TUESDAY AUGUST 11, 7:45 PM
PROGRAM 63
Regal NOHO West

The Shape Of A Girl
USA | Thriller | 13 minutes
Director/Writer: Mallika Dhaliwal
Producer: Jordan Moore
Cast: Shane West, Brady Hepner, Meredith Mickelson
An artist harboring dark fantasies about his teenage son's girlfriend is drawn into a twisted cat and mouse game after his obsession goes too far.

Death of a Seagull
Iran | Drama | 12 minutes
Director/Writer: Ainaz Azarhoush
Producer: Azad Jafarian, Arian Moayed, Sanam Akhlagh
Cast: Ainaz Azarhoush, Alireza Sanifar, Mona Ahmadi
Nina is an actress forced to re-audition for a role she already has, on the film set where she was meant to be shooting. Competing against Lili, another actress, under her director’s demands, she reaches her breaking point. As the line between character and true self fades, she realizes she only feels alive when performing, and her essence slips away each time the curtain falls.

All The World's A Stage
USA | Drama | 12 minutes
Director/Writer: Thomas Xavier Bernos
Producer: Thomas Xavier Bernos
Cast: Anthony J. Treme, Morgan Lee, Brayden Hsu
A homeless man breaks into a home and is unexpectedly captured by two troubled teenagers living there with an elderly woman suffering from dementia. As tensions rise and secrets linger, the reluctant captive becomes entangled in their fragile, unconventional household. When an external threat disrupts their uneasy balance, all must confront who they are—and what kind of family they might become.

Facade
USA | Drama | 13 minutes
Director/Writer: Modupe Thompson
Producer: Kristen Vaganos, Claire Gostin
Cast: Arsema Thomas, Matthew Elam, Grace Amaku
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Makina
USA | Drama | 9 minutes
Director/Writer: Onur Erdurak
Producer: Cem Tekin, Matteo Leva, Onur Erdurak
Cast: Kennedy Taylor, Danielle Aldrich, Kourosh Parsapour
In an underground facility where imagination is contraband, Tim has never questioned the rules. They are the only world he has ever known. When Paige arrives as his new underling, she does not try to wake him up. She just exists. She folds paper, whistles, and does math in her head. And without meaning to, she makes him feel something he has no word for.

Eulogy
USA | Drama | 12 minutes
Director: Hyurk-Ju Enoch Lee
Writer: Izzy Ster
Producer: Mark Burnham, Victoria Mejia
Cast: Lindsey Beth Meyers, Tatum Price, Maggie Dewan-Smith
On the day of her mother’s funeral, Cassie, a young woman, struggles to accept her tough relationship with her mom. Through a series of flashbacks to her childhood, as well as conversations with her older sister and their church’s pastor, she realizes her mother did love her, and gains closure about their relationship, able to give the eulogy after all.

Becoming Buffalo
USA | Drama | 25 minutes
Director/Writer: Montana Cypress
Producer: Jhane Myers, Kevin Ondarza
Cast: Montana Cypress, Anna Mayo, Doc Native
When the U.S. government tried to terminate its relationship with the Tribes of Florida, the Miccosukees, led by a young leader Buffalo Tiger, played geopolitical rivals against one another, making a diplomatic visit to Castro's Cuba at the height of Cold War tensions.
