OCLIFF: Shorts Block 4 – 3PM
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Run Time: 68 min.
VASTI: Easy Prey (International)
Two young women head home after dining out only to be targeted by thugs, and their only hope to escape is in one of them revealing a secret that’s hard to believe.
When There Are No Words (US)
When her grandfather loses his voice to cancer, filmmaker Gabriella Canal captures the personal journey before and after his procedure, revealing a portrait of grief and resilience as her family’s patriarch loses what once defined him.
River Between Us (International)
El Río Entre Nosotros is a coming of age story about two boys, one Dominican and one Haitian, accidentally meeting and becoming the friends they never knew they could have – at least not this way. After a young Haitian boy, Ducan, crosses a border river into the Dominican Republic to retrieve his father’s hard earned money from a farm, he bumps into a very timid boy named Elias. Even though hostile at first, Elias grows to understand the boy’s circumstance and agrees to show Ducan the way. After encountering many risks, such as hometown bullies and even guards, they grow to care and look out for one another. Once the sun sets and they’ve retrieved their money, they say their farewells. They know that this goodbye will not be forever. How it only takes one person and a day for your whole life to change forever.
Celeste (International)
Celeste encapsulates the story of two lovers, Violet and Lily. The divine forces create a magical encounter between them in the limbo state of life. By unraveling their hearts, truth and forgiveness are revealed. Unconditional love will resurface along with glimpses of their past.
Bajo La Tierra (US)
Alta California, 1845. Alma is a young Mexican woman living in an isolated ranch with her mother Josefa. Their relationship becomes increasingly fragile as Alma becomes obsessed with work. When her mother tragically passes away, Alma becomes sick with the guilt of her neglect and takes on an unhealthy amount of work to drown it out. A task that becomes increasingly difficult when a series of supernatural disturbances begin to test her sanity. Will Alma manage to get a hold of her life or lose herself trying?