2026 Official Selection: Thriller – Short

Program: Shorts Block 10 · Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 9:20 PM

• Director(s): Sophiane AFROUN
• Writer(s): Sophiane AFROUN

Language: French

Runtime: 15m

Country: France

World Premiere

Synopsis: Sonia, a quiet woman with an unremarkable life, is assaulted one night on the train. The shock leaves her silent, but something shifts inside her. Slowly, her gaze hardens, her movements grow sharper, more deliberate. An obsession takes hold : to find that man again. She watches him, follows him, learns every detail of his life. Until one day, their paths cross once more and this time, Sonia is no longer the same.

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Source: FILA

2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Pilot/Series

Ceremony: Screenplay Awards Ceremony · Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM

• Writer(s): Matthew E. May

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

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When the LAPD dismisses her uncle’s death as a suicide, a determined nurse in 1899 Los Angeles forms an unlikely alliance to challenge the official record—uncovering a conspiracy behind the first recorded, and still unsolved, murder in the city’s history.

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2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Pilot/Series

Ceremony: Screenplay Awards Ceremony · Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Not many are brave enough to fight the mysterious cryptids that haunt the United States–except one woman down on her luck.

• Writer(s): Leah Donato

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

A stubborn and determined woman sets out on a journey across the country with her cousin to find four cryptids and defeat them, all in order to fill out the most important resume of her life.

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2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Short Film

Ceremony: Screenplay Awards Ceremony · Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM

After a skeptical investigative reporter covers a Hollywood cult that claims to predict its members’ deaths, a trail of gruesome “coincidences” forces her toward the very certainty

• Writer(s): Matt Moeller

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

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A skeptical news reporter investigates "Las Palabras", a Hollywood death cult that claims to know the final words someone will hear before dying. When her interview subjects die exactly as foretold, she traces the chaos to a fame-hungry PA, his blood-soaked cult muses, and a supernatural promise too tempting to resist.

Source: FILA