35th Florida Film Festival Reveals Lineup, Opens with ‘Carolina, Caroline’

Florida Film Festival revealed the film lineup for the 35th edition, taking place April 10-19, 2026, which kicks off on opening night with Adam Carter Rehmeier’s road trip movie Carolina, Caroline.

The film follows a small-time hustler (Kyle Gallner, Strange Darling, Smile) who becomes entangled with Caroline (Samara Weaving, Over Your Dead Body, Ready or Not)—charismatic, determined, and unwilling to settle for the life in front of her. What begins as a spontaneous romance gradually reveals deeper tensions, as ambition, insecurity, and competing dreams test their bond. As the relationship intensifies, both are forced to confront who they are, what they want, and how far they’re willing to go to escape their pasts.

Jorma Taccone’s Over Your Dead Body, starring Samara Weaving, will screen as the festival’s first Centerpiece presentation. The film stars Jason Segel and Weaving as a slightly deranged and bitterly unhappy Hollywood couple: a director who has never reached his full potential, and an unfulfilled actress trying to get her career back on track. Looking to get away for a weekend retreat at a remote cabin— supposedly to reconnect—each has secret plans to kill the other. But best laid plans go magnificently awry when they run into a trio of fugitives led by Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis.

On Closing Night, the festival will present a special 75th Anniversary screening of Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, starring Farley Granger and Robert Walker.

Florida Film Festival’s lineup will showcase 161 films (31 narrative features, 18 documentary features, and 112 short films), representing 31 countries, screening at the Enzian Theater (1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland, Florida).

The lineup includes 24 world premieres including, Ahmed Bouchalga’s The Call, Costa Karalis’ Frogtown, Woodruff Laputka and Tehben Dean’s The Man Whom the Trees Loved,Randy Moore’s Return From Tomorrow, Alejandro Ruax and Saskia d’Altena’s (If You Really Love Me, Outlive Me), Paul Oh’s Correspondence, Justin Whittingham’s Welcome, Ellie Foumbi’s Afufu, Faryl Amadeus’ Man in Motel, Jessica Li’s Peace Corps, Michael Borrelli’s The Last Day of Byron Bray, Timothy Jacob Elledge’s Neuman, Brooke Trantor’s Nut Milk in May, Sterling Hampton IV’s Study Hall, Isabel Pask’s Scout’s Honor, Grant Swanson’s Iron Lake, Syra McCarthy and Kyle Casey Chu’s Betty St. Clair, Austin Cauldwel’s Idyll, Kyle Spleiss’s House Cat, Justice Smith’s Grampa, Stacey Torkelson’s In Lieu of Flowers, Mary Pilon’s Screw Lucy, Modar Kajo’s In God’s Hands, and Noah Engel’s Everything that Fell from the Mourning Dove’s Nest as She Built It.

Highly anticipated titles from filmmakers like Steven Soderberg (The Christophers), Kirk Jones (I Swear), Gregg Araki (I Want Your Sex), Ben Wheatley (Normal), Curry Barker (Obsession), Maude Apatow (Poetic License), Daniel Roher (Tuner), and Jeremy Workman (School For Defectors) will also be can’t miss films for Central Florida film fans to see for the first time.

Florida Film Festival Executive Director Wade Neal said, “This Florida Film Festival will be my first as the new Executive Director, and I’m thrilled to be part of a team that has made the festival one of the most exciting, well‑curated, and outrageously fun in the country for 35 years.. We take the view that film is eternal, and is a supreme storytelling framework that creates deeper understanding, togetherness, and insight than other art forms. By coming together to celebrate the work and talent that each film represents, we honor extraordinary filmmakers that carry the power and magic of film forward.”

The festival will also celebrate the careers of Paul Giamatti and Judge Reinhold, and welcome them as special guests for its first An Evening With.. events following by a screening of Alexander Payne’s sardonic comedy Sideways (2004) for which Giamatti earned Golden Globe® and SAG Award nominations, and Amy Heckerling’s generational comedy Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) starring Reinhold.

Florida Film Festival 2026 Official Selections

GALA PRESENTATIONS

OPENING NIGHT PRESENTATION
Carolina Caroline
Director: Adam Carter Rehmeier
Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min
A small-time hustler (Kyle Gallner) and a small-town girl (Samara Weaving) embark on a sexy, kinetic road trip in search of an American dream to call their own. But what begins with a few stolen twenties soon spirals beyond their control.

CENTERPIECE PRESENTATION
Over Your Dead Body
Director: Jorma Taccone
Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min
A dysfunctional couple (Jason Segel and Samara Weaving) head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other in this riotously violent comedy from SNL alumnus Jorma Taccone (Popstar, MacGruber) that co-stars Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis.

CLOSING NIGHT PRESENTATION
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Country: USA ; Running Time: 101 min
Nominated for an Oscar® for Best Cinematography and co-scripted by legendary mystery writer Raymond Chandler from the novel by Patricia Highsmith, this timeless suspense classic is one of Hitchcock’s masterpieces. When an amateur tennis star whose wife won’t grant him a divorce, and a charming but psychotic mama’s boy who hates his father, meet on a commuter train, the conversation turns to a possibly perfect crime: what if each committed a murder for the other? Special 75th Anniversary showing!

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

The Call
World Premiere
Director: Ahmed Bouchalga
Countries: USA/Morocco; Running Time: 70 min
Orlando “arts instigator” Terry Olson takes an extraordinary journey across Morocco, retracing the footsteps of the historic Green March—a peaceful call of unity that still echoes 50 years later.

Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher
Directors: Dan Deller, Dayna Goldfine
Country: USA/UK; Running Time: 118 min
What if the most important person in rock and roll history is someone you’ve never heard of? Meet Peter Asher—Sixties pop star, Apple Records pioneer and behind-the-scenes genius who shaped California’s singer/songwriter era. Even better, he’s the visual inspiration for Austin Powers! This joyous, cabaret-fueled romp through six decades of Asher’s musical history is a time-machine treat that’s impossible to resist. Yeah, baby!

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
(Screening with An Evening With Judge Reinhold)
Director: Amy Heckerling
Country: USA; Running Time: 120 min
Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a pretty, but inexperienced, teen interested in dating. Given advice by her uninhibited friend, Linda Barrett (Phoebe Cates), Stacy gets trapped in a love triangle with nice guy Mark Ratner (Brian Backer) and his more assured buddy Mike Damone (Robert Romanus). Meanwhile, Stacy’s classmate Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn), who lives for surfing and being stoned, faces off against Mr. Hand (Ray Walston), a strict teacher who has no time for the slacker’s antics.

Frogtown World Premiere
Director: Costa Karalis
Country: USA; Running Time: 86 min
Set in a small Florida town and told from the POV of a documentary film crew, Frogtown is a unique genre-bending film blurring fiction and documentary realism, which explores an adult woman’s quest to prove the existence of a magical swamp creature she befriended as a child.

The Man Whom the Trees Loved World Premiere
Directors: Woodruff Laputka, Tehben Dean
Country: USA; Running Time: 73 min
As her husband begins to mysteriously slip away into the trees surrounding their vacation cabin, Sophia descends into grief and fear of losing him forever. Adapted from Algernon Blackwood’s supernatural novella, The Man Whom the Trees Loved is a ghostly tale of the inexplicable horrors of nature.

Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers
Director: John H. Cunnigham
Country: USA; Running Time: 92 min
Sun, salt, and afterparty chaos power this document of Jimmy Buffett and his scruffy first band. Mixing wild tour stories, reefer-soaked “heavy artillery” years, and Jeff Bridges Dude-style narration, even the dark moments feel fun in a buoyant, flip-flop fantasy that fans will want to toast.

Sideways
(Screening with An Evening With Paul Giamatti)
Director Alexander Payne
Country: USA; Running Time: 124 min
A wine-soaked road trip through California’s Santa Ynez Valley provides a pair of affable but mismatched friends—disillusioned writer Miles (Paul Giamatti) and carefree soon-to-be-married actor Jack (Thomas Hayden Church)—with an unexpected opportunity to confront where they are in life and what they truly want before time, and opportunity, pass them by.

Summer Tour
Director: Mischa Richter
Country: USA; Running Time: 82 min
This dreamy love letter follows young Jerry and Annie as they chase Dead & Company’s final 2023 tour in a questionable camper van. Neither was alive when Jerry Garcia walked the earth—yet here they are, barefoot and gloriously unbothered, organizing their lives around the music with an intensity that demands respect rather than mockery. Looking for a miracle? Get on the bus.

SPOTLIGHT FEATURES

The Christophers
Director: Steven Soderberg
Countries: UK/USA; Running Time: 100 min
The estranged children of famous artist Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) approach struggling artist Lori Butler (I May Destroy You’s Michaela Coel) with a brilliant plan: Lori is to pose as Julian’s new assistant while using her art-forging skills to secretly complete his series of long-abandoned paintings known as “The Christophers.” As the two form a tentative connection, the grift is soon threatened in this sharply witty and entertaining new comedy from Oscar®-winner Steven Soderbergh.

Cookie Queens
Director: Alysa Nahmias
Country: USA; Running Time: 91 min
A joyous and funny celebration of girlhood and the complexities that come with it, Cookie Queens is a heartwarming coming-of-age story that follows four tenacious fledgling entrepreneurs—ages five to twelve—and their families as they navigate the annual whirlwind of selling, striving, and succeeding during Girl Scout Cookie season.

I Swear
Director: Kirk Jones
Country: UK; Running Time: 120 min
Funny, frank, and deeply human, I Swear tells the inspirational true story of John Davidson, a trailblazer whose honesty and humor helped the world better understand what it means to live with Tourette syndrome. Winner of the BAFTA for Best Actor (Robert Aramayo) and the latest classic British crowd-pleaser from Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine).

I Want Your Sex
Director: Gregg Araki
Country: USA; Running Time: 90 min
Gregg Araki’s (The Doom Generation) latest film, I Want Your Sex, is a bold erotic comedy-thriller starring Olivia Wilde as a transgressive artist whose new assistant (Cooper Hoffman) becomes her muse. Premiering at Sundance, this provocative, darkly funny tale of art, obsession, and power marks a vibrant comeback for the iconic indie auteur.

Normal
Director: Ben Wheatley
Countries: USA/Canada; Running Time: 90 min
In this darkly comedic action thriller from director Ben Wheatley (High-Rise, FFF 2016) and the writer of John Wick, Bob Odenkirk stars as a new sheriff whose simple assignment unravels after a botched robbery proves that everything in the quiet town of Normal, Minnesota, is anything but!

Obsession
Director: Curry Barker
Country: USA; Running Time: 108 min
From YouTuber Curry Barker (Milk & Serial) comes Obsession, the twisted tale of Bear (Michael Johnston) who uses a seemingly innocuous “One Wish Willow” trinket to win the love of his crush (Inde Navarrette). But be careful what you wish for…

Poetic License
Director: Maude Apatow
Country: USA; Running Time: 117 min
Two inseparable best friends (Cooper Hoffman and Andrew Barth Feldman) see their lives start to unravel when they compete for the affection of the middle-aged married mom (Leslie Mann) auditing their college poetry class. Deeply affectionate and laugh-out-loud funny, this delightful comedy is the directorial debut of Maude Apatow.

Tuner
Director: Daniel Roher
Countries: Canada/USA; Running Time: 109 min
Oscar®-winning documentarian Daniel Roher’s (Navalny) first narrative feature, Tuner, dazzles with its whip-smart script and delightful mix of genre elements—odd-couple friendship, tense high-concept thriller, and charming romance. Leo Woodall (Nuremberg) stars as Niki, a gifted young piano tuner with a unique auditory condition, who draws the attention of criminals who see his talents as useful for opening safes. Dustin Hoffman, Tovah Feldshuh, and Jean Reno co-star in this quick-witted heist flick.

You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (in a Canadian Kind of Way)
Director: Nick Davis
Countries: Canada/USA; Running Time: 98 min
This fascinating and hilarious documentary takes us back to the legendary 1972 Toronto production of Godspell, the “hippie musical” about the life of Jesus, that ignited a comedy revolution since the cast included Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, Victor Garber, and musical director Paul Shaffer.

COMPETITION NARRATIVE FEATURES

Crystal Cross
Director: Richie James Follin
Country: USA; Running Time: 88 min
In Richie James Follin’s Crystal Cross, an adorable Christian singer and a suicidal dad drive cross-country, forging an oddball bond through bad decisions, bizarre roadside attractions, and a terrific all-original soundtrack. A bittersweet tale of two lost souls finding comfort, but not salvation, in each other’s messes.

Damned if you Do
Directors: Evan Metzold, Jake Rubin
Country: USA; Running Time: 107 min
Years after selling their souls to the devil, a fractured group of friends reunite for their 25th high school reunion to exploit a loophole and escape Hell’s grasp before the contract’s deadline expires. An all-star cast makes this hilarious horror-comedy a bloody good time!

If I Go Will They Miss Me
Director: Walter Thompson-Hernández
Country: USA; Running Time: 92 min
Twelve-year-old Lil Ant is a sensitive artist, enamored with the legends of Greek mythology and yearning to impress his emotionally distant father, Big Ant. Writer-director Walter Thompson-Hernández sets this mesmerizing, lyrical portrait of masculinity and tenderness against the backdrop of a busy LAX flight path.

Junkie
Director: William Means
Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min
Junkie tracks a haphazard 72 hours in the life of Stevie, a loveable, charismatic, but meth-addicted mom, extraordinarily played by Rocky Shay, who escapes court-ordered rehab to embark on an odyssey through the underbelly of the South to redeem her son’s love.

The Plan
Director: Jessica Barr
Country: USA; Running Time: 75 min
Inside a modest Los Angeles apartment over the course of a single unbroken take, a group of disillusioned young adults prepares for a radical act they believe will change the world. But as paranoia builds, one question lingers: is everyone truly committed?

Return From Tomorrow World Premiere
Director: Randy Moore
Country: USA; Running Time: 117 min
After the loss of his father, a middle-aged dad has a crisis of masculinity while on family vacation in Miami in this audacious and subversive follow-up to Randy Moore’s Escape from Tomorrow (2013).

Ride or Die
Director: Josalynn Smith
Country: USA; Running Time: 85 min
Paula reconnects with her high school crush and, as the sparks fly, is pulled into her chaotic orbit, embarking on a doomed road trip. Award-winning director Josalynn Smith’s feature directorial debut explores the attraction of fixing “broken” people, despite the cost to oneself.

Sender
Director: Russell Goldman
Country: USA; Running Time: 94 min
Newly sober and attempting a fresh start, a woman (Britt Lower, Severance) begins receiving packages she never ordered—each more unnervingly personal than the last—in this stylish paranoid thriller about addiction, recovery, and the crushing expectations for normalcy in a consumer-driven world. Rhea Seehorn, David Dastmalchian and Jamie Lee Curtis co-star.

Sylvania
Director: Kyle Smith
Country: USA; Running Time: 85 min
In Kyle Smith’s tender and funny Sylvania, Gracie and Stewart, on the brink of divorce, embark on a family road trip to visit Gracie’s estranged father Frank who is in the early stages of dementia. Once there, Gracie mines her father for stories of the long-dead mother she never really knew.

Valentina
Director: Tatti Ribeiro
Country: USA; Running Time: 85 min
During a 48-hour period at the U.S. and Mexico’s busiest border crossing, resolving an ordinary parking ticket is derailed by family, friends, Valentina’s own apathy, and the maddening bureaucracy of the system. This unique documentary-comedy hybrid is executive produced by Jessica Alba and stars Keyla Monterroso Mejia (The Studio, Curb Your Enthusiasm).

COMPETITION DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

A Life Illuminated
Director: Tasha Van Zandt
Countries: USA/Australia; Running Time: 89 min
Join Dr. Edie Widder, trailblazing marine biologist, on a descent 3,300 feet into the ocean’s darkest depths. This stunningly beautiful scientific film features footage of the elusive giant squid in its natural habitat, and the earliest images of deep-sea bioluminescence.

The Dads
Director: Luchina Fisher
Country: USA; Running Time: 72 min
Executive produced by NBA legend Dwyane Wade, Luchina Fisher’s inspiring documentary highlights a group of politically, generationally, and geographically diverse fathers of transgender children as they navigate an ever-changing socio-political landscape and grapple with an impossible choice: stay and fight or flee the country.

First They Came for My College
Director: Patrick Xavier Bresnan
Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min
Patrick Xavier Bresnan (Grand Jury Award: Documentary Short “The Rabbit Hunt,” FFF 2017; Naked Gardens, FFF 2023) examines the accelerating battle over academic freedom in the United States with the right-wing, conservative Republican takeover of New College of Florida, the state’s designated honors college, in Sarasota.

If These Walls Could Rock
Directors: Tyler Measom, Craig A. Williams
Country: USA; Running Time: 93 min
What do Slash, Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow, Dave Grohl, Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons, Cyndi Lauper, and Morrissey, among other famous rockers have in common? The Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood! This is the place where iconic musicians have checked in, coked up, wrote music, broke the rules, and bonded for decades.

Never Get Busted!
Directors: David Anthony Ngo, Stephen Mccallum
Countries: USA/Australia/UK; Running Time: 109 min
Barry Cooper is a charismatic and controversial former narcotics officer, infamous for his “Never Get Busted” DVD series that taught drug users how to hide their stash. After exposing police corruption in a series of online videos, he becomes a folk hero on the run—his whereabouts unknown, even by the filmmakers today.

Punkie
Director: Audrey Olson
Country: USA; Running Time: 72 min
Raw and real, director Audrey Olson’s intimate and unflinching portrait of the first out Black SNL star Punkie Johnson gives audiences a chance to follow the powerhouse comic on the road as she preps for a stand-up special and contends with mounting pressures in her personal and professional life.

Santacon
Director: Seth Porges
Country: USA; Running Time: 87 min
From the founders of Burning Man and the inspiration for Fight Club comes SantaCon! Sometimes referred to as Santarchy, Santapalooza, Santa Rampage, and the Red Menace, it’s the event that lures tens of thousands of drunken revelers to dress like Santa Claus and invade countless cities around the world. 

School for Defectors
Director: Jeremy Workman
Country: USA; Running Time: 97 min
Celebrated documentarian Jeremy Workman (Secret Mall Apartment, FFF 2024; Lily Topples the World, FFF 2021) takes his camera to Busan, South Korea, where he follows 20 students from the tiny Jangdaehyun Boarding School—all North Korea defectors.

Seized
Director: Sharon Liese
Country: USA; Running Time: 94 min
Marion, Kansas, erupts after a police raid on its local newspaper and the death of its 98-year-old owner, exposing abuses of power, First Amendment violations, and deep town divisions in an infuriating, entertaining documentary about journalism, retribution, and small-town secrets.

Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon
Directors: Khoa Ha, Victor Velle
Countries: USA/Vietnam; Running Time: 91 min
Legendary Vietnamese composer Y Vân is rediscovered by his granddaughter in this story that spans three generations and two continents. Described as “the Quincy Jones of Saigon,” he composed some of Vietnam’s most popular and treasured tunes. Part history lesson, part travelogue, this vibrant film is more than just a legacy project.

INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE

Chopin, Chopin!
Director: Michał Kwieciński
Countries: Poland/France/Spain; Running Time: 113 min
Nominated for five Eagles Polish Film Awards, Michal Kwieciński’s period biographical drama opens with the energized world of 1835 Parisian high society at a play-off event featuring Fryderyk Chopin and his friend Franz Liszt, rising action for this aurally and visually rich telling of Chopin’s life story.

Kikuyu Land
Directors: Andrew H. Brown, Bea Wangondu
Countries: Kenya/USA; Running Time: 93 min
For Kenya’s Kikuyu people, a fight to protect their land, culture, and future is inexorably intertwined with Western corporate interests in the country’s tea plantations and complex post-colonial African politics, all probed by Nairobi-based journalist and co-director Bea Wangondu and Andrew H. Brown (Kifaru, FFF 2019 and Path of the Panther, FFF 2022).

The Last Viking
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Countries: Denmark/Sweden; Running Time: 116 min
Anker, recently released from prison, entrusted stolen money to his autistic brother, Manfred (the one-and-only Mads Mikkelsen), who, having changed personalities and name, no longer knows where the money is. Cleverly balancing humor, darkness, and heartfelt moments that delve into the scars of childhood and how they shape us and our relationships for life, this outrageous black comedy is the latest bit of mayhem from FFF award-winner Anders Thomas Jensen (Riders of Justice, FFF 2021).

The Marching Band
Director: Emmanuel Courcol
Country: France; Running Time: 103 min
Conductor Thibaut, needing a bone marrow transplant, discovers he is adopted and has a previously unknown brother, Jimmy. Through their love of music, the brothers overcome feelings of disbelief, resentment, and privilege to come to terms with their past and present. With delicate humor and heartfelt moments, this bittersweet class-comedy entertains while provoking thought about our ability to live together and create meaningful connections. Nominated for seven César Awards (“French Oscars”).

MIDNIGHT FEATURES

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Director: Tom Stern
Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min
Never sacred, always profane, this wild doc hurls you into Butthole Surfers’ chaotic psych-punk circus—puppets, drugs, fire, and all—as Richard Linklater calls their live shows “a changing point in your life,” and Gibby’s unhinged mayhem somehow lands on something tender, transformative, and unforgettable.

Frogman Returns
Director: Anthony Cousins
Country: USA; Running Time: 75 min
Frogman . . . RETURNS!!! Plunging back into cryptid legend and camcorder paranoia, a disgraced filmmaker hunts proof of the viral amphibious monster, spiraling into flooded woods and conspiracy-soaked lore. Blending found-footage chaos with practical creature effects and a streak of absurdist humor, escalating the mythology while skewering our obsession with internet fame and manufactured myth.

Hokum
Director: Damian McCarthy
Countries: Ireland/USA; Running Time: 101 min
When novelist Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott, Severance) retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance force him to confront dark corners of his past. From Damian McCarthy, director of Oddity.

Mermaid
Director: Tyler Cornack
Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min
Tyler Cornack’s Mermaid plunges into swamp-soaked surrealism when a financially strapped and drug addicted dockworker (Johnny Pemberton, Fallout) believes a wounded mermaid hides in the drainage canal behind his apartment. Equal parts creature feature and Florida noir, Mermaid is sticky, sunburned, and defiantly strange.

NARRATIVE SHORTS

Afufu
Director: Ellie Foumbi
Country: USA; Running Time: 18 min

All at Once
Director: Maggie Brill
Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min

All the Real Boys
Director: Ohad Ira Amram
Country: USA; Running Time: 11 min

American Cheese
Director: Kate Thulin
Country: USA; Running Time: 10 min

Are You Fucking Kidding Me?!
Director: Zen Pace
Country: USA; Running Time: 12 min

Betty St. Clair
Directors: Syra McCarthy, Kyle Casey Chu
Country: USA; Running Time: 12 min

Cake
Director: Caro Ribeiro
Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min

Candy Bar
Director: Nash Edgerton
Country: Australia; Running Time: 6 min

The Catcher
Director: Luka Galle
Country: Belgium; Running Time: 30 min

CHÄIR
Director: Chris McInroy
Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min

The Daughter
Director: Mary Ann Anane
Country: USA; Running Time: 7 min

Dear Shop Girl
Director: Nira Burstein
Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min

DISC
Director: Blake Winston Rice
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Doctor Death Grip
Director: Amber Schaefer
Country: USA; Running Time: 21 min

Esther
Director: Joey Hunt
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

Fantasma
Director: Ulbrecht Tomas
Country: USA; Running Time: 11 min

Fruithead
Director: Mike Diva
Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

Gloria
Director: Kim Blanck
Country: USA; Running Time: 10 min

Grampa
Director: Justice Smith
Country: USA; Running Time: 19 min

House Cat
Director: Kyle Spleiss
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

I Gaze at the Sky
Director: Alexandra Strunin
Country: Poland; Running Time: 24 min

I Walked Through the Wall
Director: Pablo Larcuen
Countries: USA/Spain; Running Time: 8 min

Idyll
Director: Austin Cauldwell
Country: USA; Running Time: 18 min

Imago
Director: Ariel Zengotita
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

In Lieu of Flowers
Director: Stacey Torkelson
Country: USA; Running Time: 18 min

Iron Lake
Director: Grant Swanson
Country: USA; Running Time: 20 min

It Means Hope
Director: Shadi Karamroudi
Country: Iran; Running Time: 15 min

It’s Easy to Forget (Es Fácil Olvidar)
Director: Yamile Abuid
Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

Jit
Director: Samuel Correa
Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min

The Last Day of Byron Bray
Director: Michael Borrelli
Country: USA; Running Time: 20 min

The Last Ride
Directors: Vijesh Rajan, Yashoda Parthasarthy
Country: India; Running Time: 24 min

Man in Motel
Director: Faryl Amadeus
Country: USA; Running Time: 12 min

Neuman
Director: Timothy Jacob Elledge
Country: USA; Running Time: 16 min

Norheimsund
Director: Ana A. Alpizar
Countries: Cuba/USA; Running Time: 12 min

Nut Milk in May
Director: Brooke Trantor
Country: USA; Running Time: 17 min

Peace Corps
Director: Jessica Li
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

Photo Play XX
Director: Zolomon Zelko
Country: USA; Running Time: 16 min

Scissors
Director: Hannah Alline
Country: USA; Running Time: 12 min

Scout’s Honor
Director: Isabel Pask
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too Much
Director: Eric Jackowtz
Country: USA; Running Time: 17 min

September, All Over.
Director: Kali Kahn
Country: USA; Running Time: 21 min

Skin on Skin
Director: Simon Schneckenburger
Country: Germany; Running Time: 30 min

Somewhere to Be
Director: Christy Chan
Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

The Spectacle
Director: Bálint Kenyeres
Countries: Hungary/France; Running Time: 17 min

Squall Mouth
Director: Eva Chaitman
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Stairs
Director: Riley Donigan
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Study Hall
Director: Sterling Hampton IV
Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

TEOTWAWKI
Director: Cristin Stephens
Country: USA; Running Time: 7 min

This Blows
Director: Talia Smith
Countries: USA/South Africa; Running Time: 13 min

To-Go
Director: Bryan Poyser
Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min

Tub
Director: Kathreen Khavari
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Ultra Juice
Director: Carl Conway Maguire
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min

Vultures
Director: Dian Weys
Countries: South Africa/France; Running Time: 15 min

Wall Udder
Director: Alexandra Hayden
Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

Xolo
Director: Matthew Serrano
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers
Director: Yoo Lee
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

The Baddest Speechwriter of All
Directors: Ben Proudfoot, Stephen Curry
Country: USA; Running Time: 29 min

The Baker’s Hotline
Directors: Dave Schuman, Emily Schuman
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

Being Bublé
Director: Dan Perlman
Country: USA; Running Time: 21 min

The Book of George
Director: Danny Schmidt
Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min

Chasing the Passage of Time
Directors: Dennis Scholl, Ed Talabera
Country: USA; Running Time: 7 min

The Chimney Sweeper
Director: Jack Raese
Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

Correspondence
Director: Paul Oh
Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min

Drag Me to Church
Director: Isabella Sullivan
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

Free Fish
Directors: Bisan Owda, Carolina Pereira
Countries: Palestine/Portugal; Running Time: 22 min

Hollywood’s Mermaid: The Esther Williams Story
Director: Brian Gersten
Country: USA; Running Time: 20 min

If You Really Love Me, Outlive Me
Directors: Alejandro Ruax, Saskia d’Altena
Country: USA; Running Time: 20 min

In God’s Hands
Director: Modar Kajo
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Oh Whale
Director: Winslow Crane-Murdoch
Country: USA; Running Time: 26 min

One Last Order
Directors: Lauren DeFilippo, Sam Soko
Country: USA; Running Time: 20 min

Panther Pat
Director: Ashley Brandon
Country: USA; Running Time: 12 min

Same Water
Director: Martine Granby
Country: USA; Running Time: 21 min

Screw Lucy
Director: Mary Pilon
Country: USA; Running Time: 19 min

Swim Sistas
Director: Catherine Joy White
Country: UK; Running Time: 11 min

Trapped
Directors: Joe Purtell, Mads Engel
Country: USA; Running Time: 11 min

Welcome
Director: Justin Whittingham
Country: USA; Running Time: 22 min

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

Advice for Immigrants #1
Director: Saif Alsaegh
Country: USA; Running Time: 1 min

Allegory of the Cave
Directors: Huang Weipeng, Wang Yajing
Country: China; Running Time: 8 min

As Told by a Corpse
Director: Yace Sula
Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min

The Call
Director: Kelly Sears
Country: USA; Running Time: 7 min

Dance Film
Director: Kelly Gallagher
Country: USA; Running Time: 1 min

Everything that Fell from the Mourning Dove’s Nest as She Built It
Director: Noah Engel
Country: USA; Running Time: 1 min

explant/implant
Director: Josh Weissbach
Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min

My Grandma Still Cleans My Uncle’s Room (Mi Mamita Todavía Mantiene el Cuarto de Mi Tío)
Director: Alex Guerra
Countries: USA/Guatemala; Running Time: 5 min

The Stars Watch from Long Ago
Director: Stacey Steers
Country: USA; Running Time: 24 min

The Story of the Cricket Queen
Director: Natalie Peracchio
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min

Tourniquet
Director: Marceline Chevako
Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

Tuktuit: Caribou
Director: Lindsay Aksarniq McIntyre
Countries: Canada/USA; Running Time: 15 min

Wetland Impulse
Director: Jimmy Schaus
Country: USA; Running Time: 2 min

ANIMATED SHORTS

1981
Directors: Carolyn London, Andy London
Country: USA; Running Time: 8 min

Ashen Sun
Director: Camille Monnier
Countries: France/Belgium; Running Time: 13 min

Beetle Summer
Directors: Jian Yuan, Anyu Chen
Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min

Busy Bodies
Director: Kate Renshaw-Lewis
Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min

Crab Diane
Director: Ryan McCown
Country: USA; Running Time: 18 min

Dreams
Director: Eddie Mauldin
Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min

Girls Night Out
Director: Ashley Sengstaken
Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min

Hell
Director: Parker Croft
Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min

Horde
Director: Janina Księska
Country: Poland; Running Time: 7 min

Juicy and Sweet
Director: Sasha Uijeong Shin
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min

Merrimundi
Director: Niles Atallah
Countries: Chile/France; Running Time: 21 min

Mother’s Child
Director: Naomi Noir
Countries: Netherlands/France; Running Time: 9 min

Once in a Body
Director: María Cristina Pérez González
Countries: Colombia, USA; Running Time: 11 min

Paper Trail
Director: Don Hertzfeldt
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Perfect City: The Mushroom
Director: Shengwei Zhou
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Praying Mantis
Director: Joe Hsieh
Countries: Taiwan/Hong Kong; Running Time: 18 min

Sorrow Doesn’t Sleep at Night
Directors: Josefina Montino, Martín André
Country: Chile; Running Time: 9 min

Trading Cards
Director: Radheya Jang
Countries: Australia/UK; Running Time: 15 min

Tuna Tartare
Director: Lena Greene
Countries: USA/France; Running Time: 11 min

Um
Director: Nieto
Country: France; Running Time: 8 min

Venezia Diorama
Director: Nicolas Piret
Countries: Belgium/France; Running Time: 6 min

Winter in March
Director: Natalia Mirzoyan
Countries: Estonia/Armenia/France/Belgium; Running Time: 16 min

Yearn
Director: Ben Smith
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min