Life grows surreal for a man once suspected of killing his wife when he is conscripted to play himself in a Hollywood reenactment of the murder.
2024, USA, 11 minutes
Directed by Margaret Miller
Category: 2025 Festival
PVRGATORIVM
Seeking aid for a minor injury, a stolid middle-aged man finds himself descending into a morass of soul-crushing bureaucracy.
2024, Hungary, 24 minutes
Directed by Máté Gergely Kiss
Pleasures of Babylon
An affluent family engages in indulgent melodrama, oblivious to the apocalyptic destruction unfolding around them.
2025, Finland, 9 minutes
Directed by Esa Jussila
Please Be Tender
A photographer retreats to a secluded motel room to explore his secret and self-destructive desires.
2025, USA, 22 minutes
Directed by Mike Olenick
Winner: The Apocrypha Award
Pink Pilled
Two girls achieve a pure moment of frenetic catharsis in an oppressive world.
2025, USA, 4 minutes
Directed by Chloe Stella
Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease
A pig relentlessly determined to do whatever it takes to become human crosses paths with a military deserter bent on living as a beast.
2024, Republic of Korea, 105 minutes
Directed by Bum-Wook Hur
Pic Pic
A hallucinatory montage of grainy images and nebulous sounds evokes a tactile erotic experience.
2024, Canada, 7 minutes
Directed by Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand
Meta Take One
An obsessive young director and his crew plunge into a frantic night-long odyssey of desperation to finish the film no matter the cost.
2025, USA, 85 minutes
Directed by John Dierre and Ryan Dutter
La Dichotomie
An avant-garde clown languishing in obscurity while her sunnier rival performs to adoring audiences finds herself succumbing to festering resentment.
2025, USA, 16 minutes
Directed by Suzie Toot, Dan Ingram, and Oscar Ruso
Keeping Company
An introverted girl’s unblinking webcam documents her descent into a fragmented labyrinth of isolation.
2025, USA, 13 minutes
Directed by Arryana Jocelyn Walls, Nadia Freitag, and Nel Jesiak
JUICE
An isolated woman’s ritualistic juicing reverie is interrupted by the arrival of an unexpected visitor.
2025, USA, 9 minutes
Directed by Rachel Williamson
Winner: Mrs. Festival Director’s Award
Is That a Mirage?
A young woman ventures into the wasteland with her talking tumor hoping to find a cure for the sickness that plagues her village.
2025, USA, 13 minutes
Directed by Grace Shi