Enjoy a screening of the best shorts from the 2022 Miami Short Film Festival. Presented in partnership with Deering Estate, the screening will be held on Sunday, January 15th. Enjoy a welcome cocktail to accompany the screening. This event will take place indoors at the Deering Estate Visitor Center theater. Screening begins at 7 p.m.

Here's the lineup:

Miracle Baby
Directed by Michelle Bossy – Narrative – 18:52 min. United States., A congressman’s wife discovers her husband has been cheating on her. This psychological thriller reveals her vengeful motives as the true power partner of the relationship comes to light. The only remaining question is: who’s the villain?

The Sprayer
Directed by Farnoosh Abedi – Animation – 10:00 min., Islamic Republic of Iran. In this animated dystopia, no one can grow plants. Neither civilians nor soldiers know what it is to watch a plant grow – or for that matter, what a plant looks like. Then one day a soldier finds a seed buried in the dust. His curiosity is the beginning of something revolutionary.

AYSHA
Directed by Cengiz Akaygün – Narrative – 12:53 min., Germany. Aysha is playing at home with her body completely covered with her clothes. Her sister joins her until their mother shows up to practice their religious creeds – until Aysha fails. Her failure triggers a series of consequences.

Votamos
Directed by: Santiago Requejo López-Mateos – Narrative – 13 min., Spain. An ordinary condo board meeting of an old building puts to vote the issue of building repairs. An affirmative vote in favor of the repairs is reached. An additional agenda item is presented when one of the neighbors brings news of a newcomer to the community. The situation will put to a test the community’s limit of coexistence.

We Dance
Directed by: Ethan Payne & Brian Foster – Documentary – 11:39 min., A musical love story of Tanya Wideman-Davis and Thaddeus Davis takes us from Chicago to Montgomery, and from New York to the point where their lives meet and become one. Along the way, they represent and honor Black American art, poetry, and literature.

SQUISH
Directed by: Xavier Seron – Narrative – 20 min., Flo must travel and needs to leave Sam in apathetic Tom’s care. Although Flo leaves instructions on how to take care of Sam, and specifics to take Sam to guitar lessons, what ensues is a series of unfortunate events.