Short Narrative
Directed By
Marie Glichitch
A Fine Stew
Easter Sunday. Catherine has cooked her stew, Manon is hungover, Jacques is late. Dad is getting married and Pierre is the one who has to announce it. It would be just a normal family meal ... if there wasn't a dead cat in the freezer ...
Belgium
20m
Directed By
Ariella Mastroianni, Ryan Sloan
A Message for James
Two estranged friends, Alice and Dani, meet in Ireland to deliver an unopened letter to a distant relative on the anniversary of the event that tore their friendship apart.
United States
18m
Directed By
Kathryn Gueli
Cooties
This off-beat melodrama centers around a teenage boy, whose helicopter parents do not know his best friend is a sex toy.
United States
14m
Directed By
Olivia Chiesi
Decrescendo
Young Benjamin, an avid music lover, reluctantly arrives to his estranged family's mansion for an imposed lunch. As the tense get-together moves forward, he progressively and inexplicably begins to lose his hearing.
United States
11m
Directed By
Karl Ryan Erikson
Disarray Days
A dejected man battles with a cruel universe while he inadvertently robs a store with an enigmatic hitchhiker.
United States
15m
Directed By
Julia C Liu
Driving While Black Magic
Nadege has to work late again, leaving Reggie and their dog Fatboy waiting at their new house. During her commute home she tries to block out the news, as protests erupt in Providence Plantations over another state sanctioned killing. Instead, she listens to her self help tape, teachings from Obeah the Spirit Mother. As Nadege recites her daily affirmations for decolonization, the line between nightmarish premonition and reality starts to blur.
United States
8m
Directed By
Sinclair Rankin
Drown the Clown
When a young girl fails to dunk a clown at a county fair, her father steps up to avenge her loss. An escalation ensues, and as the clown's remarks cut closer to the bone, the father gets more caught up in the game than he intended.
United States
8m
Directed By
Keir Politz
Entropia
When a valuable Steinway grand piano is stolen from under his care, an antique piano restorer and his partner are determined to save the piano and complete the job.
United States
26m
Directed By
Jamie DiNicola
Fratello
Fratello explores the ways in which gender warps and infiltrates intimacy.
United States
9m
Directed By
India Donaldson
Hannahs
A woman cons her way into another woman’s apartment, resulting in a strange and intimate encounter.
United States
14m
Directed By
Ian Tierney
I Love My Wife...
Richard Feynman is one of the most widely celebrated physicists of all time. Following his death in 1988, a sealed envelope was discovered among his personal effects. Inside was a letter written by Feynman to his high-school sweetheart and first wife Arline, unearthing a private tragedy that he had suffered when he was just 28. This is a short about that powerful letter.
United Kingdom
6m
Directed By
Derek Pastuszek
Islander
the storm took everything...but, now, pieces have begun to wash ashore.
United States
12m
Directed By
Iago de Soto
La Guarida (The Den)
Mario is driving under the rain. It’s dark in a lonely road. Suddenly he has to stop. In the middle of the way there’s a woman. She is disorientated and covered in blood. She doesn’t remember where she’s been or what happened to her.
Spain
15m
Directed By
Sam Vinal
L’Eau Est La Vie (Water Is Life): From Standing Rock To The Swamp
On the banks of Louisiana, fierce Indigenous women are ready to fight—to stop the corporate blacksnake and preserve their way of life. They are risking everything to protect Mother Earth from the predatory fossil fuel companies that seek to poison it.
United States
25m
Directed By
Alex Markman
Mallory Meditates
Mallory attempts to start her day with a simple meditation, but is soon overwhelmed by distractions both in her environment and in her head. A look at the anxieties present in our age of uncertainty with a comedic, surrealist bent.
United States
5m
Directed By
Aimee Hoffman
Micky
In San Francisco where homelessness is rapidly growing, a young woman travels the streets in search of a home and independence, but discovers that comfort is not always a place.
United States
12m
Directed By
Patrick O'Brien
Moneybag Head
Dennis, a lonely sad sack with an unfortunate cranial deformity, finds himself romantically entangled with Catherine, a charming political cartoonist. After the two share an intensely intimate night together, Dennis is happier than he’s ever been… until he sees Catherine’s latest cartoon.
United States
15m
Directed By
Gerard Zarra
My New Pants
A dark comedy about a man who becomes obsessed with his newly purchased pair of pants.
United States
20m
Directed By
Luca Padrini
Paese Che Vai - When In Rome
Set in a small town in the Italian countryside, a young and handsome Alfredo returns home after a long time along with his partner Mattia, an African American man. After meeting Alfredo's grandmother, the sweet and crazy Donna Maria, the pair go to see Alfredo's father, Sor Pucci. Alfredo must break the news to his old-fashioned father about his secret. Little did he know his secret will churn into a series of unexpected comic events. This tongue-in-cheek comedy runs parallels alongside on the choices we make.
United States
11m
Directed By
Nora Jaenicke
Proof
PROOF is a film about a young couple that celebrates their love and their individual and shared struggles, in a world where immigration becomes an increasingly polarized and polarizing societal issue.
United States
11m
Directed By
Bryan Burton
Push The Point
A musical short film set between the worlds of fandom and pop culture, PUSH THE POINT follows four online gamers through their squad-based mission. Harder than defeating the red team, however, is sticking together while trying to navigate toxicity, super-fandom, and the futility of having an argument on the internet.
United States
7m
Directed By
Matthew Brennan
Summer Vacation
A teenage girl navigates sexuality and intimacy via a dating app.
United States
11m
Directed By
Tomomi Muraguchi
The Beautiful Logic
Kamata who is Programmer seeks all kinds of lean logic and throws away his own existence. On the other hand, Kuna, a lover, is likely to lose the source of love for a lover who gradually disappears in the same life with Kamata.
Japan
22m
Directed By
Ernie O'Donnell
The Seventh Day
On the Seventh Day God rested and his evil henchmen were tested. On the final day three men of the cloth, a bartender and a lone patron will debate the current status of child abuse in the church. Their will be answers or their will be judgement.
United States
16m
Directed By
Adan Canto
The Shot
A young mother is forced to extreme measures when a Texas Ranger and his mysterious partner seek shelter from the rain. Set in 1844, Republic of Texas, The Shot is a story of survival and prejudice.
United States
20m
Directed By
Ivan Kander
Truth or Scare
On Halloween night, a friendship is tested when an innocent game turns sinister.
United States
9m
Directed By
David Bornstein
Unholy 'Mole
A selfish man sells the soul of his unborn child to Satan in exchange for forcing his wife to make guacamole for him. Things go wrong...
United States
6m
Directed By
Adam Meeks
Union County
A young man in rural Ohio navigates a drug court recovery program and the return of his ex-girlfriend.
United States
14m
Directed By
Greg Yagolnitzer, Brendan Walter
Walt
An animated short that follows a small, egg-shaped creature named Walt as he struggles with ordinary life in New York City.
United States
4m
Directed By
Tim Disbrow
Yet Another
Cooped up inside and overcome with boredom, a young boy ventures out of the house to find a little excitement--but it's not the first time.
United States
3m
Directed By
Darren E. McInerney
Zero Day
A novice backpacker hits the Appalachian Trail hoping to commune with the great outdoors. But his plans for solitude and introspection are soon tested when he encounters a mysterious couple who seem bent on destroying his fragile psyche.
United States
22m
