Sometimes, a sunny family vacation in a gorgeous location is the perfect setting for an exquisite disaster. 12-year-old Yuki would rather get lost in her imagination than remember to put on sunscreen or pack tampons for her impending period - it doesn’t help that her aloof father and elegant grandmother don’t quite understand her, and her mom’s not with them. Will young Yuki survive the vacation, will she hide away in her dreams, or will she self-destruct? It may not seem so at first, but the stakes are high in Maya Tanaka’s short film Honolulu, a vividly constructed window into a young Japanese-American girl’s turbulent emotions as she stands at the threshold of puberty. The idea for the film came about when an adult Tanaka stumbled across old family photos and started writing about a particularly morose family holiday to Hawai'i.
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Honolulu
