• Home Is Where the Heart Is

Home is so much more than a dwelling. Home is our collective pasts, our memories, our loved ones and our shared hopes for a better future.

Short Films

Ptitsa

During the pandemic, a mother and her adult daughter live their lives in the same home but separate from each other. However, when tragedy strikes their friend, their relationship is put into a different perspective.

I Have No Tears, and I Must Cry

Maria Luisa is ready to escape immigration limbo, but when her green card interview takes an unexpected turn, she faces the anxiety of losing the life she had planned.

White Ant

A middle-aged businessman returns to his abandoned childhood home, where he finds a colony of termites destroying the house. Profoundly disconnected from his past self, he watches on solemnly, as the house caretaker and an exterminator deal with the infestation.

Spring Roll Dream

Linh is a Vietnamese mother who lives with her son in America. When her father visits and insists on cooking a traditional Vietnamese meal, Linh is confronted with the past and culture she left behind.

Science Around Us

Budi, a closeted Indonesian transplant to The Netherlands is attempting to clean up the AirBnB he owns as last night’s tenants trashed it and tonight’s are incoming quickly. Worse, he gets a call from his brother that their father is ill and refusing treatment.

ShortFest 2023