An affluent family engages in indulgent melodrama, oblivious to the apocalyptic destruction unfolding around them.
2025, Finland, 9 minutes
Directed by Esa Jussila
Category: Shorts
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
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
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
Illuminatus!
A young reporter is recruited by a mad genius and his anarchist followers aboard a giant yellow submarine headed to the lost city of Atlantis.
2024, USA, 10 minutes
Directed by Chris Kalis
I Am a Piece of Shit
A young boy’s mother tells him to swallow all his negative emotions and poop them out so he can always be the most important thing a boy can be—happy.
2025, USA, 22 minutes
Directed by Tristan St. Germain
Hungry Hollow
A gaggle of forest sprites mingle and cavort at the local watering hole, so to speak.
2025, USA, 6 minutes
Directed by Sarah Ruyle
How Lucy Gave Birth to Us
Cast out from the tribe, an unconventional Cro Magnon woman plots to rescue the tribeswoman she left behind.
2024, Switzerland, 17 minutes
Directed by Donika Gashi