2025 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival: Virtual Edition

Shorts Program 2 - What We Hold

Expired July 29, 2025 7:00 AM
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From quiet burdens to unspoken truths, intimate stories of identity, desire, and the strength to endure.

When a groundbreaking medical procedure promises to turn slackers into overachievers, an aging father sees it as his last chance to achieve the American Dream-through his unemployed adult daughter. 

  • Runtime
    11 minutes
  • Language
    English, Mandarin
  • Country
    United States
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  • Director
    Jessica Liu
  • Screenwriter
    Jessica Liu
  • Producer
    Annie Huang
  • Executive Producer
    Randall Park, Brandon Diep Bui
  • Cast
    Richard Ouyang, Peggy Lu, Terry Hu, Randall Park, Shirley Chen, Carlin James, Peter Adrian Sudarso, Theo Iyer, Aoi Takeya
  • Cinematographer
    Jon Keng & Mary MA
  • Editor
    Tiffany Lin
  • Production Design
    Justine Ellen Chen
  • Composer
    Tangelene Bolton
  • Sound Design
    Kai Sheer
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