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
Baby Husband
BABUSHKA
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
Ashes and Grace
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
Archaic
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
After a traumatic event, Sam reunites with a former friend turned Neo-Shaman—only to suspect the healing ritual offered hides a darker intent.
Director(s): Mark Perceval-Maxwell
Writer(s): Mark Perceval-Maxwell
Producer(s): Mark Perceval-Maxwell, Ben Perry
Country: United Kingdom
Los Angeles Premiere
1 in the Chamber
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
A work-obsessed assassin sent to “retire” her coworker is shocked to discover her target is pregnant and infuriated by how baby-proofed a nursery can be.
Director(s): Annie Girard, Diana Wright
Writer(s): Annie Girard, Diana Wright
Producer(s): James Bristow, Kourtney Gleason, Matt Danner, Rachel Parsons
Key Cast: Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Yara Martinez, Wilson Bethel
Country: United States
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2025 Official Selection: Short Film- Sci Fi
An overly ambitious paperboy delivers newspapers at the dawn of the most important day in human history.
Director(s): Daniel Alexander Edelen
Writer(s): Daniel Alexander Edelen
Producer(s): Daniel Alexander Edelen, Joshua Carlin
Key Cast: Cyrus Schmit, Onthineal Westman, Matt Dy
Country: United States
World Premiere
More Dead Than Living
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
Death comes for a bitter, depressed widow who doesn’t fight back – he’s happy to die but before he goes he wants to have one last “magic” adventure with the daughter he never got it right with.
Director(s): JT Doran
Writer(s): JT Doran
Producer(s): Hao Li
Key Cast: Joe Chan, Emily Fan, Dominic Wong, Xiao Ping Wang, Mia Yu
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary
With his drag look grotesquely sexualized at 64, filmmaker Tim Lienhard describes his sexual self-development in this autofictional film essay. The journey in the film goes from Berlin to a porn festival in Torremolinos to Pride Week in Gran Canaria.
Director(s): Tim Lienhard
Writer(s): Tim Lienhard
Producer(s): Tim Lienhard
Key Cast: Robert Royal, Rosa von Praunheim, Jonas Lawitzke, Enrico Wohlfahrt, Rüdiger Fuck, Timo Opalla, Roy Gerwenat
Country: Germany
World Premiere
