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SHORTS
PROGRAMS
Juried competition featuring the best Short Films
HIGHLIGHTING
IRANIAN
FILMMAKERS
INTERNATIONAL
FILMMAKERS
IN ATTENDANCE
ANIMATED
Photo from the film: THE RECESS
THE RECESS DIR: NAVID NIKKHAH AZAD | 12 MIN
Inspired by the tragic death of Sahar Khodayari, known as Blue Girl, in Iran.
COMPANY DIR: ILNAZ KHEIRKHAH | 10 MIN
The narration is the story of a boy who has to write a will for a lonely and dying
old woman.
THE STATUE (PEYKAREH) DIR: MOHSEN SALEHI FARD | 9:30 MIN
The sculptor struggles a lot every day to create a new sculpture and the sculpture that
loses its freedome when it takes shape.
FORBIDDEN BIRTH DIR: SOHRAB KAVIR | 15 MIN
Leila’s surprise birthday party is thrown into turmoil when it is revealed that she is
pregnant and her boyfriend has left her to deal with the situation. Her friends desperately
try to warn her that as an unmarried woman in traditional, Islamic Iran, Leila will face
many dangers if she goes ahead with the pregnancy, including honour killing by her
own family. Leila has already attempted to terminate her pregnancy, but her maternal
instincts have so far stopped her. Now, after three and a half months, the situation seems
hopeless. Leila’s friends must help her to keep her baby in the face of all the odds.
LIMIT DIR: JAVAD DARAEI | 9 MIN
Someone in a quiet area asked help from the people who he sees till someone enters
the house and suddenly.
SEVEN DAYS SHORT DIR: MAHDI JAVADIFAM | 30 MIN
Photo from the film: BARKING ORDERS
BARKING ORDERS DIR: ALEXANDER TULLO | 2 MIN
When the entire British Royal family tragically dies, the Queen’s corgi finds himself next
in line for the throne and in the seat of power.
NEW TRICKS DIR: MATT CORSILLO | 2:30 MIN
After accidentally hitting a dog with her car, a woman attempts to take the animal to the
vet – but is impeded by the dog’s gruesome transformation into a human.
LEGEND HAS IT DIR: LAINEY DAVIDSON | 2 MIN
Every girl at summer camp knows the legend of the Creature of Camp Calawaga...
But is it just a story?
FINAL DEATHINATION DIR: MARIKA TAMURA | 2 MIN
A suicidal man who is about to hang himself encounters Death who is a “travel agent” to
find the best place to die and goes on a world tour.
MAGGOT
DIR: MARY KATE MAGYAR, COZETTE MEAD, KRISTIN CAMERA | 4 MIN
Following the gruesome death of Pear from a chest - bursting maggot, the young,
terrified Apple must find a way to survive.
GASLIGHT
DIR: MILD KAMOLLUCK NIAMKONGKIT, KRISTEN YUAN | 3:30 MIN
Smoker wants to break up with his lighter girlfriend at the gas station, she doesn’t take it well.
THE EXORTWIST DIR: LAURA KOVAL, LOREN BASKIN ALMAZAN | 3 MIN
A chocolate bar priest must perform an exorcism on a young twizzler.
HOME SWEET HOME DIR: LAUREN CARR | 2:20 MIN
A young gingerbread couple is on the search for their dream home on a hit TV show,
but the experience threatens both their relationship and their lives.
THE 0.01% DIR: SOPHIA BAYA | 1:37 MIN
A disabled man struggles to receive help with a family situation.
After a disinfectant happy housewife eradicates a germ’s entire family, the 0.01%
surviving germ sets out for revenge.
MARCH 12 SAT 1:00PM | AMC WESTSHORE 6
A newborn dough ball in a dim sum must undergo a transformative initiation ritual in
order to join his dumpling family.
DUMPLING DASH DIR: LISA CUI | 2 MIN
WEAK SAUCE DIR: JJ FILA | 2:39 MIN
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A timid American asks his Thai girlfriend’s father for his blessing in their marriage, but
when he realizes the only way to gain his approval is by eating insanely spicy Thai food,
his imagination thrusts him into a heated fight with her hot sauce father.
WARG DIR: SARAH COURTRIGHT | 4 MIN
They were beasts, we were monsters
LEGEND OF THE CLAW DIR: SHAILYN FARMER | 2 MIN
A little girl fights to keep a plushie from the grasp of an evil, greedy claw machine.
SOOTHSAYIN’ SALOON DIR: ABBY FITZGERALD | 2 MIN
A wanted cowboy gets conned by a lively, bounty - hunting soothsayer.
BY THE BOOK DIR: SHREYA DEVARAKONDA, DANIELA PORTILLA | 3 MIN
In a world of books, a scientifically driven father is met with the sudden challenge of
raising a child he struggles to relate to.
LOBSTAH LOVE DIR: OLIVIA COUCCI, JULIET BROWN | 3 MIN
A lonely lobster with destructive claws searches for love on the beach by holding hands
with anything red she can find.
RAWR RAWR LAND DIR: ANTONIO MONTILLA | 2 MIN
Amidst the end of the world, one dinosaur wants to take shelter, and one wants to
dance the night away.
DINO BONE DIR: SAM DURKIN AND JORDAN POWERS | 1:34 MIN
After seeing a suggestive fossil of two dinosaurs “getting it on,” an anxious father tells his
curious son a series of little white lies to avoid having “The Talk.”
MARCH 12 SAT 2:15PM | AMC WESTSHORE 5
