Dir. Haydon Mayer

As an online roleplaying game faces shutdown, two teens decide to transcend the pixels that once held them apart.

Centerpiece

Dir. Nathan Campbell

A boy witnesses a shower game turn into a violating act.

Pedal to the Mettle

Dir. Lindsey Susor

When a tragic accident reveals that his granddaughter has the ability to respawn upon death, an old man starts an underground organ harvesting business to keep his family afloat.

Uneasy Street

Dir. Jiaying Lin

To reunite with her long-distance partner in Toronto, a young Chinese woman boards a cross-border bus with a forged travel document.

Closing Night presented by Adobe Premiere Pro

Dir. JT Trinidad

In a decaying cinema in the heart of Manila, Life discovers first love through films and their new friend’s father.

Centerpiece presented by Adobe Premiere Pro

Dir. Alva van Niekerk

Seven-year-old Lo hurtles through an everyday life characterized by warmth and cold. When the relationship between her parents changes, Lo must come to terms with a new reality.

Closing Night presented by Adobe Premiere Pro

Dir. Yaeji Kim

A reinterpretation of memory through the main motif of the color blue, grappling with both cultural and personal dissonance.

Opening Night

Dir. Austin Tsai

A portrait of an elderly lady in Boston’s Chinatown, whose dance within a community center reveals a delicate balance between solitude and belonging.

Points of Contact

Dir. Carson Wine

After retiring from the U.S. Air Force, Colonel Ellis refuses to let his love of aviation fade. Instead, he embarks on a new chapter, forming a deep relationship with a piece of flying history.

IYKYK

Dir. Lada Kopytova

An exploration of the creative process of London-based artist and jewellery maker Klara Fokicheva, tracing the influence mudlarking has on her work and her relationship towards working with found materials.

Outside the Lines

Dir. Freddie Gluck

As childhood memories are made and fade in the same instant, siblings Lily and Bodhi diverge at the dawn of a life beyond their home, a Colorado alligator sanctuary.

Friday Night Spotlight

Dir. Jingyi Li

In a quiet Boston home, a Hong Kong immigrant family navigates the final days of a loved one’s life under hospice care, revealing the profound stillness and unspoken complexities of a family’s final time together.

Family Portraits

Dir. Mona Patterson, Josiah Mendoza & Zoey Franklin

A poetic story of legacy and loss, told through two daughters' letters to their late mother as they struggle to save her restaurant and redefine their bond.

Closing Night presented by Adobe Premiere Pro

Dir. Haohao Qiaoshi Liu

A Chinese girl returns home to Helsinki, with a desire to reassess her feelings about home, perfection, friendship, and regret.

Growing Through It presented by FSU

Dir. Jesse Smolan

A week in the lives of Icelandic farmers as they journey across rugged mountains and valleys to round up thousands of sheep before winter.

All Around Us presented by ScanDesign Foundation

Dir. Pranav Dawar

The high-stakes world of the stunt drivers of Well of Death — where passion, risk, and sacrifice collide.

Opening Night

Dir. Alejandra Villegas, Vanessa Navari, Kate Vela

A 23-year-old recounts his escape from a violent past, revealing an intimate journey through organized crime, family ties, and the illegal arms trade—now living in a new place where no one knows the truth about his history.

Centerpiece presented by Adobe Premiere Pro

Dir. Eva Phillips

Embarking on a journey to reconnect with their grandfather years after his passing, the filmmaker collects testimonials from their mother and grandmother, uncovering new truths and the significance of his life to their family.

Family Portraits

Dir. Phoenix Park

A man confronts his plug after receiving the wrong pills.

Uneasy Street

Dir. Samuel Wright Smith

A collective oil pastel-animated reflection on death, as shared by individuals facing the end of life aided by psychedelic-assisted care.

Closing Night presented by Adobe Premiere Pro

Dir. Audrey Cheng

On her city balcony, Audrey delights in the flutter of tiny birds, inspiring her to invent a bird-language translator that unlocks their secret conversations.

Morning Medley presented by Walnut Hill

Dir. Charlotte Anthony

When a man returns home exhausted from work, his daughter picks up his laser pointer and uses her imagination to help him rediscover his passions.

Morning Medley presented by Walnut Hill

Dir. Jared Rosenthal

Grumpy and set in his ways, a small-town ice cream shop owner with a sour attitude and no patience for joyous customers, must learn to adjust as his business melts faster than a sundae on a hot summer day.

Morning Medley presented by Walnut Hill

Dir. Sayazhan Ispolganova, Rosita Keneshova, Fatima Chorobekova, Dariya Murzulukova

Teenage girls in Kyrgyzstan speak about everyday expectations and social roles they grow up with.

Breaking the Mold

Dir. Sophia Uy

In an airport mall, two friends who've formed a life-changing friendship spend their last day together before they part ways.

Opening Night

Dir. Anjali Pulim

Three generations of women take a stroll through mundane objects and the stories behind them.

Friday Night Spotlight

Dir. Lucas Ansel

A bar joke goes awry, unraveling into a surreal tale that explores the acceptance of self, others, and queer identity.

Centerpiece presented by Adobe Premiere Pro

Dir. Siwoo Kim

After running out on a suicide pact, Jooni wanders around Seoul and meets a classmate from elementary school.

Pedal to the Mettle

Dir. Xinpeng Huang

Bobbi, a robot trained to build houses, enters the “real” world to fulfill his mission—but when reality begins to glitch and a long-buried dream resurfaces, he’s forced to question everything he was taught.

Daily Grind

Dir. Rita (Rui) Chen

Hosanna comes to terms with what could never be.

Growing Through It presented by FSU

Dir. Ris Igrec

An experimental multimedia video exploring the fluid, nonlinear nature of memory through hand-drawn animation, paper shapes, ASCII, and digital collage.

Experimental Visions

Dir. Alex Guerra

An undocumented immigrant recounts memories of his childhood home while telling the story of the handmade wallet tied to his journey across the border.

Experimental Visions

Dir. Gabriella Rigakos

Roberta must finish her art school thesis amid an anthropomorphic crisis of self-actualization in Northern Ontario.

Outside the Lines

Dir. Michael Fadugbagbe

A filmmaker visits Nigeria for the first time since his parents’ emigration 22 years prior and reflects on the Nigerian 1993 election crisis, colonial history, and repatriation.

Experimental Visions

Dir. Angel Noriega

A fish has an identity crisis within the glass of an aquarium.

Experimental Visions

Dir. Sea Sombar & Alice Chiotti-Lee

A non-binary teen goes on a journey towards acceptance after being kicked out.

Breaking the Mold

Dir. David Dean Tostes-Ribeiro McLaughlin

The disintegration of a man’s memory of a conversation as he becomes intoxicated by doubt.

Experimental Visions

Dir. Nanea Ah You

Through lei-making and song, a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) woman explores what it means to be Aloha ʻĀina – a lover of the land.

Experimental Visions

Dir. Angel Rojas

From Peru to the United States, a family’s diasporic history is told through television channels. A mother and brother are interviewed in Ohio, a grandfather’s last recorded song plays out from Peru, while a solo dancer recalls a familiar yet different routine.

Experimental Visions

Dir. Sascha Lourdes

A dancer and her former teacher grapple with the lasting effects of a shared trauma that distorts their relationships with food.

Experimental Visions

Dir. Malik Terrab

Tracing a lineage of memory from the tactile grain of 35mm film to ephemeral digital code, The Cloud explores how our obsession with archiving reality has birthed an unintended, man-made afterlife.

Experimental Visions

Dir. Lade Tinubu

Set within a bright, colorful surreal dream eventually-turn-nightmare, the artist responds to voicemail messages from his late mother.

Experimental Visions

Dir. Justin Nguyen

Devon Again goes through the motions of heartbreak and the world reacts in funny ways.

Centerpiece presented by Adobe Premiere Pro

Dir. Grace Stromatt

A satiric portrayal that explores the futility of toxic masculinity and its hilarious assumptions.

Closing Night presented by Adobe Premiere Pro

Dir. Keith Leung

A mother finds her son's mixtape and learns what he truly feels about her.

Opening Night

Dir. Marlena Lerner

A woman meets a goddess at a dog beach who takes her on a surreal version of her past.

Friday Night Spotlight

Dir. Angela Wang

A world where the twinks are taking charge.

Seismic Soundtracks

Dir. Mia D. Alejo & Molly Masson

The bewitching architect of flesh and gore haunts the dollhouse boys.

Thrills & Chills

Dir. Katherine Dunn

Kenny is abducted and thrust into the middle of a poisonous, unconventional, and increasingly territorial argument between his two bandmates - one that he is desperate to escape from.

Seismic Soundtracks

Dir. Luke Santo

Seattle's everyday composition cut through rhythm and style.

Seismic Soundtracks

Dir. Sydney Andrews

A performance focused music video for Basically Nancy, a Savannah, Georgia, based band.

Seismic Soundtracks

Dir. Brandon Wong & Ye-eun Hong

Through storms of tension and desire, Aftrr becomes a one-man army, choosing a love that’s worth every fight.

Evergreen Screen

Dir. Nanieezh Peter

Written and sung in Dinjii Zhuh K’yàa, the Gwich’in language, this first-of-its-kind music video explores grief from an Indigenous perspective.

Breaking the Mold

Dir. Grace Rathbun

Barb, a young and aspiring actress, drowns in the pool of a kids birthday party and must survive in a new thespian purgatory.

Daily Grind

Dir. Dwight Ellis Jr

Junior, a troubled Haitian-American teen sent to live with his estranged grandmother, is immersed in his family’s culture. Reconnecting with his roots, Junior struggles to balance tradition and personal ambition, confronting the pressures of navigating two worlds within a tight-knit Haitian community.

Episodic Showcase presented by NYFA

Dir. Sam Tricomo

Siblings Dove and Larry revel in wild nights. While Larry seeks attention from the Reverend and her son, Dove grows secretly fascinated by roadkill, unaware that their neighbor Janet harbors an even deeper connection to death.

Episodic Showcase presented by NYFA

Dir. Jack Serra

After a serious run in with the law, a young woman becomes obsessed with an officer who looks identical to her deceased father.

Episodic Showcase presented by NYFA