26th Annual deadCenter Film Festival

Virtual Shorts Program 2

Expired June 28, 2025 4:59 AM
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10 films in package
Welcome Home Freckles
After four years away, Huiju returns home to South Korea. Exchanges with her loved ones are awkward and clumsy. Huiju turns once again to her familiar rituals: pruning the trees, preparing a sauce, tying a braid.
Empty Your Pockets ( جیب هایتان را خالی کنید )
Hassan is an airport customs officer who needs a salary advance to buy his mother’s medication. While dealing with various passengers, the dark side of his job becomes clear. Ultimately Hassan must decide what matters to him the most, and at what cost.
TRASH
In a dark alley, a scrawny rat has no choice but to fight with a pigeon for a small slice of pizza. Without a second thought they throw themselves in a vertiginous chase from the top to the bottom of the street.
Synthesize Me
In April 1989, in a liminal town near Mexico City, young teenager Violeta finds a way to bring her mother's synthesizers back to life with disastrous consequences for her and her father.
Réel (Real)
1857. Coutances. Two farmer girls find a smartphone in their field.
Deux Personnes échangeant de la Salive (Two People Exchanging Saliva)
In a farcical world where kissing is punishable by death, a personal shopper threatens the status quo.
The Thrilling Adventure of Amos Waters
The Thrilling Adventure of Amos Waters" follows 10-year-old Amos as he tries to understand his alcoholic father by embarking on a quest that leads him through unexpected encounters and discoveries, ultimately confronting the reality of his father's illness.
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Euphoric
Sam brings Olivia home from a first date gone *very* well. After a few stumbling blocks getting into the rhythm, the two find their way back by confronting what could make or break this burgeoning queer romance... comfort in your own body.
Gilbert
Gilbert and Sullivan are inhabitants of a small archipelago in the middle of the ocean where Sullivan is a trumpeter and Gilbert distributes packages with his gondola. But one day Gilbert decides to keep a package that was intended for his neighbor.
The Show!
An observant artist and weird-o, Rachel, schemes to bring together other outsiders at a rundown Chicago Public High School.

Violeta, the young daughter of a widowed electrical maintenance worker, retreats to her mother’s neglected music workshop to play music to remember her. When she causes a widespread power cut, tensions rise between father and daughter, bringing their grief to a boiling point.

  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    14 minutes
  • Language
    Spanish
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    Oklahoma Premiere
  • Genre
    Drama, Children & Youth, Coming of Age
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Director
    Bear Damen
  • Screenwriter
    Bear Damen
  • Producer
    Salim El Arja, Constanza Pérez Carrillo
  • Executive Producer
    Constanza Peréz, Irlanda Tapia, Ana Cardona
  • Cast
    Ivana Plantier, Antonio Trejo Sánchez, Diana Ríos
  • Cinematographer
    Alfonso Herrera Salcedo
  • Editor
    Bear Damen
  • Production Design
    Ana Blizzard
  • Composer
    Bear Damen, Rob Kovacs
  • Sound Design
    Bear Damen, Jesse Enzler, Moritz Staub
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