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Anatomy

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2026 Official Selection: Feature Film – Drama

Anatomy

A dying contract killer takes on a young female protégé to carry on his work.

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

  • Director(s): Zaki Rubenstein
  • Writer(s): Robert Alan Dilts
  • Producer(s): Tommy Nash
  • Key Cast: Tommy Nash, Sara Noah
  • Editor(s): Joe Fraley
  • Cinematographer(s): Lars Struck
  • Production Designer(s): Tommy Nash
  • Sound Designer(s): Julian Schuller
  • Composer(s): Julian Schuller

Language: English

Runtime: 1h 41m

Country: United States

Los Angeles Premiere

Synopsis: George is a professional hitman. A contract assassin who works out of the back of a limo office. He is a shadow of the man he once was. Frail and weak, he is dying of cancer, but agrees to honor three final contracts before he retires.
Kate is new to the world she thinks she wants to become a part of.
George agrees to take Kate under his wing for his final assignments, teaching her a professional killer’s tools of the trade.

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Source: SOFF

One Last Night

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2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

One Last Night

On the night before he leaves for college, a teenager takes his little brother away from their alcoholic mother for one last night in the city…the only goodbye they may ever get.

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

  • Director(s): Michael Guillod
  • Writer(s): Howard Campbell
  • Producer(s): Jean-Marie Gindraux, Floriane Anderson, Yessi Sanchez, Michael Guillod
  • Key Cast: Howard Campbell, Jaden Carson Baker, K.Steele
  • Editor(s): Mykyta Kryvosheiev
  • Cinematographer(s): Pietro Zuercher
  • Production Designer(s): Linda Dahlem Espinoza
  • Sound Designer(s): Allan Mantilleri
  • Composer(s): Kevin Queille

Language: English

Runtime: 19m

Country: Switzerland, United States

Los Angeles Premiere

Synopsis: On the eve of leaving for college, Braden Hall once again finds his mother lost in drunken chaos. Determined to protect his younger brother from the turmoil at home, he takes him out into the city for one final night together, a bittersweet journey of laughter, connection, and lasting memories amid the fractures of their family.

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Source: SOFF

Growing Old

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2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Short Film

Growing Old

Ceremony date & tickets — to be announced

Three pot-heads. One nursing home. Whole bunch of weed.

  • Writer(s): Richard D. Chandler

Country: Not Specified

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When three friends get given community service in an elderly care home for growing their own supply, it quickly turns into a new venture rather than a punishment as they use the grounds to grow a new crop of extra strength pot.

Source: SOFF

Butts

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2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Documentary

Butts

Life is about figuring it out, whatever ‘it’ is, and making it work.

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

  • Director(s): Clarissa Jacobson, Shayna Weber
  • Writer(s): Kent Rodricks
  • Producer(s): Clarissa Jacobson, Shayna Weber, Joe Bratcher, Kent Rodricks, Shawna Chance
  • Key Cast: Kent Rodricks, Lulu Miller, Jaquay Lamar Thomas
  • Editor(s): Geno Marx
  • Cinematographer(s): Chris Ekstein and Angela Wong
  • Production Designer(s): Alicia Ho
  • Sound Designer(s): Matt Festle
  • Composer(s): Antoni Mairata

Language: English

Runtime: 10m

Country: United States

Los Angeles Premiere

Synopsis: Butts is an autobiographical piece about Kent’s day-to-day life as a 3’11” man navigating able-bodied surroundings, creatively overcoming all those human-made hurdles and obstacles and giving the proverbial middle finger to death and mortality. Sure, he might be small in stature, but Kent’s big in heart and always puts an entertaining and positive spin on everything.

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I Wanted To Hear Your Voice

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2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Documentary

I Wanted To Hear Your Voice

After eight years of caring for his mother with severe dementia, a son struggles through their daily care routine.

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

  • Director(s): James Pellerito
  • Writer(s): James Pellerito
  • Producer(s): David Barba
  • Key Cast: Mary Pellerito, James Pellerito
  • Editor(s): James Pellerito, David Barba
  • Cinematographer(s): Rodrigo Sandoval Vega Gil
  • Sound Designer(s): Matt Schultz

Runtime: 12m

Country: United States

Synopsis: After eight years of caring for his mother with severe dementia, a son struggles through their daily care routine. Recorded voicemails serve to show the progression of the disease, underscoring the frustration, isolation and burnout that comes with intensive caregiving.

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Source: SOFF