Vail Film Festival

Akinyi and Yvonne    (USA, 2019, 8 minutes)
Director: Elizabeth Chatelain
Two law students, Akinyi and Yvonne, deconstruct women's roles in academia, dating fetishes, and the age old debate of tampons vs pads.

A Poem in Bamboo     (China, 2019, 5 minutes)
Director: Xufei Wu
1920s, southern China. A young bridegroom is visiting his aunt, who lives alone in the distant mountains. Bamboo grows everywhere like an ocean. The mansion is beautiful, and his aunt seems kind. Still, there is that locked room in the attic. And that strange noise. And secrets?

Fraser Syndrome & Me        (USA, 2019, 20 minutes)
Filmmaker Kyle Anne Grendys, is only the 75th person to be born
with the rare, recessive gene disorder called Fraser Syndrome.
Having always felt alone in the world, she sets out on a journey to find her community and finally meets
others just like her.

From 6th Man to MVP         (USA, 2019, 9 minutes)
Director: Karen Morey
The story of the 2012 James Harden trade and James Harden's rise from 6th Man of the Year with the OKC Thunder to MVP with the Houston Rockets.

Kim       (USA, 2019, 6 minutes)
Director: Madeline Landry
Kim is a stop motion mock-umentary style short about the day in the life of a friendly, outgoing, man eating siren named Kim.

Maid for Us     (India, 2019, 7 minutes)
Director: Disha Mundra
She relentlessly works throughout the day in various houses, ironically the least in her own house. While attending to other’s comforts and needs ,she hardly gets time to attend to her loved ones.

Phoebe  (USA, 2019, 9 minutes)
Director: Kyra Gardner
Phoebe is a real catch... she just doesn’t know it yet. Far from home, she tackles a new sea of challenges during her first weeks at college. With her flamboyant roommate Adam as her navigator, she no longer feels like a small fish in a big pond, and she learns to feel comfortable in her own skin.

Variables       (USA, 2019, 23 minutes)
Director: Sabina Vajraca
In the middle of the Bosnian War, a teenage math-wiz is given a way out of the bloodshed when his math club gets an invitation to compete at the 1995 International Math Olympiad in Canada.