SHORTS: CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

Whether empowering, expressive, long-lost, or ghostly, some voices demand to be heard.

ON THE ORIGIN OF FEAR

Bayu Prihantoro Filemon / Indonesia / 2016 / 12 mins
A voice actor struggles to depict a murder scene while playing both murderer and victim.
DISTANCE

Zulfiya Hamzaki / USA / 2017 / 6 mins
A moving portrait of being away from home.
FLIP THE RECORD

Marie Jamora / USA / 2017 / 15 mins
With 1980s Filipino American DJ culture in the backdrop, Vanessa discovers who she is when she starts spinning records.
JAZZ ABROAD

Yuta Yamaguchi / USA / 2017 / 14 mins
When three Japanese musicians meet in America by chance, they decide to form a jazz trio.
SINGLE MOTHER ONLY DAUGHTER

Ellie Wen / Hong Kong, USA / 2017 / 9 mins
An intimate conversation between a filmmaker and her mother.
MY EYES ADORE YOU

Katelind Ikuma / USA / 2017 / 12 mins
Hawaii writer Lois-Ann Yamanaka inspires these enraptured tales of love.
SLEEPING WITH THE DEVIL

Alisa Yang / USA / 2016 / 23 mins
A Skype session with an exorcist.
VIBRATION

Jo Bareun / United Kingdom / 2016 / 14 mins
In the wake of his wife's death, a man finds an unexpected trace of who she was.