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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation
In a surreal suburban hell, Frank lives through eternal loops, until a self discovery forces him to break away from his nightmare.
Director(s): JOHNNY GALVAN
Writer(s): JOHNNY GALVAN
Producer(s): JOHNNY GALVAN
Key Cast: Michael Malconian
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A disabled wheelchair user tries to solve the biggest question in physics, a solution to the theory of everything, while struggling with the cigarette butts and other rubbish falling onto his apartment balcony from the neighbours above.
Director(s): Leo Berkeley
Writer(s): Leo Berkeley
Producer(s): Leo Berkeley
Key Cast: Leo Berkeley
Country: Australia
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
After a father fails to remove his ankle monitor, he’s pursued by his parole officer and a hellbent demon who’s after his soul.
Director(s): Lukas Anderson
Writer(s): Lukas Anderson, Elio Andres
Producer(s): Alexus Es
Key Cast: Cole Kelley, Courtney Powell-Walker, Everett Anderson
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A novelist dissatisfied with life and marriage explores her desire and asks for an affair.
Director(s): Olivia Lige Wuri
Writer(s): Olivia Lige Wuri
Producer(s): Anna Yuxing Lei, Yunyi Zhu
Key Cast: Danielle Keaton, Christopher Dietrick, Charlie Townsend
Country: United States
World Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Sci-Fi
Two sisters confront their differing views on genetic engineering as they prepare to leave Earth with the final human survivors.
Director(s): Michael Vaughn Hernandez
Writer(s): Darren Bailey, Renée Veronica Freeman
Producer(s): Renée Veronica Freeman, Michael Vaughn Hernandez, Kally Khourshid
Key Cast: Renée Veronica Freeman, Folami Williams
Country: United States
World Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
In this H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, Carter, a grief-stricken young man, and his mentor Warren, an elder female professor of the occult, search for a portal to the underworld in an abandoned cemetery.
Director(s): Xander Copp
Writer(s): Meg Rodgers, John-Paul Kaczur
Producer(s): Xander Copp, Bradley Cherry, Adam Schoales
Key Cast: Carson MacCormac, Elizabeth Saunders, Brian Quintero
Country: Canada
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation
Becoming an Oyster is a haunting animated journey through a boy’s eyes, where grief, addiction, and a crumbling planet intertwine in a surreal search for healing and meaning.
Director(s): Elizabeth Schneider, Michael Covello
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
A beleaguered wife discovers there’s more to her husband’s immature antics than meets the eye.
Director(s): Cate Fogarty
Writer(s): Cate Fogarty
Country: United States
World Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Featurette – Horror
A possessed Babushka doll unleashes a nesting chain of malevolent entities, forcing a mother and her young daughter to confront a legacy of generational trauma—unfolding through a narrative structured like the doll itself.
Director(s): Jon James Smith
Writer(s): Jon James Smith
Producer(s): Taylor Lawrence, Paul Sinacore
Key Cast: Hayley McFarland, Quinn Aune, Taylor Lawrence, Richard Shelton, Daniel Joo, Mushond Lee, Paul Sinacore
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film- Drama
Peter returns home to seek reconciliation with his comatose mother.
Director(s): Mac Pettit
Writer(s): Mac Pettit
Producer(s): Manan Choudhry
Key Cast: Rebecca Berinbaum, Erik Kavanagh, Ivan Sorokin
Country: Canada
Los Angeles Premiere
