At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Ash Blodgett's "May I Put You On Hold?" strands a woman in the Afterlife on eternal hold, using the absurdity of customer service to ask what actually matters before the line goes dead.
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Jacob Combs's "Tradwife" turns a livestreamed dinner into a high-wire act of survival, asking how far a woman will go to keep her picture-perfect performance alive, and who she's really performing for.
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, 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, TK James's "Fuck Your Policy" reimagines the talking-head documentary to explore life outside the gender binary, insisting on visibility at a moment when policy works to erase it.
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 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.
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Karen Zipor's "The Worm's-Eye View of the Bird" follows a girl who falls for a worm, turning a familiar meme into a tender, unnerving meditation on outgrowing a first love.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Nathan Catucci's "Rabbit" distills the tension between a mother and child into two wordless minutes of 16mm, letting horror bloom from the ordinary act of preparing dinner.
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, Michele Formica's "Sweet Sweat" observes a young fighter's private preparation without commentary or judgment, asking what discipline actually costs when pushing through pain becomes its own quiet form of self-destruction.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Martin Strange-Hansen's "Best Practice" traps a young locksmith between duty and conscience, asking when doing your job quietly makes you complicit in someone else's harm.
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 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, 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, Stefano P. Testa's "The Empty Space" follows a son's return to the origins of his family story, turning the gaps in a lost mother's memory into the film's true subject.
