2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

With her fifth birthday fast approaching, a non-verbal autistic girl and her parents struggle to navigate the unaccepting world of a neurodivergent child.

Director(s): Kirsty O’Donnell
Writer(s): Kirsty O’Donnell
Producer(s): Kirsty O’Donnell, Rianne Pyle
Key Cast: Raena Burks-Hunter, Dylan Page, Soulo Smith

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

This is for every person who has ever read a romantasy novel and is still waiting for a tall, dark, morally grey man to come sweep them off their feet. Here we find Farrah waiting for her hero, but instead she gets Reese.

Director(s): Megan Elizabeth Barker
Writer(s): Megan Elizabeth Barker
Producer(s): Megan Elizabeth Barker
Key Cast: Megan Elizabeth Barker, Max Giorgi

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

A grieving alcoholic wrecks havoc in a support group only to be forced to face the grief she’s desperately trying to numb.

Director(s): Courtney Karwal
Writer(s): Amy Haeussler
Producer(s): Amy Haeussler, Courtney Karwal, Justin Page
Key Cast: Amy Haeussler, Deanna Rooney, Nina Concepción, Crosby Fitzgerald, Jane KIm, Rebecca Sohn

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Featurette – Animation

Drawn to the storm that consumed her father, a young woman embarks on a perilous journey into its heart, battling her own demons and the overwhelming pull of suicide.

Director(s): Benjamin Deutscher
Writer(s): Benjamin Deutscher
Key Cast: Lauren Taggart

Country: United States
World Premiere

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2025 Official Selection:  Web Series / TV Pilot

When a college student reveals her tongue can read minds through touch, she reluctantly teams up with her best friend to solve a mysterious death at a frat party.

Director(s): Gabe Kimpson, Christina Alexandra
Writer(s): Christina Alexandra
Producer(s): Christina Alexandra
Key Cast: Christina Alexandra, Kate Goorland, Tony Bartele

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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