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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
With her fifth birthday fast approaching, a non-verbal autistic girl and her parents struggle to navigate the unaccepting world of a neurodivergent child.
Director(s): Kirsty O’Donnell
Writer(s): Kirsty O’Donnell
Producer(s): Kirsty O’Donnell, Rianne Pyle
Key Cast: Raena Burks-Hunter, Dylan Page, Soulo Smith
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
This is for every person who has ever read a romantasy novel and is still waiting for a tall, dark, morally grey man to come sweep them off their feet. Here we find Farrah waiting for her hero, but instead she gets Reese.
Director(s): Megan Elizabeth Barker
Writer(s): Megan Elizabeth Barker
Producer(s): Megan Elizabeth Barker
Key Cast: Megan Elizabeth Barker, Max Giorgi
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A grieving alcoholic wrecks havoc in a support group only to be forced to face the grief she’s desperately trying to numb.
Director(s): Courtney Karwal
Writer(s): Amy Haeussler
Producer(s): Amy Haeussler, Courtney Karwal, Justin Page
Key Cast: Amy Haeussler, Deanna Rooney, Nina Concepción, Crosby Fitzgerald, Jane KIm, Rebecca Sohn
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Featurette – Animation
Drawn to the storm that consumed her father, a young woman embarks on a perilous journey into its heart, battling her own demons and the overwhelming pull of suicide.
Director(s): Benjamin Deutscher
Writer(s): Benjamin Deutscher
Key Cast: Lauren Taggart
Country: United States
World Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Web Series / TV Pilot
When a college student reveals her tongue can read minds through touch, she reluctantly teams up with her best friend to solve a mysterious death at a frat party.
Director(s): Gabe Kimpson, Christina Alexandra
Writer(s): Christina Alexandra
Producer(s): Christina Alexandra
Key Cast: Christina Alexandra, Kate Goorland, Tony Bartele
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Featurette – Horror
Over the course of a single harrowing night, a pregnant woman trapped in a cycle of addiction, psychosis, and domestic violence goes into labor. As her grip on reality fractures, she is forced to confront both literal and symbolic demons that leave her fighting for survival not only for herself but for her unborn son.
Director(s): Adon Rackson
Writer(s): Adon Rackson
Producer(s): Krsy Fox, Jennifer Kachler, Adon Rackson
Key Cast: Krsy Fox, Elle Riot Fox, Mickey River
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
Desperate to keep her mother’s magazine-selling legacy alive, Evelyn finds a creative way to make a sale.
Director(s): Sarah Stephens
Writer(s): Sarah Stephens
Producer(s): Sarah Stephens
Key Cast: Sarah Stephens, Chris Mayers
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Feature Film – Comedy
A small-time crook recruits his estranged daughter into a fake caroling group to steal a diamond, but the holiday heist forces him to choose between family and fortune.
Director(s): Robb Padgett
Writer(s): Robb Padgett
Producer(s): Robb Padgett, Todd Norwood, Tanya Ihnen
Key Cast: Robb Padgett, Natalie Scott, Amy Segal, Kian Fan, Tanya Ihnen, Kevin Spirtas
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – SciFi
In the near future, AI has infiltrated all aspects of human life. When a betrayed woman hires a crack divorce lawyer who seems to be the ideal man, he may prove too good to be true.
Director(s): Tatiana Blackington James
Writer(s): Tatiana Blackington James
Producer(s): Tatiana Blackington James, Olia Zimarova
Key Cast: Virginia Reece, June Lanston, Josh Breslow, Susan Rudick, ANDREW GE, Miranda Kathleen, Stacey Oristano
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
A reticent young woman, haunted by her violent past, wakes to find herself imprisoned in a re-education facility for women who have attempted to have abortions.
Director(s): MK McGehee
Writer(s): MK McGehee
Producer(s): MK McGehee, Elizabeth Ayers, Brown Hare Pictures, Jane & June Entertainment
Key Cast: Catherine Parker, Alexandra Henrikson, Mark Huber
Country: United States
