Comedy, Psychological  / USA / 4 min.

 

A stop-motion psychological comedy set in a run-down 1950s diner. Le Charade follows the final performance of a lonely mime and the psychotic episode that ensues after his imaginary friend breaks up with him and he is forced to re-enter society

 

Director: Erika Totoro

Producers:  Erika Totoro

Writer:  Erika Totoro

 

Cast: N/A

Crew: Erika Totoro, Thaddeus Varness, Josie Howe, Will Macuch, Dahlia Kressler, Lilianna Martinez, Holly Koehler, Sarah Hatfield, Giovanni Martinez

 

Comedy/USA/ 5 min.

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After meeting online, a BOY and GIRL are out on their first date. It rapidly devolves into the BOY vomiting out his life in a Howl that ultimately encompasses the entire universe

 

 

Director: Sandi Johnson

Producer: Gary Teitelbaum

Writer: Gary Teitelbaum

 

 

Cast: Gary Teitelbaum, Hayley  O’Connor

Action/ USA / 25 min.

Mindy McCready is home alone on Christmas Eve when a gang of criminals invade her house looking for a stolen package. Mindy deals with them directly as her alter-ego, HIT-GIRL.

Director: Kevin Barile
Cast: Angie Estevao, Robert Dill

Experimental/ CHINA / 2:27min

 

‘Jaunatis’ in Lithuanian signifies the new moon, a celestial marker in the endless cycle of lunar phases. This rhythmic procession mirrors the cyclical nature of existence itself, where all things—day and night, the turning of the seasons, the eternal toil of Sisyphus—follow patterns of rise and fall, of beginnings and endings. These cycles may well encapsulate the essence of human experience or even embody the fundamental laws governing the universe, suggesting that perhaps our very being is intertwined with the cyclical nature of all that is. And we are trapped…

 

 

Director/Producer: Juno (Bing Qing Mou)

 

Cast: Ai Ping, Wu Yang

Thriller / USA / 12 min.

Actaeon is interrogated by a detective following a grisly murder.

 

Director: Fritz Frauendorf
Producers: Fritz Frauendorf
Writer: Fritz Frauendorf

 

Cast: Remo Rivero, Cody Mango, Adam Boggs

Dramedy / USA / 7 min.

 

Fern and Marcie meet for coffee to celebrate what seems like a birthday but is the anniversary of something much deeper, in this bittersweet comedy about the challenges of family: 

those who have, those who have not and those… who have issues!

 

Director: Grace Samson and Barry Samson

Producers: Jane Samson and Grace Samson

Writer: Grace Samson

 

Cast: Rae Cofsky, Vanessa Simon, Boon Grigsby, Yelizaveta Sorkin,

           Marine De Vachon, Lucas Valladier De Vachon, Daniel Shapiro

Drama / USA / 4 min.

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The inner monologue of a woman over the course of a couple weeks.

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Director: Chelsea Newman

Producers: Ken Tolbert, Jared Goetz

Writer: Chelsea Newman

 

Cast: Chelsea Newman, Cali Levasseur 

Drama- Fantasy / USA/ 5min

 

"It Was Only You" transports us back to Verona - for a powerful touch - a glimpse- a reverent homage to the most famous of all teen love stories - transcendent.

The timeless truth and pain of first... and sometimes last love.

Told by the only one who truthfully can - a 15-year-old girl.

 

Director: Eva Ariel Binder

Producers: Mark Binder, Max Karpylev, Eva Ariel Binder

Writer: Eva Ariel Binder

 

Cast: Eva Ariel Binder, Rio Mangini

Sci-Fi / USA / 15 min.

 

In an alternate technocratic future, Sybil, a digital sex worker, struggles to find meaning in a isolated world due to a global climate crisis. Everything changes when she meets Ophelia, an AI created from a once living being.

 

Director: Christina Phensy

Producers: Sue Ann Pien, Jordan Hull, Meg Risley

Writer: Christina Phensy

 

Cast: Sue Ann Pien, Jordan Hull, Anna Mongeluzo, Arden Lassalle