A young woman deep in burnout turns to an online self-help guru for wisdom on how to manage stress and a burgeoning attraction to her roommate.
2025, USA, 13 minutes
Directed by Stella Chen
Category: Shorts
Beefmastor Inn
Two siblings try to sell a mounted deer head.
2025, USA, 4 minutes
Directed by Zach Strum
Animal Math
A young girl delves into a kaleidoscopic world of fantastical beasts and gargantuan godlike figures.
2024, USA, 15 minutes
Directed by Robbie C. Ward
A Brighter Summer Day for the Lady Avengers
A teen girl in 1980s Taiwan heads to the theater to enjoy some watermelon juice and pulp cinema but ends up experiencing an unexpected sexual awakening.
2024, Taiwan, 12 minutes
Directed by Birdy Wei-Ting Hung
Winner: The Girl Problems Award
2nd Day & the End of the World
After a joyful birth, a formerly flighty mother is subsumed with dread over the state of the world she’s brought a child into.
2025, Denmark, 12 minutes
Directed by Sara Koppel
Winner: The Saturday Morning Cartoons Award
1%
An Uber ride gets uncomfortably real when the driver and drunken rider bond over their shared father-figure anxieties.
2025, USA, 3 minutes
Directed by Todd Rawiszer
Y.M.G.
A beatific Nice Guy tells you all about his girlfriend.
2024, USA, 9 minutes
Directed by Alexandra Warrick
Winner: Mr. Festival Director’s Award
We Are All Crumbs
A Zumba instructor confronts the friend whose hurtful comments may have launched her compulsive eating.
2023, USA, 6 minutes
Directed by Eliana Henrich
This Is Us
Two lonesome travelers conflict and ultimately connect over a bag of faux-Mexican fast food.
2024, USA, 9 minutes
Directed by Kevin Ralston
The Triptych of the Keeper
After a random existentialist remark, a menial functionary is forced through the slow hell of the bureaucracy he labors for.
2022, Hungary, 4 minutes
Directed by Annabella Schnabel
The Triangular Door
The last survivors of an obliterated culture search for spiritual bondage in a reality show from hell.
2024, USA, 9 minutes
Directed by Dylan Mars Greenberg
Winner: Brown Acid Award
The Return of the Näcken
A forlorn water demon is doomed to feed on the souls of wayward travelers.
2024, USA, 22 minutes
Directed by Cassandra Sechler
Winner: Lisa Frank Award