At this year's HollyShorts, Iris Breward's "Micro Bangs" follows a woman whose fixation on a drastic haircut spirals into a five-minute study of relationships and validation, finding the danger that lives right next to laughter.
At this year's HollyShorts, Sean Billings-Almendarez and Romeo Okwara's "Lunch Box" turns a playground contest for a junk-food prize into a story about the friends who help us find our place, and the quiet victories that outlast childhood.
At this year's HollyShorts, Paige Morrow Kimball's "Wait" confronts the silence that follows sexual assault, asking whether accountability, hope, and healing are still possible seven years after the harm.
At this year's HollyShorts, Ward Bond's "Bond on Cinema" goes past the red carpet and into the creative heart of filmmaking, treating each conversation as a chance to reveal the story behind the story.
At this year's HollyShorts, Joshua Kushner's "Braving the Night" turns a father's love into a dream-spanning rescue mission, asking whether a bond can outlast the memories that hold it.
At this year's HollyShorts, Jessica Rizk's "Cracked" turns an ordinary breakfast into a slow slide toward psychological horror, tracing how a room and a self can quietly fall apart together.
At this year's HollyShorts, Laura New's "America" traces the ordinary days before a school tragedy, following a single mother whose fight for a better life is quietly racing a clock she cannot see.
At this year's HollyShorts, Jon Boogz's "Remedy in the Rhythm" follows a young man haunted by his best friend's suicide, using dance to reach the pain that words can't, and to argue that movement can carry a story with real depth.
At this year's HollyShorts, Stephen Neary's "Living with a Visionary" brings a hand-drawn adaptation of John Matthias' memoir home to Los Angeles, tracing one man's care for his wife through Parkinson's, hallucination, and the isolation of a pandemic.
At this year's HollyShorts, Ayesha Fernández's "Diana la Cazadora" follows a maquiladora worker who refuses to look away from the violence around her, transforming fear into a quiet, unshakable form of power.
At this year's HollyShorts, Marissa Velez's "Birds of Paradise" turns one woman's thirty-year feud with wild turkeys into an unexpectedly tender study of displacement, loneliness, and the universal need to feel heard.
At this year's HollyShorts, Alana Duqum's "It's Complicated" follows a friendship between a Palestinian-American screenwriter and a poet in Gaza, tracing how diaspora, sisterhood, and sudden loss test the responsibility of bearing witness.
At this year's HollyShorts, hazart's "Stay for the Q&A" takes a routine post-premiere Q&A and lets it devolve into something familiar and unhinged, a sharp, affectionate send-up of the absurdities every filmmaker knows too well.
At this year's HollyShorts, Catherine Joy White's "Swim Sistas" turns a poetic meditation on swimming into a study of belonging, following four Black British women and girls who find healing, sisterhood, and joy in the water.
At this year's HollyShorts, Jack Salvadori's "Blondi" watches history's darkest chapter through the eyes of the Führer's German Shepherd, asking whether ordinary devotion can survive proximity to unimaginable evil.
At this year's HollyShorts, Pranav Bhasin's "We Were Here" follows three retired uncles who protest automation by impersonating household appliances, turning a silly premise into a warm meditation on family, obsolescence, and why AI doesn't feel right.
