These eclectic imaginative shorts explore alternate realities, states of yearning and unrest, and darkly humorous fantasy lives of single young men, women and monsters seeking liberation from their rule-bound worlds, often through destructive means.

TRT: 80 mins

Even better than cross-dressing or slaying one's goody-girly peers on stage, a sullen daughter thwarts her mother's talent show ambitions by revolutionizing the ribbon dance for the world to see.

Distance and proximity become confused when Girl meets Boy meets Mr. Fangs for a biting threesome in the psycho-bopper visions of a teen poetess.

Caught in limbo between the alternating scenes of a bureaucratic passageway to the afterlife and his sullied, cigarette-strewn bachelor pad, a young man confronts his angst from room to room.

In this fantastic claymation work from Taiwan, god and enslaved monster must face off in a cold futuristic Gotham world when the creature one day decides to determine its own fate.

A Van Gogh aspirant and his Confucian confused father collide in this chop-sticked standoff. Taichi prevails.

In Little Saigon, CA, a blond-haired, blue-eyed singing superstar's uncanny ability to mimic the tones and cadences of nostalgic Vietnamese songs provides the Vietnamese American community with a means of negotiating assimilation and preserving memory.

A lovestruck Cassanova pursues his crush through the park to the very end, making friends along the way, in a modern-day fantasy of chivalry gone awry.