Programmers' Picks
Our intrepid programmers reviewed almost 700 feature-length and short films this year! Want to know what stood out most to them? Discover our Programmers’ Picks and pave your own journey through this year’s festival.
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Yudho Aditya / Programmers' Picks / USA / 2017 / 11 mins
Justin, a parachute kid who is dropped off to live and attend school in the United States while his wealthy parents remain in Asia, must deal with the fact that his older sister is leaving to start a new life in the east coast without him.
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And So We Put Goldfish In the Pool
Makoto Nagahisa / Shorts Competition, Programmers' Picks / Japan / 2016 / 28 mins
One summer day, 400 goldfish were found in the swimming pool of a secondary school. This is a story about four 15-year old girls who released the fish there.
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Bao
Yanqiu Fei / Programmers' Picks / China / 2016 / 18 mins
When a rookie drug mule encounters an abandoned baby girl, they become an unlikely team as they embark on a train journey through China.
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Called Home
Jason Piemnoppakao / Programmers' Picks / USA / 2016 / 8 mins
A college student returns to his traditional Taiwanese home after coming out to his father, and is forced to re-live the silence and repression he thought was behind him.
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Cardinal X
Angie Wang / Narrative Competition, Programmers' Picks / USA / 2016 / 84 mins
In 1984, one of the west coast's largest dealers of the drug, Ecstasy, was a 19 year old co-ed.CARDINAL X
Downtown Independent
April 30, 2017 9:15 pmCARDINAL X (ENCORE)
CGV Cinemas 3
May 3, 2017 4:30 pm
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Chee and T
Tanuj Chopra / Narrative Competition, Programmers' Picks / USA / 2016 / 80 mins
A buddy movie about the last two brown guys in Silicon Valley who have nothing to do with technology.Preceded by: Arranged
CHEE and T
CGV Cinemas 1
May 3, 2017 9:15 pm
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Cocoon
Mei Liying / Programmers' Picks / China / 2017 / 25 mins
China, 1997. An unhappy marriage, a love affair, and a child who holds all the secrets.
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Cowboy And Indian
Sujata Day / Programmers' Picks / USA / 2016 / 8 mins
In an unlikely encounter in the desert, a cowboy chances upon a young Bengali bride and the two develop a dynamic where both come to realize that things should not be taken at face value.
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Reseba – The Dark Wind
Hussein Hassan / International Competition, Programmers' Picks / Germany, Iraq, Qatar / 2016 / 91 mins
Radical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq, where two young Yazidi prepare for marriage. From that moment onwards, their lives are turned into a nightmare.RESEBA – THE DARK WIND
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
May 3, 2017 6:00 pm FREE, Check-In at Box Office
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David And Goliath
Rachel Lee / Programmers' Picks / USA / 2016 / 5 mins
In a small, suburban neighborhood, a mom and pop donut shop comes face-to-face with one of the largest donut corporations in America.
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Deer God
Tomorrow Mingtian / Shorts Competition, Programmers' Picks / China, USA / 2016 / 14 mins
Old Guan, a native Oroqen hunter, goes into the woods to shoot "donkey deer" before his family leaves for America.
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Forever, Chinatown
James Q. Chan / Shorts Competition, Programmers' Picks / USA / 2016 / 32 mins
FOREVER, CHINATOWN is the story of unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading memories by building romantic, extraordinarily detailed miniature models of the San Francisco Chinatown rooms of his youth.
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Ghost Magnet Roach Motel
Shinpei Takeda / Documentary Competition, Programmers' Picks / Germany, Japan, Mexico / 2016 / 70 mins
The Punk Musical by artist Shinpei Takeda follows the off-stage life of 5 artists (2 American musicians, 2 Mexican artists and 1 Japanese filmmaker) of GHOST MAGNET ROACH MOTEL, a noise punkformance unit born in Tijuana, Mexico in their process of overcoming their psychological border. With a literally crashing border between Mexico and USA as the background, the protagonists confront each individual’s addictions while searching for an answer to their existential crises.Preceded by: A Doll’s Hug
GHOST MAGNET ROACH MOTEL
CGV Cinemas 2
May 3, 2017 9:30 pm
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Hold Me (Ca Caw Ca Caw)
Renee Zhan / Shorts Competition, Programmers' Picks / USA / 2016 / 11 mins
HOLD ME (CA CAW CA CAW) is an 11 minute animated film about the troubled relationship between a large bird and a small boy. The film features hand-drawn 2D animation, as well as ink and watercolor painted backgrounds.
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I am JUPITER I am the BIGGEST PLANET
Matthew Victor Pastor / Shorts Competition, Programmers' Picks / Australia, Philippines / 2016 / 14 mins
Silence in the red light district of Manila.
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