MOSTLY LOCALS TWO - SHORTS BLOCK #17

Winter's Year

Director Carlee Soeder - USA - 8 min. 

Exploring the words used against us to hurt us, the faces we put on for others, the thoughts that trap us inside our heads, and the release of our past selves.

Luperca

Director Rainn Mowris - USA - 16 min. 

A resilient young trans woman risks her life to escape an abusive past and finds new family in her former enemies, a tight-knit pack of queer werewolves.

Sleepless

Director Siqi Zhang - USA - 9 min. 

Suzie, a Chinese immigrant girl, is suffering from insomnia. One night, when Suzie is almost asleep, she is awakened by the sound coming from her grandmother's room.

Losing Eric

Director Jai Santiago - USA - 11 min. 

One impulsive decision can change the course of everything, as a family struggles to find a resolution for an adult son managing mental illness.

Deja Vu

Director Daniel Andre Sagona - USA - 8 min. 

A young mother writes a letter to her estranged husband at war.

Left Side of Memory

Director Gustav Wilde - USA - 13 min. 

Jake is unsuccessfully dealing with being rejected by what he knew was the love of his life. He gets caught up with a less than respectable physician who claims he can help Jake with his dilemma.

Bound

Director Jaye Pniewski - USA - 14 min. 

Jason and Jim Koss are estranged brothers who have come together after the death of their father, a well respected academic but painfully overbearing parent. Surrounded by decades of dad’s writings and memories, old wounds resurface as the brothers are faced with a life or death choice.