Slamdance 2017: Narrative Shorts

Deep in Louisiana's swampland, a woman wakes from a fever dream where it has been August for 16 years.

On a little red planet populated by puppet animals, two girls bond over a stick n poke tattoo, bad dreams, and other things.

Brad, an uptight office drone, seemingly discovers the perfect vehicle for letting off steam when an advertisement for a business catering to his innermost desires pops up one morning on his computer. Brad's subsequent visit to the business and encounter with its receptionist Janine, however, don't quite go as planned.

A young man becomes entangled in an older couples' intimate affairs--but will he make it out alive?

A sci-fi soap opera: Dad is dying, mom can't sleep, and Nancy is determined to forget what she saw. Linda relives a past trauma and fears what might happen while she is away from home. Meanwhile, Mark entertains a mysterious stranger, who is secretly conducting a deadly experiment.

A Doll's Hug Domestic violence, school violence, and societal violence continually challenge and threaten the Taiwanese teenage boy, XiangYu. He seeks to escape from the undesirable reality to take shelter in his imaginary Barbie doll world. He learns to fight back to seek solutions for ever-lasting redemption. However, the relief from the redemption is impermanent...

A meeting in a therapist office waiting room goes horribly wrong.

5 women : 5 tales of ordinary oppression.

An aspiring artist struggles to find his voice, his sexual identity, and the meaning of creativity.

A man finds a family of strangers in his house and has an extremely difficult time asking them to leave.

On the final night of their DIY stand up comedy tour around Texas, five comics grow closer as friends.

High schooler Marshall hopes to seal the deal on prom night, but his date, Sarah, might not be as into it as he had hoped.

After a seemingly ordinary transaction goes wrong, a young inner-city Latina stripper encounters a violent customer on her way home to her father's birthday.

Writer/Director Tim Mason pulls the curtain back on the glamorous world of advertising in this short comedy about a voiceover actor trying to nail the right tone for a pair of indecisive ad creatives selling a fictitious children's ice cream brand. Or is it a short tragedy about a pair of ad creatives trying to coax the right tone out of a distracted voiceover actor?

1950 Italy, Maria mourns the death of her son and husband with her grandson Paolo (age 7) whom was left to her during the war. The family lives in a one bedroom flat next to a patch of farm. Maria take's Paolo to the local cafe in the town square for his birthday where they momentarily forget their troubles. Maria glances over to her grandson to see him observing a family enjoying a full dinner. The next morning Maria strips the bed of her bed sheets and takes them to the pawn office to trade for a bike for Paolo. The same night Paolo mounts his grandfather's sled to his bike and loads up his grandmother's farmed goods to assist.

Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires. Nor any truck.

Shenanigans occur in an apartment shared by two Korean women as one of them brings home a man that she picked up in a club and two thieves invade the place. Meanwhile, a fan oscillates and observes.

He wants you to bounce on his lap.

An experimental narrative which follows the journey of a product from the factory line to a consumer and beyond.

After a bizarre ceremony, two lovers are condemned to live in a cave inhabited by flying creatures in this surreal tale about repressed love.

On her quest to find a missing cactus, LA's most notorious detective (Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson from The Wire) must face her own demons in order to solve the case and win the heart of a beautiful woman.

A documentary portrait of a man, with ascetic origins, who has been radically transformed by city life.

The return journey on a train from a freshman summer camp, where 18-year-old Dóra has just been sexually abused. Now the president of the students' union wants to talk with her.