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After his regiment is destroyed, a Black Union physician flees into the Virginian woods, stumbling on a Confederate soldier hiding in a cave; they share a fire, and try to find a moment of understanding before the sun comes up.
Dixieland captures a fleeting moment of humanity in the Civil War, as a Black Union physician and a Confederate soldier, both broken by battle, find unexpected common ground by firelight.
After his regiment is destroyed, a Black Union physician flees into the Virginian woods, stumbling on a Confederate soldier hiding in a cave; they share a fire, and try to find a moment of understanding before the sun comes up.
At this year's HollyShorts, Wesley Wang's "Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank" turns a husband-and-wife rabbit heist into a fable about creative freedom, following two countryside vigilantes who risk everything to return the means of production to their own kind.
At this year's HollyShorts, Tom Neish's "Miles of Life" follows a former athlete who turns personal failure into community purpose, tracing how one person and the discipline of sport can lift an entire town.
At this year's HollyShorts, Isabel Lamers's "kaya" makes its West Coast premiere with a female-led action story that trades spectacle for interiority, asking what it costs a mixed-race outsider to stop shrinking herself to belong.
At this year's HollyShorts, Hazel McKibbin's "Last Man Up" compresses a single night of male friendship into twelve pressurized minutes, tracing how one withheld truth can dismantle the fragile family three men have built.