Anthony, an avid mountain biker and athlete, and his wife Julie are forced to reflect on and reimagine their lives when he’s diagnosed with colon cancer at only 36 years old.

All I Can Do

Set in southern Arizona, twenty miles from the Mexico border on the Tohono O’odham Nation, a six-year-old Indigenous girl (Amaya Juan) discovers a Hispanic migrant her age who has lost her father while traveling through the Tohono O’odham tribal lands into the United States.

Burros

Marcus and his mother Ani scheduled a videoconference to take news from each other. By the end of the call, they realize they won’t be able to make time soon to see each other, despite themselves.

Soon

In KA HO‘I, an aging Hawaiian War Veteran grapples with the nightmares of his past, and the even scarier thought of being forgotten as the world around him seems to leave him in the dust. One night, he hears a familiar voice calling him from the beach, and what he encounters is beyond anything he could have imagined.

Ka Hoʻi: The Return

A young woman becomes an unlikely caregiver for her estranged father and his new chicken friend. --- A man recklessly rides in his electric wheelchair and takes a tumble. He meets a chicken while he’s face down on the ground. His 25 year-old daughter, Angel, cares for him, and when the chicken makes its way into the house, he insists on having the chicken stay. Seeing the happiness her father is experiencing, Angel plays into his delusion and treats the chicken like a house guest. The pressures of caring for her father’s needs, as well as the chicken’s, begins to mount and she grapples with the idea of leaving him at an assisted living facility. Their underlying history comes to a boiling point when she accidentally leaves the door open and the chicken wanders off.

After The Egg

In the morning of New Year’s Eve, the old man is writing Chinese calligraphy when he oversees a man in the suit talking to his son and daughter-in-law about selling the old courtyard house. As the dark falls, the family gathered in the dining room for dumplings. The old man’s last attempt to persuade his family that he prefers to live in the old house instead of migrating to America fails. Reveling in the nostalgic memory of lighting firecrackers with his departed wife and juvenile son, he decides to take his grandson to shoot off some forbidden fireworks as a commemoration for the lost time. Their secret plan is exposed when his son comes to call them for dinner. After a long moment on his own, he decides to proceed with his unlawful action and makes fireworks blooming in the sky once again. The sound of fireworks is soon blended with the police siren at far.

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The 2022 Omaha Film Festival highlights Narrative Feature Films, Documentaries, Short Films, Animated Short Films, and Nebraska Short Films from March 13 - April 2. Scroll through our selections, read synopses, watch trailers, and plan your festival! 

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