2026 Official Selection: Music Video

It’s common courtesy to wait…

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

• Director(s): Tague MB Zachary, Nathan M Reiland-Smith
• Writer(s): Tague MB Zachary
• Producer(s): Nathan M Reiland-Smith, Tague MB Zachary
• Key Cast: Tague MB Zachary, Cristopher B Zachary, Dr. Chocolate
• Editor(s): Nathan M Reiland-Smith, Tague MB Zachary
• Cinematographer(s): Nathan M Reiland-Smith
• Production Designer(s): Ashley Villa
• Composer(s): Tague MB Zachary

Language: English

Runtime: 6m

Country: United States

Synopsis: A young man faces adversity when he is asked to wait until everyone has food on their plate. This musical comedy explores familial tensions and godlike restraint.

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2026 Official Selection: Featurette – Documentary

Turn Off the Machines follows Ethan Hughes, a radical homesteader in mid-coast Maine who lives entirely without electricity, global supply chains, or modern technological comforts.

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• Director(s): Joseph El-Khoury, Muhammad Yusuf Khattak
• Producer(s): Joseph El-Khoury, Muhammad Yusuf Khattak, Jack Ruefli
• Key Cast: Ethan Hughes

Language: English

Runtime: 42m

Country: United States

Synopsis: Turn Off the Machines follows Ethan Hughes, a radical homesteader in mid-coast Maine who lives entirely without electricity, global supply chains, or modern technological comforts. Raised in Gloucester to working class parents, an early tragedy shattered a happy childhood and set him on a path of radical resistance. Living deliberately below the poverty line, Ethan’s life is not a retreat but a protest against capitalism, war, and ecological collapse. The film explores his convictions, his family’s daily rhythms, and the tensions that arise when belief meets the demands of life.

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2026 Official Selection: Featurette – Drama

Some decisions don’t arrive as a single moment – they arrive as a flood of everything you’ve ever been.

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• Director(s): Grace Sims
• Writer(s): Grace Sims
• Producer(s): Grace Sims, Don Ohmer, Jonathan Bowles
• Key Cast: Sydney Cole Alexander, Bates Wilder, Jerah Milligan, Taylor Rose, Dee Freeman, Jake Ryan, Savannah Rose Wells
• Editor(s): Natalie Hill
• Cinematographer(s): Riede Dervay
• Production Designer(s): Brittany Ingram
• Sound Designer(s): Alex Bologna
• Composer(s): Lilliana Villines

Runtime: 20m

Country: United States

Synopsis: In a kaleidoscope of memories Maxine (Sydney Cole Alexander; Severance, Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning) must navigate the surreal and transformative decision of terminating a pregnancy; questioning the very fabric of her identity and future.

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2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Feature Film

Ceremony date & tickets — to be announced

It takes a village — or at least one very questionable hockey team.

• Writer(s): Lesley Hoyt-Croft

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

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A hockey-playing single mom is threatened with having her daughter taken away by her sister and her sleazy filmmaker boyfriend, She must enlist the aid of her lesbian teammates, a church choir and some “Angry Coochies” to try and stop them.

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2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

Don’t break the routine.

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

• Director(s): Brenden Hubbard
• Writer(s): Brian Barnes
• Producer(s): Mylissa Fitzsimmons, Parth Marathe, Damon Russell, Brenden Hubbard, Bennett Krishock, Bryan Matthews, Shawn Christensen, Brian Barnes
• Key Cast: Ionie Nieves, Alejandro Rose-Garcia
• Editor(s): Josh Earl
• Cinematographer(s): Jack Mannion
• Production Designer(s): Christina Coleman
• Sound Designer(s): Nick Messitte
• Composer(s): Darren Morze

Language: English

Runtime: 16m

Country: United States

Synopsis: From the Academy Award winning team behind "Curfew." Still reeling from an incredible loss, a father (Shakey Graves) and daughter cling to a bedtime routine keeping them safe in a town where an unfathomable horror visits its inhabitants night after night.

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