2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

• Director(s): Miguel León
• Writer(s): Miguel León
• Producer(s): Claudia Osejo
• Editor(s): Manuela Osejo
• Cinematographer(s): Alexander Lossa
• Sound Designer(s): Tariq Burney, Claudia Jiménez
• Composer(s): Juan Rojas Perez

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 15m

Country: Colombia

Los Angeles Premiere

Synopsis: Gilberto, an older Baker man by tradition, has to close his bakery due to a worldwide quarantine. He lives with his granddaughter Matea, an uninterested girl who is immersed in her cell phone. During the quarantine they remain locked up, living a distant relationship and waiting for everything to return to normal. One day a new bakery arrives in the neighborhood, equipped with high technology and with robots capable of baking bread without human interference. Gilberto must

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2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Feature Film

Ceremony date & tickets — to be announced

When broke gig worker Emily wins a residency with tradwife influencer Rosa, she discovers that, behind the apron, her flawless hostess is a vampire seeking a willing successor.

• Writer(s): Michele R Wells

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

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Drowning in debt and with an eviction notice on her door, Uber driver Emily wins a month-long residency with tradwife influencer Rosa. Her home is even better than it seems online, and Emily happily spends her days learning the tips and tricks that make Rosa successful, hoping to take over her four million daily viewers. But she soon learns the empire she is being given comes with a curse that binds its mistress to the homestead, and a thirst she cannot ignore.

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2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental

Who controls who?

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

• Director(s): Gustavo Ramos
• Producer(s): Gustavo Ramos
• Key Cast: Gustavo Ramos
• Editor(s): Gustavo Ramos
• Cinematographer(s): Gustavo Ramos
• Sound Designer(s): Gustavo Ramos
• Composer(s): Gustavo Ramos

Runtime: 3m

Country: Brazil

Los Angeles Premiere

Synopsis: The reactive relations of attraction and repulsion of the object and the body are expanded when a subtle edition effect is created, in which the space itself appears to participate in the movement of not only the object, but also the connected body and its reactions. The body is confused with the object and the object is confused with the body. In this environment where all the elements come to life, who controls who?

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2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Documentary

A visual and sound collage of 9/11 from the voices of the people who were at Ground Zero that day.

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

• Director(s): Matthew Ferraro
• Writer(s): Matthew Ferraro
• Producer(s): John Osborne, Ramy Katrib
• Editor(s): Nicole Bell
• Cinematographer(s): Animator – Nicole Bell
• Sound Designer(s): Stefan Henrix, Matthew Ferraro, Michael Engesser
• Composer(s): Matthew Ferraro

Language: English

Runtime: 14m

Country: United States

Synopsis: “13 Seconds” is a short documentary film that uses animation, live action, and a vocal mosaic of literally hundreds of recorded testimonials never heard before from people who were in and around Ground Zero that fateful day of 9/11. From Police and Firemen to family members of the victims, waiters, stockbrokers, lawyers, office workers, husbands and wives, the documentary follows their harrowing experiences and shows how they survived the trauma of such a tragic event. It is

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