All Films

Holy Heaviness

2025 • 8 min • Iran

It is a fact of life that love evolves, and relationships change. Using caricatures, this animated film captures resilience as an inevitable response to dependency. A tender yet meaningful take on life's stages and ages.

Amateur in the Moon

2025 • 22 min • Taiwan

YOSHIKAWA Hayao (1890-1959), pioneer of amateur cinema in Asia, authored over 160 books to share his passion during the 1930s. Years later, he rediscovered a forgotten dream from his youth: to create a sci-fi film set on the Moon.

Wrapped

2025 • 8 min • Indonesia

A man's past trauma resurfaces due to the disturbance caused by a young child.

5'12"

2025 • 16 min • Australia

Set in the sleepy town of Bawley Point on the NSW South Coast and brimming with laconic humour, this unforgettable tale of misguided obsession and rampant insecurity tangles with the absurdity of wanting to alter the body in defiance of things beyond our control.

Trópico

2025 • 21 min

A gardener becomes confused about his sexuality after coming across a group of gay guys partying at a house where he works.

Morning Circle

2025 • 21 min • Canada, United Arab Emirates

Drifting through the streets of former East Berlin neighborhoods, Morning Circle traces the unsteady affective terrain of isolation and displacement, assimilation and oppression. In Basma al-Sharif’s (O, Persecuted, NYFF52) film, the bureaucratic condescension and violence of a residency interview sits alongside domestic scenes featuring a father and his young son. The film uncovers the loss and thrumming tensions of exilic life under Western Europe’s smooth gray surfaces.

The Bridge: Wrestling in Milwaukee

2025 • 6 min • United States of America

Kyle Albertson and Wave Chapelle, hosts of "The Show on Riverwest Radio," explore Milwaukee's unique culture and untold history. Their journey begins with Great Lakes Championship Wrestling (GLCW), a Midwest staple since 1997.

It Happened at 1:03

2025 • 13 min

Thirty-something Henry encounters a mysterious figure while driving home late at night.

Ouroboros

2025 • 6 min • France

This is a story about a very beautiful ring that invokes greed in people by hypnotizing them into thinking that the ring is made to be on their fingers but it holds a dark curse for its wielder.

Those Three Little Words

2025 • 7 min

A woman reflects on the relationship between her and her cats growing up.

Internato Macabro

2025 • Duration unknown • Brazil

En thérapie... et après ?

2025 • Duration unknown • France

Je suis Magpie

2025 • Duration unknown • Canada

On Quebec's North Shore, the Magpie River is one of the last free-flowing rivers in this part of the world. In 2021, it became the first river in North America to gain legal rights through legal personhood.

For Good (It isn’t)

2025 • 10 min

Melvin, a teenager, returns to his past in an attempt to remember who he truly was after feeling he left himself behind. He confronts his teenage and childhood selves to reflect on the pains and changes of growing up, realizing that "growing up means losing and leaving behind versions of ourselves." A nostalgic and reflective journey about time, childhood, and accepting the constantly changing self.

Не Дед Мороз

2025 • 24 min • Russia

Father Frost decides to quit his profession in order to live for himself in his old age. Having relinquished his powers, he leaves Veliky Ustyug for Moscow, goes on a rampage, finds new friends and falls in love for the first time. Attempts to bring the old man to his senses and return him to his normal life by his family - Mother Winter, Stuzha, Metelitsa and Buran - end in failure. This new stage of his life is recorded by a group of documentary filmmakers, and no one suspects what will happen when Father Frost loses his magical powers...

Factory Reset

2025 • 18 min

Two struggling brothers participating in a social experiment for money, soon uncover its hidden agenda as they are slowly abused and deprived from any form of emotion

Bottom Lotus In December

2025 • 17 min • Thailand

"Mac" is just a regular guy, and "Beer" is a girl who vanished from his life. They slowly drifted apart without even noticing because they had different views on relationships. Mac tried to move on from the painful love and heal, but she kept popping back into his life. He just couldn't forget her. Eventually, Mac learned and understood something important.

Long Pork

2025 • 13 min

It’s the not-so-distant future in Post-Roe America and society has fallen to an extremist Evangelical theocracy. All abortion - or what the government terms “the undesirable procedure” - has been banned. Lily Williams (Lena Headey), master chef at the renowned Foal’s Steakhouse, lost her only daughter, Sarah, to forced birth under the federal ban. Hardened by grief, Lily faces haunting flashbacks of her daughter’s untimely death. When she learns that Philip Anderson, the judge responsible for denying Sarah’s abortion request is coming to dine at Foal’s, she seeks carnal justice for her child. In the kitchen at Foal’s begins a revolution.

Kitty

2025 • 19 min • United States of America

After being kicked out of his strict Mormon home, 17-year-old AJ finds himself lost on the streets of Atlanta. Desperate and naive, he’s taken in by Baby Girl, an 18-year-old Black trans sex worker whose sharp instincts have kept her alive. She offers him shelter in a squat house and teaches him the hustles of survival—stealing, dealing, and navigating the unforgiving city. Under the watchful eye of Daddy, Baby Girl’s volatile pimp, AJ is drawn deeper into a world both thrilling and dangerous. The two form an intense bond—part friendship, part mentorship, part something unspoken. But when their friend Pedro contracts HIV and gets government aid, AJ and Baby Girl are forced to confront a brutal reality. As their nights blur into neon-lit highs and whispered fears, one reckless choice threatens to change everything—forcing them to decide how far they’ll go to escape a life that never wanted them.

In the Echo of a Toilet

2025 • 52 min • Slovenia

A documentary tale about the sound recorded in the spring of 1973 in Tomaž Pengov's apartment at 1 Prešernova, Ljubljana by the sound engineer Aco Razbornik. These recordings became "Odpotovanja", the mysterious and first independent LP album in the former Yugoslavia. The exciting story is revealed by exclusive videos, found photographs, objects, and of course the friends who took the 23-year-old Pengov on an exciting journey of planning, recording, designing and promoting the album, which immediately after its release became a cult and sought-after diamond of the pop culture underground scene of the time. But the story does not end with the album's release. The record is still turning.

Echoes of the Forgotten

2025 • 27 min • Taiwan

Dark, unusual clouds gathered in the sky, slowly drifting toward the memory-laden hillside. With the typhoon approaching, people made their way to the cemetery atop Jian Mountain, hoping to reclaim the fading fragments of the past before the storm arrived. From deep within the mountains came the occasional sound of dogs barking—whispers, almost, of buried stories: ancestors who were relocated, stray dogs that were driven away, a woman still waiting for her husband’s return, and myself, trying to find a connection to my father in the cracks of memory—and perhaps, to find myself as well.

Anyway, I Piss Sitting Down

2025 • 13 min

Three friends embark on a journey back to their hometown while Sasha, recovering from his gender-affirming surgery, dreams of swimming shirtless at his childhood beach.

Os 3 Porkinhos

2025 • Duration unknown • Brazil

Crossing the Desert

2025 • 13 min

A short film that explores the complex relationship between a South Asian immigrant woman and her queer American daughter. This tender story asks us to re-examine our expectations of our loved ones. Can we accept them for who they really are, not who we want them to be?