Webs We Weave Shorts
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An eclectic collection of nine films that explore the complex relationships between people, how we are all interconnected, and the artificial constructs society places between us.
*Filmmakers in Attendance for post-screening Q&A (first screening only)
Presented in Multiple Parts
NEWBIES
Two broken strangers wrestling with their queer identities meet on the subway just after midnight. A poignant,...
17 min | Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, Megan Trufant Tillman | United States | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English
| Closed Captions (for closed caption devices)
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SHE IS GUILTY
In the dead of night, a daughter is suddenly awakened. Her brother has been in a car accident, and her parents...
10 min | Yu Zihao | China | HAWAI‘I PREMIERE | Chinese
| English
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LITTLE SHREW (SNOWFLAKE)
A little shrew searches for Hope as she makes her way across a bombed-out city....
5 min | Kate Bush | United Kingdom | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English
| English
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THAT SPLIT-UP PLACE
Marcos and Mateo have been friends since they were children. The two have grown up together until the construc...
8 min | Inés Pintor Sierra, Pablo Santidrián | Spain | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | Spanish
| English
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GEORGE
George works at a crematorium by day and loves baking by night. His two passions soon overlap a little too muc...
16 min | Aaron Craig, Alex Craig | United States | English
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COLORS OF THE SKY’S END
A Vietnamese-American photographer seeking inspiration in Sa Dec, Vietnam discovers an abandoned baby, sparkin...
15 min | Catherine T. Nguyen | Vietnam, United States | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English, Vietnamese
| English
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FLAVOR OF THE MONTH
A B-list Chinese actor fears being replaced as “Hollywood’s Asian” while screen testing for a life-chang...
13 min | Nathan Xia | United States | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English, Mandarin
| English
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THE TRUCK
A Chinese American teenager and her boyfriend try to buy the morning after pill in post-Roe America....
13 min | Elizabeth Rao | United States | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English
| No subtitles are included on this film
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FRIENDS
Children''s friendships are innocent and simple, yet fragile. Two elementary school students became friends by...
5 min | Zihao Yu | China | WORLD PREMIERE | Chinese
| English
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