Yountville Int'l Short Film Festival 2021
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FILM SELECTIONS

Saturday
FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE
PASSES ON SALE NOW

FOCUS ON FAMILY
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​Saturday 11:30am

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Tree #3

IT'S A HARD DOC'S LIFE
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Saturday 1:30pm

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Little Point Richmond
Join us as we present films for kids and their families. These short films are great for all ages and include both animated and live-action films, each with wonderful stories for the entire family.

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To Gerard
Directed by Taylor Meacham
A sprightly elderly man inspires a little girl to follow her dreams through magic.


Tree #3
Directed by Omer Ben-Shachar
After he's been cast (again!) as a background tree in his annual school play, an ambitious and imaginative immigrant boy leads a revolution on stage that his intolerant drama teacher will never forget.

Odd Dog
Directed by Keika Lee
A young boy pleads with his mother to get him a dog but his mother prefers a cat. Years later, the boy runs into what looks like a cat on the street. Can the cat win the boy over with his crazy dog-like antics and become the boy's "odd dog"?

Night Sky
Directed by Greg Rulfs
In the months after losing his father, 9-year-old Sam Collins retreats into his imagination as he works through his feelings of grief.

Adventures At Home
Directed by Travis Lupher
Being stuck at home can be tough... but it doesn't have to be boring. When you use your imagination you can go anywhere and do anything.

Umbrella
Directed by Helena Hilario, Mario Pece
While visiting a home for children, a little girl meets Joseph, a boy whose only dream is to have a yellow umbrella. This unexpected encounter awakens his memories of the past.

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​​Program run approx 65 mins.
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Documentaries deliver insight into real lives, places and things – unique and sublime, this dedicated block of shorts offers us the opportunity to take a hard look at ourselves. Welcome to It's A Hard DOC’s Life.

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The Bee Farmers
Directed by Steve Utaski
A short doc profiling a one-of-a-kind program based in the Pacific Northwest that rents bees to residential customers which in turn are used to pollinate farms around the US.

A Syrian Woman
Directed by Khawla Al Hammouri, Louis Karim Sayad DeCaprio
After nearly a decade of conflict, Syrian refugee women are some of the most vulnerable amid the crisis. Thousands have lost their families and husbands, and now must provide for their children, alone in an unfamiliar country. In this short film, six Syrian women living in Jordan recount their personal stories of survival – from displacement, child-marriage, and trauma, to their resilience and hope to rebuild a better future for their children.

Flotsam
Directed by Kjell Redal
A Miami native, David knows glitz—but he shuns it as part of a small, gritty band of kayak fishermen who forsake flashy boats for utilitarian pieces of plastic to pursue their passion.

Ghost Town
Directed by Emily Fraser
The last living residents of a ghost town lost to the New Mexican desert return to say their final farewells.

Little Point Richmond
Directed by Jane Selle Morgan
In the sleepy neighborhood of Point Richmond, CA, dozens of tiny fairy houses emerge from tree trunks, flower boxes, and front yards. The artist behind these miniature homes makes them as surprise gifts for his neighbors. In turn, the art helps heal his depression and bring the community together.

Ashes To Ashes
Directed by Taylor Rees, Renan Ozturk
Winfred Rembert, a survivor of an attempted lynching in 1967, a Star Wars fanatic and leather artist, develops a friendship with Doctor Shirley Jackson Whitaker who is on a mission to memorialize the forgotten 4,000 African Americans lynched during the Jim Crow era. Together, their journeys of healing intertwine.

​​​Program run approx 93 mins.

THE ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE
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Saturday 4pm

JESSUP WINE & FILM PAIRING
Saturday 6:30pm

We are tremendously excited to deliver these amazing films that tap into the power of the fantastic, something askew, where something quite different is just around the corner - and the answers are never what's expected.

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Journey
Directed by Panji Kaonga
When life couldn't get any worse, Jack realises his flight is from Glasgow and not Gatwick. Attempting to catch a last minute train from London, he is confronted with his stage in life by his fellow passengers.

The Man Who Took Time
Directed by Grayson Duvall Wittenbarger
A bad day leads Jesse to ask himself when he became so unhappy. An unexpected conversation with his Papaw ushers him toward a new perspective and a sense of clarity.

The Method of Places
Directed by Aman Johnson
A girl uses a mind palace to keep the memories of her father, but discovers the method has its limits.

Pieces
Directed by Dylan Boom
Four couples, of differing age groups and backgrounds, face a similarly tenuous moment in their relationship.

The Reception
Directed by Sean Peter Sakamoto
When simmering political division in America turns violent, two men, trapped in a siege on the last day of their lives, grieve the loss of their sons and talk about what they should have done differently.

The Seahorse Trainer
Directed by Ricardo Bonisoli, Babak Bina
Enter the surreal and nautical world of Seamour. A lonely old man with a passion for training seahorses. Desperate to have his most prized seahorse perform the highly ambitious “Triple Back Flip”, the final day of training has come and it’s up to his knowledge, preparation and the seahorse’s determination to see the trick come to life.

​​​Program run approx 78 mins.
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The Seahorse Trainer
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The Neighbors' Window
Join us for our special Jessup Cellars Wine & Film Pairing. The event that started it all! With four featured films and a special musical guest.

Graduation
Directed by Marshall Curry
The story of a middle aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

Same Day, Same Time
Directed by David Pujol
Marc and Javier are both in love with Lucía. By pure chance and unaware of one another's intentions, they have both decided to declare their feelings to her on the same day at the same time.

Alice in Paris
Directed by Thibaud Paul Martin
After being fired from the biggest gastronomy gala, Alice tries to restore her reputation by finding the secret of a legendary plate by a missing chef. But even if she has absolute taste, the road is long to prove her worth.

The Neighbor’s Window
Directed by Marshall Curry
The story of a middle aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

​​​Program run approx 90 mins with musical guest.
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Alice in Paris

THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Saturday  7:30pm

The Human Experience explores the good in humanity, detailing the ways that we have found to share, nurture and take care of the human spirit. Warm and authentic, these films are highly recommended and are always a crowd-pleaser.  A special Q& A with the director of Under the Lights will follow the screening.

Aida
Directed by Christopher W. Graham
A young mother is stuck between development and decay. Desperate to connect, she strikes a chord that links to the deepest parts of our memory.

Good Help Is So Hard To Find
Directed by Jake Isaacs
A serialized short form series that follows Brendan and Lizzie, a millennial couple in a constant state of simmering crisis. Each episode, they take the brave step of meeting with a couple’s therapist in order to knock down their emotional walls, open their hearts, and come closer together.

Like Turtles
Directed by David Mandell
A woman who had lost her husband to cancer without health insurance must live in her car with her son trying to fight out of homelessness, all the while never revealing the severity of their circumstances.

Make My Day
Directed by Kirstin Reppas
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy.

Under the Lights
Directed by Miles Levin
Sam is a boy with epilepsy so desperate to feel like a normal kid, he goes to prom knowing that the lights will make him have a seizure.

​​​​Program run approx 85 mins.
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Like Turtles

WHAT THE WHAT!?!
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Saturday  9:45pm

Expect the unexpected as we unleash a half-dozen (plus one) short films that are designed to surprise, possibly offend and be most likely leave you wanting more. Please be advised, you were warned.

Cuckoo
Directed by Jörgen Scholtens
Absurd comedy about a lonely man (Frank Lammers) who lives inside a cuckoo clock.

Kick
Directed by Alex Backes, Tanner Boyajian
Expecting single Mom, Paige, just wants to get some sleep. When she tries to tell her neighbors to keep the music down, Paige learns that some things are scarier than becoming a parent.

My Dinner With Werner
Directed by Maverick Moore
Based on real events, real people, and real things they actually said, MY DINNER WITH WERNER is a wildly bizarre and wacky farce about a 1987 dinner date with a murder plot as the main dish.

Spring Cleaning
Directed by Joe Boothe
When a disenchanted, passed up middle age salesman is caught cheating by his wife, he’s forced to face his skeletons in the closet to win her back. Will there be a happily ever after or is she fighting demons of her own?

Tapes
Directed by Betsy Kenney, Dara Katz
Maddie's discovery of a 30-year-old recording leads to an awkward family dinner and an unexpected revelation about her mother.

Red Light Green Light
Directed by Joseph I. Martinez, Will Martinez
A man plays the game of his life against a monster who can only move when he is not looking at it.

Home Movies
Directed by Keagan Karnes
When siblings Abigale & Mathew head home to pack up their father’s belongings after his passing, they find some home movies that challenge their perspectives on things and they begin to question their childhood memories.

​​​​Program run approx 90 mins.

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