SF Short FF:Resiliency & Relationships

A Suit We Wear
Director: Meera Joshi
Country: New Zealand
Runtime: 14 minutes
Anika is about to go on the date of her dreams when she is caught off guard by an unexpected visit from her mother. Though close, Anika has never opened up to her mother about who she really is. Confronted by the weight of her secret, Anika is unable to get her mother out of her mind, causing her to act rashly and potentially alienate her first love.

Good Egg
Director: Mitra Shahidi
Country: United States
Runtime: 9 minutes
When a self-reliant woman is thrust into fertility treatments, she goes to painstaking lengths to become a mother.


Lillian
Director: Marques Mallare
Country: United States
Runtime: 7 minutes
In the early days of the pandemic, a couple divides their possessions while trying not to kill each other with Covid.

Keep/Delete
Director: Kryzz Gautier
Country: United States
Runtime: 19 minutes
In a future world where memories are handled like computer files, two lovers decide to undergo a procedure and have their entire relationship wiped from their brains.

Good Vibrations
Director: Nathan Israileff
Country: United States
Runtime: 10 minutes
Julia is trying to date again after two years of COVID lock down, however, everyone she seems to find is extremely awkward – or is she just as awkward as everyone else?

Supermarket Affairs
Director: Hang Luong Nguyen
Country: Viet Nam
Runtime: 15 minutes
While preparing for her husband’s second death anniversary, a middle-aged Vietnamese immigrant woman and her Americanized adult daughter butt heads over how to best honor him, and inadvertently drag a handsome stranger at the local Asian market into their messy family dynamic.

Safe Space
Director: Matt Pittroff
Country: United States
Runtime: 10 minutes
While under the duress of their spacecraft’s evacuation warnings, a female scientist and her AI male assistant debate the terms and conditions of their no-longer-platonic relationship.
Presented as part of San Francisco Short Film Festival.