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Shorts Programs

Our Shorts Programs chart stories of loss, faith, loss, fantasy, and family. Short films tend to be a focused experience of emotional storytelling, savvy editing, and heart. Through our robust range of narrative, animated, and documentary shorts, join us in journeys to places near and far — in the hopes that we can feel a little closer to ourselves. It is our honor to continue carving out space for emerging and veteran artists.

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…
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…
Shorts Programs, Special Presentations

Color Congress presents Resistance & Joy: Reclaiming Power

Program Color Congress presents Resistance & Joy: Reclaiming Power From cultural preservation to political resistance, this block of films showcase the ways people organize, resist oppression, and…
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…
Shorts Programs

Helter Shelter

Program Helter Shelter Storms threatening. Coming down fast. Bargain for salvation. These stories give grace and hold space, for those who…
Shorts Programs

Home-land: Hmong American Women

Film Home-land: Hmong American Women Directed by Pader Xiong This short film explores the identities, pursuits, and making of Home-land across various Hmong American Women.
Shorts Programs

Indigenous NOW: Trees in the Wind

Program Indigenous NOW: Trees in the Wind Films depicting indigenous peoples living in nations now known as China, India, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Guam confront…
Shorts Programs

Kuwentuhan Lives

Program Kuwentuhan Lives Tall tales of the Philippine diaspora from the homeland and abroad. Navigating truths and the absurd.
Shorts Programs

LA Rebellion: Toward a More Perfect Rebellion — Conversations with Josslyn Luckett

Program LA Rebellion: Toward a More Perfect Rebellion — Conversations with Josslyn Luckett Spanning generations of filmmakers shaped by the LA Rebellion and UCLA’s Ethno-Communications program, this program revisits the urgency,…
Shorts Programs

Let It Flow

Program Let It Flow Explore what it means to connect, what it means to bridge, and to share, utilizing dance as a…
Shorts Programs

#LIFE #TIMES

Program #LIFE #TIMES Across time and space, these films explore finding your place on your own terms.
Shorts Programs, Special Presentations

Little Tokyo & Other Tales

Program Little Tokyo & Other Tales Encounter stories and spaces rooted in community, featuring our home neighborhood of Little Tokyo, elders who create healing…
Shorts Programs

MANZANAR + OUT OF THE DUST

Program MANZANAR + OUT OF THE DUST Experience reflections of Manzanar through dance and moving images, in honor of the works by Janice Mirikatani and…
Pacific Cinewaves, Shorts Programs

Pacific Cinewaves: Sites of Memory in Oceania

Program Pacific Cinewaves: Sites of Memory in Oceania For this year's LAAPFF’s Pacific Cinewaves program, we invite you on a journey to witness the cinematic narratives…
Shorts Programs, Special Presentations

Scribe Video Center presents: PRIMARY SOURCE

Program Scribe Video Center presents: PRIMARY SOURCE Primary Source is an initiative of Scribe Video Center that was designed to create journalistic community produced media…
Shorts Programs

The Space Between 3.0

Program The Space Between 3.0 This unique pairing of films from Iran explores the spaces and lenses through which the living revisit and…
Shorts Programs, Special Presentations

The Grocery List Show

Program The Grocery List Show “The Grocery List Show, hosted by former Top Chef contender, Chrissy Camba is an adventurous food, culture, and…
Shorts Programs

We Are More! Revisited

Program We Are More! Revisited A journey of loss, self-expression, hope, displacement, and the reclaiming of experiences in a complicated, interconnected world. WE…
Shorts Programs

WHERE THE LIGHT ENTERS YOU + ON HEALING LAND, BIRDS PERCH

Program WHERE THE LIGHT ENTERS YOU + ON HEALING LAND, BIRDS PERCH Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.