Super Shorts Los Angeles (2024)

13/12/2023

Congratulations to all the winners! What a great festival it was!

01/12/2023

Black Dragon (United States) by Alexander Thompson, will be closing our 2023 festival. Check out our website and book your free tickets,

Vietnam, 1968. A feared American colonel nicknamed “the Black Dragon” by Vietnamese locals must face his inner shadow when his platoon presents him with a captured Vietcong girl who harbors some very unusual powers. A Jungian psychological thriller/parable examining the capacity for monstrous evil lurking within us all, the film is loosely inspired by the My Lai Massacre, one of America’s most pernicious wartime atrocities.

01/12/2023

Bodylands (United States) by Sarah McColgan, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7-9PM.

The human body becomes a living sculpture in this film that aims to reimagine toxic societal beauty norms.

01/12/2023

Dear Nana (United States) by Han Nguyen, get your free tickets online and watch this film Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 7pm.

Dear Nana is a deeply personal work that reflects my own childhood memory of living as a q***r kid in a small, conservative town in North Central Coast, Vietnam. It is made in memory of my maternal grandmother who passed away in 2011. She was the first person to teach me that there is no shame in being myself and doing whatever makes me happy instead of trying to conform to the norm and doing what is expected of me. This work is both about remembering her and reassuring myself that she would still be supportive of me now that I have come so far in my journey of self-expression. The film also features aspects of Vietnamese culture, such as the tradition to venerate our ancestors and pray for their blessings.

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Healer (United States) by Mackenzie Leigh, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7-9PM.

A young woman grapples with the untimely death of her sister, seeking solace in an imagined reality where they grew up together.

30/11/2023

Slaps (United States) by Angela Chen, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7-9PM.

The mysteries of love and relationships boiled down to 90 seconds.

30/11/2023

Disused (Sweden) by Susanne Walström, Ester Holmén, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7-9PM.

A young woman suffers a sudden loss. Isolated from the outside world in a barren desert landscape, she processes her experience to understand and accept her feelings.

30/11/2023

I love you California (United States) by Taylor Mahoney, get your free tickets on our website to see this film, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7-9PM.

A love letter and a visual poem to an ex, or rather "California".

30/11/2023

Under A Shooting Contrail (United States) by Rika Nakayama, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7-9PM

A little stop-motion puppet leaves his studio and explores the outside world. He experiences the vast, dynamic, and unpredictable world of nature through a lens of a stop-motion puppet.

30/11/2023

Motherboard (United States) by Rana Ghiassi, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7-9PM.

Motherboard sculpts a narrative about privacy in a digital age, feminism, and the ways in which humans connect with one another today. Shot in black and white, metallic beings both alien and robotic in demeanor lay upon a bed of electronics and cords, as they bask in the LA sun, reclining and recharging.

30/11/2023

Just Right (United States) by Camille Wormser, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7-9PM

A peek inside the absurd and whimsical mind of Mel, a woman with severe OCD trying to do something new with her day.

30/11/2023

Dog Years (United States) by Maxfield Biggs, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7-9PM.

A poem about a dog, her human, and the consequences of a nasty habit.

30/11/2023

Circle (United States) by Phillip Kaminiak, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7-9PM.

“Circle" is an analogy between the modern human being, living in mass cities, and the phenomenon of the circle of death - observed in nature with ants who are separated from the main foraging party and lose the pheromone track.

30/11/2023

The Drawing (United States) by Jay Salahi, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7-9PM.

After waking from a nightmare, artist Scarlet is pursued by a malevolent figure eerily reminiscent of her latest drawing.

30/11/2023

Kiss/Crash (United Kingdom) by Adam Cole, will be openings our last day of screenings. Get your free tickets on our website.

What destruction is triggered by romance? What pleasure is there in a car crash?

30/11/2023

Cataract (Denmark) by Jonatan Egholm Keis, will be our last film on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at 7PM

A desperate woman robs a gas station with her nearly-blind younger brother and catapults herself into deep water in order to pay for his cataract surgery.

30/11/2023

Hustle Money (United States) by Sebastian Brito, Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9PM .

Gabriel, a collegiate track and field sprinter, is escaping external pressures from a coach, agent and photographer as he sprints for the finish line.

30/11/2023

Love is the monster (Costa Rica) by Neto Villalobos Brenes, Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9PM .

In a dystopian society a grandmother wants to spend more time with her granddaughter, but a series of events turns what seems to be a perfect afternoon into something else.

30/11/2023

Text me when you get home xx (Germany) by Niklas Bauer, Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9PM

At night, a woman enters a stranger’s car, casually and voluntarily. But soon she begins to sense the dangerous situation she might be in.

30/11/2023

Beef (United States) by Brendon Kingsbury, Sean Webley, Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9PM. RSVP your free tickets now.

Some cows don't need to jump to make it over the moon.

30/11/2023

G'day (Australia) by M&C Saatchi, will open our Wednesday screening on December 6, 2023, 7-9PM.

When a charismatic toy unicorn with questionable magical abilities (Will Arnett) is accidentally delivered to the wrong gift shop in a strange country, a forgotten Kangaroo souvenir (Rose Bryne) seizes the opportunity to befriend him and escape her dusty top shelf to see the sights she’s always dreamt of.

30/11/2023

Generation (United Kingdom) by Riccardo Fusetti, Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9PM. Get your free tickets on our website.

A brief journey through the human experience as seen by the eyes of an Artificial Intelligence.

29/11/2023

Demon Box (Canada) by Sean Wainsteim, Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9PM

After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, su***de, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life.

29/11/2023

G'day (Australia) by M&C Saatchi, will open our Wednesday screening on December 6, 2023, 7-9PM.

When a charismatic toy unicorn with questionable magical abilities (Will Arnett) is accidentally delivered to the wrong gift shop in a strange country, a forgotten Kangaroo souvenir (Rose Bryne) seizes the opportunity to befriend him and escape her dusty top shelf to see the sights she’s always dreamt of.

29/11/2023

Hotel Centaur (Greece) by Lino Kafidas, Dimitris Kafidas, will be our closing film on our first night. Get your free tickets online to see these amazing films.

The absolute absurdity and meaninglessness of life are explored in this dark piece set in a Greek mountain hotel, with a cast of unlikely characters. At the centre of its enquiry into the absurd is a disenchanted hotelier whose last concern is the management of his establishment. Rather, he engages with his guests and staff as though they exist as proof of his torment, each day repeating a series of eccentric and pointless actions. His staff put up with his behaviour. Each guest that arrives at the Hotel Centaur bears a particular existential burden. From the suicidal boy who reads Kafka and watches his distracted parents dance, to the artist tormented by his blank canvas, to the story’s most unexpected guest, a Japanese man who for the past ten years – inexplicably – has written a polite weekly letter enquiring after the mythical centaurs of the area, and wishes to be shown these creatures. Each character searches, each search is shown to be absurd, with the story culminating in a brutal tragedy that is fallout of a bad joke, and the confirmation that life provides us with no easy answers.

29/11/2023

The Factory (Iran) by Masoud Saadat, Tuesday December 5th at 7pm. check our full schedule online.

Afrooz is an experienced lawyer who has the power to declare a large but bankrupt factory closed, on the other hand, the workers make a plan together to prevent this from happening.

29/11/2023

The Laundry Room (United States) by Ten-Headed Skeleton, rsvp your free tickets to see this film on Tuesday December 5th at 7pm.

An artist doing laundry meets another artist in their apartment building for the first time. One wants to network, the other wants to draw dead bodies burning in hell.

29/11/2023

Fearless Juan (Colombia) by David Pombo, watch this film on December 5th at 7pm. check our website to rsvp your free tickets.

After having dedicated his whole life to pleasing the dead, Juancho begins to worry about who will fulfill his wishes when his time comes. Lonely and accompanied only by his faithful dog Pinina, this old mortician from a popular neighborhood, fights to maintain control over his body even when he dies. Juancho has almost everything arranged, the funeral home, the burial field, the hole. He just needs a condescending soul who take care of his instructions, especially his greatest wish, to be buried standing up.

29/11/2023

The Laundry Room (United States) by Ten-Headed Skeleton, rsvp your free tickets to see this film on Tuesday December 5th at 7pm.

An artist doing laundry meets another artist in their apartment building for the first time. One wants to network, the other wants to draw dead bodies burning in hell.

29/11/2023

Domar (France) by Alcibiade Cohen, Tuesday December 5th at 7pm.

Maria, a young argentinian woman, evolves in a men's world : rodeo. The day before qualifying for the famous "Jesus Maria" tournament, for the first time open to women, she must make a choice: speak or let fate decide for her...

29/11/2023

Deep Blue (Canada) by Franie-Éléonore Bernier, RSVP your free tickets to see this film on Tuesday December 5th at 7pm.

A hotel phone rings. A woman answers. It is the sea calling.

29/11/2023

European Man...American Beach (United States) by Rex Shannon will be opening our 2023 festival on Tuesday December 5th at 7pm. Get your free tickets!

A European man goes naked to an American beach. A clothed American beachgoer takes offence and a brawl ensues.

09/12/2022

Congratulations to all the winners and to our filmmakers for making it into the official selection! Thank you to all involved in making Super Shorts Los Angeles into a success! See you in 2023!

02/12/2022

Where do we go from here (Italy) by Antonello Schioppa will be our last film on Thursday December 8th at 7pm.
Synopsis: A woman's lifeless body is lying on a room's floor. A shocked man is staring at it. Beyond the closed door, someone is quietly trying to get in: he's a 9 years old child. These three are a family. Or what's left. Running time: 00:19:50. Selections/awards: Sulmona Int Short FF (Best Abruzzo Short Film), Visioni Italiane 2020 - Cineteca di Bologna, Varese IFF, Asti FF (Best Short - Young Jury Award), Falvaterra FF (Best Actor), and more

02/12/2022

RIP 9-5 (USA) by Ben Alderman, Thursday December 8th at 7pm.
Synopsis: A Y2K apocalypse takes place inside of computers as a result of binary code and monopoly capitalism. Running time: 00:02:12. Selections/awards:

01/12/2022

Idol (Australia) by Alex Wu, watch this film Thursday December 8th at 7pm.
Synopsis: A young Chinese celebrity is called into an emergency meeting after a fan of his commits su***de. Running time: 00:18:30. Selections/awards: Brooklyn FF (Spirit Award in Short Narrative, Outstanding Achievement in Performance (Best Male Actor), Sydney FF (Dendy Award for Best Australian Live-Action Short Film), Adelaide FF, Flickerfest International Short FF, and more.

01/12/2022

Rebirth (Sweden) by Nils Agdler, Thursday December 8th at 7pm.
Synopsis: The conception of The New Man emerged in the 1970s, and has since then reappeared from time to time, with varying ideals about how he should look, feel and act. There are often major inherent conflicts within the same ideal, which can cause great confusion for the man at the individual level. What it is like to be a white, middle-aged man in the western society today, what does the hegemonic masculinity look like and are there other ideals to follow? How does the white man react when his privileges diminish or disappear, when he no longer belongs to a chosen ”we” but is mixed up with "the others"? It is easy to see destructive parts of men's actions around the world, but what is actually a good masculinity? Are male role models important or are human role models enough? And will men in the near future become redundant when women will be able to reproduce themselves without the help of a man? In Rebirth, Nils Agdler visualizes ideas of a coming new man, the unprotected and vulnerable man, the new-born man and the man as nature. Running time: 00:03:40. Selections/awards: International Short FF Oberhausen, Berlin Flash FF, and more.

01/12/2022

Scars (Canada) by Alex Anna, Thursday December 8th at 7pm.
Synopsis: Alex Anna’s body is a canvas : her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming. Live action and animation intertwine in this short and poetic documentary, both intimate and universal. Running time: 00:10:00. Selections/awards: Brussels Independent FF, Hong Kong Arthouse FF, Toronto Arthouse FF (Best Documentary Short Film), Ghent Viewpoint Documentary FF, and more.

30/11/2022

Heat Wave Hallucination (USA) by Jil Guyon, watch this film Thursday December 8th at 7pm.
Synopsis: Heat Wave Hallucination is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait that transports the viewer into a psychedelic world of vibrant color and dramatic, hypnotic sound. Running time: 00:01:29.

30/11/2022

Poise (Portugal) by Luís Soares, Thursday December 8th at 7pm.
Synopsis: A sad and restrained man lying on the bed in his empty room. Hesitates, ponder hypotheses in a cycle without deciding, stuck. In exhaustion all anguish equals. Another man is sitting at the window: he looks at him and to the street. Characters in broken situations. The key positions, the suspended sequences, are shown. The man almost decides - and they almost return, inside and out, to them and to the city, time and movement. Infinite dawn. Running time: 00:07:00Selections/awards: Slamdance FF, Indielisboa, Brussels Independent FF, Curta Cinema Brazil, Animac (Winner Audience Award), and more.

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