Seattle Sister Cities Short Films 2025

15 Shorts, 10 Countries, 4 Continents

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Available May 17, 2025 12:00 AM UTC
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15 films in package
Le Lancastria
This film explores memory and absence in different ways, offering an intimate vision of the history of Lancastria. It takes you on a journey of exploration, a dance between memory and forgetting, where each sound, each silence, each image reveals new stories.
Señorita
An older man, a ship captain, who is suffering from dementia, is trying to relive his past. In his mind he is still having an affair with a younger woman, that might have happened in his past or might have been a product of his imagination. When his wife shows up, he is trying to protect his fantasy in this compelling portrait of a man clinging to memories of youth.
Bear Hug
An eager little bear is waiting for his birthday guests to arrive. Slowly he realizes that he has been rejected. But the determination to celebrate his birthday is still strong, and, free as a bird, his hunt for company begins.
Choir Boys R Us
Set against the backdrop of a disconnected Christchurch city almost wiped off the New Zealand map by a natural disaster, this film depicts special relationships that endure from a shared purpose and a God-given calling. Filmed in 2016 and 2017, the film is a snapshot of what it is like to be a boy in a cathedral choir.
Linger
A boy from the city meets a girl who lives in a village. As it is about to be demolished as a result of China's rapid urbanization, they meet briefly and are quickly separated. Not knowing where each of them will end up, the girl's identity is gradually revealed.
Rock Star Kapara
Rager High School brings you a film about Noam. Noam had a dream since he was a little boy - to be a rapper. When he was about to release his first album, a motorcycle accident ended the dream. Against all odds, his mother Tsofia decided to make her son's dream come true.
A Song of the Rolling Earth
This film essay inspired by Walt Whitman's eponymous poem explores themes of alterity, the state of being other or different.
The Power of Connection: A Personal Journey from Tashkent to Seattle
Filmmaker Madina tells the story of how she found the Seattle-Tashkent Sister City Association and how it changed her life. It is her story of immigration from Tashkent to Seattle and how STSCA became her new family.
Hands
Just hands, doing hands stuff… or maybe it’s more than that.
A-Typical Connection
This documentary, shot entirely on a cassette Canon camcorder harkening back to the feeling of the 2000s, explores the complexities of neurodiversity through intimate testimonies from four women about how they connect with others and the struggles they face.
Essential
This is a mini-documentary about the hand tools that played a vital role and were essential for agriculture and daily tasks in Cambodia throughout the 19th century.
Mombasa, the Jewel of Kenya
A native narrator gives a brief introduction as to the nationalities that make up Mombasa and then moves into varying scenes of the culture and life in bustling Mombasa. Includes music, dancing, public markets, industries, and the landscape and shoreline of the country.
Waukesho Community Based Organization
A young poor girl enrolls in Wakesho Community Based Organization to learn how to sew in the hope of becoming a fashion designer. Seattle-Mombasa Sister City Association is a co-sponsor of the Wakesho Community Based Organization in Mombasa, Kenya.
SuperFamily XXL
The Seattle-Kaohsiung Sister City Association presents a brief travel journal of their dragonboat team activities and experiences in Kaohsiung, ending at the Seattle Dragonboat Festival.
Control Freak
Alternating between a text by Rimbaud on motherhood and a discussion between two friends from different cultures about their upbringing with their mothers, this film examines the desire for protection, the rebound, the organic using the image of a balloon for the theme of ‘maternal control’.
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An older man, a ship captain, who is suffering from dementia, is trying to relive his past. In his mind he is still having an affair with a younger woman, that might have happened in his past or might have been a product of his imagination. When his wife shows up, he is trying to protect his fantasy in this compelling portrait of a man clinging to memories of youth.

  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    7:17
  • Language
    Polish, Spanish
  • Country
    Poland
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Sponsor
    Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association
  • Director
    Sebastian Szewczykowski
  • Producer
    Gdynia Film School
  • Cast
    Joanna Pultyn, Krysztof Matuszewski, Dorota Lulka, Wiktoria Czerpak, Tymon Tymański
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