A man assembles his friend group to stage a support intervention when he believes his buddy has been victimized by his dentist.
2025, USA, 15 minutes
Directed by Nathan Trumbull
Winner: The Welcome to BizarroLand! Award
Category: Winners
Shrine of Abominations
A stop-motion epic depicting a multi-dimensional battle of chaos versus even more chaos, in an expansive world of dark gods, wicked magic and strange creatures.
2025, USA, 39 minutes
Directed by Skinner
Winner: The Pink Tentacle
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
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
Dry January
A young woman’s attempt to go a month without drinking unleashes a horrifying creature bearing uncomfortable truths for her and her brother.
2025, USA, 19 minutes
Directed by C.J. Arellano
Winner: The Deep End Award
Dolphin Boy
Smitten with a woman he rescues on the beach, a young man decides he will do anything to become part of her world.
2024, USA, 11 minutes
Directed by Arielle Bordow and Tyler Zonies
Winner: Mr. Festival Director’s Award
Degradable
A broke stoner is hired by a whacked-out UFO abductee to protect a cosmic artifact stolen from depraved space aliens.
2025, USA, 70 minutes
Directed by Aaron Mento
Winner: The Cat’s Pajamas Award, Audience Favorite Feature Award
Cringe
Three trollish podcasters think it’ll be hilarious to pay a visit to frequent object of online ridicule who pops up in their feed.
2025, USA, 23 minutes
Directed by Ian Hunt
Winner: Audience Favorite Short Award
Anything That Moves
A sex worker with a divine gift for bestowing unfathomable pleasure is horrified to learn that his clients are being murdered.
2025, USA, 80 minutes
Directed by Alex Phillips
Winner: The Golden Tentacle
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
#POSITIONS
When his modest crypto investment suddenly explodes in value, an ingenuous slacker upends his entire life in reckless pursuit of fortune.
2024, USA, 88 minutes
Directed by Brandon Daley
Winner: The Bee’s Knees Award