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: USA

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Source: SOFF

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

 

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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

Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA

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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

Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA

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Source: SOFF