Shorts #3: Too Much Too Young
A woman afraid to dance. A man afraid to talk to women. A delivery driver’s unusual relationship with a customer. Two sisters battling grief in their own ways. A queer woman’s search for love. A mother/daughter battle for a ladder. A bad dad on his death bed. All our films in this program have characters who have lived through something, and perhaps they’ve seen too much, done too much, too much too young.
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Shorts #3: “Too Much Too Young”
Catching Spirits
Directed by: Vanessa Beletic
USA, 2022, 13m
Destiny has been told since childhood she has seizures when she dances, yet she is tormented by voices in her head, calling her to “test the waters.”
Shorts #3: “Too Much Too Young”
Starving
Directed by: Bobby Louise and Brig
USA, 2023, 13m
A food-app delivery driver forges an unusually strong connection with her first delivery of the day.
Shorts #3: “Too Much Too Young”
Jelly Bean
Directed by: Nessa Norich
USA, 2022, 14m
Rezyl is a queer woman earnestly seeking romance on dating apps that she can not hack. Lacking any strategy to vet a perfect match, she decides to date whomever the algorithms choose.
Shorts #3: “Too Much Too Young”
Passing Through
Directed by: Erica Alexandria Silverman
USA, 2023, 19m
A young woman connects with her hedonist father in the most unlikely of places—a hospice facility in South Florida.
Shorts #3: “Too Much Too Young”
Hold to Dash
Directed by: John Connor Hammond
USA, 2023, 15m
Neil Durst (Jack Dunphy, “Brontosaurus,” FFF 2021) makes a living streaming his gaming skills to an audience of undersexed males. When he’s asked on a date by a female fan, Neil must leave his bedroom and take a plunge into the real world. From the director of “ASMR for White Liberals” (FFF 2021).
Shorts #3: "Too Much Too Young"
Cold & Sara
Directed by: Brenna Power
USA, 2023, 11m
As Sara endlessly searches for the “right” way to deal with her sister’s deep mourning over her best friend’s death, they both learn how uncomfortable the grieving process can be.
Shorts #3: “Too Much Too Young”
Sulam (Ladder)
Directed by: Noam Argov
USA, 2023, 11m
In English and Hebrew with English subtitles
When an immigrant teen in Orlando must help her mother buy a ladder before a school exam, tensions of belonging in a new country bubble to the surface.