Curating and presenting extraordinary short films have always been at the heart of the Nevada City Film Festival.

This year we made the decision to create programs that defied genre and categorization. Instead, threads were woven around common stories of the human experience.  Be it through drama, mystery, romance, comedy or some alchemical blend of all these elements, a spellbinding story that begins, unfolds and concludes in but a handful of minutes is a challenge to create and a pleasure to behold. Kapaemahu screens in the Shorts 2 program.