Goldie Singer | Animation

TUNNEL VISION

Obsessed through flaw magnifying goggles, a perfectionist loses time and his friend to work until the goggles come off and sees the beauty in his work.

Sogand Vatankhah | Animation

THE DOG

A man get lost in the desert with his dog. Suddenly, an accident occurs, and the man and the dog must find a way to save themselves.

Ava Elizabeth Azarmi | Animation

SOUP!

God makes soup. The soup is (somewhat) intelligent life. Existential chaos ensues.

Daien Ngeiw | Animation

THE RUNAWAY HORSE

A stray dog with a fascination for taking the train, his journey unfolding a story surrounding life and fate.

Jiajing Ling | Animation

POOL

This film recounts the director's training experience at a swimming pool, focusing on the diverse and peculiar phobias people have.

Marin Caquez, Eva-Louise Moreau, Nour Kharraz | Animation

OUR FLEETING SOUL

Albert, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, clings to a memory he shared with his childhood friend Maya. But the phases of the disease are inexorably invading his memory and altering his only recollection.

Léa Deprez, Pierre-Luis Bordes, Elliot Desmarets, Jeanne Finet | Animation

AU GRÉ DE L'IODE

By the seaside, the water knocks at the door of a fish taxidermist.

Claire Delany | Narrative

SWINE

After escaping tragedy, a young woman embarks on a northbound pilgrimage where she must confront her own trauma, and a strange Circean magic she struggles to control.

Declan Franey | Narrative

SYLVIA'S STONE

A disillusioned woman on vacation with her boyfriend discovers a mysterious stone that triggers an eldritch metamorphosis, forcing her to choose between mundane comfort and radical self-reinvention.

Marila Galanaki | Narrative & High School

STILL

Eleni, a career-driven single mother, receives a life-changing diagnosis on the same day she forgets a special moment in her daughter’s life. Eleni is suddenly forced to confront the fragility of time, memory, and presence.

Tsu Kuei Chen | Experimental

SONGS OF A GENTLE NIGHT

After their death, they become a dark moon, quietly descending into the dreams of the last person who still remembers them. They don’t know where they are, only that everything around them feels both familiar and strange. They follow their memories to a stream near their childhood home. The water flows gently and people come and go, but none see them.

Cooper Jesse Silverman  | Narrative

SOB STORY

Clare Kramer is struggling to make ends meet and raise funds for her father’s end of life care. She finds an unexpected life line when her actor friend, Nick, has her fill in for him at his ‘mourning for hire’ service. Clare is surprised to find that the work is enjoyable and extremely lucrative. Her success in the new field is ultimately tested when she has to mourn for real. 

Max Heitler Bamberger | Narrative

SHABBOS QUEEN

Laila confronts Ben across a table of song, seeking belonging beyond religious community on her college campus.

Cade Savage Schwartz | Documentary & High School

RISING ABOVE THE ASHES

Rising Above the Ashes, a documentary about the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires, addresses the question of how people move forward after large-scale natural disasters, looking at the powerful positive effects of resilience, gratitude and community art in supporting individuals and communities as they heal and move forward.

Gabrielle Bustamante | Narrative

ROOM 133

During a year in film school in Prague, Emma, an American student, and Ilona, a Czech production manager, have become close friends. During their last meeting of the year, their relationship takes an unexpected term.

Aglaya Semenova | Narrative & High School

BUTTERFLY EFFECT

After undergoing a great shake and losing his loved ones… Michael the butterfly has to choose between letting go of his past and moving on… or getting revenge

Adam Angel | Narrative & High School

ECDYSIS

Yearning for a specific feeling, a young boy sets out in search of fulfillment and closure, meeting a friendly companion along the way. However, when additional scenarios present themselves, he is left to question what it is he truly is searching for.

Shaun Hallahan | Experimantal

YEOUCH, MY RETINA!

TBD

Bradley Hogan | Documentary

MINARA

Every year millions are affected by devastating flooding across the coastal regions of Bangladesh, and every year millions of its citizens are forced to move to the country’s capital of Dhaka as a result. Minara follows the decades spanning story of a climate refugee and the hardships and persecution she faced in the once largest slum in Bangladesh, ‘Bhola Bosti’.

Victoria Wilcox | Narrative

THE VILLAGE IT TOOK

After Everstone University, a predominantly white institution, pulls funding the day of the 56th Annual Black Student Union open mic, BSU event planner Ozanna writes an unauthorized check to save the night. When it bounces, the school charges the BSU with misuse of funds and moves to shut it down. As her friendship with Malik, the BSU president, fractures, Ozanna and the BSU fight to protect their community.

Grahm Molloy | Narrative

TOM'S ALIEN SPACE ADVENTURE

A young ambitious astronaut makes an emergency landing on an unknown planet. Little does he know that the aliens waiting there are just as crazy as him!

Andrew Tan, Keira Gardiner, Sarah Moncur, Sarah Elsey | Experimental

MARROW

A speculative future where we question the authenticity of childhood images.

Alex Brown | Experimental & High School

THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNIVERSE

In the dirt it shall be found

Samuel Ogunremi | Narrative

NEBUCHADNEZZAR

Following a shocking, on-air disturbance, a curious Stage Manager begins to suspect that something is deeply off about the talk show she works for, and its eccentric host.

Kaiyue (Ethan) Guan, Fern Biswas | Narrative

NATALIE

To her abusive father’s dismay, Natalie is leaving for college. The day prior to her departure, she wrestles with her father’s inconstant attitude that’s always confused her

Marcus Quinn | Narrative

THE LION OF TERANGA

While chasing a championship with his team, a young basketball player is drawn into an unsettling incident with his coach, threatening his friendship with his closest teammate.

Marta Delgado | Narrative

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MY HANDS

Matilde, a 20-year-old woman, travels to her family’s village in Miranda do Douro due to her great-grandmother’s passing. After the matriarch’s funeral, the young adult reconnects with the place where she spent most of her childhood, learning about the experiences that her mother, aunt and grandmother have shared in the same house.

Nicholas Friedlander | Experimental

FOUR OF CUPS

“Four of cups” anchors itself on four cruxes: a rose, a clock, a journal, and a mirror. Arranged through layered visuals and voice fragments, it invites the viewer to feel their way through a still moment of apathy.

Nilsu Demirel | Experimental

THE FIG TREE

Esther Greenwood's vision of her future as a fig tree, each fig symbolizes a life path—love, career, adventure, and more. Paralyzed by indecision and the fear of losing other possibilities, she watches the figs wither and fall, reflecting her struggle with choice, identity, and the pressures of societal expectations. This short film is adapted from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.

Noah S. Shin | Animation

THE DUEL

A ronin duels his rival in a bamboo forest.

Elizabeth Cheng | Documentary

COMING BACK (回来了)

A middle-aged Chinese-American woman travels from California back to her hometown in northeastern China to visit her aging mother. Their daily routine in China juxtaposes with long distance phone calls to form a tender meditation on migration’s invisible weight: the loneliness of separation, the persistence of care, and the resilience born as both women learn to cope with the acceptance that they will spend the rest of their lives apart.

Isaiah Henderson | Narrative

BALLOONS

In the aftermath of a fleeting queer romance, a young man drifts through memory, loss, and quiet resilience, discovering that some loves are brief not because they are weak, but because they are fragile.

Jackson Coates | Narrative

CLICKBAIT

An ensemble of social media influencers collide when a hard drive falls into the wrong hands.

Ian Kirk | Documentary

HEALING

A figure skating coach recounts his childhood in the sport and his children.

Shin Seo Yeon  | Narrative & High School

ANAMNESIS

Mirae, who didn’t know the truth about the death of Luri, lived on, resenting Haru—the person who had been with Luri when she died. As they open up to each other, Mirae and Haru begin to understand one another’s pain—and in that shared sorrow, they start to heal.

Kyoeun Na | Experimental

A WOMAN'S PLACE

A woman and her daughter reunite at the sea, where they both seek refuge.

Nicolas Maynulet | Narrative

DUET

A reclusive college student shuts the door on his musical past after an unknown tragedy until a new friend challenges him to confront the grief and find harmony once again.

Keyaan Saleem Nasir | Documentary & High School

A RAY OF HOPE

Umeed ke kiran (A ray of hope) is a short observational documentary that explores Pakistan's food inflation crisis through the interconnected lives of ordinary people in Rawalpindi. Through intimate vérité footage and candid interviews, we witness struggles, dignity and hope.

Oliver Hufford | Documentary & High School

LEAVING THE NEST

On the brink of leaving for college, Oliver rekindles birding trips with his dad, a hobby they once shared closely.

Bronwen Pailthorpe | Narrative

MONITOR

On Beck’s first night home alone with her baby, it seems she isn’t the only one watching through the monitor.

Junhyeok Kim | Narrative

BACK THEN

Haneul greets his parents and heads to college. While in a taxi to New York, a diminishing past memory is brought up — through one old, crumbled Leche Frita wrapper.

Laiku Layaoen | Narrative

INTER-EGO

A film about two siblings, Kate and Kyle, whose shared desire to change the world sends them on diverging journeys. When both are falsely accused of domestic terrorism and left without any way to communicate, their bond is tested under public scrutiny.

Jack denechaud | Narrative

THE COLOR OF HER EYES

When a bully named Oliver begins dreaming from his victim’s perspective, he discovers that the hardest person to confront is… himself.