Dreams and Desires
|
|
Wednesday, June 20, 11:30 AM
Camelot Theatres
DREA2312
Date has passed.
|
|
|
Dreams and Desires
93 Minute Running Time
Program: ShortFest Film Packages
There’s the wish, and then there’s the reality: five thoughtful stories about characters who long for something that seems beyond their reach. But as Robert Browning said: “Ah but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
Packaged Films...
|
|
Asad
South Africa, 2011, 16 min.
In this authentic coming of age story, a young Somali boy must walk a tight rope between doing the right thing and self-preservation, all the while clinging to his dream of one day becoming a fisherman. Winner, Best Narrative Short, Tribeca FF.... more
|
|
|
|
Buzkashi Boys
Afghanistan, 2011, 29 min.
Shot on location in Kabul, Buzkashi Boys tells the story of two best friends, a blacksmith’s son and a street urchin, who struggle to realize their dreams as they come of age in war-torn Afghanistan.... more
|
|
|
|
GABI
Puerto Rico, 2011, 20 min.
Gabi Padilla is that unique, unmarried thirty-something Puerto Rican woman, thriving in her life full of pleasure and independence—until a death in the family calls her back home.... more
|
|
|
|
Half-Life
USA, 2011, 15 min.
Retirement these days is no longer the pastoral and idyllic rest it once was. So for one couple, the decision to trade their city apartment for a country house seems like a good swap. Even if the country house is in Chernobyl Park.... more
|
|
|
|
Obake
USA, 2011, 13 min.
For an elderly Japanese man living out his life on the north shore of Hawaii, time has become malleable, the past and the present converging into a singular experience of love, regret and reunion.... more
|
|