2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

Make America taste great again!

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

• Director(s): David Dylan Thomas
• Writer(s): David Dylan Thomas
• Producer(s): Stephanie Malson, Maurice Gaston
• Key Cast: Davon Cochran, Walt DeShields
• Editor(s): Raquel Davis
• Cinematographer(s): Jalen Ramseur-Williams
• Production Designer(s): Jai Monee
• Sound Designer(s): Timothy Day
• Composer(s): Gangstagrass

Language: English

Runtime: 11m

Country: United States

Synopsis: True story, beneath Washington Square, an urban park in Philadelphia, lie buried the bodies of hundreds of enslaved people. What if, one night, they all came back as zombies, but they only ate white people?

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Source: SOFF

2026 Official Selection: Featurette – SciFi

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

• Director(s): Peter Thomas Ruocco
• Writer(s): Peter Thomas Ruocco
• Producer(s): Tuba Asena Ugurlu
• Key Cast: Zac Jaffee, Erica Mae McNeal
• Editor(s): Peter Thomas Ruocco
• Cinematographer(s): Cliff Traiman
• Production Designer(s): Jacquelyn Scott
• Sound Designer(s): David Sandwisch
• Composer(s): Chris Houston

Language: English

Runtime: 32m

Country: United States

World Premiere

Synopsis: In a future where a godlike super-intelligence optimizes every citizen’s path to happiness and purpose, Henry P. Jones is an anomaly. A stubborn, struggling writer, Henry has spent his life rejecting the System’s guidance in pursuit of an authentic life. When his well-being score drops below zero, he is summoned to the Department of Life Navigation for a mandatory consultation. What begins as a routine evaluation soon becomes a ruthless examination of Henry’s life, dreams,

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Source: SOFF

2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

• Director(s): Sagi Kahane-Rapport
• Writer(s): Sagi Kahane-Rapport
• Producer(s): James Edward Stewart, Leandro Amorim-Downie
• Key Cast: Susanne Wuest, Patrick Guldenberg, Elmar Gutmann
• Editor(s): Sagi Kahane-Rapport
• Cinematographer(s): Adam Madrzyk
• Production Designer(s): Hope Little
• Sound Designer(s): Bret Killoran
• Composer(s): Isaac Mailach

Language: English

Runtime: 15m

Country: Canada

Los Angeles Premiere

Synopsis: When camera pioneer Ernst Leitz’s defiance of the Nazi regime is discovered by the Gestapo, his daughter Elsie must navigate a high-stakes battle of the wits with a Gestapo detective to save her father’s life.

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2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Feature Film

Ceremony date & tickets — to be announced

• Writer(s): Mary Rose Almasi

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

Meg lives a carefully ordered life—one built on routine and restraint in the months following the sudden loss of her 18-year-old daughter, Gabby. Practical and disciplined, she approaches grief the way she approaches everything else: with structure.

In a chaotic afterlife that feels more like an unfinished teenage bedroom than heaven, Gabby refuses to accept the distance between them. Convinced that her mother’s pain is her responsibility, she begins

Source: SOFF