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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
