LA Film Festival Announces Complete Line Up (Extended)

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Published on Tuesday, 05 May 2015 15:15

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

From over 3000 submissions, the short films selected represent 15 countries, and are 50% directed by women. Short films are shown before features and as part of six short film programs.

• 48217 Mesh – France/USA (DIRECTOR Nora Mandray) In a heavily polluted Detroit neighborhood, community advocate Theresa sets out to build a new kind of Internet network to fight the expansion of a nearby factory.

• All American Family– USA (DIRECTOR Andrew Jenks) For four generations, the Pedersen family has had a star on the local high school football team. Unlike other teams, these players are all deaf.

• All Your Favorite Shows!– USA (DIRECTOR Danny Madden) Anything you wanna watch in the palm of your hand! Crazy convenient! ...crazy.

• Alone – France(DIRECTOR Didier Philippe) A young woman lives alone in a large apartment. One day, she discovers evidence revealing that a man lives in her home…

• An Apartment– Canada (DIRECTOR Sarah Galea-Davis) An intimate portrait of Paul, a man who finds himself in middle-age struggling to restart his career and maintain his financial independence.

• The And (Marcela and Rocks)– USA (DIRECTOR Topaz Adizes) Exploring the intimate spaces of modern-day relationships in the best couples therapy session you'll ever witness.

• The Baby– Iran (DIRECTOR Ali Asgari) Narges and her friend have just a few hours to find someone to take care of her baby.

• Beach Flags– France/Iran (DIRECTOR Sarah Saidan) Vida is a young Iranian lifeguard. Popular on her team, she’s determined to fight to be the one to participate in an international competition. However, when Sareh who is as fast and talented as her, joins the team, Vida will have to face an unexpected situation.

• Boxeadora– USA (DIRECTOR Meg Smaker) One woman defies Fidel Castro's ban on female boxing to follow her dream of Olympic glory and become Cuba's first female boxer.

• Charlotte– USA (DIRECTOR Angel Kristi Williams) Alex, excited to have befriended the popular girl at school, will do anything to stay in her good graces. When her new friend wants to play house, Alex innocently plays along and develops feelings she doesn't understand.

• Day of the Dutch– USA (DIRECTOR Martha Colburn) In this stop motion animation we follow a day in the life of a ‘living skeleton’ family in a Dutch home environment. Like the Dutch genre paintings from the Golden Age, the film depicts the traditional values of family and standards...until an event changes a young girl’s life.

• Devil’s Work– USA (DIRECTOR Miguel Silveira) A troubled 14-year-old boy grows increasingly isolated as he obsesses over the circumstances surrounding his father's death.

• Dog Bowl– USA (DIRECTOR Gordy Hoffman) A heartbroken girl spiraling through life stumbles upon the true nature of her existence after stealing the vest off of a service dog.

• Dolphin Lover– USA (DIRECTOR Kareem Tabsch) A true story set in a 1970s Florida roadside amusement park explores Malcolm Brenner’s romantic and sexual love affair with Dolly, a captive dolphin.

• Drama– USA (DIRECTOR Tian Guan) A young couple who are having sex in a car realize that there are no more condoms left...

• The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul – Australia/Ukraine (DIRECTOR Kitty Green) Little girls from war-torn Ukraine audition to play the role the titular Olympic figure skater, whose tears of joy once united their troubled country.

• Full-Windsor– USA (DIRECTOR Faraday Okoro) A 10-year-old boy battles his mother in order to wear his absent father’s tie to school.

• The Guardian of North Lawndale– USA (DIRECTOR Sam Price-Waldman) In a Chicago neighborhood where 43 percent of residents live below the poverty line, Billy Lamar Brooks Sr. helps children build a future.

• Hearts and Arrows– USA (DIRECTOR Benjamin Millepied) Set in six movements and scored by Phillip Glass’s String Quartet No. 3, Benjamin Millepied's latest ballet represents the 2nd part of a triptych entitled "Gems" featuring the L.A. Dance Project.

• Home– USA (DIRECTOR Amelie Wen) On his last day of work, an elderly migrant caretaker of an abandoned construction site encounters a little girl who has run away from home.

• Horse– China (DIRECTOR Shen Jie) Renderings of an animated horse are inventively cut together.

• Hotel 22– USA (DIRECTOR Elizabeth Lo) Each night in wealthy Silicon Valley, a public bus transforms into an unofficial shelter for the homeless. Hotel 22 captures a single, dramatic night on the Line 22 route.

• In Her Place– USA (DIRECTOR Kevin Hamedani) An Iranian-American man suffering from a mid-life crisis visits his homeland to meet and wed a young Iranian woman.

• Inside (Adentro)– Cuba/UK (DIRECTOR Jayisha Patel) The happenings of one warehouse in Havana, Cuba. Incessant noise, a roof that starts to fall down, 40 people coming and going, and one woman, who works and lives there, who just wants to rest.

• Interesting Ball– USA (DIRECTORS Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert) A red ball bounces past a cafe and a couple folks’ houses and then goes to the beach.

• Internet Famous– Norway (DIRECTOR Kristofer Borgli) Amir becomes internet famous in videos where he picks fights with strangers on the street. He tries to justify his success in a portrait interview with a newspaper.

• Jon and Starsha are Having a Baby– USA (DIRECTORS Starsha Gill, Jon Bass) Jon and Starsha are in love, so Jon and Starsha are having a baby.

• Kitchen– USA (DIRECTOR Yeonchul Lee) While washing dishes, a woman gets her hair stuck in the garbage disposal.

• The Letter (La Carta)– Mexico (DIRECTOR Ángeles Cruz) Lupe comes back to her community after many years of absence. Her reencounter with Rosalia, her best friend from childhood, and the letter she wrote her when they said goodbye, change the course of their lives. Love resurfaces with even greater strength.

• Listen– Denmark/Finland –(DIRECTORS Rungano Nyoni, Hamy Ramezan) A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words.

• The Little Deputy– Canada (DIRECTOR Trever Anderson) Trevor tries to have a photo taken with his father.

• Mulignans– USA (DIRECTOR Shaka King) mulignan(s) /moo.lin.yan(s)/ n. 1. Italian-American slang for a black man. Derived from Italian dialect word for "eggplant." See also: moolie. Source: Urban Dictionary and pretty much every mob movie ever.

• Myrna the Monster– USA (DIRECTOR Ian Samuels) A heartbroken alien dreamer from the moon transitions into young adult life in Los Angeles like any other 20-something.

• Oh Lucy!– USA/Japan (DIRECTOR Atsuko Hirayanagi) Setsuko, a 55-year-old single 'office lady' in Tokyo, is given a blonde wig and a new identity, “Lucy,” by her young unconventional English instructor. “Lucy” awakens desires Setsuko never knew she had.

• Pauline Alone– USA (DIRECTOR Janicza Bravo) A woman tries to connect with people she's never met.

• Pure Concentricity– USA (DIRECTOR Evan Mann) Created in the span of two weeks as a commission for Denver Digerati, Pure Concentricity is composed of sequential photographs, formally confined to the natural landscape, the human figure, and concentric circles of shaving cream.

• Rabbit– USA/France (DIRECTOR Laure de Clermont) A therapist working in tandem with a correctional facility's Pet Partnership Program entrusts a small white rabbit to a female prisoner. In the confinement of the inmate's cell, will she be able to transcend her circumstances and make a new connection?

• The Sands (Plage de Sable)– Canada (DIRECTOR Marie-Eve Juste) Josee and Tom are at the beach, two lovers discovering each other, playing a game until things get serious.

• Serenity– USA (DIRECTOR Jack Dunphy) An animated memoir recounting first love, addiction, losing one's virginity, and turning to pizza in times of crisis.

• Share – USA (DIRECTOR Pippa Bianco) A 15-year-old girl returns to school after someone shares an explicit video of her.

• SheVenge– USA (DIRECTOR Amber Benson) A twisted, darkly comedic, genre-bending tale of revenge. A revenge of the worst kind - Shevenge!

• Shhhhhhh…– USA (DIRECTOR Alison Locke Nelson) 3:12am. A new mom shushes her crying baby... she's sleep deprived, she's frustrated, she's alone…or is she?

• A Single Body (Un Seul Corps) – Australia/France/Greece (DIRECTOR Sotiris Dounoukos) Best friends and skilled abattoir workers David and Wani are saving to open their own butchery, but before they can realize their dream, the arrival of a new worker will test the bonds of their shared life.

• SMILF– USA (DIRECTOR Frankie Shaw) A young single mother struggles to balance her old life of freedom with her new one as mom.

• Stop– USA (DIRECTOR Reinaldo Green) A young man's livelihood is put to the test when he gets profiled and stopped by the police on his way home from practice.

• The Sun Like a Big Dark Animal (El Sol Como un Gran Animal Oscuro)– USA(DIRECTORS Christina Felisgrau, Ronnie Rivera) A computer and a woman fall in love only to be torn apart because of their inappropriate feelings for each other.

• Superior – USA (DIRECTOR Erin Vassilopolous) A stranger passing through town sparks a teenage girl's desire to distinguish herself from her identical twin sister.

• Sweep– USA (DIRECTOR Spencer Gillis) A tense chance encounter at a local recycling center leads to an instant friendship—which in turn leads to a bitter moment of reckoning.

• Swimming in Your Skin Again– USA (DIRECTOR Terence Nance) A film about motherhood, banality, Miami, the water, the divine feminine, and how to sing in church in a way that calls forth your own adulthood.

• Take Me– Canada (DIRECTORS Anais Barbeau-Lavaiette, Andre Turpin) A nurse working in a center for the disabled is confronted by his principles when he’s asked to accomplish a particular task.

• T’es Pas Game– Canada (DIRECTOR Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers) David and Margot have been in a relationship for seven years and are very inventive and never bored. As a new challenge, they lock themselves in their apartment to push their limits. Who's chicken?

• teeth– USA (DIRECTORS Tom Brown, Daniel Gray) That which is neglected, is lost.

• Territory– France (DIRECTOR Vincent Paronnaud) 1957, Ossau Valley, Pyrenees, France. Pierre reaches the summer pasture with his dog and his flock of ewes. He is afraid of the wolf but he isn't aware of a fainter and more savage threat: a paratroopers' squad on whom the army is carrying out secret tests.

• The Time Keeper– USA (DIRECTOR Katherine Wells) Our smartphones, GPS, military operations, and internet communications all depend on precise atomic clocks at the U.S. Naval Observatory – and on Dr. Demetrios Matsakis.

• Touch– USA (DIRECTOR Andrew Stephen Lee) When a fourteen year-old’s obsession with a new swimming instructor plunges her into a world of undiscovered feelings, she travels between adolescence and womanhood, leaving childhood forever behind.

• Tourist Trap – USA (DIRECTOR Alana Purcell) To take his mind off a broken romance, a tourist from Japan finds distraction in a local LA lady.

• Volta– Greece/USA (DIRECTOR Stella Kyriakopolous) A mother and daughter start out from downtown Athens and head to the northern suburbs of the Greek city. Little Nina thinks she's going on a walk.

• Wait ‘Till the Wolves Make Nice– USA (DIRECTOR Jessica Dela Merced) Confronting boredom in a crumbling southwest Detroit neighborhood, four kids are tempted into sacrilege and destruction by the cool apathy of an older kid.

• We All We Got– USA (DIRECTOR Carlos Javier Ortiz) The poetic language of the streets: police helicopters; music popping out of cars; ambulances on the run; preachers hollering for the violence to stop after another young man is senselessly gunned down in the streets of Chicago.

• Withdrawal– Iran (DIRECTORS Peiman Naimi, Fahimeh Aghahassani) Shirin has just finished art college and has to leave the girls' boarding school she lived in. Her father wants her to return to her village of birth in the Iranian countryside. She fearfully conceals why that isn't an option.

MUSIC VIDEOS

• Mayokero – USA (DIRECTOR Vania Heymann) Album covers come to life and beatbox.

• I Tried to Talk to You – USA (DIRECTOR David Wilson) The sincerity of a lovers’ quarrel is explored through modern dance.

• Ideas Are That Grand (Así de grandes son las ideas) – Puerto Rico/USA (DIRECTOR Quique Rivera Rivera) Sometime in the future an old man, equipped with the benefits of evolution, survived the extinction of all other living beings.