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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
Talulah, pregnant with her first born, wrestles with the reality of motherhood as she is confronted with memories of her own, mentally unstable mother.
Director(s): Belle Adams
Writer(s): Terri Measel Adams
Producer(s): Terri Measel Adams, Michelle Moreland
Key Cast: Belle Adams, Katelin Chesna, Sage Schmidt, Aditi George, Schyler Tillett, Jonathan D Williams, Scarlett Jane Moore
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
Something’s wrong with Grayson and TJ is making it weird.
Director(s): Nathan Trumbull
Writer(s): Nathan Trumbull
Producer(s): Nathan Trumbull, Larissa Pruett
Key Cast: TJ Linnard, Grayson Low, Jeni Reed, Christopher Grajales, Warren Barrow, John Strelec
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A firefighter is haunted by the silent burden of an unresolved tragedy, denial extinguishing his passions and relationships. Now he must finally confront the one rescue he’s always avoided – his own.
– Based on the Filmmakers experience
Director(s): Maximilian Curnow
Writer(s): Maximilian Curnow
Producer(s): Maximilian Curnow
Key Cast: Maximilian Curnow, Luke Brady, Darryl Oakley, Holly Stubbings, Pauk Hutcheon
World Premiere
Country: United Kingdom
2025 Official Selection: Web Series / TV Pilot
A single mother seeks justice for the murder of her son by a police officer, but before confronting the external battle, she must first reconcile with her own past.
Director(s): Maria Valdez
Writer(s): Maria Valdez
Producer(s): Maria Valdez
Key Cast: Susan Santiago
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
An insomniac, hired gun begins to question her sanity when she runs into one of her previous victims alive and well.
Director(s): Matt Van Tine
Writer(s): Rich Van Tine
Producer(s): Matt Van Tine, Rich Van Tine, Tim Simek, AnaElise Beckman, Ryan Kuna
Key Cast: Aly Trasher, Tim Simek, William Gabriel Grier
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Action/Thriller
In a grimy after-hours bar, a nervous thief’s attempt to return stolen mob cash spirals into a tense showdown where secrets unravel, loyalties shift, and the heavy cost of every choice becomes impossible to escape.
Director(s): Enrique A. Mendoza
Writer(s): Ren Olivieri
Producer(s): Shannon Carl, Alastair Waithe
Key Cast: Sean Power, Salma Khalidi, Laurent Sayer, Ren Olivieri, Koldin Collie, Derrick Rabethge
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: Canada
2025 Official Selection: Feature Film – Horror
Assigned to a missing person case, reporter Trish Bostwick follows the trail to a secluded asylum hidden in the New England woods, but everything changes when a knife-wielding stranger hijacks her car, plunging her into a descent of paranoia and madness.
Director(s): Michael May
Writer(s): Michael May, Alexandra Grunberg
Producer(s): Ashleigh Snead
Key Cast: Katie Parker, Tara Perry, Scott Dean, Michael May
Country: USA
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Dance
A young dancer in a reflected, refracted world of mixed messages pushes back on what she hears as child, youth, and young adult.
Director(s): John Schlag
Producer(s): John Schlag
Key Cast: Sadie MacKinnon
West Coast Premiere
Country: USA
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental
On a Sunday that is a brief respite from everyday life, a young man is haunted by a final voice message, a break up, and a ‘goodbye’ he can’t take back.
Director(s): Daniel Talbott
Writer(s): Daniel Talbott
Producer(s): Daniel Talbott, Lovell Holder
Key Cast: Carey Cannata, Tyler Woehl
Country: USA
2025 Official Selection: Feature Film – Drama
After the sudden and violent death of her estranged sister, an actor leaves Los Angeles and returns to her hometown in search of answers.
Director(s): Zeshaan Younus
Writer(s): Zeshaan Younus
Producer(s): Trevor Dillon, Matt Latham, Chris Heck, Logan Taylor
Key Cast: Renee Gagner, Rosie McDonald, John R. Smith Jnr., Nick Samson, Sydney McCarthy
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
