Influential Shorts - Taormina Film Fest

"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

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).

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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.