A woman visits New York City with her adult son and pines for the way things used to be.
2017, USA, 13 minutes
Directed by David Ebel
Category: Shorts
No Monkey
A woman labors to care for her aging mother, whose racist delusions grow ever more extreme.
2018, USA, 10 minutes
Directed by Matthew Emery
Released from Love
A wife serves her philandering husband a sumptuous meal with a surprise ingredient.
2017, Brazil, 6 minutes
Directed by Luciano de Azevedo
Family Values
In the wake of their patriarch’s funeral, a mother and her children clash over the dead man’s memory.
2018, USA, 7 minutes
Directed by Jeffrey Turboff
Mother Fucker
A young man desperate for financial help is presented with an unseemly offer from his mother.
2018, USA, 6 minutes
Directed by Nicholas Payne Santos
Winner: Best Movie Award
High Fructose Suicide Booth
Hustling to keep her ailing father’s business afloat, a woman juggles confrontations with creditors and her own ex.
2018, USA, 14 minutes
Directed by Alex Lukens
Entropia
An aging woman turns to mystical means to rejuvenate herself.
2017, USA, 15 minutes
Directed by Marinah Janello
We Are Going into the Woods (Nous Irons aux Bois)
Possessed by jealous rage, a man drives his wife and child away with his increasingly unhinged behavior.
2017, France, 17 minutes
Directed by Arnaud Bigeard
The Manicurist
A woman whose passion for nails has a desperate tinge to it meets a man whose passion for her is similarly tainted.
2018, USA, 11 minutes
Directed by Jeremy Berkowitz
Lovesick
Alien creatures writhe in sexual frenzy.
2018, USA, 8 minutes
Directed by Cassandra Sechler
Winner: Festival Director’s Award
A/S/L
An adult man accepts an ill-advised invitation to a young girl’s house.
2018, USA, 8 minutes
Directed by Benjamin Swicker
Catcalls
A sexual predator is horrified when two of his victims show up at his home.
2017, Ireland, 9 minutes
Directed by Kate Dolan