Category: Winners

A beatific Nice Guy tells you all about his girlfriend.

2024, USA, 9 minutes
Directed by Alexandra Warrick

Winner: Mr. Festival Director’s Award

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

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

A bizarre encounter with a mysterious woman drives a lusty Grindr user down a spiral of paranoia.

2024, USA, 18 minutes
Directed by Andrew Dimitrov

Winner: Scanner Darkly Award

A young acolyte studies the scripture religiously to prepare for a sacred ritual.

2024, USA, 23 minutes
Directed by Jakub Blank

Winner: Misophonia Award

Two brothers in the late 90s decide to visit a porn cam site and find the performing demanding more and more extreme acts of abasement from them.

2024, Canada, 6 minutes
Directed by Loudvic Beaulne

Winner: Corpsing Award

A father struggles to connect with his daughter while fending off cicadas and encroaching bamboo.

2024, USA, 22 minutes
Directed by Joe Pellegrino

Winner: The Pink Tentacle

After taking their roommate to a dubious fertility clinic, an avowed child-free nonbinary person receives a surprise thank-you note for their own egg donation.

2024, USA, 18 minutes
Directed by Shirin Mori

Winner: Mrs. Festival Director’s Award

On a hot summer’s eve, a young woman takes you out on a date to the Olive Garden.

2024, USA, 10 minutes
Directed by Chloe Azcuy

Winner: Mink Stole Award, Audience Favorite Short Award

When a tightly knit Black community loses one of their own to police violence, they hope to build a time machine to undo the tragedy.

2022, France, 13 minutes
Directed by Adrien Peskine and Anthony Peskine

Winner: Soulcrusher Award