SHORTS PROGRAM 2:
ARTFUL/DRAMATIC/NEW DIMENSIONS
Perspectives on (dis)connection and (re)connection via transportive film worlds.
Saturday, October 4 – 3:00pm – UNCSA ACE Theatre Complex | 99 minutes | Includes a post-screening Q&A
GALILEE
Directed by Rachelle A. Dermer | USA | 2025 | English | 23:49 | Narrative Short
A young man finds love and danger in the conversion therapy program he’s conscripted into.
HOME COOKED MEALS
Directed by Natalie van Gelder | USA | 2024 | English | 4:46 | Narrative Short
Ren, a lonely amateur chef cooking in a post apocalyptic world, feels isolated through his otherness. He ends up meeting people like him, and finds community through the unifying power of cooking and eating together.
*First-time filmmaker. Student project, UNC Greensboro
BRAID CROWNS
Directed by Sanath Hegde | USA | 2025 | English | 16:04 | Narrative Short
*Student project, UNC School of the Arts
20:15 MÉXICO DF
Directed by Alejandro Di Meglio | Argentina | 2025 | Spanish | 6:31 | Narrative Short
In the vibrant heart of Mexico City, two women meet and begin a tender, reflective journey together. Through intimate conversations, they explore themes of memory, love, and the passage of time. Their connection becomes a window through which they gaze not only at their present but also at the infinite possibilities of their past and future. A beautifully crafted short film that captures the delicate intricacies of love and the fleeting nature of time.
PARALLEL LINES
Directed by Danny Wascou | USA | 2025 | English | 15:52 | Narrative Short
Over the course of one night, two strangers meet in line at a bar and embark on a journey of discovery — exploring missed opportunities, fate, and the strange twists of destiny.
THE CURTAINS GLOW AT NIGHT
Directed by Skye Schoenhoeft | USA | 2024 | English | 13:21 | Narrative Short
When Wren comes home from college, they discover a ghost in their childhood bedroom.
*First-time filmmaker. Student project, UCLA
THEM THAT’S NOT
Directed by Mikhail Lee | USA | 2025 | English, American Sign Language | 18:37 | Narrative Short
Andrea “Drea” Stoney, a down-on-her-luck poet, finds herself at her grandmother’s repass, along with her seditty larger-than-life family. But Drea is sticking out like a sore thumb; she’s introspective, Queer, artistic and proudly Deaf, albeit surrounded by her distant family members who don’t care to know ASL. So Drea resorts to finding solace in hidden, lonely moments that she can steal in the pockets of her grandmother’s generational brownstone. Her visit is complicated by the arrival of her father Samuel, who’s 20 years into a 25-year prison sentence, released for the day on a furlough to say goodbye to his late mother. The two strangers, bound by blood & their love for the deceased, are forced to reconcile with each other before his inevitable return to prison.
*First-time filmmaker