2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

A disabled wheelchair user tries to solve the biggest question in physics, a solution to the theory of everything, while struggling with the cigarette butts and other rubbish falling onto his apartment balcony from the neighbours above.

Director(s): Leo Berkeley
Writer(s): Leo Berkeley
Producer(s): Leo Berkeley
Key Cast: Leo Berkeley

Country: Australia
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

After a father fails to remove his ankle monitor, he’s pursued by his parole officer and a hellbent demon who’s after his soul.

Director(s): Lukas Anderson
Writer(s): Lukas Anderson, Elio Andres
Producer(s): Alexus Es
Key Cast: Cole Kelley, Courtney Powell-Walker, Everett Anderson

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

A novelist dissatisfied with life and marriage explores her desire and asks for an affair.

Director(s): Olivia Lige Wuri
Writer(s): Olivia Lige Wuri
Producer(s): Anna Yuxing Lei, Yunyi Zhu
Key Cast: Danielle Keaton, Christopher Dietrick, Charlie Townsend

Country: United States
World Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Sci-Fi

Two sisters confront their differing views on genetic engineering as they prepare to leave Earth with the final human survivors.

Director(s): Michael Vaughn Hernandez
Writer(s): Darren Bailey, Renée Veronica Freeman
Producer(s): Renée Veronica Freeman, Michael Vaughn Hernandez, Kally Khourshid
Key Cast: Renée Veronica Freeman, Folami Williams

Country: United States
World Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

In this H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, Carter, a grief-stricken young man, and his mentor Warren, an elder female professor of the occult, search for a portal to the underworld in an abandoned cemetery.

Director(s): Xander Copp
Writer(s): Meg Rodgers, John-Paul Kaczur
Producer(s): Xander Copp, Bradley Cherry, Adam Schoales
Key Cast: Carson MacCormac, Elizabeth Saunders, Brian Quintero

Country: Canada
Los Angeles Premiere

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