All Films

Nia

2025 • 15 min

Nia, a young black woman, is raised in the countryside by her white Grandmother. When she suddenly passes away, Nia struggles with her identity and where she came from. Focusing on finding her birth mother, she wonders if their relationship can be rekindled.

De originele Karina Beumer

2025 • 59 min • Netherlands

How much of your identity can you outsource? In an attempt to escape her workaholism, visual artist Karina Beumer hires multiple substitutes for herself. What do the substitutes gain from assuming someone else's identity? And what does it cost Karina? It's about losing control and finding yourself.

Blood & Wine

2025 • 17 min • Ireland

Nadia, a decades old vampire, wants nothing more than to live a normal life. Things are going pretty well with the human Lucy, but will Nadia be able to keep her secret?

One Earth, One Soil

2025 • 5 min

In a sterile room, an experiment unfolds, juxtaposing the intricate life-giving complexity of the soil beneath our feet with the obsessive reliance on technology. This short film delves into the interplay between nature, technology, and human labor, revealing the profound connections and divides that shape our existence.

No Need To Worry

2025 • 25 min

Based on stories from Writer/Director Austin Abbott's own book 'I Tried Calling', this film follows three different men in distress across three different times making three different phone calls. The first: A janitor stuck in a church. The second: A sports gambler who made a mistake. The third: A businessman having a bad Christmas Eve.

Friends of the Frogpool Lane

2025 • 7 min

Follow a group of vigilante crossing guards as they help frogs and salamanders navigate a busy road through a rainy Spring night, so that these driven amphibians can arrive safely to the unique wetland that is critical for their life cycle. Produced in Partnership with the Schuylkill Highland Partners.

Folha virada

2025 • Duration unknown • Brazil

The short film follows the daily lives of Pai Marcos Luciano de Oxalá and Madrinha Catingueira, LGBTQIAPN+ Umbanda leaders in Piauí. The film looks at their experiences inside and outside the terreiros, showing the tensions between gender, sexuality and religiosity. The title refers to the expression "turning the leaf", used to describe a ritual in Afro-Brazilian religious shrines in which people's sexual orientation or gender identity was "turned".

Not the Wound but the Scar

2025 • 7 min • Slovakia

A vampire drifts through empty rooms, mirrors, and stages a figure caught between performance and disappearance. More ghost than man, more ritual than story, his presence becomes an essay on identity, silence, and the impossibility of reflection.

Collidescope of Reflections

2025 • 14 min • Georgia

Short film about self-reflection.

Burning Light

2025 • 4 min

The Searcher and The Spark meet.

Cornichist

2025 • 4 min

A vacation back home creates room for a feeling of longing.

Resolved: Never Again. The Alexandria Community Remembrance Project

2025 • 48 min

A community remembrance project aims to reconcile their city's ugly past to make Alexandria more equitable and welcoming for the future.

Tick

2025 • 5 min • United States of America

A young man has to learn how to add more excitement to his monotonous schedule. Nominated for Best Picture and winner of Best Sound Design in the 2025 BYU Public Domain Film Festival.

Reddening

2025 • 15 min

Four good friends travel through time and space for an alchemical and sensuous celebration full of phantasms.

No Title

2025 • 43 min • Lebanon

“Disaster ruins everything while leaving everything as it is,wrote Maurice Blanchot. Everything.” - Ghassan Salhab. From the southern districts of Beirut to southern Lebanon, a car winds its way through the devastated country. No title for such desolation.

How to Live Together

2025 • 18 min • United States of America

Six roommates share a cramped four bedroom apartment. One moves out. Another moves in. In the process, the precarious balance of their routines is comically disrupted.

Hazy, Hot & Stupid

2025 • 13 min • United States of America

A pair of people experience some interesting, fleeting moments in Pleasantville, New Jersey.

Shemergency

2025 • 2 min • Italy

Sher is a transgender superheroine, guardian of the trans* and queer community. Not all of Sher's missions consist in defeating supervillains; some are more mundane, at times ridiculous, but still with the support and help of her sisters in the times of need in mind.

To Be Frank

2025 • 11 min

Frank Paine, is a 73-year-old South Bay icon and humble local legend whose life orbits around a two-block stretch of beach. His unforgettable mustache and magnetic spirit are what most first notice, but Frank’s layers expose a depth that might answer some questions that surfers continually ask themselves. Surfing, which, for some, becomes lost in isolation, is made whole again with Frank.

Lazy Bird

2025 • 11 min • Philippines

When two disillusioned twenty-somethings are set up by their parents on an awkward date, they form an unlikely bond over their failure to meet family expectations.

Rei dos Galos

2025 • Duration unknown

Empress

2025 • 10 min • Australia

An intimate exploration of a Sydney-based artist Dyan Tai’s quest to create and celebrate queer Asian spaces through the transformative power of their art.

Forse non essenzialmente tu

2025 • Duration unknown

Tired of their lives, two lovers take refuge in a perpetual role-playing game, through which they explore other identities and new versions of their relationship.

Boys Will Be Boys

2025 • 5 min

Wanting to escape from a dysfunctional angry home, "Boy" spends time with his dad in a lake for a moment of peace. But when the dad abruptly disappears leaving the Boy alone, his bottled up anger and rage from his family take control as he lashes out against the world.