(Best Drama)

Director: Daniela Schrier Kafshi

On the anniversary of her daughter’s death, Ronnie is commemorating the day with a surprising act -- and we’re along for the ride.

(Best Comedy)

Director: Wylie Anderson

An 11-year-old, determined student struggles with being real and authentic in her "How To Cry on Command" class (among others) at dystopian grade school: Celebrity Preparatory for Girls.

(Best Documentary)

Director: Bren Cukier

One week after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a father and his three daughters visit a resort from a childhood vacation 25 years ago. Using archival home videos juxtaposed with footage from the recent trip, it is a portrait of one family's grief through the lens of memory and nostalgia.

(Best Horror/Experimental)

Director: Abby Tozer

A young pianist is inexplicably trapped in an audition room.

(Best Student Short)

Director: Maritza Cruz

Xiomara and Ana, two Central American migrant teens, work the late-night shift at a garment factory. When Ana goes missing after staying for an extra shift , ‘Xo’ searches for her friend, only to uncover Ana never made it home. Her search leads her back to the factory, where she's faced with a devastating truth.

Director: Trisha Pickelhaupt

A glamorous trans woman aching for the simplicity of her upbringing moves back to Buffalo from NYC, where she tumbles into a Rust Belt dalliance at the local bowling alley.

Director: Nichole Luna

A man and a woman take a trip to a secluded vacation home where she begins to have recurring nightmares about a traumatic childhood event.

Director: Morgan Gruer

When parents gather their four adult children over dinner to solidify the family will, the childrens’ self-absorbed agendas send the conversation careening into chaos, leading to a desperate battle of wills.

Director: Jennifer Gouchoe

Stuck in a nightmarish cycle of failing to check everything off her never ending to-do list , and juggling situationships with noncommittal Los Angeles lovers, Violet must overcome her desire for distraction before her overbearing mother comes to town.

Directors: Kamaria Williams & Shemeka Wright

After a traumatic past resurfaces, a young queer Black person is haunted by a presence that blurs the line between memory and malevolence. As their reality begins to fracture, they must confront long-buried truths, or risk being consumed by them... HAUNTED is a psychological horror short about grief, identity, and the terrifying weight of what we try to forget.

Director: Megan Elizabeth Barker

This is for every person who has ever read a romantasy novel and is still waiting for a tall, dark, morally grey man to come sweep them off their feet. Here we find Farrah waiting for her hero, but instead she gets Reese.

Director: Faranak Sahafian

During the Iranian Women, Life, Freedom movement in 2022, Anahita in NYC and Yalda in Tehran face their fears by going to a protest, and connect across the world with a photo that brings them hope for a better tomorrow.

Director: Georgia Evensen

Proscenium follows a crew shooting a dance film, and the nervous young director’s struggle to connect with the lead dancer.

Director: Nicole Mairose Dizon

When a T’boli dreamweaver goes into a coma, her anxious, insomniac daughter must dream and communicate with Fu Dalu, the Spirit of Abaca, to pick up where her mom left off on the next t'nalak.

Director: Alexandra Hsu

Carolyn Kim joins a college student movement for Ethnic Studies in 1968.
Inspired by real events.

Director: Honora Talbott

A casting director gets hit with some bad news while helping her eccentric neighbor tape her Wheel of Fortune audition. Tensions are high, nerves are shot, and it’s awkward as hell.