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2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
Screening date & tickets — to be announced
Language: English
Runtime: 12m
Country: United States
Synopsis: In this 90s PSA, a rebellious teen shrugs off his father’s anti-drug sermon and learns the hard way that marijuana might just be "the gateway drug to hell."
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2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
During the Black Panther movement, a pregnant Afeni Shakur battles 189 felony charges, forced to defend herself in a trial that could cost her freedom and her unborn child’s future
Screening date & tickets — to be announced
Language: English
Runtime: 15m
Country: United States
Synopsis: From her jail cell, eight months pregnant, Afeni Shakur writes a letter to her unborn son, Tupac, reflecting on her transformation from Alice Faye Williams into a Black Panther leader. As government surveillance and betrayal threaten the movement, Afeni and twenty fellow Panthers face 189 felony charges in the historic Panther 21 trial. With her freedom and unborn child’s future at stake, Afeni chooses to defend herself in court against a system determined to silence her.
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2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A raw exploration of neurodiversity, family dysfunction, and the Hollywood gaze on disability.
Screening date & tickets — to be announced
Language: English
Runtime: 15m
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
Synopsis: Paul, a young autistic man, struggles to process his father’s terminal cancer diagnosis while haunted by Ever Green—a character from a Hollywood autism film he despises. Through therapy sessions and painful memories, Paul confronts his grief, his strained relationship with his father, and society’s stereotypical portrayals of autism. A raw exploration of neurodiversity, family dysfunction, and the Hollywood gaze on disability.
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2026 Official Selection: Featurette – Documentary
An LAPD officer fired toward partygoers at a South Central block party. Then detectives used a shadow warrant to investigate a shooting victim.
Screening date & tickets — to be announced
Language: English
Runtime: 21m
Country: United States
Synopsis: On June 3, 2020, LAPD Officer Nathaniel Beck, assigned to the Community Safety Partnership, fired five shots toward partygoers at a South Central block party. One bullet hit a man in the face. LAPD never disclosed Beck’s CSP assignment. Detectives then used a search warrant to investigate a shooting victim and never returned it to the court, leaving no public record. The Blue Hand, by Ben Camacho and Jayrol San Jose, follows what happened after the gunfire stopped.
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2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
As the dream of emigration slowly unsettles the foundation of a young couple’s life, their little daughter sets out to mend things in her own way.
Screening date & tickets — to be announced
Language: Persian
Runtime: 12m
Country: Iran
Los Angeles Premiere
Synopsis: A young couple is on the brink of emigration, hoping to build a better future for their little daughter. But when an unexpected delay disrupts the process, and Nazy — now pregnant — can no longer travel, tensions rise. Reza, unwilling to let go of their dream, proposes a devastating solution. Caught in a painful dilemma, Nazi is unaware that their daughter, Ava, has quietly made her own decision to resolve the crisis.
Source: SOFF