“Shorts and Beats”
“Focus On” is our shorts program series, themed to showcase cinematic excellence by country, genre, or other resonating topic or “focus”. These events are ticketed, and often feature local filmmakers or valued members of the community to lead discussions with the audience about the presented topic. We partner with local organizations and businesses on these events, to bring important topics into the spotlight and to initiate conversations with the community..
STAY TUNED FOR OUR NEXT EVENT!.
Shorts & Beats: Venezuela
Saturday, September 26th, 2025
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
7 PM PM – Cocktail Reception
8:00 PM – Film Screening
Followed by Live Performance
FEATURED SHORTS
La Soja – Directed by: Gabriel Eduardo Lacruz Salas – Fiction – 17 min – Venezuela
In the Venezuelan highlands, a pregnant Mercedes—fed up with her drunken husband—decides to take her two children and head down the dusty road toward freedom.
Directed by: Alfredo Hueck – Fiction – 11:26 min – Venezuela
Caracas is known worldwide for many things, but few realize that one of its citizens’ greatest daily traumas is simply finding a parking spot. A couple takes the risk and puts their relationship to the test in the city’s chaotic streets.
Directed by: Gustavo Rondón Fiction – 14 min – Venezuela
Ramiro, a fisherman, wants to teach his craft to his 8‑year‑old son, Jonah. But Jonah has been acting strangely terrified of something lurking in the bushes behind their home.
Directed by: Daniel Ruiz Hueck – Documentary – 10 min – Venezuela
In this lively documentary, traffic in Caracas is petrifying—considered by experts around the globe, and by exhausted citizens, to be a source of extreme and often fatal stress.
Directed by: Alex Mendez – Fiction – 7:08 min – Venezuela
Through a downpour in the middle of the night, a couple travels a deserted highway. Unexpectedly, the headlights of their car illuminate what appears to be a crime scene: a man is dragging a body on the asphalt.
Directed by: Juan Luis Fermín – Fiction – 11 min – Venezuela
An incompetent police officer uses the so‑called “1/92 law” as a pretext to mistreat two women who arrive at the station to file charges and report a rape.
Live concert by Susana Behar & friends
