At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Zoe Albano-Oritt's "Intervention!" flips a sisterly showdown into a sharp comedy of arrested development, where sobriety, popularity, and the fear of living your life all end up in the hot seat.
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Amanda Godoy's "Couch" turns a cheating boyfriend's furniture into the spark for a buddy comedy, following two best friends who steal, scheme, and refuse to consider the consequences.
At this year's HollyShorts, Eyal Roe and Shahaf Sinai's "Sand" turns heartbreak into a painterly, wind-blown landscape, asking whether anything — love, memory, a house made of sand — can hold together in a world that keeps falling apart.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Aurora Ovan's "LUNA" builds a world split between City and Nature by political decree, following one rebellious young Custodian who refuses to believe the two can never speak to each other again.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Lada Kopytova's "Talismans" traces how mudlarking shapes the work of artist Klara Fokicheva, following found bone, ceramic, and driftwood from the Thames foreshore into jewellery that carries memory and spirit.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Francesco Gheghi's "La Buona Condotta" traps two ordinary parents inside a single night and a single apartment, where love for a child slides quietly toward complicity.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Rafael Edholm's "A-Men to That" follows three aging male models chasing a gloriously bad idea, asking what it means to be a man when the mirror stops flattering you.
At this year's HollyShorts, Andrew J. Rodriguez's "El Tiguere" follows a Dominican father tending a mobile food garden under the radar in the Bronx, where the tenderness he gives his plants is the same tenderness he struggles to give his son.
At this year's HollyShorts, Negine Sekandari's "Haram Salami" follows three generations of Afghan women through a single bold act that unearths buried tensions, asking whether making images can be a form of preservation rather than shame.
At this year's HollyShorts, Liron Topaz's "Saba" reimagines loss as a single continuous shot through a world where gravity flows upward, asking what we would say for one more moment with someone we've lost.
At this year's HollyShorts, Nellie Luna's "I Want to Hook Up With Dylan But My Social Score Is Negative Ten Trillion" turns a normie makeover into a blood-soaked battle for the soul, asking what it costs to shrink yourself for someone else's approval.
At this year's HollyShorts, Samantha Joia's "Before Anything Happens" turns a couple's disastrous first attempt at intimacy into a study of vulnerability, proving that the smallest milestones carry the largest emotional stakes.
At this year's HollyShorts, Ashley Gianni's "The Late in Life Guide to Modern Day Lesbianism" reframes coming out as a campy 90s training tape, using bureaucratic absurdity to honor the very real hunger for guidance and belonging.
At this year's HollyShorts, JJ Adler's "The Oracle" makes its LA premiere with a dark comedy about a rationalist psychiatrist, a con artist, and a message from beyond that asks whether any of us can really be moved off what we believe.
At this year's HollyShorts, Thomas Bernon and Julien Gamarde's "Breezeblock" builds a wall against an invisible threat, turning one man's outsized panic into a wry meditation on how every fear is a construction of the mind.
At this year's HollyShorts, Fiorella Vescovi's "Paper Pilots" traces an 18-year-old's coming of age under 1970s Uruguayan dictatorship, where small gestures of play and presence become acts of profound resistance.
