SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2019 CINEMATIC ATTITUDE

A workout on the sun deck, a conga line in the dining hall, a photo shoot with the captain, or a beauty contest for all ages: fun around-the-clock is guaranteed on a cruise, while you float along with your hotel room.

Patricia lives in Kalongo, Northern Uganda. Patricia is learning each day to accompany new mothers through the physical pain and the immense emotion of giving birth. "Together with woman" is the meaning of her chosen vocation to love and serve with joy, this is what it means to be a Midwife.

Niida-Honke is a family-owned sake brewery in Fukushima. While finishing a brand new series of organic sake for their 300th anniversary, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant exploded. With no radiation detected in their products, Yasuhiko Niida decided to persevere. He continues to rebuild the community and the village's bright future for the children.

In coastal Colombia, a mother teaches her daughter how to swim so that she may go to the mangroves and harvest the piangua shellfish with the other women in the village.

At a school in Shanghai, thousands of students enroll to become hairdressers and beauticians. With classes on facials and grooming, the curriculum offered seem standard. Students dressed in uniforms, practicing drills reveals that the school is far from a typical school of beauty. The founder of the school sits down to explain his unorthodox approach.

In her effervescent first California film, Agnès Varda delves into her own family history. The short documentary features Varda tracking down a Greek emigrant relative she's never met, discovering an artist and kindred soul leading a bohemian life in Sausalito.