2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

One day Benson will stop running from this intervention, just give him a few millennia

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

• Director(s): Kyle Allen, Anders Jay Ravenstad
• Writer(s): Anders Jay Ravenstad, Kyle Allen
• Producer(s): Kyle Allen, Anders Jay Ravenstad
• Key Cast: Matt Cook, Kyle Allen
• Editor(s): Shelby Lee Parks, Anders Ravenstad
• Cinematographer(s): Shelby Lee Parks
• Production Designer(s): Anastasiia Glushneva, Josh Lykkeberg
• Sound Designer(s): Marco Cordova

Language: English

Runtime: 15m

Country: United States

Los Angeles Premiere

Synopsis: A play on film, in which the unpredictable Benson has become addicted to his ability to time travel, forcing his friend Parker to stage a one man intervention. This leads them to confront a lifetime of misgivings together as they try to find out if this relationship was ever really worth it.

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2026 Official Selection: Feature Film – Comedy

Siblings Cassie and Max’s petty war escalates when she discovers their dad’s secret—turning their rivalry into a crisis that could destroy the family.

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

• Director(s): Michael Kellman
• Writer(s): Michael Kellman
• Producer(s): Michael Kellman, J. Zachary Thurman
• Key Cast: Jenny Lange, Matt Linton, Genevieve Thomas, Manny Spero, Ben Taylor, Roxanne Hart, Philip Casnoff
• Editor(s): Michael Kellman
• Cinematographer(s): J. Zachary Thurman
• Production Designer(s): Nancy Mette
• Sound Designer(s): Chris Campbell
• Composer(s): Lex Stout, Sam Mohart

Language: English

Runtime: 1h 21m

Country: United States

Synopsis: With their parents out of town, the already-fraught relationship between a brother and sister is strained to its breaking point as they vie for control of the house, each inviting over a romantic interest and making cataclysmic discoveries about their parents, and each other, along the way.

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2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Short Film

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His wife is gone. His hair is going. Her $100,000 life insurance can only buy back one of them, and it might include a trip to Turkey.

• Writer(s): Tommaso Di Blasi

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

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Dominic Russo only trusted his wife, Grace, to cut his hair. A year after she dies giving birth to their daughter, he’s balding fast, and nightmares of a veiled widow aren’t helping. When Grace’s $100,000 death benefit arrives, his dermatologist suggests a hair transplant in Turkey. Then a prank goes awry, and his half-blind neighbor Morris recommends a toupee. At Grace’s grave, an allergic reaction forces Dominic to face reality. He shaves his head clean.

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2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

A young adopted woman meets her biological mother for the first time.

Screening date & tickets — to be announced

• Director(s): John Liang
• Writer(s): John Liang, Anna Jaller
• Producer(s): Diana Cody, John Liang
• Key Cast: Anna Jaller, Kathryn Kelley
• Editor(s): Joe Carugati
• Cinematographer(s): Carolyn Morgan Glassman
• Production Designer(s): Samantha Robles
• Sound Designer(s): Nando Costa

Language: English

Runtime: 13m

Country: United States

Synopsis: A young adopted woman meets her biological mother for the first time.

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