2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation

A story of the aftermath.

Director(s): Kai Brown
Writer(s): Kai Brown
Key Cast: Brittany Chenowith

 

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Source: FILA

2025 Official Selection: Music Video

INTERLINKED Presents: The Big Picture by New Monk

Director(s): Braeden Lambert
Writer(s): Nathan
Producer(s): RJ Buckley, Natalie Buckley, Ariel Barber, Zach Kanner
Key Cast: Ariel Barber, Zach Kanner, Blake Berlin, Meagan Kimberly Smith, Rose Leisner, Kevin DeWitt

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

 

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

As Max prepares to eulogize his sister Chloe just minutes before her funeral, he wrestles with the anger, frustration, and grief of losing her to an overdose, attempting to understand who Chloe was.

Director(s): Vince Dixon
Writer(s): Vince Dixon
Producer(s): Alyssa Callahan, Seth Woodhouse, Gabriel Donnelly
Key Cast: Josiah Sergeant, Samantha Ryan, Brooklynn Walker, Michael Mann, Angus Caldwell, Genevieve Jane, Leanne Johnson, Mac Williams, Jessie Pettit

Country: United States

 

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2025 Official Selection: Feature Film – Comedy

After moving from Los Angeles back to the southern suburbs, new parents June and Evan realize that in the chaotic tedium of suburban living they haven’t had sex in three months. They then attempt to have a childless date night to rekindle the flame and end up growing more intimate with their new home and its inhabitants than they ever thought possible.

Director(s): RJ Buckley
Writer(s): RJ Buckley
Producer(s): RJ Buckley, Natalie Buckley, Ariel Barber, Zach Kanner
Key Cast: Ariel Barber, Zach Kanner, Blake Berlin, Meagan Kimberly Smith, Rose Leisner, Kevin DeWitt

Country: United States
World Premiere

 

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Sci-Fi

The power struggle between an alien and her human test subject gets complicated when they both see their relationship differently.

Director(s): Michaela Wadzinski
Writer(s): Maria Smal
Producer(s): Michaela Wadzinski, Maria Smal, Jacob Skoda
Key Cast: Maria Smal, Ryan Goldsher, Isaiah D. Washington

Country: United States

 

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