2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

When bumbling Benjamin finds out he didn’t get invited to his high school best friend’s wedding he decides to crash it, and crashes right into his shortcomings as a friend when he gets there.

Director(s): Christan Mary Leonard
Writer(s): Ezra Parter, Keeley Bell
Key Cast: Ezra Parter, Joy Regullano, Yaki Margulies, Natalie Berg

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Documentary

Feminist scholar, Susan Rennie, seizes her iPhone and sneaks her queer, octogenarian body into master works of art, disrupting the narrative of the male gaze.

Director(s): Cheri Gaulke
Writer(s): Cheri Gaulke, Sue Maberry
Producer(s): Cheri Gaulke
Key Cast: Susan Rennie, Kirsten Grimstad

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

Jiminy is experiencing trauma so Dr. Scanlon enters his mind to replace his memories, but the trouble might be worse than he thought.

Director(s): Duane Andersen, Josiah Polhemus
Writer(s): Josiah Polhemus
Producer(s): Peter Kangas, Josiah Polhemus, Duane Andersen
Key Cast: Josiah Polhemus, James Mercer II

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Feature Film – Horror

Raya, a tormented woman caring for her bedridden husband, is haunted by terrifying nightmares. She wakes up each morning in the forest, falling deeper into freshly dug graves beneath her. As supernatural forces torment her and the line between dream and reality collapses, she unearths a horrifying secret buried within the woods—and herself.

Director(s): Paul Bickel
Writer(s): Paul Bickel
Producer(s): Paul Bickel, Tracie Thoms
Key Cast: Tracie Thoms, Raya Miles, Paul Bickel, Eugene Byrd

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

On her day off and fresh off a breakup, Willow, a young assistant is assigned to help her high-powered boss’s husband with a bizarre task.

Director(s): Kathy Meng
Writer(s): Kathy Meng, Harry Bacon
Producer(s): Sam Stulin, Jenna You
Key Cast: Aolan Guo, Yves Yan

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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