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April 28, 2024 at 1:30 PM PT
Marina Theatre
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Shorts 3: Lineages of Love

83 min

A force rippling across time and the world weaves the connective tissue of these eight stories. The distinct works in…
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Salone Love
Directed by Tajana Tokyo USA | Shorts | 5
This genre-bending short colors in between the lines of family, love, and marriage.

Salone Love

a film is a goodbye that never ends
Directed by María Luisa Santos Costa Rica | Shorts | 13
A woman awaiting her US visa befriends a dog named Turbo. When it’s time to part, she says goodbye the only way she knows how—she makes a movie.

a film is a goodbye that never ends

I Was Here
Directed by Noëlle Gentile USA | Shorts | 17
A couple navigates loss and heartbreak as they visit a grief counselor to help them come to terms with their son’s life-threatening diagnosis.

I Was Here

Layover
Directed by Taylor Sanghyun Lee USA | Shorts | 12
Long estranged from the religious community his mother embraces, Solomon must wear a lie one last time on the day of his brief return.

Layover

The Medallion
Directed by Ruth Hunduma UK | Shorts | 19
Ruth inherits her mother’s medallion, an emblem of survival from Ethiopia’s Derg Genocide that also represents the living tissue of collective memory and resistance sewn across generations.

The Medallion

We Exist in Memory
Directed by Darian Woehr USA | Shorts | 14
Through the conversations between a grandmother and grandchild living in refuge, we witness the complexity of raising a new generation in displacement.

We Exist in Memory

Weekend Visits
Directed by Pete Quandt USA | Shorts | 9
Mother and child spend a candid weekend together in a family lodging center attached to a women’s prison.

Weekend Visits

Battery Mommy
Directed by Seungbae Jeon South Korea | Shorts | 8
Mommy charges in to save the day in this so-cute-I-could-die follow-up to Jeon Seung-bae’s electrifyingly entertaining Battery Daddy, the 2023 Festival’s Shorts: Family Film Golden Gate Award winner.

Battery Mommy

Program Description

A force rippling across time and the world weaves the connective tissue of these eight stories. The distinct works in this collection examine the ways love brings us together even when a multitude of forces work to keep us apart. Love takes many forms: it bursts from the pages of a scrapbook preserving precious moments; it stays behind to comfort those grieving loss and brings us closer to those soon to be gone; it inhabits artifacts that carry meaning throughout our lives. In this group of electrifying, eclectic, and utterly ineffable films, love conquers all.