• Opening Night

  

OPENING NIGHT PARTY: 8:30 - 10:30 PM @ THE PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM

VALID PARTY TICKET OR FESTIVAL BADGE REQUIRED FOR ENTRY

Join us for an evening of celebration and cinema as we officially kick off the 29th edition of the festival, ShortFest style!

Short Films

Help Me Understand

Six women come to a consensus.

Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma)

Nǎi Nai is my grandma. Wài Pó is also my grandma. Together, they are a grandma super team that dances, stretches, and farts their sorrows away.

Parker

A decision delayed for decades allows three generations of a Kansas City family to finally unify when they do something that countless African Americans before them could not do - choose their own last name.

The Old Young Crow

An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

AirHostess-737

Flight attendant Vanina is visibly agitated. She blames her new braces, but her colleagues know the plane is carrying her mother’s dead body to her hometown. Meet the Filmmaker: https://youtu.be/hlceaL6x4wU

Sisters of the Rotation

At Sisters of the Rotation’s convent, the Earth doesn’t spin by itself.

ShortFest 2023