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2024 Official Selection: Music Video
A music video exploring themes of evolution, connection with nature and meaning. With a strong, dynamic and epic sound, the music video showcases the strong link between all living things and the deep dependancy on each other.
Director(s): Ville Lipiainen
Country: Finland
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
Sheela thinks Griffin is the perfect guy – until one morning she discovers he’s a flat-Earther.
Director(s): Sancheev Ravichandran
Writer(s): Sancheev Ravichandran
Producer(s): Laurel Kulow, Sam Stulin, Vivianne Nguyen
Key Cast: Sonya Balsara, Logan Schmucker, Rivers Duggan, Elijah Guo
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
After discovering her unwanted pregnancy, Penny has to find a way get an abortion in a state where it’s illegal.
Director(s): Caroline Lannes
Writer(s): Caroline Lannes
Producer(s): Elie Block
Key Cast: Brady Sugrue, Mikaela, Noah Wallace Lague, Samantha Schmidt
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
An artist inadvertently creates a gateway to another world, welcoming a disturbing visitor.
Director(s): Chad Sano, Brenan Sano
Key Cast: Aaron Groben, Quinn Liebbe
World Premiere, Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation
A junior astronaut fulfills a dream of going to the moon. Once there, exhilaration gives way to reality but what has been left behind?
Director(s): Jerry van de Beek, Betsy De Fries
Writers(s): Jerry van de Beek, Betsy De Fries
Producer(s): Betsy De Fries
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental
In ‘Heaven in a Wild Flower’ we immerse ourselves in a lyrical exploration of the perilous consequences of pesticides on bees and their intricate ecosystem. In a mesmerizing microscopic world, science meets artistry, fraught with danger and beauty.
Director(s): Jesseca Ynez Simmons
Producer(s): João Queiroga
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation
An unexpected afterline — and a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now.
Director(s): Jacob Langsner
Writers(s): David Eagleman
Producer(s): Jacob Langsner
Key Cast: Jacob Langsner
World Premiere
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Documentary
In Hanoi, Vietnam, tattoo artist Tran Ngoc specializes in the rare and challenging art of tattooing over scars, confronting social stigma and empowering her clients to reclaim their bodies and stories.
Director(s): Lindsay Nyman
Producer(s): Lindsay Nyman
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
When a trans NASA scientist rediscovers a lost satellite she helped launch, she’s forced to confront her painful past and reconcile who she once was with who she’s always been.
Director(s): Ariel Mahler
Writer(s): Ariel Mahler, Kunal Sengupta, Nicholas Schmid
Producer(s): Ilayda Cetinkaya
Key Cast: Danielle Squyres, Tirosh Schneider, Robert Dowdy, Leon A. Walker, Matthew Henerson, Jodi Harrison
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
Two people find out that they are in purgatory and discover that their fate relies on a man wearing socks with sandals.
Director(s): Dezmo DeGano
Writer(s): Dezmo DeGano
Producer(s): Theo Mars
Key Cast: Yasmeen Fletcher, Gregory Zaragoza
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
