At this year's HollyShorts, Eduardo Machado's "São Paulo, New York" follows an aspiring producer torn between a visa running out and a home he half-forgot, questioning whether the dreams we chase are ever truly our own.
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, Mimi Lee's "Yaoguai" makes its world premiere as a 1970s-set horror about a Taiwanese American actress whose survival instincts summon something monstrous, asking what gets erased in the pursuit of universal appeal.
At this year's HollyShorts, Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal's "EUROPA" sends three astronauts to Jupiter's moon in search of water, and asks who will decide the future of humanity when Earth's supply runs dry.
At this year's HollyShorts, Lola Glaudini's "Tu Viens D'où" screens in the Touch of Romance block, telling a long-distance love story in fractured, dreamy calls that trace how two lovers found each other later in life.
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, Daeyoung Kim's "Bleeding Edge" follows a young Korean-American figure skater through injury and expectation, tracing how a parent's dream can slowly consume the child sent to carry it.
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, Adam Peltier's "NEXT" drops two former classmates on either side of the audition spotlight, where a war of words and nerves decides which man survives the room.
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, Adam Moorman's "Snack Attack" follows a would-be hero whose good deed backfires and goes viral, mining our doom-scrolling, surveilled lives for something warm, dark, and genuinely funny.
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, Hannah Aslesen's "Scissors" flips the home-invasion slasher on its head, turning five loud, messy, queer women from prey into predators in a night their would-be killer never saw coming.
