Hawaii International Film Festival: Shorts
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1. Recapture (2017)
Short, Sci-Fi
Director: John Yabes | Stars: Nancy Arnstein, Lawrence DiBlasio, Brittany Ann Dodson, Adriane Flower
2. Sunday in Paradise (2016)
13 min | Short, Drama | Completed
Set in Hawaii, a traditional Tongan father wants her teenage daughter to discover her roots but she swears at him instead and exposes his hypocrisy as a Christian man.
Director: Vilsoni Hereniko | Stars: Mane, Maiya T
3. 100th Birthday Wish (2017)
20 min | Short
Today is Granny's 100th birthday. Her family members decide to throw her a grand birthday party, but Granny's birthday wish is different from what everyone expects.
Director: Chien-Hung Lien | Stars: Shiou Yun Chang, Wilson Hsu
4. Alone Together (III) (2017)
11 min | Short, Drama
'Ensam Tillsammans' is the story of Joel who's life turns upside down when the person he wants to meet least in the world forces into his apartment. Joel has to face a past he strived to ... See full summary »
Director: Johan Stavsjö | Stars: Elliot Bakkejord, Idun Bakkejord, Jonatan Lewerth, Charlie Petersson
Votes: 16
5. Brigade (2017)
Documentary
Bathed by the Caribbean Sea and home to the second largest live coral reef in the world, Roatán, Honduras, is at once a popular island paradise destination for foreign tourists and a ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Ramos
6. Citipati (2015)
7 min | Animation, Short
We follow a dinosaur in his last moments, in which he, in an inhospitable world, succumbs to the effects of fatigue and his injuries. With his last breath, his world of thought unfolds, and... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Feix
Votes: 105
7. Coat Check Lady (2016)
30 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Who knows which demons may be awakened by insolence or blind love?
Director: Ekaterina Golubeva-Poldi | Stars: Galina Petrova, Igor Savochkin, Stasya Miloslavskaya
Votes: 10
8. Coke Habit (2017)
5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
The Summer after 10th grade I spent two solid weeks with horrible horrible migraines, dizziness, blindspots and tunnel vision-I didn't know what it was... This is the story of my Coke Habit.
Directors: Dress Code, Dan Covert | Star: Mike Cook
Votes: 10
9. Crash (I) (2016)
15 min | Short, Drama
After a long day at work, Cai returns home as usual, only to find out that his mother who suffer from Alzheimer's, has disappeared. In vain, he looks for her everywhere. Worried and not ... See full summary »
Director: Heng Fai Hong | Stars: Pak Hou Wong, Hang-i Chu
Votes: 5
10. Dad's Wedding (2016)
30 min | Short, Drama
Seiko goes home to celebrate her father's second marriage. But a bride Seiko meets is not a woman, but her father wearing make-up. Seiko cannot accept it. But she gets knowing Father's love for family.
Director: Momoko Fukuda
11. Dai's Garden (2016)
34 min | Documentary, Short
A Chinese slow-food movement pioneer, Dai Jianjun, is dedicated to bringing back vanishing traditional Chinese culture in an era of rapid urbanization and industrialization. He runs an ... See full summary »
Director: Ruohan Xu
12. The Driver Is Red (2017)
15 min | Animation, Short
Set in Argentina 1960, this true crime documentary follows secret agent Zvi Aharoni (Mark Pinter) as he searches for a mysterious man named Ricardo Klement. What he discovered in the remote... See full summary »
Director: Randall Christopher | Star: Mark Pinter
Votes: 95
13. Flip the Record (2017)
15 min | Short, Drama, Family
In this 1980s coming-of-age story set to pulsing hip-hop music, a Filipino-American teen discovers her identity through a budding talent for turntablism.
Director: Marie Jamora | Stars: Courtney Bandeko, Michael Rosete, Jon Viktor Corpuz, JD Charisma
Votes: 16
14. Game (I) (2017)
15 min | Short, Action, Drama
A new kid in town tests the limits at the high school basketball tryouts.
Director: Jeannie Donohoe | Stars: Rick Fox, Nicole Chanel Williams, Tye White, Jamie McShane
Votes: 97
15. Girl at the door (2017)
12 min | Short, Action, Drama
Hye-ri practices the armbar maneuver to fight against her drunk father's abusive behavior.
Director: Joosung Song | Stars: Kim Joo-ryung, Jung-Woong Kang, Eun-Jo Lim, Kim Min-sang
Votes: 5
16. Headhunt Revisited: With Brush, Canvas and Camera (2017)
77 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
The documentary, Headhunt Revisited, follows Caroline Mytinger's unprecedented journey in 1926 to the 'Land of Headhunters' in the South Pacific to paint the rich cultural diversity of ... See full summary »
Director: Michele Westmorland | Stars: Lauren Hutton, Michele Westmorland
17. Island Soldier (2017)
85 min | Documentary
The untold story of Micronesian citizens fighting America's wars. Through the personal odyssey of the Nenas, one family experiences the consequences of military service, as they represent a... See full summary »
Director: Nathan Fitch
Votes: 16
18. Juventud (2017)
12 min | Short, Action, Fantasy
After a life long journey, a lone conquistador inches closer to his mythical destination within the South American jungle.
Director: Austin Osanai Everett | Stars: Nohorai Hart, Mason Masciangelo, Nick Masciangelo, Wendell Titcomb
19. Lady Eva (2017)
11 min | Documentary, Short
A brave young transgender woman sets off on a journey to become her true self in the conservative Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga - with a little inspiration from Tina Turner along the way.
Directors: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson | Stars: Eva Baron, Joey Joleen Mataele
Votes: 19
20. The Language of Ball (2017)
9 min | Short, Sport
A lonely teenager, new to the city, is forced out of his comfort zone one morning on the basketball court.
Director: Ramón Rodríguez | Stars: Eshan Bay, Justin Ahedo
Votes: 14
21. Little Potato (2017)
TV-MA | 14 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his mother, a mail order bride, to Seattle to face a whole new oppression in his new Christian fundamentalist American dad.
Directors: Wes Hurley, Nathan M. Miller | Stars: Wes Hurley, Elena Bridges, Benjamin Jakupcak, Matthew Cotner
Votes: 73
22. Meke (2017)
8 min | Short, Drama, Sport
The arrival of a trainer's daughter into the midst of backstage preparations before a boxing match threatens to destroy the relationship between fighter and coach.
Director: Tim Worrall | Stars: Eds Eramiha, Temuera Morrison, Cian Elyse White
23. Monday (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
First place winner of HBO's Visionaries contest. In the culturally diverse world of Los Angeles, a young hustler navigates through various cliques while facing racism, danger and a moral ... See full summary »
Director: Dinh Thai | Stars: Kevin David Lin, L.A. Williams, Diamonique, Intae Kim
Votes: 122
24. One Thousand Ropes (2017)
98 min | Drama
When a father reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter, he is given a rare chance to reshape the future of his family in unexpected ways.
Director: Tusi Tamasese | Stars: Frankie Adams, Lagi Farani, Beulah Koale, Nathaniel Lees
Votes: 146
25. Out of State (2017)
82 min | Documentary
OUT OF STATE is the story of outcasts, of native Hawaiian prisoners shipped 3,000 miles across the ocean to a for-profit prison in the desert of Arizona. In this unlikely setting, these men... See full summary »
Director: Ciara Lacy
Votes: 66
26. Poi E: The Story of a Song (2016)
92 min | Documentary, Biography, Family
POI E is the story of the creation of New Zealand's iconic song of celebration, the song that became the unofficial national anthem.
Director: Tearepa Kahi | Stars: Patea Maori Club, Ngoi Pewhairangi, Maaka Pohatu, Dalvanius Prime
Votes: 146
27. Possum (2016)
16 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
Set in New Zealand in the 1970's, Possum is a tale of two young brothers who accompany their lumberjack father to a forest campsite. At odds with each other, the two hatch a plan to head ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Whitehead | Stars: Taungaroa Emile, Duane Evans Jr., Te Ahitaewa Hakaraia-Hosking, Gabe McDonnell
Votes: 14
28. Pria (2017)
22 min | Short, Drama, Family
Caught between the traditions of his upbringing in rural Indonesia and his idealization of Western freedom, a teenager struggles with the expectations of imminent manhood.
Director: Yudho Aditya | Stars: Chicco Kurniawan, Jacob McCarthy, Gladhys Elliona Syahutari, Karlina Inawati
Votes: 211
29. Prince of Smoke (2016)
24 min | Documentary, Short | Completed
Young Cuban tobacco farmer and cigar maker, Hirochi Robaina, follows in his famous grandfather's footsteps as he fights climate change and torrential rains to bring in the harvest and ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Gelb
Votes: 7
30. State of Emergency Motherfucker (2016)
6 min | Short, Comedy
A surreal comedy that portrays a society where police violence and invasion of privacy have become commonplace, normal, tiresome. The two impassive young boys are played by Ilias Bouanane and Yassine Fadel, whom we met recently.
Director: Sébastien Petretti | Stars: Yassine Fadel, Ilias Benalouane
Votes: 53
31. Submarine (2016)
21 min | Short, Drama
Under the imminent threat of Lebanon's garbage crisis, Hala, a wild child inside of a woman, is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.
Director: Mounia Akl | Stars: Daad Aasli, Gladys Abou Sleiman, Adel Chahine, Rached el Mas
Votes: 173
32. Sunday Fun Day (II) (2017)
15 min | Short, Drama
A teenagers fantasy and a solo mum's reality collide, leaving both to grapple a system that don't know how they fit in.
Director: Dianna Fuemana | Stars: Fiona Collins, Freeda Fuelagi Fuemana, Shimpal Lelisi, Matt Dwyer
Votes: 12
33. Tama (2017)
9 min | Short, Drama
A young, deaf, Maori boy defies isolation to grow from an undervalued youth into a proud young man.
Directors: Jared Flitcroft, Jack O'Donnell | Stars: Eric Matthews, Robert Lloyd, Ruaumoko Toatoa, Bernard Blackburn
34. A Taxi of Coldness (2017)
20 min | Short, Drama | Completed
A man rides a taxi late at night. And the taxi driver offers chewing gum. He remembers the 'Drugged Gum' story by his mother. The taxi driver says 'Did you hear about those criminal taxi drivers?' He accepts the gum by repeated offer...
Director: Joonha Kim
35. Tête à Tête (2017)
8 min | Animation, Short, Drama
One family's search for connection in a digital world.
Director: Natasha Tonkin | Star: Lisa Diveney
Votes: 12
36. U (2017)
5 min | Documentary, Short, Romance | Completed
Director: Lala Openi | Stars: Kainoa Makua, Lala Openi
37. Vitamin C (2017)
11 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Two young girls collect items for a raffle they say is in support of chronically ill children. Things don't go as planned when an elderly woman gets interested in their work.
Director: Guðný Rós Þórhallsdóttir | Stars: Eva Sóllilja Einarsdóttir, Anja Sæberg, Guðrún Ásmundsdóttir
Votes: 11
38. Waru (2017)
86 min | Drama
A powerful, challenging story surrounding the tangi (funeral) of a small Waru boy who dies at the hands of his caregiver and how his death impacts the community.
Directors: Ainsley Gardiner, Casey Kaa, Renae Maihi, Awanui Simich-Pene, Briar Grace Smith, Paula Whetu Jones, Chelsea Winstanley, Katie Wolfe | Stars: Tanea Heke, Roimata Fox, Ngapaki Moetara, Awhina-Rose Ashby
Votes: 340
39. Wasabi (2017)
29 min | Short, Drama, Family
A 17-year-old girl trying to be a sushi chef for her father
Director: Bunji Sotoyama | Stars: Atom Shimojô, Ryôji Sugimoto, Yasuko Tomita, Kyôko Yoshine
40. We Don't Need a Map (2017)
85 min | Documentary
Warwick Thornton investigates our relationship to the Southern Cross, in this thought-provoking ride through Australia's cultural and political landscape.
Director: Warwick Thornton | Stars: Trevor 'Reg' Abrahams, Adam Briggs, Timmy Burarrwanga, Phil Dennis
Votes: 86
41. Wilder Palms (2017)
13 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
After a tense encounter between her mother and with a CPS worker, seven-year old Rin is forced to choose between retreating to her imagination or facing a new reality,
Director: Bradley Tangonan | Stars: Alexa Bodden, Cyndi Mayo, Cyndi Mayo, Byron Ono
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