OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
AURORA
Stranded in the farthest reaches of space, the sole survivor of a catastrophic accident faces a divine reckoning he never imagined.
🎥 Director: Angad Aulakh
WORLD PREMIERE
BAD MEDICINE
In 2020, investigative filmmaker Mikki Willis released a documentary that sent shockwaves around the world. Plandemic became a global phenomenon as the most seen and censored independent movie in history. Critics labeled it a “baseless conspiracy theory.” However, six years later, every claim made in Plandemic has been validated as accurate.
Understandably, many people are still struggling to comprehend the medical tyranny we all just lived through. Bad Medicine, the book and the movie, were created to bridge the divide.
“This is the smoking gun of the crime against humanity known as COVID-19,” said Mikki Willis.
Bad Medicine conducts a pandemic postmortem that refuses to neglect the deaths of the 1,167,210 Americans who lost their lives in isolated ICU beds, fighting a potential biological weapon and, more disturbingly, the toxic treatment protocols designated for hospitalized COVID patients.
🎥 Director: Mikki Willis
On one of the first days of recording their new album, the lead singer of the popular indie rock band COLLAPSER - Patrick Coulson, has a crisis of identity spurred on by a recent medical diagnosis that has shattered his perception of the future he once envisioned for himself.
🎥 Director: Kevin V. Doan
(@kvdoan)
DEAR UPSTAIRS NEIGHBORS
A young woman desperate for a good night’s sleep is kept awake by her exceedingly noisy neighbors. As she struggles to imagine what could be causing the cacophony upstairs, reality drifts into fantasy, and an epic battle for peace and sanity ensues.
🎥 Director: Connie Qin He
GAMOPHOBIA
A commitment-phobe with a strict no-sleepover rule spirals into panic when her favorite casual fling spends the night.
🎥 Director: Mariah Owen
HOME GYM
A woman’s lukewarm reaction to her boyfriend’s birthday gift sparks a confrontation that lays bare the deeper issues in their relationship.
🎥 Directors: Ben Stone & David Martin (@vacationland_collective)
INTERTWINED
Marci’s arrival to a new city finds her facing a crippling fear that conflicts with her determination to fulfill a promise. She follows a handsome local barista named Kurt to his home and work in search of an answer to her pressing question. Marci’s opportunities, days, and courage dwindle as she holds out for the right moment, the right place, and the right sign. As time runs out, she must confront what brought her to Kurt and reveal the truth to him.
🎥 Director: John Schwert
IN MEMORY OF
After the passing of their esteemed father, his three estranged adult children clash over the inheritance of a single item, revealing each of their connection to the item and the long-buried traumas that shaped their lives.
🎥 Director: Lawrence Mirisch (@inmemoryofshortfilm)
MOKUNIN 黙認
Tokyo.
An old man walks through the city with a child.
Elsewhere, a foreign stranger moves silently through the same streets.
As their paths slowly converge, everyday gestures begin to reveal something deeply unsettling beneath the surface of ordinary life.
🎥 Director: Sebastien Abdelhamid Godelu (@Sebastien_Abdelhamid)
MORE INFORMATION PLEASE
When a routine credit increase turns into an increasingly invasive investigation, one woman learns just how far a company will go to collect "more information.
🎥 Director: Raiya Corsiglia (@corsiglia.films)
'Mookie, Mo, and Me' is a stunning visual documentary of a man and his dog enjoying their morning routine, a 600 meter open ocean swim; accompanied with an audible introspective and philosophical storytelling of trauma, nature, loss, and love.
🎥 Director: Ryan McInerney
MOOKIE, MO, and ME
LE DRIP
"Absolute cinema". “Truly breathtaking”. "The world needs to see this".
A painterly existential French animated short, told in living oil paintings.
Le Drip was made primarily in Flora — a node-based platform where we built the shot-by-shot workflows and prompting structure. Inside Flora we used Nano Banana, Claude, and Seedance. We used Runway for storyboarding and video generation. Adobe was used for video and sound, and Leonardo for additional video. We also built a custom end-credits tool in Google AI Studio, and used ElevenLabs for the voice transformation and some sound effects.
While this is an AI-generated film, every creative decision was made by humans. The original concept came from screenwriter Jessie Hughes during the pandemic, and the film was brought to life by Alex Naghavi and Ezra Li, two AI filmmakers who met at the inaugural Google Flow Sessions residency in late 2025. Story, screenplay, performance, editing, sound design, foley, color, and art direction — all by humans.
🎥 Directors: Alex Naghavi, Ezra Li
WORLD PREMIERE
RAZOR BOY
A RECENTLY WIDOWED FATHER with a hidden violent past, transforms back into the man he promised his wife he’d never to be again when a gang of desert drug dealers kill his teenage son.
🎥 Director: Ash Adams
Wendy and Lewis are car-sales professionals who won't take no for an answer.
🎥 Director: David Breckman
THE EX-WIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS
UnApologetic, UnMarried, UnHinged, & UnHoused.
Four women navigate various stages of midlife crisis under one 90210 roof. The madhouse unwittingly turns their hostess’ husband's nightmare into a TV show. In true Beverly Hills fashion, their motto remains ‘let them eat cake’… as long as it’s gluten-free.
🎥 Director: Eda Benjakul