Shorts: After Dark

after dark shorts
Friday, October 25, 2019, 9:30pm

Bright Family Screening Room, The Paramount Center
559 Washington Street, Boston MA
(T: Park Street, Downtown Crossing, or Boylston)

From a dark comedy about a teenager fitting into a new school to a group of misfits roaming around the streets of New York City at night, "After Dark" provides snippets of all dark matters in our lives.

Films may contain mature content. Viewer discretion is advised.

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secret lives of asians at night

2019 | USA | 18 mins | Noir
Directed by KEFF

What does the "model minority" do after dark? (A screwball noir in 5 languages.)

THE VISIT

2018 | USA | 15 mins | Horror
Directed by Roxy Shih

A pregnant woman and her husband visit her lonely, aging grandmother in the rural mountains of Taiwan only to witness the older woman's mysterious disappearance.

Albatross soup

2018 | USA | 7 min | Documentary Puzzle
Directed by Winnie Cheung

A dizzying descent into deductive reasoning animated from illustrations by celebrated Toronto artist Fiona Smyth, "Albatross Soup" is a hybrid documentary film based on an entertaining yet disturbing lateral thinking puzzle.

stucco

2019 | USA | 18 mins | Short
Directed by Janina Gavankar and Russo Schelling

J is trying and failing to move forward as the scars of old relationships keep her trapped inside her new home.

gong ju

2018 | Canada | 11 mins | Drama
Directed by Jerome Yoo

After a cruel incident, Korean student Gong Ju is forced to attend school abroad in hopes she changes her violent ways.

go to sleep: a Lao ghost story

2019 | USA | 15 mins | Horror/Supernatural
Directed by Phet Mahathongdy

A middle-aged Laotian refugee struggles with his harrowing past, failing marriage, and demanding career when he is haunted by mysterious supernatural entities from his homeland known as Phi.

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