Missed Connections makes a home for stories about rupture, failure, longing, and accident. Heartbreak as well as hope permeates these short films that each exist in the space between people, space that is sometimes bridged and sometimes not, but always present. While the relationships in these stories perhaps miss the mark, triumph finds its way into the program through self discovery, independence, boldness, empathy, music, and kindness.
Through a chance encounter outside a bar, two men bond over their own sense of loneliness. One reeling from a breakup and another trying to carve out his place in the world, the union of these two wandering souls feels like it has lasting meaning beyond their night together.
This is a heartfelt and gentle film about finding hope in loss; and the potential for a new beginning with, or without, someone you have never met before.
Of Hearts And Castles has played at BFI Flare, Outfest LA, and more. The film won Best Short Film at Seville European Film Festival and was nominated for the same category at TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival and ASECAN.
– Derrek Wall, Damn These Heels programming committee member
- Year2020
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUS, Spain
- PremiereIntermountain West Premiere
- RatingNot Rated
- DirectorRuben Navarro
Missed Connections makes a home for stories about rupture, failure, longing, and accident. Heartbreak as well as hope permeates these short films that each exist in the space between people, space that is sometimes bridged and sometimes not, but always present. While the relationships in these stories perhaps miss the mark, triumph finds its way into the program through self discovery, independence, boldness, empathy, music, and kindness.
Through a chance encounter outside a bar, two men bond over their own sense of loneliness. One reeling from a breakup and another trying to carve out his place in the world, the union of these two wandering souls feels like it has lasting meaning beyond their night together.
This is a heartfelt and gentle film about finding hope in loss; and the potential for a new beginning with, or without, someone you have never met before.
Of Hearts And Castles has played at BFI Flare, Outfest LA, and more. The film won Best Short Film at Seville European Film Festival and was nominated for the same category at TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival and ASECAN.
– Derrek Wall, Damn These Heels programming committee member
- Year2020
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUS, Spain
- PremiereIntermountain West Premiere
- RatingNot Rated
- DirectorRuben Navarro
