'25 Narrative Shorts

After a lesson about cosmic archaeologists and a water fight in the schoolyard, Elly steals Faye’s soul and Faye gives Elly a rare birthday present. But then, under a sky full of stars, a song from ...

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400 Cassettes

Director(s): Thelyia Petraki

An experimental narrative film about the sexual awakening of Ming, a 15-year-old girl, at an adult film screening in 1980’s Taiwan. Ming playfully explores her exhibitionist fantasies. Her off-stage...

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A Brighter Summer Day For The Lady Avengers

Director(s): Weiting Hung

In Bita Joon, Iranian actors slowly reveal themselves to be members of the director’s own family, in a story that recreates a day in the life of her terminally ill mother Bita.

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Bita Joon

Director(s): Sara Boutorabi

Beating his drums into frustration, Malick struggles to find the right rhythms for his compositions. Only through an internal journey and a dip into his past will he find the right sounds to heal.

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Bloqué

Director(s): Miguel Ortiz

When Cletus’s inability to clean up his spilled seed causes an accidental chicken pregnancy, he finds himself staring down a chicken-human hybrid in his own image. When he’s face to face with the...

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Chickenboy

Director(s): Matthew Rush

After dealing with the usual trans misogyny and day-to-day patriarchal nuisances, Ly is unexpectedly confronted by thee mystical vagina, triggering a deeply internalized curiosity and struggle within ...

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Clementine

Director(s): Sally Tran

A deaf couple, yearning to reignite the lost spark in their marriage, plans an adventurous role-play date at a modern art museum, embodying eccentric personas they’ve crafted to escape their everyda...

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Contours

Director(s): Aisha Amin

A friendship is threatened by an unexpected culprit: baseball practice.

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Deuce

Director(s): Margot Budzyna

CHRISTIE O’MALLAGHAN is a lonely and pathetic fishmonger, hated by everyone on the island of Connamarragagh for being a disgrace of a man — can’t fish, can’t swim, can’t even drink. When Ch...

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Fishmonger

Director(s): Neil Ferron

A dry, gaping hole. Those unlucky enough to see it, will find happiness.

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God's Anus

Director(s): Jan-David Bolt

Living under the same roof with her ageing in-laws and inattentive husband, a young housewife’s mundane life is stirred when she suspects someone of gazing at her through her shower window. With gro...

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Gurgling

Director(s): Christine Margaret Wu

In a town where the threat of hellfire looms like a dark cloud, 15-year-old Lois is desperate to find out where her sister's soul has ended up. Unsatisfied and unwilling to accept the conclusion that ...

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Holy Water

Director(s): Claire Barnett

Captured in a single continuous aerial shot, “Joey Earns Rewards” follows Clev’s awkward, impulsive proposal to Megh at a McDonald’s drive-thru. As the couple starts to hash out a difficult co...

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Joey Earns Rewards Using the McDonald's Mobile App & Megh an...

Director(s): Brad Roelandt

During a heatwave, an older businessman entertains two entrepreneurs in his living room with a never-ending story, while his grown-up children lose their marbles outside in the garden. As the story dr...

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Lumbago

Director(s): Bendik Kaltenborn

As told by filmmaker Alexander Farah through a deftly composed array of small yet pivotal moments, a first-generation Afghan Canadian man takes steps toward establishing an identity of his own while a...

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One Day This Kid

Director(s): Alexander Farah

Ian has suffered from psychosis for a few years, but now with a substance called seven that gives him subconscious vision to see actual reality, he can see the faces of those voices in a hidden world ...

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Stellacast Transmission: PT.1 Subconscious Eyes

Director(s): Uel Renteria

A pleasant date between a man of Cherokee heritage and a Caucasian woman goes downhill when the woman flagrantly fixates on the very bane of Cherokee people's existence: the Cherokee Grandmother syndr...

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The Great Cherokee Grandmother

Director(s): Anthony Sneed

When Celeste dares her best friend Augie to kiss a handsome scarecrow, the pair are plunged into a wild game of imagination, resulting in friction between the girls as the game threatens to come betwe...

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The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste

Director(s): Pernell Marsden

, a metal band, loses its spark when frontman Cheol's iconic long hair is burned off. Guided by the god of metal, 'O.G. Osbourne' (not 'Ozzy'), they embark on a quest to find a maiden ghost's hair and...

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The Metal Band's Guide to the Black Hole

Director(s): JEON A-hyun

Fear takes shape when a loving grandmother is charged with the care of her young grandchild. When their bedtime routine starts to unravel, Grandma grows increasingly frustrated and her deepest fears b...

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The Sea Inside Her

Director(s): Alyx Duncan

The Sphinx asks “What has a face but no nose?” “You,” says the locksmith. The Sphinx bears its teeth and looks the locksmith in the eye. It whispers, “No, you.”

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The Sphinx

Director(s): Jesse Padveen

Pressured into giving away his clothes, an emasculated young man obsessively attempts to reclaim his cherished sweater before it vanishes into the donation abyss.

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The Sweater

Director(s): Maziyar Khatam

A brother and sister pass the time alone in their isolated family home. When faced with an uncomfortable dilemma, they engage in a battle of wits that culminates with a shocking compromise. TWO OF HEA...

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Two of Hearts

Director(s): Mashie Alam

a walk on the beach devolves into an unspeakable nightmare; trying not to die naked.

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how i see me

Director(s): Alec Scholzen