"INFLUENTIAL SHORTS" CURATED BY BELLA THORNE
WORLD PREMIERE • TEATRO ANTICO • JUNE 27 • 21:00
A gala evening curated by Bella Thorne featuring short films by young directors and influential people including including Bella Thorne, Nina Dobrev, Khaby Lame, Jacqueline Fernandez, Adriana Lima and many more.
PAINT HER RED
Director: Bella Thorne
Cast: Bella Thorne, Juliet Sterner
Bella delivers an unapologetic narrative, both painful and beautiful, exploring the journey of women. With vulnerability and strength, Bella uses haunting visuals and an assembly of melancholic prose and poetry, allowing the audience a more intimate peek into a women’s pre-destined journey.
THE ONE
Director: Nina Dobrev
Cast: Madeline Brewer, Indya Moore, Ryan-Kiera Armstrong
What appears to be a typical mother-son day in the park proves to be anything but typical in THE ONE, a high concept psychological thriller that explores attempting to play God in the age of technology.
SERPENTINE
Director: Eva Vik
Cast: Barbara Palvin, Luke Brandon Field, Soo Joo Park
A covert snake cult finally breaks the genetic code to bring about a new snake-human interspecies.
BURROW
Director: Leaf Lieber
Cast: Christian Coulson , Marc Crousillat
Believing himself to be one of the last survivors left in the wake of extinction, an ex-war soldier finds unexpected comfort with the arrival of a weary traveler, forcing him to reckon with his long avoided sexuality.
DON'T GO TOO FAR
Director: Maram Taibah
Cast: Ghida al Ghusaiyer, Ida Alkusay, Patricia Cardonaroca
A mentally disabled Arab man is accidentally separated from his sister in a New York subway and has to find his own way home.
MY COLORFUL MIND
Director: Rita Aldridge
Cast: Keely Morrison, Rita Aldridge, Sophia Ventrone
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GOOD INTENTIONS
Director: Yasen Zates Atour
Cast: Micheal Ward, Charithra Chandran
One religion, two cultures. A London love story between a Senegalese youth football coach SEF (Micheal Ward) and his Bengali girlfriend RAHIMA (Charithra Chandran).
SIS
Director: Miranda Haymon
In this surrealist black comedy, a woman’s curiosity in her ex-crush’s new girlfriend complicates after their cosmic meet cute at a Brooklyn rooftop party.
FIFA: A LOVE LETTER TO RWANDA
Director: Adriana Lima
I AM KHABANE
Director: Khaby Lame
