The Kids Are Alright // Student Shorts
Tied Up - Patrick Lake, a bumbling, asthmatic employee at B&D Accounting, has a big job interview for a promotion - the only thing in the way is his off-putting, egghead boss, a knife, and himself.
Country: United States
Director: Liam Fineout
New Year's Dance - After two decades away from home, a Chinese woman in New York considers taking a chance on a married dance enthusiast in the hopes of rediscovering her missing sense of family and belonging during the Lunar New Year.
Country: United States
Director: Szu-Wei Chen
Forgotten Flame - Inspired by the work and story of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a Jewish-Polish composer, who was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust when he was 20 years old and later dealt with arrest during the rise of antisemitism. Students bring to life Movement II of Weinberg’s Cello Concertino, which was once put in a drawer and only discovered two decades after his death.
Country: United States
Director: Rachel Linsky
Asphyxia - A failed writer and his son are stuck in their home after an apocalypse. Tensions rise as the son vies for freedom while the father forces him to write.
Country: United States
Director: Luciano Alzate
Singing In The Life Boat - Jin seeks solace in the woods of Pennsylvania amidst the Covid pandemic. Surrounded only by trees, her thoughts become increasingly fraught with desperation and danger.
Country: United States
Director: Grace Wijaya
Millennium Project - On the day before the turn of the millennium, junior high school student Guo Hao discovered the secrets of his family members while preparing to go skating at the rink…
Country: China
Director: Yifan Zhang
Mis-Alignment - When an engineer who destroys malfunctioning androids encounters a shocking abnormality in a rebellious patient, she risks everything to save her new friend and herself.
Country: United States
Director: Pablo Riesgo Almonacid
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