At this year's HollyShorts, Ciara Tinney's "WildKind" carries a watercolour lullaby from the North of Ireland to Hollywood, tracing a mother's hopes for her daughters across the ever-turning seasons of life.
At this year's HollyShorts, Tom Neish's "Miles of Life" follows a former athlete who turns personal failure into community purpose, tracing how one person and the discipline of sport can lift an entire town.
At this year's HollyShorts, Nita Blum's "A New Inferno" follows Phoenix paramedics racing to save heatstroke victims with a radical new treatment, turning one deadly summer into a street-level portrait of the climate crisis.
At this year's HollyShorts, Brian Barnes's "Hide" follows a father and daughter clinging to a nightly ritual in a town visited by unfathomable horror, asking how routine can both protect us and lull us into complacency.
At this year's HollyShorts, Caroline Friend's "Poisoned Skies" places a 1954 scientist at the center of a moral reckoning, tracing how one woman's choice to tell the truth becomes a matter of courage under pressure.
At this year's HollyShorts, Leah Nanako Winkler's "Get Her Back!" takes the persistence we've been taught to read as devotion and follows it to its logical, unsettling end, asking why we keep mistaking entitlement for love.
At this year's HollyShorts, Rana Roy's "Night Feeds" collapses the wall between a new mother's private paranoia and the violence flooding her screens, asking whether the madness lives in her mind or the world around her.
At this year's HollyShorts, Jeremy Max's "Bleeder" follows a man who earns a living by taking beatings, using brutal violence to trace the emotional wounds he can no longer outrun.
At this year's HollyShorts, Francesco Zenati's "Chi Mangia Solo" turns a mother's handwritten recipe into a reckoning with memory, as an estranged brother and sister cook their way back to each other on the eve of losing their childhood home.
At this year's HollyShorts, Nik Sysuev's "Creators" follows a struggling content creator who turns a stranger's darkest moment into clickbait, probing how social media distorts the way we recognize each other's humanity.
At this year's HollyShorts, Dana Nachman's "The Second Life of Freddie Nole" follows a man who spends his days welcoming strangers home from prison, revealing why his compassion runs deeper than anyone riding beside him first realizes.
At this year's HollyShorts, Kathryn Kalucki's "JÓZEFA" reconstructs her grandmother's wartime survival in a displacement camp in India, tracing how two communities, separated by war, found each other across cultural lines.
At this year's HollyShorts, Martin Sofiedal's "Temporal Takedown" turns a single second of frozen time into a full hand-to-hand fight, proving that a sharp idea and unglamorous work can outrun a budget.
At this year's HollyShorts, Peter Vass's "Banshee" conjures a haunted 1880s Ireland where a mysterious comb sets a village on the path to ruin, testing an old world against a woman who refuses to bow to it.
At this year's HollyShorts, Mohamed Taher's "32B" turns an awkward errand — a single dad buying his teenage daughter her first bra — into a quiet study of masculinity, love, and the conversations that never quite happen.
At this year's HollyShorts, Jenny Lee-Gilmore's "With Time" follows a woman caring for the estranged, dementia-stricken mother who never showed her love, tracing how memory, duty, and forgiveness bind three generations of women together.
