SF Short FF: Frights at Night

Everyone Likes A Story
Director: Paul Lucia
Runtime: 14 minutes
A stolen artifact leads to mystery and death.

The Lucena Position
Director: John Sherman
Runtime: 8 minutes
A chess game between two brothers gets way too personal.

Good Lok
Director: John Dorsett
Runtime: 17 minutes
A victim of an Asian hate crime tracks down his assailant.

Ashay
Director: Tyler Davis
Runtime: 5 minutes
A thriller about an ashy woman who struggles to find lotion.

Good Times/Bad Times
Director: Laura Medeiros
Runtime: 3 minutes
A sweet pixie dream girl decorates her living room wall with pictures of the best moments of her life…but what is that strange muffled noise coming from the inside of her closet?

Tooth
Director: Jillian Corsie
Runtime: 4 minutes
Fed up with decades of suffering through the forced perfection of modern beauty standards, a tooth takes matters into its own hands.

The Voice in Isabel Fleiss’s Office
Director: Jim Haverkamp
Runtime: 7 minutes
A woman with an unusual malady–cobweb buildup in the throat–receives an even more unusual treatment in this adaptation of a surreal poem by North Carolina writer Virgil Renfroe.

Battle Zone: H-Mart
Director: Tyler Davis
Runtime: 5 minutes
Nowadays, H-Mart isn’t just a grocery store. It’s a place for creepy men to try and meet Asian women.

Night Feeding
Director: Sarah K Reimers
Runtime: 6 minutes
A new mother struggles through the 4am feeding time.

Brenda and Billy (and the Pothos Plant)
Director: Dave Solomon
Runtime: 15 minutes
After an incident involving a pothos plant, a frying pan and a flower pot leaves their mother for dead, estranged siblings (Santino Fontana and Sarah Stiles) come back together to figure out what to do with the body in this post-pandemic dark comedy.

It’s Not Real
Director: Tina Carbone
Runtime: 8 minutes
Jess wonders whether the creepy incidents in her creaky old apartment are actually happening.
Presented as part of San Francisco Short Film Festival.