Short Films
Charlie and Gerald reunite their failed 2000's boy band for a competition whose prize money could remedy all of their financial woes. What could go wrong? Meet the filmmaker: https://youtu.be/x9VYeR2wrhM
A clarinet player works to keep her spot in first chair when a new player joins the band.
In 1987, a young Saudi man tries to impress the girl of his dreams by recording a tape of himself mimicking her favorite pop artist. Meet the filmmaker: https://youtu.be/ORiHLK-e3NM
Arnaldo is a middle-aged bohemian musician barely surviving when his daughter visits asking for money, explaining that she is leaving their island community in search of better opportunities. Arnaldo begins to experience his own growing desire to seek new horizons.
Among the Hmong people of Laos the whistling tradition, a sonic experience between music and speech, is dying. Against the modern condition of urban life in Laos, three practitioners of this vanishing musical language offer a glimpse into the philosophical relationship between society and nature, and sound and reality. Meet the filmmaker: https://youtu.be/DoFF3ATCAhw
A mother will stop at nothing to make her young son’s dreams come true, even for just a moment.