SHORTS: DISINHERIT ME

Stories of family and their unexpected and unwanted legacies, told with derision, laughter, anxiety, and love.

FLOATING LIGHT

Natalie Murao / Canada / 2017 / 12 mins
Two young sisters cope with the death of their grandfather during a Buddhist memorial.
LUNCH TIME

Alireza Ghasemi / Iran / 2017 / 15 mins
A young woman visits a morgue claiming to be the sole family member available to see her deceased mother.
PRIA

Yudho Aditya / Indonesia, USA / 2017 / 21 mins
A gay Indonesian teenager tries to go through with an arranged marriage to the daughter of a respected village elder.
HOW TO CRACK HARD-BOILED EGGS

Chy Chi / USA / 2016 / 15 mins
The strife between a Korean father and his American daughter come to a head in the parking lot of a local bar.
FIRST TO GO: STORY OF THE KATAOKA FAMILY

Myles Matsuno / USA / 2017 / 20 mins
Family remembers Ichiro Kataoka, the first Japanese American in San Francisco to be arrested and interned following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
LOST DOGS

Cullan Bruce / USA / 2017 / 15 mins
A young woman with an overbearing mother and gambler brother shows who’s really in charge in the family.