Join us for the 2018 Season Finale on Saturday, October 20, 2018 in NYC. All guests receive a complimentary beer courtesy of Lagunitas Brewing Company. A total of 15 shorts will compete for the audience choice award valued over $2,000. The winning short is determined by top audience vote and will advance to the 7th Annual Grand Finale Event at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater in January.
RUTA VIVA – directed by Courtney Baxter & Sebastian Rea
While visiting family in Ecuador, a father and son bond over an unexpected death.
DOWNAMAN – “Stronger Bones” – directed by Adam Sabh
Official music video for the single off of Downaman’s second EP release set in Havana, Cuba.
THE THIRD WHEEL – directed by Johanny Mota
When Jesse has one of his bad break ups he moves in with his best friend Mary and her boyfriend John.
UNIFORM – directed by Ellie Foumbi, Michael Niederman
Parents are at odds with what to do when their 6-year old son is sent home from school for wearing a dress.
ZENU – Claudio Marcotulli
Uncanny muses take over a troubled composer’s life.
I AM THE ONLY ONE – directed by Aicha Cherif
A personal documentary that follows 16 year old Aicha Cherif as she reconciles a fractured relationship with her mother. When Aicha was one, there were rumors in Guinea that she would be stolen to undergo female genital mutilation.
MORPHOSIS – directed by Santiago Castaño
A delirious fable about an enslaved, colourful, little frog named Rena who becomes a liberator of an oppressive regime.
ON EDGE – directed by Felicien Pinot
Adrien, Louis and Mathieu are three non-conformist youth living in a small french town. One day Adrien kidnaps the girl Mathieu loves.
WEAK – directed by Emily Laue
Throughout a single day, an independent woman is told repeatedly what she should be concerned with or aware of. A chance encounter in the woods brings some of those warnings into reality and forces her to confront her own vulnerability.
THE LEX REQUIEM – directed by Alexis Karl, Bruno Palma
A dance of mourning is performed in an ancient town to the Lex Requiem- haunting and mysterious, the dancers are as specters, until they emerge from the shadows in a celebration of their immortality in the fading light of a summer sun.
SIFTING – directed by Francesco Belligerante
The speed of contemporary life makes us lose sight of the connections with nature, places and traditions. Through the art of dance, which is art that represents movement, we create this return to the origins where the beauty of the places also reveals aspects that lie in ourselves.
AUGENBLICKE – a blink of an eye – directed by Kiana Naghshineh
Three perceptions of only one truth – hers, his and ours.
FEVAH – directed by Randall Dottin
A heartbroken single mom is about to plunge into a new relationship when her child’s missing father returns with a secret.
OLD HABITS – directed by Sophie Ellsberg
Two women are reunited at the scene of the hunting accident that left one of them disabled.
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2018 Katra Film Series – Oct 20, 2018 – 6pm-10pm
217 Bowery btw. Rivington and Prince St.
New York, NY 10002
$20 General Admission (online discount only)
$30 cash door only