At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Nancy Friedrich's "Pool Guy" turns a heartbroken man's poolside afternoon into a warm comedy of connection, where the deep end becomes a place to be seen rather than a thing to fear.
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Ellen Ancui's "Saverio" follows a self-absorbed influencer who finds an abandoned elderly man in her car, colliding with her identity and the empathy she's long outrun.
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At this year's Not Film Fest, Jackson Griffin's "feel ur bones" follows a young man whose grip on New York is slipping until he loses himself in an underground rave, turning a story of survival into a visceral case for the necessity of dance.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Peter Vass's "Banshee" conjures a slow-burn folk horror from 1880s Ireland, where a mysterious comb, a grieving family, and the collision of old customs and new thinking set a village on edge.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Giuseppe Lanno's "Reality is worse" follows a group of Palermo supporters who found a community-owned football club against the commercial game, tracing how a small utopia can hold real ground against modern life.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Gaia Antonini's "It's not like you've seen it anyway" strips away trailers, spoilers, and secondhand opinions, betting that a film hits harder when you walk in knowing almost nothing about it.
At this year's HollyShorts, Simon Schneider's "Degree of Certainty" reconstructs the 1982 boardroom where an oil company buried its own climate research, asking how ordinary ambition curdles into complicity.
At this year's HollyShorts, Lisa Steadman's "tAinted love" turns a stylish dinner party into a reckoning, using a near-future blackout to ask whether we will still choose real intimacy once connection comes without the risk of rejection.
At this year's HollyShorts, Adrian Moyse Dullin and Jawahine Zentar's "Pale Sun" traces the moment a 12-year-old boy first sees his ailing father through the eyes of strangers, turning an ordinary summer beach into an intimate reckoning with loyalty and belonging.
At this year's HollyShorts, Ida and Remington Hoffman's "Christmas Angels" follows a homeless mother determined to protect her daughter's Christmas, tracing how acts born of love and desperation complicate our sense of right and wrong.
At this year's HollyShorts, Amber Schaefer's "Doctor Death Grip" dissects the viral autofiction essay and the intimate wreckage it leaves behind, revealing the paradox of art that mines the people we love at their most humiliating.
At this year's HollyShorts, Andrew Nolan's "This Conversation Has Been Removed" turns a late-night online flame war into a silent comedy about modern miscommunication, asking what we say to each other when we forget there's a person on the other end.
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.
At this year's HollyShorts, Natalie Schwan's "Last Stand at Butte City" reframes the Western around an aging woman's grief, trading gunfights for the quieter, harder battle of learning when to let go.
At this year's HollyShorts, Emily Frances Kaplan's "In the Flesh" transforms a housewife's obsession with expensive meat into a study of repressed desire, mapping the distance between what we crave and what we allow ourselves to want.
