NOMINEE – BEST MADE IN THE MARIANAS

6:00pm | Fri Oct 7 | 20min.
(w/ filmmaker Q&A)
First Date is a short film about a young college student struggling to find the courage to ask a girl out on a date.

NOMINEE – BEST MADE IN THE MARIANAS

6:00pm | Fri Oct 7 | 13min.
(w/ filmmaker Q&A)
A drama thriller set on Guam that follows a young man, Floyd, as he navigates the jungle and overcomes internal conflicts.

NOMINEE – BEST MADE IN THE MARIANAS

6:00pm | Fri Oct 7 | 13min.
(w/ filmmaker Q&A)
While preparing to graduate and leave the island, a young man’s task of completing his valedictorian speech leads him to finally appreciate his home and his family.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

6:00pm | Fri Oct 7 | 18min.
(w/ filmmaker Q&A)
Set in the Philippines during World War II, a young woman struggles to find purpose after losing her father.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1:00pm | Sat Oct 8 | 75min.
Immersed in their own space race, a diverse group of ambitious students enter the Zero Robotics ISS (International Space Station) Competition.

2:40pm | Sat Oct 8 | 10min.
In a secluded cabin surrounded by untrodden snow, a man delves into his childhood memories with his father. Nothing can disrupt this moment of introspection, not even the most dangerous threat.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

2:40pm | Sat Oct 8 | 16min.
Sunday at midday, Mohsen, Nima and Farid want to give bad news to Nastaran, who is about to give birth.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

2:40pm | Sat Oct 8 | 11min.
Benoit and Catherine, a couple in their late twenties, go to his parents’ house for dinner. It is with surprise and apprehension that they learn that the whole family is invited for supper and that the evening may not go as planned!

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

2:40pm | Sat Oct 8 | 21min.
Blamed for a crime they did not commit, five young men in 1930s Hawai’i must consider their futures and their families as they weigh the consequences of taking action.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

2:40pm | Sat Oct 8 | 30min.
Sue-kyung is a young adult who is struggling to fit in at work due to her introverted nature.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

2:40pm | Sat Oct 8 | 13min.
Facing the climate crisis, Louise, a philosophy teacher, turns words into action.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

2:40pm | Sat Oct 8 | 17min.
Marianne, a heroine for a day, is interviewed by a young journalist. Despite of all the misunderstandings, a meeting takes place, brief, tenuous, human.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

5:30pm | Sat Oct 8 | 90min.
The last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa in search of healing, and her family’s reckoning with systemic abuse, are powerfully documented.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

1:00pm | Sun Oct 9 | 18min.
(w/ filmmaker Q&A)
Set in the Philippines during World War II, a young woman struggles to find purpose after losing her father.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

1:00pm | Sun Oct 9 | 20min.
Amidst the 1970s native rights movement, George Helm, a Hawaiian activist and musician must gain the support of kūpuna (community elders) from Maui to aid in the fight of protecting the precious neighboring island of Kahoʻolawe from military bombing.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

1:00pm | Sun Oct 9 | 25min.
A poignant love story about the transformative power of forgiveness in an aging couple’s relationship.

3:00pm | Sun Oct 9 | 10min.
Fourth-generation Chinese American Kimberlee Bassford explores her family’s relationship to Honolulu Chinatown and the parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1899-1900 bubonic plague that hit Hawai‘i, highlighting the ways the two public health crises transformed the iconic neighborhood then and now.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

3:00pm | Sun Oct 9 | 30min.
This urgent story bears unprecedented biological and cultural significance and reminds us that local nature is an embodiment of Hawaiian identity and a precursor to life on these islands.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

3:00pm | Sun Oct 9 | 15min.
They got a devastating news about their son’s brain death. The old fragile blind father, has to make a decision whether to donate his son’s healthy parts to help 16 other patients.

GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE

4:50pm | Sun Oct 9 | 94min.
Ray and Dio, father and son, work the day and night shifts respectively. Both reticent and emotionless, they keep some distance between them due to family issues and generation gaps. On Tomb Sweeping Day, Ray gets lost in the columbarium since no one told him where their ancestors’ urns are placed. When Dio sees his miserable father from behind, he realises how useless his father is…