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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation
LIFTED is an animated tale of awakening and transformation, following one man’s fantastical journey aboard an elevator.
Director(s): Daniel Robichaud
Writer(s): Daniel Robichaud
Producer(s): Daniel Robichaud
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A divorced couple tries to navigate addiction, control and custody of their young son.
Writer(s): Alyson Croft
Producer(s): Actor’s Cartel
Key Cast: Alyson Croft, Hunter Bodine
Country: United States
World Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation
A lonely alien searches for intelligent life in the Galaxy.
Director(s): Ari Flesch
Writer(s): Ari Flesch
Producer(s): Ari Flesch
Country: United States
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: 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
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – SciFi
After introducing his “perfect” new girlfriend to his friends, Julian realizes that what he had thought was perfection, may just be an illusion.
Director(s): Brandon Fobbs
Writer(s): Kristina Sullivan
Producer(s): Brandon Fobbs, Kristina Sullivan
Key Cast: Don Daniels Jr., Ivonnah Erskine, Kristina Sullivan, Clifton J. Williams
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A surprise pregnancy forces a woman to make a difficult decision alone, triggering memories of the one person she could always turn to—her father—and leaving her to find strength in his absence.
Director(s): Emma Elizabeth Steiger
Writer(s): Emma Elizabeth Steiger
Producer(s): Emma Elizabeth Steiger, Jessie Gill, Colton Eschief Mastro, Nick Mastro, Wylie Rush, Will Brunker
Key Cast: Emma Elizabeth Steiger, Darby Lee Stack, Claire Kresser, Duane Daniels, Sydney Walsh, Zane Haney, Tanner Hagen
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
Talulah, pregnant with her first born, wrestles with the reality of motherhood as she is confronted with memories of her own, mentally unstable mother.
Director(s): Belle Adams
Writer(s): Terri Measel Adams
Producer(s): Terri Measel Adams, Michelle Moreland
Key Cast: Belle Adams, Katelin Chesna, Sage Schmidt, Aditi George, Schyler Tillett, Jonathan D Williams, Scarlett Jane Moore
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
Something’s wrong with Grayson and TJ is making it weird.
Director(s): Nathan Trumbull
Writer(s): Nathan Trumbull
Producer(s): Nathan Trumbull, Larissa Pruett
Key Cast: TJ Linnard, Grayson Low, Jeni Reed, Christopher Grajales, Warren Barrow, John Strelec
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A firefighter is haunted by the silent burden of an unresolved tragedy, denial extinguishing his passions and relationships. Now he must finally confront the one rescue he’s always avoided – his own.
– Based on the Filmmakers experience
Director(s): Maximilian Curnow
Writer(s): Maximilian Curnow
Producer(s): Maximilian Curnow
Key Cast: Maximilian Curnow, Luke Brady, Darryl Oakley, Holly Stubbings, Pauk Hutcheon
World Premiere
Country: United Kingdom
