Shorts Night

AT LAST

Lorena Gordon

AVALANCHE

Heather Jack

Underemployed and reeling from a recent miscarriage, a comedy writer’s life is getting less funny by the minute. When she lands a meeting that could turn it all around she has to choose: tell the truth or go for the laugh?

HANGRY

Bola Ogun

A teenage daughter, fed up with her father’s verbal and sexual abuse, takes revenge upon after he drinks away her college savings him as a way to replenish the expropriated college fund.

FIRST DATE

Carly Usdin

After matching on Bumble but never getting a chance to meet in person, two star-crossed lovers unexpectedly reconnect, 2,000 miles apart.

PAPER GEESE

Elizabeth Chatelain

After an unsuccessful goose hunt, a young girl grapples with seeing her father in a new light.

SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE

Jane Chow

In Los Angeles Chinatown, a lonely teenager tries to help her parents keep their seafood restaurant afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.

HARANA (SERENADE)

Marie Jamora

In 1995 Las Vegas, a homesick cover band singer writes an original song to connect with her daughter who is growing up in the Philippines without her.

KAMA'ĀINA (CHILD OF THE LAND

Kimi Howl Lee

A queer sixteen-year-old girl, Mahina, must navigate life on the streets, until she eventually finds refuge at the Pu’uhonua o Wai’anae—Hawai’i’s largest organized homeless encampment.

PREPARED

Shandrea Evans & Erika Kelley

A low confidence sales clerk is hopelessly in love with a frequent customer, and in dire need of a confidence boost, which she finds through the guidance of a popular self-help book.

RING

India Dupre

A video doorbell spies on a new couple across the hall as their relationship takes a dark turn.

RUDA

Maria Victoria Ponce

Stuck indoors, instead of battling imaginary villains, adventurous Aurora must help her grandmother, the local curandera, ease the pains and ailments of neighbors and family. Only when she herself needs some healing does she recognize the real superhero.

STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Jalena Keane-Lee

STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS follows Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists as they stand to protect their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope.

YOU

Jess Carson

Renee isn’t having the best day. In fact, she’s probably having the worst f&#@ing day ever.

BLACK BOY JOY

Martina Lee & Written by Michelle Sam

Three generations of Black men struggle with the demands of raising an autistic son.

BLACK HAT

Sarah Smith & Phillip Guttman

A man leads a secret double life.

I'M OKAY, YOU'RE OK

Hélöise Chung & Romain Laurent

What happens when your crush sits next to you?

MOONWALK WITH ME

So Young Shelly Yo

A woman must decide what to do with her strange father, a man who constantly wanders.

OUR HOME HERE

Angela Chen & Yumiko Fukiwara

Four lives collide in one fatal moment at the Sunny Meals Fast Food drive-thru, exposing a dark underside of the American Dream.

PIEL CANELA (CINNAMON SKIN)

Michelle Salcedo

A Cuban exile returns to her homeland in search of her daughter and unravels a secret that has haunted her ever since she left twenty years before.

SPEAK EASY, B

Becca Park & Jun Shimizu

During a therapy session, a young adult named B struggles to vocalize the source of their depression stemming from heartache. They embark on a tender journey inside their mind, with the desert serving as the stage for poetic confrontation. Through dream-like vignettes, the film weaves together their struggle to balance gender, sexuality, and identity.

19

Brit Wigintton

After a one night stand, a college freshman tries to piece together a night she’s not sure she wants to remember.

THE DRESS YOU HAVE ON

Courtney Hope Therond

A surprising find challenges a couple to question the foundation of their relationship.

HERMIT

Directed by Courtney Pape

A comedic series that playfully explores the daily life of a woman who hasn’t left her apartment in six months.

KINDRED SPIRIT

Directed by Caroline Lindy

When a very single Eloise invites Jonathan to her apartment (after only a brief chat on a dating app) and discovers that he died tragically in a fire a month before, will she decide to take a chance on love even if it means dating a ghost?

LEXICAL GAP

Yoko Okumura

A wild lady-punk musical short about redefining the meaning of virginity. Purity is a myth.

OUR WAY HOME

Alexandra Hsu

After a racist encounter in a nearby diner, they think they’re being followed, but realize in the end that it’s not someone they expected.

YO TAMBIÉN (ME TOO)

Sonia Sebastian

Lina has been diagnosed with hepatitis. Now, following her doctor’s advice, she will contact her former sexual partners to tell them about it.

ALL GOOD

Jessica Petelle

Leila (Diana Gitelman) is white-knuckling it tonight. After spending the evening at a wedding reception fulfilling her duties as the Maid of Honor, she has returned to her hotel suite to hide away from temptation and maintain her near 6 months of sobriety. Fun-loving Josh (Avi Rothman) arrives at her door and provides a welcome distraction.

THE BRIDGE

Disha Webb

When a hate crime traumatizes a beautiful Muslim woman, a bridge in East London becomes the actual and metaphorical connection between her past and her future.

FIRM WITH PURPOSE

Tia Ayers & Shannon Ayers

A loving mother goes to a job interview in her daughter’s place.

GAME

Jeannie Donohoe

A new kid in town tests the limits at the high school basketball tryouts.

THE HEARTBREAK FACTORY

So Young Shelly Yo

One day, Ava finds a pattern in all the hearts, the ultimate heartbreak named Ollie, and vows to take him down.

NADIA'S VISA

Hanadi Elyan

After failing to obtain a travel visa to meet her family, Nadia finds herself stuck in a moral dilemma.

COME AWAY WITH ME

Ellen Gerstein

Still believing in true love Ann Chambers is determined to finally live life her way. She summons the courage to attend her High School reunion to find the love of her life, Michael Blake, an all-star athlete and war veteran. Torn apart by war and misunderstanding, life remains full of surprises for them both.

CRUSH

Rosie Westhoff

Crush is a coming of age film about a girl’s first crush. One day while waiting for the train to school Ella see’s Jamie. For the days to follow she can’t get her out of her head.

EVERYBODY DOES IT

Megan Brotherton

A young woman searches for her own orgasm.

NODAL

Linda Dahlem

An irrational scientist defies her peers by undergoing the first trial in Human Teleportation to realize that going against nature has its consequences.

TATTOO YOU

Lisa Kenner Grissom

When two women from the same town, yet with different backgrounds, unexpectedly reconnect in the girls’ bathroom at their 20th high school reunion, their troubled past breaks the cool veneer of the present. Some scars don’t fade away.

THE GIRLS I KNOW... GET THEIR HANDS DIRTY

Lauren Ciaravalli & Victoria Vaughn

Stranded in the middle of the desert, a filmmaker attempts to change her flat tire in order to make it to the biggest interview of her life.

WASTE

Justine Raczkiewicz

Roger lives a grim, detached life picking up medical waste for a living, but looks forward to his evening conversations with his quirky roommate, foodie Olive. But as the meals become increasingly strange, and push the limits of curiosity, Roger must ask himself how far he will go for love.