NEW HORIZONS Documentary Shorts 1
New Ground | directed by Louisa Rechenbach | 14 min. | United Kingdom. Shoreline | directed by Paul E Overstrom | 11 min. Voices from the Abyss | by Victor Rejón & Irving Serrano | 23 min. | Mexico Becoming a Film Director | directed by Rongfei Guo | 28 min. | China. Total Runtime: 76 minutes
Malecón
After a tragic incident where Elvis kills his stepfather, he is sent to prison and separated from his childhood love Yuli. Once released, he is pulled into Cuba’s prostitution underbelly and faces a critical decision: fight to recover Yuli’s love or leave everything behind.
WORLDS COLLIDING Short Film Showcase 1
Different Faces | Gregory William Randolph Jr. | 17 min. | United Kingdom. RISE | directed by Jessica J. Rowlands | 22 min. | Zimbabwe The Truck | directed by Elizabeth Rao | 13 min. | United States. All Strings Attached | directed by Kristine Bidstrup | 17 min. | Denmark. MIAMI BLUE | directed by Yusuke Hayamizu | 21 min. | Japan. Total Runtime: 90 minutes
Freeing Juanita
Juanita has been unjustly detained in Reynosa, Mexico for over seven years, accused of a crime she didn’t commit and forced to confess in a language she didn’t understand. This intimate portrait follows Ana and Pedro, Juanita’s aunt and uncle, on their thousand-mile journey from the highlands of Guatemala to Northern Mexico. With the help of a network of Maya interpreters and the family's Maya Chuj community, they fight for Juanita’s release and demand justice from the Mexican authorities, a cause that became internationally recognized for its defense of migrants’ rights and language justice.
LIFE IS A ROLLER COASTER Short Film Showcase
Crying on Command | directed by Nick Craven | 13 min. | United States. The Off Day | directed by Sam Syrett | 10 min. | United States. Chasing the Party | directed by Jessie Komitor | 14 min. | United States. Burnout | directed by Marta Z. Nowak | 16 min. | Polish. KÜI | directed by Kahu Kaiha | 11 min. | New Zealand. CHANNEL BIBI | directed by Rajan Gill | 15 min. | United States. Total Runtime: 79 minutes
Nate and Moriah In Venice
A young, struggling couple goes on vacation to rekindle their happiness, but their past catches up with them as they wander the streets of beautiful Venice for a day.
Moments of the Uncanny Short Film Showcase 3
The Fox and the Grapes | by Assad Zaman | 17 min. | United Kingdom. The Man & the Scarecrow | by Justin Knoepfel | 16 min. | United States. Milk Baby | directed by Kristen Gerweck Diaz | 14 min. | United States. LARVAL | directed by Alice Bloomfield | 12 min. | United Kingdom. Psychopomp | directed by Kit Harington | 24 min. | United Kingdom. The Beguiling | by ishwaazhe Shane McSauby | 15 min. | United States. Rouge | directed by Zoé Arene | 16 Min. Total Runtime: 114 minutes
Bunnylovr
In her debut feature, writer-director and star Katarina Zhu crafts a sensitive portrait of Rebecca (Zhu), a rootless online sex worker whose yearning for connection collides with her vigilance for maintaining emotional and physical safety. Rebecca’s unexpected reunion with her father, William (Perry Yung), is bittersweet, with his illness giving them little time to repair before she loses him again. Zhu’s nuanced, nonjudgmental approach to sex work and her vulnerable performance ground Bunnylovr’s vision of a precarious social world, in which intimacy is mediated and commodified, and family is fragmented across blood relations and chosen bonds. Fellow NYU Tisch alum and co-producer Rachel Sennott is abrasively funny as Rebecca’s more grounded BFF, while Austin Amelio is both alluring and unsettling as her mysterious online admirer.
I've Seen All I Need to See
After the sudden and violent death of her estranged sister, an actor leaves Los Angeles and returns to her hometown in search of answers.
SINGULAR VISIONS Documentary Shorts 2
Pinsetters Needed | directed by Gary Galonek | 15 min. | United States. The Wilhelm Scream | directed by Anna Quinlan | 12 min. | United States. DEARS IN THE HEADLIGHTS | directed by Julia Jansch | 16 min. | South Africa. Last Days on Lake Trinity | by Charlotte Cooley | 29 min. | United States. Woman in the Sky | directed by Max Woertendyke | 16 min. | United States. Total Runtime: 88 minutes
Out of Plain Sight
From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia and Academy Award®-winning L.A. Times Studios, OUT OF PLAIN SIGHT is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California. Not far from Catalina Island, aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world, David Valentine discovered a corroded barrel on the seafloor that gave him chills. The full environmental horror sharpens into greater clarity once he calls Los Angeles Times journalist Rosanna Xia, who pieces together a shocking revelation: In the years after World War II, as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean – and the consequences continue to haunt the world today.
42nd Street
A sensory dive into the lives of dancers and artists hungry for fame, clashing with police tactics and unorthodox views. 42ND STREET unveils a defiant counter-culture in the Dominican urban scene—all unfolding on a bold, unrelenting 600-meter 42nd street.
TAKING CHARGE Short Film Showcase 4
SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGASINGLE | by Håkon Anton | 28 min. | Norway. THE TROPHY KING | by Tighe Boudreaux Kellner | 19 min. | United States. No Experience Necessary | by Emily Everhard | 11 min. | United States. And Life for All | directed by Mohsen Asdaghpour | 20 min. Total Runtime: 78 minutes
F**ktoys
A lush 16mm fever dream that reimagines The Fool’s Journey of the Major Arcana of the Tarot through the story of AP- a rosy young woman seeking salvation from a curse. She is promised by not just one -but multiple psychics- that it can be lifted for a cool $1000, and a simple teeny tiny sacrifice of a baby lamb. So she makes money the only way she knows how: scootering her way deeper into the night, and into the uncouth underbelly of Trashtown. In this irreverent and sexy dark comedy, AP collides with a series of larger-than-life characters and absurd situations, each more unhinged than the last, as she winds her way towards the inevitable. F**ktoys is a campy romp that explores the intersection of intimacy, exploitation, and class in a pre-millenium alternate universe; a rich collage of humid industrial landscapes and pastel cotton candy skies. Preceded by: Your Man | Emma Pasarow | United States | English | 2024 | 5min | Color | Music Videos
In Search of Eva Freud
TO DANCE AGAIN | directed by M.G. Evangelista | 7 min. | United States After The Bomb | Heather Brumley | Ireland, United Kingdom | English | 2024 | 19min | Color | Documentary In Search of Eva Freud | directed by Arthur Quaranta and Isabelle Sieurin | 49 min. | France While exploring her high school’s 1940s archives, Isabelle, a philosophy teacher, uncovers traces of Eva Freud, Sigmund Freud’s granddaughter, whose tragic story echoes the experiences of today’s students—French, but also Ukrainian and Georgian.
FINDING OUR WAY Short Film Showcase 5
Breaking Away | directed by Simon Helloco | 25 min. | France RECOLLECTORS | directed by Ran Ran Wang | 16 min. | United States A Young Sofiane | directed by Fabien Ara | 29 min. | France 2006 | directed by Gabriella Choueifaty | 23 min. | France Total Runtime: 93 minutes
The Girl Without a Name
2008, northern France. Marion and her little sister Jeanne, witness their mother Catherine getting back with a man who brings back bad memories. One evening, the man assaults Catherine in a drunken rage, forcing Marion to intervene violently to help her. Panicked, Marion runs to her father’s, who is normally not allowed to see his daughters. He takes advantage of Marion’s distress to convince her to move to Brussels with him under a new identity. Fifteen years later, Marion, having heard nothing from her mother and sister, finds Jeanne - who is now a singer - on the internet, and sets off to meet her. But Jeanne doesn’t recognize her, so Marion decides to introduce herself under her new name: Louise. Pretending to want to write an article about her, Louise interferes in Jeanne’s life, learning all over again about the girl she was once so close to, while seeking answers to the questions that have haunted her since childhood. It’s a game of deception and pretense that plunges her back into her past, and leads her to cross paths with Catherine again. Louise finds herself torn between two identities, faced with a choice that will determine the rest of her life: to remain who she has become or to reveal the truth and pick up where her life left off.
Champions of the Golden Valley
In the remote mountains of Afghanistan, a newfound passion for skiing attracts young athletes from rival villages to the slopes. With minimal gear and makeshift wooden skis, the determined coach Alishah Farhang organizes a ski race like no other that unites the community in a moment of joy and triumph, just before the country’s collapse. Champions of the Golden Valley captures the spirit of a classic underdog sports story with the heartfelt portrait of a community finding hope amid disrupted dreams. Revealing a stunning unseen side of Afghanistan, it is an uplifting exploration of what it means to be a champion – in all its forms. Preceded by: LILLIAN | Dante Bellini | United States | English | 2024 | 36min | Color | Documentary | New England
OUT OF THE BLUE Short Film Showcase 6
Cheat Meal | directed by Drew Bierut | 17 min. | United States Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood-Sucking Freak | by Heath Virgoe | 12 min. | UK Crust | directed by Jens Kevin Georg | 26 min. | Germany Little Footsteps | directed by Louis Reyes McWilliams | 12 min. | United States Freak | directed by Aashish Joshi | 11 min. | United States Sunday Sauce | directed by Matt Campanella | 14 min. | United States Total Runtime: 92 minutes
April X
In a crumbling city of concrete and smoke, twins Bax and April drift at the edges of survival. Bax scrapes by in the trade of synthetic hearts, drawn into a silent machinery of death and debt. Then April slips away—without explanation, without noise. The world does not stop, but Bax begins to unravel. Time folds in on itself. The city becomes a maze of shadows and reflections. Faces blur. Language fractures. And somewhere in the static of memory and dream, he searches—for her, or for what he was before he lost her.
Portal To Hell
After a debt-collector finds a portal to hell in a washing machine at his local laundromat, he’s propositioned into feeding it sinners to save his neighbor’s soul, maybe even at the expense of his own.
BREAKING BOUNDARIES Short Documentaries 3
Down North | by David Dominguez and Paul Overstrom | 11 min. | United States Rat Rod | directed by Carly Jakins and Jared Jakins | 11 min. | United States After The Bomb | directed Heather Brumley | 19 min. | Ireland Never Cried | by Emily Judem and Stephanie Leydon | 23 min. | United States Playing Through | by Simone Buteau and Michael Corvo | 28 min. | United States Total Runtime: 92 minutes
Freeing Juanita
Juanita has been unjustly detained in Reynosa, Mexico for over seven years, accused of a crime she didn’t commit and forced to confess in a language she didn’t understand. This intimate portrait follows Ana and Pedro, Juanita’s aunt and uncle, on their thousand-mile journey from the highlands of Guatemala to Northern Mexico. With the help of a network of Maya interpreters and the family's Maya Chuj community, they fight for Juanita’s release and demand justice from the Mexican authorities, a cause that became internationally recognized for its defense of migrants’ rights and language justice.
Tomorrow's Too Late
In a never before seen way, we are invited to see up close and intimately the changes a transgender person may experience during a medical transition. Having carved out a successful career as ‘Lots’ Holloway (his previous name and artist’s alias), will Dylan Holloway be accepted by his fans who fell in love with his music in the same way. From the highs of gender euphoria to the challenging lows of self-doubt and vulnerability – will all of Dylan’s dreams come true in his mission to be his authentic self or will he have to give up the one thing that’s always brought him solace, his voice. Preceded by: Lip Sync, Heartbeat | Julia Flaster | France | French | 2025 | 8min | Color | Documentary | LGBTQ
LIVES IN TRANSIT Short Film Showcase 7
A Four-Color Driver | directed by Yuzhong Zhang | 26 min. | China The Key | directed by Efrat Corem | 19 min. | Israel All at Once | directed by Maggie Brill | 15 min. | United States In the Clouds | by Alexandra Bahíyyih Wain | 14 min. | United Kingdom Wings | directed by William Pagé | 18 min. | Canada PUNTER | directed by Jason Adam Maselle | 14 min. | United States Total Runtime: 106 minutes
You Are Not Alone
Leo, a lonely, anxious pizza delivery guy, stumbles upon John, a mysterious taxi driver seeking lonesome souls. This unusual encounter throws the young man into a dizzying delirium, disrupting his blossoming romance with Rita. As the leaves start falling from the trees, days are getting shorter, and the cold is settling in… Luckily, the first flames of love warm Leo’s heart, awakening in him an unexpected power. But beware: if you play with fire, you might get burned.
Portrait of a Confused Father
Documentary filmmaker Gunnar has filmed himself and his family for over 20 years in a heartfelt attempt to understand his struggles to connect with his only son Jonathan. Growing up without a father, Gunnar is aware that his views on fatherhood and masculinity may be outdated. Yet, when Jonathan was born, he was determined to do better - much better. As their bond and love evolve, Jonathan’s adventurous spirit and need to live life on the edge, drive him further and further out of Gunnar’s reach. When Jonathan descends into a darkness of the world, the consequences ripple through the entire family, culminating in a heartbreaking tragedy.
SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS Short Film Showcase 8
Brothers | directed by Ross Syner | 10 min. | United Kingdom Like Friend, Like Deer | directed by Malek Eghbali | 13 min. | Iran Rage | directed by Jose Luís Lázaro | 9 min. | Spain Night Watchers | directed by Nina Khada | 25 min. | France Wrecking Party | directed by Elizabeth Giamatti | 12 min. | United States Hills Don’t Dance Alone | directed by Shubham Negi | 24 min. | India LOW TIDE | directed by David NOBLET | 17 min. | France Total Runtime: 110 minutes
Thinestra
A miracle drug delivers the overnight weight loss you've always dreamed of. But will it turn you into a walking nightmare? Thinestra stars identical twins Melissa and Michelle Macedo. It’s a sweltering Christmas in LA. Penny—plagued by body dysmorphia and cycles of binge eating—impulsively takes Thinestra, a mysterious Ozempic-like drug. That night, she violently expels masses of fat in a painful and grotesque purge. But her discarded flesh returns…and like the Hyde to Penny’s Jekyll, PENELOPE is born. As her ravenous dopplegänger wreaks bloody havoc, Penny struggles to regain control. Can she overcome her hunger before it's too late? Preceded by: Grandma is Thirsty | Kris Carr | United Kingdom | English | 15min | Color | Narrative | Horror
Parting the Waters
Parting the Waters follows Michele Kuvin Kupfer, a member of the 1980 Israeli Olympic swim team, as she sets out—four decades later—to reunite with her old teammates and compete in the 2022 Maccabiah Games. Once a rising star who came of age in the pool during the 1981 Games, Michele now returns in the wake of personal loss, seeking healing, connection, and a second act. As the film traces her journey from elite athlete to masters swimmer, it also dives into the larger story of Jewish identity, resilience, and community, and shows that it’s never too late to find your light.
OUT OF SYNC Short Film Showcase 9
Oni | directed by Idir Serghine | 25 min. | France SOLO UN ENSAYO | directed by HUGO SANZ | 9 min. | Spain MANGO | directed by Joan Iyiola | 11 min. | France, United Kingdom Flying away | directed by Renaud Ouimet | 18 min. | Canada IMPURE | directed by Xavier MESME | 16 min. | France Seaforth | directed by John Murdo MacAulay | 16 min. | United Kingdom Total Runtime: 95 minutes
Malecón
After a tragic incident where Elvis kills his stepfather, he is sent to prison and separated from his childhood love Yuli. Once released, he is pulled into Cuba’s prostitution underbelly and faces a critical decision: fight to recover Yuli’s love or leave everything behind.
The Summer Book
Based on Tove Jansson’s beloved novel, The Summer Book tells the story of Sophia, a nine-year-old girl who is growing up fast, and her grandmother, who is nearing the end of her life. Together with Sophia’s father, they spend time at their family’s summer home on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland, exploring the islet, talking about life, nature and everything but their feelings about Sophia's mother's death and their love for one another. By the end of the summer, emotional wounds are healed, bonds are deepened, and the grandmother is able to leave this life peacefully.
SEEKING TRUTH Short Documentaries 4
The Other Song | directed by Jostein Venås | 33 min. | Norway Exodus | directed by Bob Miller | 24 min. | United States The Window on Death Row | by Linda Catherine Freund | 38 min. | Spain Total Runtime: 95 minutes
SEGAL
From a shy kid on Long Island to Hollywood Leading Man and movie star during Hollywood's most prolific decades, legendary George Segal shares his life story.
WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN Short Film Showcase 10
The Kids Will Be Alright | directed by Sigi Van Roy | 15 min. | Belgium Hatchlings | directed by Jahmil Eady | 15 min. | United States GET ON WITH IT! | directed by Grace Ellen Rodgers | 11 min. | Australia Rooftop Lempicka | directed by Hang Luong Nguyen | 20 min. | Viet Nam LUCÍA | directed by Clément Bompart | 12 min. | Canada My Mother is a Cow | directed by Moara Passoni | 15 min. | Brazil Holding Breath | directed by Jiaxi Ye | 15 min. | China Total Runtime: 103 minutes
SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF Animated Shorts 2
Pillowzzz | directed by Moshe (Animoshe) Benavram Akal | 15 min. | Israel The Wedding Veil of the Proud Princess | directed by Anna-Ester Volozh | 7 min. | United Kingdom Ovary-Acting | directed by Ida Melum | 12 min. | United Kingdom Fast Forward to Forever | directed by Dylan Martin | 10 min. | United States Cat & Fish | directed by Nilram Ranjbar | 2 min. | Iran Every Light in Between | directed by Guille Comin and Pol Solà | 4 min. | Spain A NEIGHBOUR DUET | by Veda Lee | 6 min. | Hong Kong and United States Cardboard | directed by Jean-Philippe Vine | 10 min. | United Kingdom Solstice | directed by Luke Angus | 11 min. | United Kingdom Time Flies | directed by LJ Burnett | 4 min. | United States I AM NOT HERE ANYMORE | directed by Nawojka Wierzbowska | 15 min. | Poland Total Runtime: 106 minutes
What Comes Next
In the summer before she heads off to college, 17-year-old Tanya starts up a relationship with an older family friend who, unbeknownst to her, had an affair with her mother, Laura, a decade earlier.
Anxiety Club
THE ADVENTURE STARTS NOW Short Film Showcase 12
DR. POPPERS | directed by Arthur Morard | 18 min. | France Whiz Palace | directed by Jack Beckett Cohen | 5 min. | United States Now or Never | by Leonel Dietsche and Ruben Meier | 7 min. | Germany A Thing about Kashem | directed by Bijon Imtiaz | 16 min. | Bangladesh Cake | directed by Caro Ribeiro | 6 min. | United States Civil Service | directed by Tiffany Kimmel | 16 min. | United States Set Menu | directed by Lindsay McDonald | 13 min. | Australia Total Runtime : 81 minutes
Our Stories Short Documentaries
LILLIAN | directed by Dante Bellini | 36 min. | United States. Sincerely Yours, Hadi Falapishi | by Lydia Cornett | 11 min. | United States Edel Rodriguez: Freedom in a Verb | by Mecky Creus and Adrienne Hall | 17 min. | United States Howard’s Spark | directed by David Wexler | 29 min. | United States Total runtime: 93 minutes
A Healing Journey: Comanche Academy
A Healing Journey follows a group of Comanche educators in Lawton, OK as they open an Indigenous charter school to reclaim their nation. In doing so, they confront the deep generational impact caused by boarding schools. With less than ten fluent Comanche speakers left, the urgent challenge of securing a permanent home for the school has never been greater.
Horror Shorts - Short Film Showcase 15
Not All Men | directed by Adrian Todd Zuniga | 9 min. | United States Seed of Doubt | directed by Daniel Daniel | 23 min. | United Kingdom The Lone Piper | directed by Matthew Krravchuk | 10 min. | United States Night Terror | directed by Adura Onashile | 16 min. | United Kingdom Chokin’ | directed by Kai Straw | 5 min. | United States dont.4get2smile | by Stefano Alessandro Pennisi | 10 min. | United States The Littles | directed by Andrew Duplessie | 7 min. | United States The Knock Knock Game | by Mac Hendrickson | 15 min. | United States Total runtime: 110 minutes
The Killing Moon
THIEF OF DREAMS | directed by Maxence Genestier | 9 min. | France In a future where artificial intelligence dominates the world of artistic creation, a group of artists led by the Grand Poet rebels to reclaim their art. The Killing Moon | directed by Daniel Bogran | 81 min. | United States A mysterious young man interrupts a wealthy couple’s lake vacation when he shows up wounded at the doorstep of their luxury cabin. The couple’s decision to help kicks off a wild power struggle, culminating in sinister, seductive turns that reduce them all to their most primal desires.
Surrender
In this poignant and gritty debut feature film, Surrender follows Naomi, a young Asian-American woman whose life is disrupted by her secret gambling addiction. As she navigates her struggles, Naomi confronts feelings of denial and shame, which affect her relationships with family, colleagues, and herself. Ultimately, she reaches a breaking point and must decide between a path of destruction or one of self-love.
Hockeytown
Hockeytown follows the journey of the once vibrant community of Anchorage, Alaska attempting to reenergize a city that was broken by the loss of its professional and college teams. The North American Hockey League gives Anchorage the green light to move forward with the creation of an expansion team. The path of finding boys and coaching them into men takes unexpected twists and turns, but ultimately leads them to the national championship.
Higher Than Acidic Clouds
When his film on air pollution stirs trouble, shutting all doors before him, an Iranian director embarks on a turbulent journey through the realms of memory and dream.
Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance
Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance is a bold and unflinching documentary that charts the rise of Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ rights movement through powerful first-person testimony and rarely seen archival footage. From drag shows and community organizing to police raids and protests on Parliament Hill, the film honours the elders and activists whose defiance helped shape a more inclusive society. Director Noam Gonick brings audiences to the frontlines of a decades-long struggle, reminding us that the rights hard-won through grassroots resistance are far from guaranteed. At once enraging, hopeful and celebratory, Parade is a vital reminder of queer resilience and a rallying cry for renewed solidarity today. Preceded by: Lip Sync, Heartbeat | Julia Flaster | France | French | 2025 | 8min | Color | Documentary | LGBTQ
Deepfaking Sam Altman
A filmmaker's humorous journey into artificial intelligence leads to unexpected questions about humanity's future and our relationship with emerging technology.
Never Get Busted!
Barry Cooper is an expert at hiding drugs, evading police, and raising hell! But once upon a time he was a highly decorated Texas Narcotics Officer. After a raid goes wrong, destroying a family not unlike his own, Barry's conscience gets the better of him and he quits the force. Using stolen police tapes, he creates a DVD series teaching drug users how to hide their stash and becomes an instant media sensation. This is the story of one man’s fight to turn the tide on the War on Drugs, if he doesn’t get busted in the process!
Why We Dream
When a group of centenarian WWII veterans pilgrimage to Normandy, France to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, we witness how these landscapes, scarred by war and frozen in time, unlock memories of the lives lost and lived thereafter. Why We Dream explores the trauma, humanity, and life-affirming moments experienced during the war, and how those experiences shaped the individual’s future lives and the building of Post-War America. Utilizing rare war archival, 16mm home movies, cinematic portraiture, and classic film excerpts, this story weaves an emotional, subjective history of twentieth-century society as told by the diverse voices of those who lived it.
Happy As Larry
Unsatisfied with life after years of writing novels far more interesting than his own life, Larry decides to go on one last adventure in the Isle of Skye before his scheduled demise.
A Farewell to Youth
JACK, once a promising film student, is now a washed-up alcoholic clinging to the remnants of his youth. His life takes an unexpected turn when LILY—the daughter he gave up for adoption after a teenage pregnancy—shows up on his doorstep, pregnant herself and looking for help. Meanwhile, Jack’s best friend and former roommate, MATTY, appears to have it all: a loving wife, EMMA, a baby on the way, and a stable future. But beneath the surface, Matty is secretly chasing a long-buried dream of becoming a stand-up comedian, risking everything as he hides it from Emma and strains their marriage. As Jack supports Lily through her own adoption journey, he’s forced to reckon with the failures of his past and discover what it truly means to be a father. At the same time, Matty must choose between the security of family life and the uncertainty of pursuing his passion. In this poignant story of friendship, family, and second chances, two men at a crossroads must confront who they are—and who they still hope to become.
Dream!
Dream! is a groundbreaking cinematic musical that journeys across Thailand’s sweeping landscapes to follow an orphaned girl’s determined quest for family. With an entirely Thai cast, eighteen original songs, and bold production design, Dream! merges the legacy of classic Hollywood musicals with the vibrancy of contemporary Thai culture. Spanning a full year and uniting age-old traditions with fresh new voices, the film offers an uplifting, visually stunning exploration of hope, perseverance, and belonging. This pioneering work seeks to captivate international audiences and spark new conversations on the global possibilities of musical cinema.
Devil’s Play
A troubled young girl, Iva meets a charming older boy who claims himself as a fallen angel Lucifer sent to guide Iva. He gives her the strength to stand up and find her own path in life.
The Lead
On a country road, Irina hits a dog and brings it to its owner Mikhail. His eight-year-old son Dima, who had been silent for a year due to psychological trauma, mistakes Irina for his deceased mother. Irina leaves, but Dima goes hysterical, and Mikhail, fearing that he will shut up again, makes Irina a prisoner in their house.
Starwalker
Star (Dilan Chiblow), an Indigi-Queer Two-Spirit lonesome call boy has become newly entranced by the world of drag when they are introduced to The House of Borealis, a popular drag house led by their charming matriarch, Mother (Stewart Adam McKensy). Star's newfound passion propels them to face a cultural past once neglected, but when painful memories re-emerge, their love for drag and their new family is put to the test. Alongside Levi (Jeffrey Follis) and the rest of their sisters in drag, Star journeys through the realization of who they are, leading to the creation of a persona that blends their grounded cultural spirit with a unique take on drag: Starwalker