2026 Official Selection: Arthouse/Experimental – Short

Runtime: 4m

EQUAL is a cinematic exploration of Richard Serra’s sculpture of the same name on display at the Museum of Modern Art.

• Director(s): Tom Bessoir

Language: No Dialogue

Country: United States

Los Angeles Premiere

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EQUAL consists of eight forged-steel blocks stacked in pairs. Each rectangular block measures 5 feet X 5 1/2 feet X 6 feet and weighs 40 tons. The blocks are rotated and stacked so that the top and bottom blocks align differently. Yet the four stacks are each 11 feet tall.

This simple form makes me think about space, mass, weight, and time. Like the sculpture, my film seeks to both overwhelm the viewer and invite contemplation.

THIS FILM SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD IN A DARK ROOM

Source: FILA

2026 Official Selection: Comedy – Short (under 20 mins), Drama – Short

Runtime: 18m

• Director(s): Zac La Roc
• Writer(s): Zac La Roc, Olivia Allen
• Producer(s): Nick Cassavetes, Rooter Wareing, John Pierce, Hannah Swayze
• Key Cast: Hannah Kepple, Sydney Taylor, Kayla Blake, Philip Michael, Chad Crone, Olivia Allen, Vel Nine, Justin Ellings
• Editor(s): Bella Erikson
• Cinematographer(s): Daniel Contaldo
• Production Designer(s): Chelsea Parker
• Sound Designer(s): Jonathan Wales
• Composer(s): Harley Parker

Language: English

Country: United States

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Dylan and Lizzy are best friends, growing up in a typical dystopian suburbia. Dylan has a plan to take her mom’s boyfriend’s car for the night. The two of them drop acid, steal the car, and the wild sequence of events that ensue over the next nine hours is one for the books. Dylan is all gas, no brakes. Lizzy is more in touch with the risk verses benefit equation. The unlikely duo are still inseparable, and their journey is as entertaining as it is dangerous. In the end, we

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2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Feature Film

Let the culture clashes and love affairs begin!

• Writer(s): Bren Bennington Dahl

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

An adventure seeking college grad joins the Peace Corps, gets posted in the Congo, and takes a wild ride through culture clashes and love affairs.

Source: FILA

2026 Official Selection: Drama – Short

Runtime: 4m

• Director(s): Ramana Wills
• Writer(s): Roger Soffer
• Producer(s): Ramana Wills, Ahava Wills
• Key Cast: Daniel MacPherson, Zoë Bleu
• Editor(s): Ramana Wills
• Cinematographer(s): Ian Michael Lee, Ian M. Conner
• Sound Designer(s): Ramana Wills
• Composer(s): Ruslan Biryukov, Robb Martson

Language: English

Country: United States

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Ordered to end the world, a general finds himself split between a sunlit field where a woman waits: real, remembered, or hoped for. In one world, his hand hovers above the button. In the other, he reaches towards her. To which world does he truly belong, and which will survive his touch?

Source: FILA