Abigail Before Beatrice

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

You deserve good things.

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Don’t Watch This

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

If you watch this, you are part of the problem

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Pandaal

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

They call her Madam Sir. Justice was her business, until her past came back for its share.

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Outed

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

Mother knows best

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Playin’ Around

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Action/Thriller

Determined to buy the perfect gift for her little brother, a young woman must fight her way through crazed customers at a toy store turned madhouse.

Director(s): Bryan Uvaldo
Writer(s): Sebastian Hunt
Producer(s): Mason Kidd
Key Cast: Amanda Whyte

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

Knuckle sandwich not included.

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HELP

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

An exhausted nurse is forced into a brutal fight for her life when a mangled and bloody monster invades her home. But as her fearful survival instincts take over, she unknowingly makes a choice that will haunt her forever.

Director(s): Collin Black
Writer(s): Collin Black, Erin Bechler
Producer(s): Fenwick Rockwell
Key Cast: Erin Bechler, Chris Herring, Jim Cummings, Stephen Cormier

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

Fear thy neighbor.

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Missing Rhythms

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

In a mysterious insane asylum full of missing Black women from all over the country, a woman must use rhythm to remember her true identity and fight being lost forever behind the ominous Blue Door.

Director(s): Regina Hoyles
Writer(s): Aja Houston
Producer(s): Julie Bersani, Toni Adeyemi, Regina Hoyles
Key Cast: Aja Houston, Inger Tudor, Farelle Walker, Nona Parker Johnson, Hugo Armstrong, Jordane Christie

Country: United States

Know yourself to save yourself.

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Devil’s Dilemma

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

Sometimes when you haunt someone, it doesn’t go as expected.

Director(s): Darren Coyle
Writer(s): Darren Coyle
Producer(s): Steven Hartman, Leslie Hartman
Key Cast: Jeremy Guskin, Mimi Von Schack, Suzanne Curtis

Country: United States
World Premiere

Being evil isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

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113 Words For You Today

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation

On a frozen planet where every word costs energy, a worker endures silence, storms, and solitude, saving his words for the one that matters most.

Director(s): Bo Qing Tang, Lan Zeng
Writer(s): Bo Qing Tang
Producer(s): Bo Qing Tang

Country: China, Taiwan, United States

A day, a moment, and a longing that never lets go.

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When The Clocks Stop

2025 Official Selection: Featurette – Experimental/Arthouse

Welcome to chapters 1-5 where love transcends into the other side , so trust us and vote YES on the “Soft Exit.” ;). *** This message is generated by your government assisted AI network 5th Wall***

Director(s): Brett Willis
Writer(s): Brett Willis
Producer(s): Anthony Saldana, Adolfo Espinosa, Sarah Curry, Brett Willis
Key Cast: Eric Lutz, Grant Merritt, Mary Garet, Angel Garet, Andrew Tamarkin, Seth Goodfellow, Carissa Rhea Tajudeen, Christopher Sanchez, Jacklyn Dardarian, Kevin Evans Johnson, Priscilla Valldejuli

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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