos, suburbia, calls to your mom, kung fu, deceitful karaoke, and…
Pacific Cinewaves, Shorts Programs

Healing Water

Program Healing Water These two filmmakers explore the inextricable links betweens climate change and colonialism, how the exploitation of the Native…