What should have been a simple train ride home at night for a woman turns into a terrifying game of cat and mouse until an unforeseen force is summoned.
Director: Luisa Martiri, Tanya Modini
Writer: Tanya Modini
Stars: Ling Cooper Tang, Kevin Spink, Stephen Walker
Two men face off over a game of chess—but every move reveals something deeper. Tension escalates as hidden motives and old wounds surface beneath the calm conversation.
“What if the game wasn't just on the board?”
Director: Christian Jaramillo
Writer: Christian Jaramillo
Stars: Gabriell Salgado, Douglas Dickerman, Robbie Serrano
Keira is part of an experiment: though she's perfectly fine, she's being sent into a psychiatric ward to test if the doctors and nurses can accurately detect her fake diagnosis. She also has an agenda of her own: she wants to find out what happened to a friend she knew, who was in the same ward and supposedly died by her own hand.
But Keira's time in the ward goes unexpectedly, even after she acts normally. She finds those in charge of her care to be unresponsive to her entreaties and pleas. Instead, they're authoritarian, cold and sometimes cruel. Soon Keira realizes that she may be trapped, with her sanity hanging in the balance.
Director: Olia Oparina
Writer: Anya Bay
Stars: Nora-Jane Noone, Saul Rubinek, Susan Moore Harmon
Ella is a troubled teenage girl living in a residential care home as part of her foster placement. After a year of homelessness and watching her mom struggle, Ella is angry and distrustful of the world around her. When she is expelled because of an outburst, social services cannot find an immediate new placement for her, and Ella has nowhere else to go, posing a problem for Ella's new social worker, Sam.
Ella's dynamic with Sam is hostile and turbulent, tested to its limit when Ella and Sam unexpectedly embark on a road trip over the school holidays. As they travel through the landscapes of Ireland, the pair is confronted with their fears and vulnerabilities. But slowly, they come to trust one another and discover that healing can happen with unexpected connections.
Director: Kim Bartley
Writer: Kim Bartley
Stars: Eva Birthistle, Isabelle Connolly, Shane Patrick McCormick
Taking place in the 1960s, "Lili" is a romantic drama centered around two ambitious music students battling each other to win one prestigious composing prize. "Lili" pays tribute to the trailblazing composer Lili Boulanger, the first woman to win France's most prestigious music prize, the Prix de Rome. The film examines what it means to be an artist in a world that's not ready for you, the turmoil of competing in a male-dominated field, and the complex emotions of falling for a rival.
Prick is a taut and compelling short that deftly navigates the fine line between performance and authenticity. Set within the familiar intimacy of a podcast interview, the film captures a clash of wits and ideologies that feels both timeless and freshly relevant. As the conversation spirals from polite banter to a high-stakes intellectual battle, the film exposes the complex, often contradictory dance between perception and reality in today’s media landscape.
Set in Ireland, during the third year of The Great Hunger in 1847, The Widow’s Last tells the story of Kathryn Healy, a hardened widow who fights to keep her young son alive during one of the darkest times in human history.
Starving from lack of food and with her son stricken by fever she stumbles across an English landlord, wounded and himself on the edge of death. This encounter with the enemy sets her on an unexpected path where she is forced to confront her own inhumanity and make choices…
Can she find it within herself to help a man she considers the enemy? Then faced with a neighbour bent on vengeance against the English, can she hold to her newfound convictions without putting herself and her son in further danger? And will the choices she makes lead to destruction or might they ultimately save her?
With her debut short, director Vanessa Perdriau has produced a powerful, moving film that examines the nature of our humanity, anchored by outstanding performances. At its core, this is a profound story of forgiveness, sacrifice and redemption, poised to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Director: Vanessa Perdriau
Writer: Vanessa Perdriau
Stars: Charlotte Peters, Matthew Wolf, Damien Hasson
Beth lives a quiet life on a remote family farm… until everything changes.
One day, her mother begins hearing a strange sound — low, constant, and impossible to ignore. No one else can hear it. But it’s real enough to unravel her completely.
As her mother spirals into pain and obsession, Beth sets out to track down the source. What begins as a search for silence turns into something far more haunting.
Director: Antony Petrou
Writer: Chris Dundon-Smith
Stars: Sienna Guillory, James Hyland, Jahannah James
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LA-newbie Emily cannot believe her luck when Hollywood A-Lister Harris Shaw instigates a romantic entanglement, but the night takes a dark turn when his charm quickly dissolves and something darker rises to the surface.
A teenage girl grapples with feelings of shame and guilt after having sex for the first time, leading to a thoughtful exploration of generational shame, societal expectations, sexual empowerment, and self-worth.
Kinley and Willow are identical twins. They embark on a mountain trek together. It's the last hike before one of them moves away, which will likely change their dynamic in the future. A heartwarming and humorous short film exploring the bonds of sisterhood in the face of loss.
Director: Dream Thanika Jenjesda
Writer: Bella Rose Prince, Olivia Rose Prince
Stars: Olivia Rose Prince, Bella Rose Prince, Wyatt Hinz
Over the course of a week, experienced NHS district nurse Flora mentors final year student Kev. As they visit patient after patient, neither of them is sure Kev will see it through as the work is challenging and the career is tough. However, as the duo makes their visits in Flora’s beaten up old car ‘Neil’, they slowly start to bond during a rollercoaster of highs and lows, laughter and tragedy, love and loss, and Kev realises he might just have what it takes and Flora’s passion for nursing is reignited.
A neurotic delivery driver named Owen battles his OCD at a local convenience store while his TikToker girlfriend plans an exposure therapy dinner date at home. But when she helps him resist his compulsion, it subsequently triggers the apocalypse.
This film is an official adaptation of the award winning game "Papers, Please" by Lucas Pope. Its interesting, cold-war climate from behind the eastern part of the Iron Curtain has now been transferred to another medium. A group of filmmakers, in cooperation with the creator of the game, Lucas Pope, created a short film showing the hard life of a border guard in a fictional Arstotzka. Nikita and Liliya Ordynskiy worked on the film. The main character is an employee of one of the fictitious, totalitarian countries of the Eastern Bloc. His task is to check documents of people trying to cross the border and decide who will be able to receive this honor. His work is made difficult not only by paperwork, but also by his own conscience.
Director: Nikita Ordynskiy
Writer: Nikita Ordynskiy, Liliya Tkach, Lucas Pope
Stars: Igor Savochkin, Evgeni Tokarev, Viktoriya Tsygankova
Based on a Korean ritual during Chuseok, the autumn festival, Koreatown Ghost Story centers around a woman who is presented with a rather macabre marriage proposal from an old family friend who is particularly good at acupuncture.
Director: Minsun Park, Teddy Tenenbaum
Writer: Minsun Park, Teddy Tenenbaum
Stars: Margaret Cho, Lyrica Okano, Brandon Halvorsen
This raw, unvarnished short drama is essentially a brief but vivid portrait of a woman at a precipice in her life. Jessie is pregnant and set to give up her baby for adoption; she's on the way to the meeting with the agency. But when her car runs out of gas and her phone dies, she's forced into a pause that allows her to confront her feelings and wants.
Written and directed by Faryl Amadeus
Stars : Jeanine Mason, Katy Sullivan, Clint Jordan
