Heavy Weight Shorts Block #14

STRANGERS

Director Leah Doz

Drama Short, 14 min, Canada

After missing their bus on a cold winter night, a young girl confronts the limits of her mother's love.

Close To Home

Directors Jane Skapek, Ana Solis

Narrative Short, Drama Short, 13 min, Panama 

Maria Luisa and John try to spend a relaxing night at home, but Luisa keeps trying to fix the old house.

LIKE STARS

Director Kali Bailey

Drama Short, 15 min, United States

A North Korean asylum seeker and an asylum attorney - both unseen women - who in the face of intense pressures learn that surviving isn’t enough.

Under the Hawthorn Tree

Director Tori Layne

Narrative Short, 16  min, United States

With no family left, the widow Leila travels to her late husband’s family farm in the mountains, where her sister-in-law, Sybil, has been left to run the farm.