Shorts - Program 2

14 Paintings

In carefully framed and precisely timed shots, fourteen paintings hang still, surrounded by random human moments. The surprising relationships that develop between each painting and the people around it reveal a slice of everyday life in today’s China.

Au Revoir, Pugs

Looking at his elderly dog and newborn son, the filmmaker is plagued with doubt: What really happened to his childhood dogs?

Echo

They listen to recordings of their own voices, ask strangers for help, and earnestly tell the world that this is not their fault. In this beautiful and profoundly relatable film, two stuttering teenagers learn to see their own value just as they are, with their disability, and perhaps because of it.

M/other

Three childfree women in their 40s face the ultimate explanation: their mothers. In a unique twist, they have their long-overdue heart-to-heart, not with their own moms, but with each other's.