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, Alys Murray's "Beware C*ckblocking Ghosts" fuses horror, romance, and comedy into a goth teen ghost story, using a jealous poltergeist to ask what it really takes to let grief go.
At this year's HollyShorts, Adam Byrnes's "Viewfinder" turns a single photograph into a reckoning, following a grieving photographer who is forced to see herself through her grandson's eyes.
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, 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, 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, Jorja Hudson and Ethan David's "Homebodies" imagines a near-future Los Angeles where stepping outside costs money, following a burnt-out woman who commits fraud just to buy herself a single night alone.
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, Wesley Wang's "Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank" turns a husband-and-wife rabbit heist into a fable about creative freedom, following two countryside vigilantes who risk everything to return the means of production to their own kind.
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, Isabel Lamers's "kaya" makes its West Coast premiere with a female-led action story that trades spectacle for interiority, asking what it costs a mixed-race outsider to stop shrinking herself to belong.
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, 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.
At this year's HollyShorts, Junbo Qiu's "Oneiros" follows a wordless astronaut across an alien planet that seems to know him better than he knows himself, tracing how grief and distance can turn the love we long for into a projection we chase.
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, Audrey Cicerello's "GROWN" follows three inseparable teenage girls through their first semi-legal night out in New York City, where a long-held secret erupts and a decade of friendship is tested.
