Author: Karina Wolfe

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Action/Thriller

When two psychotic butchers fail to deliver a box of their finest human meat to a crime boss, their desperate attempt to make it right spirals into blood, chaos, and very bad decisions.

Director(s): Chad Andrews
Writer(s): Chad Andrews
Producer(s): Conni Miu, Amanda Zhou, Theo Vandergraaf, Michael Maddeaux
Key Cast: Chad Andrews, Andrew Merrigan, Conni Miu, Richard Marks, Steven Clarke, Michael Perrotti, Obi Obikudu

Country: Canada
World Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

Tyler, a young man in treatment for his eating disorder, is spiraled deeper back into his anorexia with the arrival of a new patient that forces him to work for his validation.

Director(s): Ryan Beene
Writer(s): Ryan Beene
Producer(s): Mekdese Haile
Key Cast: Tyler Yath, David De La Barcena

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Featurette – SciFi

In a dystopian future, a grieving scientist discovers Earth exists within a single neuron. He launches a desperate quest across space and time to find his son.

Director(s): Raphael Buisson
Writer(s): Raphael Buisson
Producer(s): Raphael Buisson, Jack McMann, Kip Thorne, Rafael Maman, Hsiao Shih-Chun
Key Cast: David Alan Graf, Kip Thorne, Ranen Warren, Jessica Park, Alan Aymie, Tamara Becker Cimmerian, Christian Haines

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation

To keep from rusting in the endless rain, two robot brothers set out on a long journey, longing for a place where the rain stops.

Director(s): Dojin Kim
Writer(s): Dojin Kim
Producer(s): Dojin Kim

Country: Republic of Korea
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary

A professional Latin-American boxer recovers after almost loses his life during the biggest fight of his career competing for the I.B.F championship.

Director(s): Sterling Hampton IV
Writer(s): Sterling Hampton IV
Producer(s): Sterling Hampton IV, Monica Lawless
Key Cast: Daniel Franco

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

In this literal COMING-of-age film, an Indian woman gives her mom “the talk”

Director(s): Vidhya Iyer
Writer(s): Vidhya Iyer
Producer(s): Aishwarya Sonar, Jozef Fahey
Key Cast: Kavi Ramachandran Ladnier, Anita Kalathara, Garrick Bernard, Karthik Srinivasan

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Feature Film – Drama

An isolated woman is confronted by her past when a fellow former cult member reaches out with news that their leader has been released from prison early.

Director(s): Cassie Keet
Writer(s): Cassie Keet
Producer(s): Benjamin Dunn, Cassie Keet, Mindy Van Kuren
Key Cast: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Riley Dandy, Shayn Herndon, Jordan Lane Shappell, Molly Jackson

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

A woman slowly realizes she’s a character in a movie. As she spirals in terror, everyone around her dismisses her as delusional-unaware that she’s the only one who knows we are watching.

Director(s): Daniel Pineros
Writer(s): Daniel Pineros
Producer(s): Daniel Pineros, Lina Sanchez, Justin Potter
Key Cast: Natalie Polisson, Keoki Trask

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

A female pimp, dispensing her own brand of justice by pimping out abusive men, must confront her darkest secrets when a new case brings her haunting past to light.

Director(s): Shaily Sanghvi
Writer(s): Naosheen Ahmed, Shaily Sanghvi, Rutul Desai, Sagar Nayak
Producer(s): Naosheen Ahmed, Preeti Saraogi, Siddhant Vig
Key Cast: Naosheen Ahmed, Jai Jhala, Almanya Narula, Shalini Srivastava

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

An overbearing mother implores her horny son to resist his urges to save him from the fate she endured.

Director(s): Charlie Paulin
Writer(s): Charlie Paulin
Producer(s): Graciela Garcia, John Zerbo
Key Cast: Jason Grobstich, Jaymes Mansfield

Country: United States

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